[Darkwolf377]

the songwriter also decided to stop by other Middle East hotspots in Israel and the Palestinian territories to see what was going on there....

Let me guess--he somehow "became" a supporter of the Palestinians, though he "had no position" before he went over there?

I won't give them the hit to find out.

[Izzy Dunne]

busking in the streets

For anyone else who didn't know this word:

busk [busk] verb [ intrans. ] play music or otherwise perform for voluntary donations in the street or in subways .

[marron]

"[Iraqis] told me afterward that they didn't want to hear songs protesting the war," Franti says. "They wanted to hear songs to make them laugh, dance and get on with their lives." It's no coincidence that Lionel Richie is the most popular pop star in Baghdad.

[GnL]

It sounds like this guy's lucky his head didn't end up rolling on the floor while his body was sitting upright. What a dumbass.

[Jo Nuvark]

[..."We can bomb the world to pieces,
but we can't bomb it into peace."...]

Vapid sycophantic child!

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Any requests for anti-war music? "

HOw about Killa Kommie for Mommie!!

Kill A Commie For Mommie

Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes

[Criminal Number 18F]

Well, we had a great one in SF School, "Napalm Sticks to Kids." Somehow I don't think that's in his repertoire.

Still, props to him for having the nads (or lack of judgment, sometimes that's the same thing) to go there. And I hope it brings him the publicity -- and the Clintonian favors mentioned by other posters -- that he was gunning for (with an eight-man film crew, this wasn't exactly the spontaneous impulse that the damn-fool writer makes it seem).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[airborne]

"Oh the times, they are a'changing!"