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Musician Patti Smith: President Trump Makes Me Feel ‘Tainted as a Human Being’
Andrew Brietbart's Big Hollywood/Associated Press ^ | 5 Dec 2017 | by Breitbart news

Posted on 12/05/2017 1:08:41 PM PST by drewh

Patti Smith’s long, slender fingers trembled just thinking about being a writer during the presidency of Donald Trump. “I don’t know how people are even able to contain themselves and contain their rage,” Smith said, “I always felt, even if I didn’t agree with whomever was our president, I felt that I could still walk tall wherever I want. I still was myself. But there’s something about this current administration where I feel tainted as a human being.”

On Monday night at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan, Smith and Salman Rushdie commiserated about Trump and otherwise compared notes on everything from the writing process to their favorite painters. They were guests at the annual “Chairman’s Evening” hosted by the MacDowell artist colony and were interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and MacDowell chairman Michael Chabon. MacDowell has a long history of bringing artists together and previous Chairman’s Evening pairings have included Martin Scorsese with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Paul Simon.

Both said that current events have made it harder for them to focus, but also more determined. Rushdie said the artist’s role was to “create beauty” and to “move beyond” Trump, at least in the writing process, because he’s “not interesting enough.” Smith said she saw her job as keeping “an eye on everything,” in case “we have to do something drastic” politically, and otherwise maintain a well-rounded existence.

“And I can’t let this guy (Trump), and what they’re doing, keep me from my inalienable right to do my work, to have some kind of joy in life,” she said.

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To: drewh

She lived with Robert Mapplethorpe, so yeah, she’s tainted.


61 posted on 12/05/2017 1:30:49 PM PST by Ticonderoga34
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To: Gamecock

Patti Smith’s long, slender fingers trembled ...


... from feeling her taint.


62 posted on 12/05/2017 1:31:02 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: drewh

I love how these complete losers look to blame Trump for their pathetic lives. I guess it’s easier than self-examination and working to make your own life better.


63 posted on 12/05/2017 1:31:03 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: BenLurkin

Isn’t that some Led Zeppelin guy?


64 posted on 12/05/2017 1:31:33 PM PST by onedoug
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To: b4its2late

she had one good song covered by Bruce Springsteen on MTV unplugged...


65 posted on 12/05/2017 1:32:35 PM PST by drewh
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To: HypatiaTaught

http://listenonrepeat.com/?v=47y5bo8wtqM#Scandal%2C_Patty_Smyth_-_The_Warrior


66 posted on 12/05/2017 1:32:44 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: dfwgator

Patti Smith was a famous talent before Springsteen release his first record.


67 posted on 12/05/2017 1:34:31 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: drewh

Fun to watch.

Although her drooling is unbecoming.

5.56mm


68 posted on 12/05/2017 1:34:36 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: drewh

69 posted on 12/05/2017 1:34:37 PM PST by McGruff (Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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To: Mariner

I just remember she did a cameo on “The Revenge of Vera Gemini” from Blue Oyster Cult’s “Agents of Fortune” album.


70 posted on 12/05/2017 1:37:11 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: lee martell

“Patti’s stage presence has always embraced the ‘taint of it all. Just another lamb bleating with the herd.”

She’s still alive? I saw her at CBGB’s back in the early 70’s.


71 posted on 12/05/2017 1:37:51 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (BANNON YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Man, that Keith Richards is finally looking REALLY bad...


72 posted on 12/05/2017 1:39:30 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: EQAndyBuzz

If you saw Patti in recent years, you may have mistaken her for Phil Spector with a hair cut and darkened locks.
Patti was never one to worry about looking appealing in public.


73 posted on 12/05/2017 1:40:09 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Mr. Mojo

“She” looks like Alice Cooper on a bad hair day


74 posted on 12/05/2017 1:42:52 PM PST by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: SparkyBass

LOL.

5.56mm


75 posted on 12/05/2017 1:43:01 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Architect of Avalon

Thank you!

I like this song very much too!

http://listenonrepeat.com/?v=_50-gOeBilc#Patty_Smyth%2C_Scandal_-_Goodbye_To_You

Now I remember where I got my dancing style from... :)


76 posted on 12/05/2017 1:48:20 PM PST by HypatiaTaught (Whatever's good for your soul, do it.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Wow, look what Trump did to her appearance...poor slender thing!


77 posted on 12/05/2017 1:50:27 PM PST by Professional
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To: BenLurkin

At first glance I thought that picture was of Alan Rickman.


78 posted on 12/05/2017 1:56:04 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Wow! Would Laz. . . . Nah, I’m not even gonna ask.


79 posted on 12/05/2017 1:56:19 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: drewh
Excellent!

I've been waiting for the heroin addicts to opine.

80 posted on 12/05/2017 1:56:58 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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