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Tony Bennett: Americans Should Support Anything Obama Wants
CNS ^ | 5/1/09 | Nick Ballasy

Posted on 05/01/2009 9:42:13 AM PDT by pissant

Grammy-award winning musician Tony Bennett told CNSNews.com he “loves everything” Barack Obama has done in his first 100 days as president and thinks every American should “give him all-out support for anything he wants to do.”

Bennett further said that Americans should imitate the other countries of the world that support Obama. “I really hope that every citizen of the United States would imitate the rest of the world because they’re all for Obama,” said Bennett. “Every other country adores what happened – in our great country – to have him as president.”

Bennett’s comments were made at the National Portrait Gallery where he presented the Smithsonian Museum with a portrait he painted of the late jazz legend Duke Ellington, commemorating his 110th birthday on April 29.

“I love everything he’s done and everything he’s doing,” Bennett said of Obama. “I think we should give him all-out support for anything he wants to do. We should all help. He’s giving our country back to us, and that’s the laws of the land – the citizens own the country.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: bennett; larrysinclairslover; obama; shutupandsing; tonybennett; zeroworship
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To: oldleft

#26 LMAO!!! Excellent.


101 posted on 05/01/2009 2:48:29 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: Taffini

I thought he was dead.
____________
I wish he was and will be glad when he is.


102 posted on 05/01/2009 2:50:55 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: pissant
The wig is definitely on too tight.

You know, people get testy when you make comparisons with the personality cults associated with brutal dictators, but in form there is no difference between the way Obama is being treated and the personality cults of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Peron, Hoxha, the Kim family, the Ceaucescus, and so on.

What it means has to do with how much form matters relative to content. But form is often a strong predictor of content.

103 posted on 05/01/2009 4:12:12 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: pissant

And we should care what Bennett says about anything other than singing?

“He’s giving our country back to us, and that’s the laws of the land – the citizens own the country.”

Huh? More accurate to say George Soros owns the country courtesy of BHO.


104 posted on 05/01/2009 4:45:59 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: pissant
Dear Mr. Bennett,
Thank you for all the great music over the years.
Now Shut-Up and SING!
Sincerely,
A Fan
105 posted on 05/01/2009 5:36:46 PM PDT by Tainan (Where's my FOF Indicator?)
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To: pissant

The term “Shut up and sing” was invented for the likes of him.


106 posted on 05/01/2009 5:41:41 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The McCain/Palin ticket was like a Kangaroo, stronger on the bottom than at the top)
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To: RinaseaofDs

I always preferred Al Martino, aka Johnny Fontane in Godfather. To my taste, better songs and better voice.


107 posted on 05/01/2009 6:58:54 PM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: pissant
Tony, Tony, Tony! You are a political moron, but your version of “Lost In the Stars” will always be in my Top Ten. Take my advice, stick to what you know, which is singing. Leave politics to the grownups.
108 posted on 05/02/2009 3:32:37 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Refugee from the World of Doomed Olsens)
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To: kcvl
Fifty years from now people will be bowing to DIZZY GILLESPIE and CHARLIE PARKER

I agree with Tony on this. Bird lives!
109 posted on 05/02/2009 3:33:53 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Refugee from the World of Doomed Olsens)
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To: Taffini

I stand corrected. I’ve always thought that he was Lebanese.

Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bennett

Anyway, entertainers should keep their mouths shut with regard to politics lest they risk fan backlash. The less you know about their political persuasions the better.

I used to be a strong fan of Jane Fonda, Ed Aisner, Richard Gere, Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins... etc Now, I will not go out of my way to watch anything of theirs, and CERTAINLY HAVE VOWED NEVER TO PAY ADMISSION TO SEE ANYTHING OF THEIRS.

Why? Because knowing their politics, I can see it in their work and in the parts they play. Not so much as with Baldwin, but no question the others are feeble headed liberals who would not be anywhere without someone feeding them the lines.


110 posted on 05/02/2009 6:27:19 AM PDT by nikos1121 (We can thank Jimmy Carter for the world as it is today............)
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To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

YOu’re right.. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bennett )


111 posted on 05/02/2009 6:27:51 AM PDT by nikos1121 (We can thank Jimmy Carter for the world as it is today............)
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To: Petronski

Ok... Ok... I was wrong... Jeeez... one false remark on this site and you’re beat to death with a noodle... :-)

Well, that explains why he’s such a great singer!!!!


112 posted on 05/02/2009 6:29:14 AM PDT by nikos1121 (We can thank Jimmy Carter for the world as it is today............)
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To: pissant
He’s giving our country back to us, and that’s the laws of the land – the citizens own the country.”

No Mr. Bennett, Obama has taken our country and its Constitution to the land fill and given the country to the UAW as promised........

113 posted on 05/02/2009 6:31:49 AM PDT by yoe (Proud to be a Rightwing Extremist!)
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To: pissant
Old Tony knows the mob when he sees it and Obama is the mob, a newer, hipper, far more dangerous version of the one that propelled him to fame. Old Tony figures the only way to go is to toke on and mellow out and stay out of the way and say yes and bend over,
114 posted on 05/02/2009 8:28:42 AM PDT by madinmadtown (It is good to be right.)
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To: CutePuppy

Not better, different. Tony Bennett really has a gift. Look at any one of a dozen major league pitchers outside of Curt Schilling to demonstrate that there’s more than a bit of irony in how talent falls upon people.

Billion-dollar arm/ten cent head, comes to mind.

That’s Bennett. Billion dollar voice . . .


115 posted on 05/04/2009 9:58:06 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs
Not better, different.

Naturally, agreed. Even though I was trying to keep it "apples to apples" as far as genre and time frame, it is still a case of de gustibus et coloribus non disputandum est. Hence, my qualifier to my taste.

Billion-dollar arm/ten cent head, comes to mind. That’s Bennett. Billion dollar voice . . .

Taht's very apt and eloquent desctiption.

116 posted on 05/04/2009 4:56:36 PM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: RinaseaofDs
Not better, different.

Naturally, agreed. Even though I was trying to keep it "apples to apples" as far as genre and time frame, it is still a case of de gustibus et coloribus non disputandum est. Hence, my qualifier to my taste.

Billion-dollar arm/ten cent head, comes to mind. That’s Bennett. Billion dollar voice . . .

That's very apt and eloquent description.

117 posted on 05/04/2009 4:59:18 PM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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