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'Smashing Pumpkins' Singer Claims Swine Flu Is An Obama Conspiracy
Newsbusters.org ^ | 10-30-09 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 10/30/2009 8:29:53 AM PDT by Justaham

I love a conspiracy theory, how about you?

Although this one isn't necessarily new -- lots of folks have opined about the convenient coincidence of an escalating so-called pandemic mixed with an under-supply of vaccinations while the country debates healthcare reform -- it's all the more delicious when it comes from a rock star of some note.

With that in mind, when singer, songwriter, and leader of the now defunct alternative band The Smashing Pumpkins suggests swine flu "is not a naturally occurring virus," and that "President Obama has declared a national emergency" when "there isn’t one," you have to pay attention just for the entertainment value alone.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: billycorgan; conspiracy; corgan; flu; h1n1; influenza; obama; smashingpumpkins; swineflu; virus
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To: EagleUSA

Bingo. I thought Billy Corrigan was a lib. Maybe more people are opening their eye.

Judge David O. carter is not - he sold out his honor and manhood.


21 posted on 10/30/2009 8:48:04 AM PDT by Frantzie
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To: Justaham
Corgan has always been a little (OK a LOT) off. He is one of those who think that pharmaceuticals will kill you and that all you need to do to cure things like cancer is to just stop eating meat, HIV doesn't cause AIDS (the latter is a conspiracy), and vaccinations actually cause the disease they are supposed to prevent. I recall a few years ago a rant about how companies were genetically engineering food to make you addicted to it. (Good singer though)..


22 posted on 10/30/2009 8:48:09 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Justaham

I guess Sting isn’t going to ask them to open for him anytime soon.


23 posted on 10/30/2009 8:49:11 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: massgopguy

I thought Clancy was a conservative but he is a lib. Cast libs in all his movies.


24 posted on 10/30/2009 8:50:13 AM PDT by Frantzie
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To: VA_Gentleman

Saw them in there first show in the US since 2000, Asheville, NC in June 2007 and it was fantastic. Sure, their new stuff sucked but the old stuff was incredible. Corgan has never regained the genius of Siamese Dream and MCIS but he still puts on a good show.


25 posted on 10/30/2009 8:51:16 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: Frantzie

He actually mostly donates to Republicans. Vary rarely do authors and script writers get a lot of say in casting. They get a check for the rights to their work, that’s about it. (His address is the Huntingtown one below, I don’t know if the Baltimore is also him)

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=clancy%2C+t&state=MD&zip=&employ=&cand=&all=Y&sort=N&capcode=bcprv&submit=Submit


26 posted on 10/30/2009 8:55:56 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: massgopguy
I remember it well, but mostly because Clancy wrote that the delivery device at the Sydney Olympics would be the big cooling water spray fans needed because the summers in Sydney are so hot. Problem is Australia is in the southern hemisphere and September is their late winter time. My suspension of disbelief was lost at that point.

But I did enjoy what happened in the end to the greenies at the hands of the Rainbow Six team.

27 posted on 10/30/2009 8:56:20 AM PDT by katana
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To: mnehring

Ironically, that sounds like some of the “conservative” posters here at FR.


28 posted on 10/30/2009 8:57:03 AM PDT by Mr Fuji
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To: Justaham

BC: “Hi, I’m Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.”

HA: “Homer Simpson, smiling politely.”


29 posted on 10/30/2009 8:58:12 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: VA_Gentleman

Gish. GREAT album!
It’s been years since I’ve listened to that.
I’ll have to bust it out this weekend.
Thanks for the reminder!


30 posted on 10/30/2009 9:06:27 AM PDT by astyanax (Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
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To: Mr Fuji

I was thinking the same thing.

Getting worse lately.


31 posted on 10/30/2009 9:10:04 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: Mr Fuji

I believe the Global Warming issue has made a lot of people overly skeptical of ‘science’ so they cling to anyone or anything that challenges conventional science, no matter how kooky. What they don’t see is the difference between so called science that attempts to play fortune teller- predicting the future, and real science that tests, analyzes, and actually has to make accomplishments regarding real life issues or problems. You see it far too often when people compare global warming science(sic) to vaccinations, etc.


32 posted on 10/30/2009 9:23:23 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Justaham
I love the Pumpkins! But Billy is a tad out there...

33 posted on 10/30/2009 9:28:54 AM PDT by TSgt (I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
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To: Mr Fuji

I don’t hold that against anyone. We need to change minds in order to win.

I’ll say what I said on November 5th: The American people were given a choice between a radical leftist and a man who’s entire campaign was based on the idea that he’d ‘go across the aisle’ to work with radical leftists.

The American people, in electing Barack Obama, made the most quintessential of American decisions. They cut out the middle man and went right to the source.

Let’s worry from now on about giving people a PROPER choice rather than trying to berate them with a choice that really amounted to the evil of two lessers.


34 posted on 10/30/2009 10:01:07 AM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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To: Justaham

He’s a kook, but he’s smart enough to not trust the Federal Government. That puts him ahead of most non-kooks out there.


35 posted on 10/30/2009 10:05:56 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Justaham

Some of his blog posts seem OK.

http://www.everythingfromheretothere.com/

I really enjoy the music of the Smashing Pumpkins though.

~SC


36 posted on 10/30/2009 10:22:48 AM PDT by camp_steveo
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Great way to sum up what happened and what needs to happen!


37 posted on 10/30/2009 10:49:00 AM PDT by liberty75
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To: Justaham

Despite all his rage, Billy is still just a rat in a cage...


38 posted on 10/30/2009 11:07:55 AM PDT by vpintheak (4-times an extremist)
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To: Justaham

To borrow a phrase: shut up and sing.


39 posted on 10/30/2009 11:09:51 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (End the coup!)
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To: 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Big Guy and Rusty 99; Brian Allen; cgk; ...

Not a RnR PING!


40 posted on 10/30/2009 11:29:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (I refuse to "reduce my carbon footprint" all while Lenin remains in an airconditioned shrine)
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