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Disturbing footage of John Lennon mocking disabled people leaves fans in shock
UK Mirror ^
Posted on 09/20/2015 2:31:25 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Fans have been left shocked by disturbing footage of John Lennon mocking disabled people.
The Beatles legend was an inspiration to many, but over the years his darker side has been revealed - and TV show It Was Alright In The 1960s has brought him back under fire.
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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: beatles; biggerthangod; biggerthangodnow; disabled; imagine; johnlennon; lennon
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To: VTenigma
Taxman was a George song.
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posted on
09/20/2015 4:31:39 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
To: real saxophonist
I said most...not all. ;)
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posted on
09/20/2015 4:32:44 PM PDT
by
berdie
To: Catsrus
John Lennon was one who assumed the mantle of the privilege that comes with the possession of large sums of money earned in a somewhat undeserved manner.
Charley Manson probably really envied the Beatles.
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posted on
09/20/2015 4:39:58 PM PDT
by
alloysteel
(If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
To: WXRGina
No kidding. It took fifty years for somebody to get upset about this. He’s dead, Jim!
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posted on
09/20/2015 4:55:13 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: alloysteel
How was Lennon’s money undeserved? He created something that people were willing to pay for.
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posted on
09/20/2015 4:56:22 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
To: TigersEye
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:04:39 PM PDT
by
WXRGina
(The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Inyo-Mono
And we called each other “spaz”.
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:11:59 PM PDT
by
donna
(Pray for Revival.)
To: donna
LOL! Almost forgot that one!
To: Red in Blue PA
Lennon was a young man from a humble working-class background dealing with unfathomable amounts of fame and adulation in the '60s, and not doing a very good job of it. He said and did some dumb things, and before we judge him we should try to imagine how we would have done in his situation in our twenties. He and the other Beatles were not Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber - their fame was in a completely different league that can't be achieved by music stars today.
He grew up, and by the time he was murdered he'd repudiated much of the radicalism of his youth. It's been reported that he'd said he would have voted for Reagan if he'd been an American.
To: Catsrus
He said it, but he said it years before he was shot
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:20:21 PM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
To: Fai Mao
Evidently not so easy he could do it because he was worth 40 million when he died John Lennon is said to have had a net worth of $800 million.I,personally,have no trouble believing that.And assuming that that figure is in 1980 dollars (which I'll bet is the case) one must remember that in 1980 gas was 50 cents a gallon,a top of the line Mercedes cost $50K and a typical Malibu cliffside mansion cost $500K.
To: skeeter
Yes thats the one! I had the “opportunity” to speak to em once....very.briefly.....and wish it had been even more briefly..
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:30:28 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Red in Blue PA
I love the Beatles, really love Lennon’s music on the Beatles. But he was an a-hole, always was. During the height of Beatlemania he was the kind of guy to walk past a random dude at a party and dump a beer over his head and walk away laughing, just because he could get away with picking on others without any consequences. Not surprised at this, it’s totally in his character.
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:36:47 PM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(The only fiscally sound thing dems ever did: create a state run media they don't have to pay for)
To: KevinB
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:42:00 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
(The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: iowamark
I am not sure what the point is of bringing this up about someone who was murdered 40 years ago.
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I am in favor of bringing it up if it serves to rile up the leftists who love his annoying “Imagine” song.
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:51:24 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
To: dfwgator
The killer must have enjoyed her screeching? 7
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:51:55 PM PDT
by
muglywump
(Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
To: LottieDah
When I was a young teen in the mid 1960s our NYC radio station played a song They Are Coming to Take Me Away. It was supposedly a song about people who were mentally ill. The DJ got fired for playing it. If I had known then that John Lennon mocked disabled people, my huge crush on him and the rest of the Beatles would have dissipated. It was a novelty supposedly by the lyrics taken literally a song about a dog running off and an angry owner. Or it was a song with thinly veiled wording to get something else cleverly past the censors of the day. The last line in the last verse. This was 1966 I think. They didn't even originally cut a B side for it. I had the 45 and remember the label on B side. They instead cut the song backwards for B side and even the label was spelled backwards.
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:52:51 PM PDT
by
cva66snipe
((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
To: JimSEA
Look at some of the comedians like Jerry Lewis.
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Jerry Lewis never made fun of disabled people. When he did that schtick with his knees together he was trying to capture the gestures of a toddler, a normal toddler. He did a lot to help the disabled, and he was really hurt to think that some people thought he was mocking them.
Disclosure: I was never a Jerry Lewis fan.
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:54:47 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
To: JimSEA
Look at some of the comedians like Jerry Lewis.
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Jerry Lewis never made fun of disabled people. When he did that schtick with his knees together he was trying to capture the gestures of a toddler, a normal toddler. He did a lot to help the disabled, and he was really hurt to think that some people thought he was mocking them.
Disclosure: I was never a Jerry Lewis fan.
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:54:47 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
To: Straight Vermonter
When you consider the selection of women available to him, that relationship is astonishing.
***
Maybe he was really attracted to men; Yoko looked more like a man than a woman.
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posted on
09/20/2015 5:56:28 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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