Posted on 01/02/2020 8:20:48 PM PST by DoodleBob
Legendary singer Meat Loaf has accused teenage climate-change activist Greta Thunberg of being "brainwashed," saying he believes there is no such thing as climate change.
"I feel for that Greta," he told U.K.'s Daily Mail. "She has been brainwashed into thinking that there is climate change and there isn't.
"She hasn't done anything wrong but she's been forced into thinking that what she is saying is true."
The rocker, who campaigned with Mitt Romney in 2012 and worked with Donald Trump on "The Apprentice" back in 2010, previously claimed that he lost a few gigs thanks to politics.
"I've been banned from two TV shows," he told Esquire in a 2012 interview. "Because USA Today has me listed as a Republican.
"I've heard those stories," he added "But I didn't really believe they'd do that."
The musician also said his political views were complicated. "I'm neither right nor left, and I'm not sure I'm even in the middle," he said. "I have a lot of views to the left, and I have a lot of views to the right, and that really doesn't put me in the middle. I don't know what that makes me. It makes me weird."
Thunberg has gained international media attention in recent months for her outspoken activism on climate change, including delivering an impassioned speech to the United Nations Climate Action Summit calling out world leaders for not responding to the climate crisis with more urgency.
President Trump, who has repeatedly voiced skepticism about climate change, shared video of Thunberg's speech on Twitter, and above it wrote, sarcastically, that "she seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!"
Goosebumps. Yeh. The nice thing about where I live is that I can turn that up until the speakers bleed.
For example, The Who is my favorite band and arguably one of the greatest bands ever...but their album sales in America at 21MM are (relatively) pitiful. Hendrix is also "bad" at 21MM.
The top selling artist (millions of album-equivalent units sold) are:
The Beatles (183)
Garth Brooks (148)
Elvis (139)
The Eagles (120)
Led Zeppelin (111.5)
Billy Joel (84.5)
Michael Jackson (84)
Elton (78.5)
Pink Floyd (84)
George Strait (69)
“It reminds me of the movie “Grumpy Old Men” sometimes :)”
My daughter calls FR “old man facebook”.
BTW, Meatloaf is as crazy as a Bat out of Hell.
great song :)
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Always liked “Hot Patootie” (well, who doesn’t).
I can sing all the lyrics but I never saw this video. He cracks me up - quite the performer! D@mn good music
:D
This clip, from the start of the illegal cross-country race, has some of the best car and engine sounds EVER...my fav is the Ferrari. And yes...there is a motorcycle.
That was back when MTV was THE thing I lived for.
He is true performer.
It’s a rock opera!
It’s been forever since I saw that movie.
I’ve forgotten 99% of it.
:D
:D
When I was lurking I remembered that post and bookmarked it when I decloaked. In short, the poster allegedly was a crazy half of a baking duo that even Gordon Ramsay couldn't handle on TV.
It was the greatest Opus in my mind, but I'm a relative noob...to that end, I copied a long-time poster who said it was the best thread ever.
It’s a classic, and to this day I find myself quoting out loud from that film, even if nobody knows about what I’m talking. A few times, when someone has said “why me?” I mutter “’cause you’re an a&@*le Rosco, that’s why.”
Had to look up George Strait.
Boy there’s some good bucks to be made in country music :)
“When I listen to Meatloaf, everybody listens to Meatloaf.”
When Bat Out Of Hell:Back Into Hell came out the local rock station had a temp working the overnight shift.
The station had been promising a “sneak peek” of the new album.
The overnight temp played the entire Bat Out Of Hell album without an ad break then put on the BIH album and played the entire thing without a break.
We loved it.
Needless to say she got canned. :(
It was the literary equivalent to cutting a ball of rubber bands in half.
o_O
That had to be the best 90 minutes of radio, ever.
LOL
Gonna have to hunt it down and watch it again.
You also have to find “Roadie” in which Meat Loaf plays a man who falls for a fangirl who is on her way to see Alice Cooper in concert.
:D
Features one of his rarely played but one of my favorite deep cuts “Pain”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0658jOXHFA
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