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Pipe down, Elton, you eco-snob
Spiked ^ | 20 Aug 2019 | Brendan O’Neill

Posted on 08/25/2019 2:58:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan

“Poor Elton John. He’s ‘deeply distressed’. What’s happened to the filthy-rich national treasure? Well, some people were mean about his posh, rich mates using his private jet to fly to his swanky pad in the South of France. Can you believe the indignities celebrities have to endure? Us plebs with our once-a-year jaunts on Ryanair could never understand the awfulness of being mocked for swanning about on an airplane swilling with champagne. . . . People have called Harry and Meghan massive, ridiculous hypocrites because just a couple of weeks ago they were lecturing the masses from the pulpit of Vogue magazine about the need to cut carbon and save the planet and yet now they’re farting out more CO2 than most of us do in a year by jetting back and forth across the south of Europe. Elton, like an obsequious courtier protecting his princes from the barbs of the dumb masses, says these criticisms are ‘distorted’, ‘malicious’, ‘relentless’ and ‘untrue’.”

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1 posted on 08/25/2019 2:58:26 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
Part of what made Elton a great artist was that he didn't write the words.

He should continue this practice in all of his life.

2 posted on 08/25/2019 3:04:30 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: tinyowl

Bernie Taupin was a good lyric-writer


3 posted on 08/25/2019 3:06:19 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Rummyfan

Good advice for all musicians, shut up and play. John and Taupin were a heck of a pair of artists, please be quiet Elton and let us remember all those great songs.


4 posted on 08/25/2019 3:12:26 PM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: Rummyfan

Leftist elites all have gross hypocrisy in common. Do as they say not as they do.


5 posted on 08/25/2019 3:12:37 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Without freedom of speech we have no democracy and will lose all our freedoms.)
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To: Rummyfan

I thought he died of AIDS a couple years ago.


6 posted on 08/25/2019 3:17:38 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner

They got medicine cocktails now that keep the virus at bay.

But they’re seeing now that many with HIV are getting dementia early in life.

I got it without having HIV :)


7 posted on 08/25/2019 3:23:05 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: humblegunner
I admired Prince Harry until I witnessed his tawdry and inexcusable behavior toward President Trump and his family.

In that behavior I saw an entirely different side of Prince Harry than I had seen before, or even suspected, a side that is certainly not to his credit.

8 posted on 08/25/2019 3:24:50 PM PDT by Savage Beast (When the Light of Truth threatens to expose corruption, it's the corrupt who try to extinguish it.)
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To: dp0622

Like the guy above?


9 posted on 08/25/2019 3:30:22 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Rummyfan
I adore how the Brits use the Mother Tongue to cut flaming arseholes to ribbons!😃
10 posted on 08/25/2019 3:32:04 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Rummyfan

I have felt that Elton was not a liberal as many may think. I could be wrong, but I believe he and Rush stay in touch. Of course, if it became public knowledge he and Rush are friends his career is toast.


11 posted on 08/25/2019 3:37:05 PM PDT by devane617 (Text me when someone on the Left is perp walked. Now, back to watching Lassie...)
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To: Fungi

The guy above has had his disgusting side on display for decades.


12 posted on 08/25/2019 3:58:09 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: devane617

I have thought that the Cub Scout Strippers should have been enough to drive home who and what Elton John is to everyone.

Evidently the moral limits I embrace are not embraced by everyone.


13 posted on 08/25/2019 4:00:28 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Elton- a pitcher or a catcher? He’s 72.


14 posted on 08/25/2019 4:29:41 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: tinyowl

Excellent point there!


15 posted on 08/25/2019 4:31:51 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: DIRTYSECRET

My guess is that he catches.


16 posted on 08/25/2019 4:32:55 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: humblegunner
I thought he died of AIDS a couple years ago.

Like a lot of dead people, he still walks among us, and makes our lives miserable.

Go to one of his concerts, and you can safely utter: "I see dead people".
17 posted on 08/25/2019 4:37:16 PM PDT by adorno
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To: SamAdams76

Bernie was a misogynist.


18 posted on 08/25/2019 4:52:45 PM PDT by MarMema (breeding tauntauns in northern Michigan - soon to be for sale!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I don’t even want to think about it!


19 posted on 08/25/2019 5:05:10 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Rummyfan

Elton, dear Elton:

Do I have a deal for you, such a deal as if you were in Israel. I’m selling dog fart credits on behalf of my two overlarge dogs that will enable me to buy Beano for them so I’ll be better able to sleep at night. Just FReep mail me with your bank account and credit card numbers and I’ll send you freshly printed, personalized, to reflect your august station in life, Official Dog Fart Credits.


20 posted on 08/25/2019 5:13:33 PM PDT by libstripper
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