Posted on 09/21/2011 8:16:44 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Tony Bennett recorded “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” in 1962, but with his recent comments about terrorism and the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, he left behind some controversy.
Appearing on “The Howard Stern Show” Monday to promote his new album, “Duets II,” the singer ended up discussing his military service during World War II and the impact it had on him.
“The first time I saw a dead German, that’s when I became a pacifist,” he said.
Sixty-five years after leaving his military life behind, Bennett has sold more than 50 million albums and developed some definite opinions about other wars involving the United States. “To start a war in Iraq was a tremendous, tremendous mistake internationally,” he said.
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One day later, the 85-year-old singer took to his latest stage, Facebook, and wrote, ” There is simply no excuse for terrorism and the murder of the nearly 3,000 innocent victims of the 9/11 attacks on our country.”
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Really? REALLY???
Gee: I would have thought it would be the first time he saw one of his Buddies die.
Ranks right up there with Walter Cronkite firing the gun but hoping he didn’t hit anyone.
Sorry, Fella, what was said by you was said by you. Too late to try to butter up your stupid comment. Every time I hear your voice on the radio, I turn the station. You’re a typical, Hollyweird lefty and a disgrace.
There’s no fool like an old fool.
wonder what he would have become had he seen a tortured Jew or gypsy in a concentration camp...
So, Tony...what about all those dead Americans you had to pass to even GET TO that "first dead German"? THAT didn't make you a pacifist first?
Isn’t this scag the same scag that knowingly infected women with Herpes and was successfully sued for it?
His opinion on anything matters to me as much as mold on old bread does.
According to Wikipedia, he was "involved in the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp near Landsberg, where some American prisoners of war from the 63rd Division had also been held."
Death is ugly, Tony. But when you're fighting to save your countrymen and your loved ones from it, the last thing you want is to allow it to turn you into a pacifist. Pacifists truly are the parasites of freedom.
Tony’s agent said “YOU SAID WHAT?” and then promptly logged on Facebook as Tony to do some damage control.
Bennett said what he meant originally.
The guy’s a puke.
wow- so what is he? a nazi sympathizer??
Screw you Tony Bennett, you bastard. The whole world knows how sick your views are now.
“Tony Bennett Changes His Tune on 9/11 Remarks”
We saw THIS coming! F’ing moron.
I’d have more repspect for him if he’d stuck to his guns. It’s what he believes but now he’s trying to backpedal to avoid the negative fallout.
So he no doubt still has the same idiotic views but also lacks the courage of his convictions.
Tony, you should have kept your mouth shut. I’d always thought of you as a benevolent entertainer from a golden age of America. Now I’ll always think of you as a jackass.
The guy is a singer......why do we give these “artists” the time if day on politics or foreign policy? It’s like asking a plumber if your chemotherapy treatment is effective!
Amazingly hundreds of thousands of Americans saw dead bodies during WWII and managed to avoid becoming leftwing cliche spouting conspiracy crackpots.
Tony Bennett, you are a bad American. The worst there is. Right up there with that singer who badmouthed a good president in Germany. Like her, you have been reduced to a punchline and will forever be shunned by the people that matter most to you, you narcissist punk.
I hate you. I hate you like I hate my professor who gave me a B on my senior thesis on Aviation Security and the effect of 9/11/2001 because, like you, he said it was our fault. Was the 1993 bombing of the WTC also our fault? Maybe it is the muslim pigs fault, dickhead. Our country. Our soil. An enemy with a bomb in and on both, uninvited.
F-U. You f-ing traitor. And the only reason I don’t print the F word on this post is because we have honorable military on this forum who have also seen their share of horror but don’t use it as an excuse to bash our great country and grab a headline.
You maggot. Just shut up.
And, Tony, I forgot to call you a pussy in the previous post. See previous post and add the word pussy somewhere.
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