Posted on 08/04/2013 11:02:40 PM PDT by TexGrill
The performance of popular U.S. rock band Bloodhound Gang was canceled over the weekend after one of its musicians shoved a Russian flag into his underpants at a concert in Ukraine, prompting outrage from Russian officials and calls for an investigation into the possibility that the flag fiasco was "ordered" by a higher authority.
The latest came Sunday as United Russia deputy Sergei Neverov demanded that prosecutors get to the bottom of "who paid the group to desecrate the flag" at Wednesday's performance in Odessa, RIA Novosti reported.
At the concert, bass player Jared Hasselhoff withdrew and showed to the audience two objects: first a blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag, and then a Russian white-blue-and-red flag, showing them one by one to the crowd. The audience cheered for their national flag and booed the Russian banner.
Seeing the crowd's negative reaction to the Russian flag, Hasselhoff, in an apparent attempt to earn the fans' approval, said, "Don't tell [Russian President Vladimir] Putin," then unzipped his pants, shoved the Russian flag into his underpants in the front and pulled it out from the back.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
The Ruskies on Fire!
Normally I don’t have time to read entire articles, but this time I read the whole piece and it reminds me of the phrase, “when in Rome do as the Romans do.” These musicians are absolutely clueless and the publicty stunt will guarantee that they lost all their Russian fans. However, I never heard of this band until today.
They apparently believe that because desecrating an American flag is allowable at home they can do the same with foreign flags when on foreign soil. That’s a good way to PO a lot of people.
“The performance of popular U.S. rock band Bloodhound Gang...”
*snicker*
I honestly didn’t know these guys were even still around, much less “popular”. Their last hit was 14 years ago, and it wasn’t exactly Stairway to Heaven to begin with:
“You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals
So let’s do it like they do it on Discovery Channel”
LOL.
Well I heard that song before. It was ok, but wouldn’t rank in my Top 1,000 list of favorite songs.
In fact flag stunts counts as a federal crime in Russia. It weight up to one year in prison, no fine as an option.
BTW, foreign flags are protected there too. You won’t see idiots burning US flags outside US embassy in Russia.
Russia does a better job of protecting the American flag than Obama does. What a strange world we live in.
A group so popular that I’ve never heard of them!
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