Posted on 05/13/2005 8:30:38 AM PDT by RushCrush
I wrote this letter to send to Ani DiFranco, after her most recent music catalog made very anti-Bush comments. Please feel free to copy and send to your favorite liberal entertainer:
Righteous Babe Records P.O. Box 95 Ellicott Station Buffalo, NY 14205
To Whom It May Concern:
Please remove me from your mailing list. After reading your latest letter on the catalog, I think I’ve had enough.
I have been very fond of Ani DiFranco’s music, but I cannot tolerate another musician who deems it necessary to force their politics down my throat. I really wish that just once I could simply enjoy the music without having to hear the politics.
I am alternately bored and disappointed by two things:
1.) You simply cannot resist the urge to pontificate.
2.) You are so obtuse as to assume that all of your music fans march in lockstep with your politics.
For these reasons you stand to lose a large percentage (some would say 50%) of your fan base. Seems like a perilous business plan to me.
Good luck.
Sincerely,
RushCrush
Shouldn't listen to bitter lesbian singer-songwriters anyway! ;o) Good on you.
I heard she wasn't a lesbian! I think she's married?
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Agreed. Good letter, RushCrush.
I have no idea. She was at the Lilith fair once, so I assumed the BLSS applied.
Will they be changing the name to Self-Righteous Babe Records?
Just imagine if they were bashing your race or religion instead of your politics.
When the level of attacks are "evil republicans" and "nazi-like", there is no debate. It is pure hatred on a personal level, not a difference of philosophy.
Only a mindless robot would continue to support such a rude brat who attacks significant members of the audience.
Then again, Linda Rondstadt made it clear that she was disgusted to learn that such people attended her shows.
She is openly bisexual and, in 1998, married sound engineer Andrew Gilchrist. They separated five years later but remain friends
Perhaps because of her popularity in progressive circles, DiFranco has also endorsed explicit political positions outside of her music. During the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, she endorsed the idea of voting for Ralph Nader in non-"battleground" states. She also supported democratic canidate Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 Primaries.
I had no idea how bad she was. I usually ignored her whiny lyrics.
I have no problem with bi-sexual women. It's just the angry, bitter, liberal ones I can't stand! ;o)
A bisexual should be able to engage in polygamy, if we are to understand the current argument, because otherwise she would have to deny her "real" sexuality. Doesn't matter which partner she chooses, she'd need one of each to be "complete".
Those pushing for same sex marriage say this is absurd. Gays think that bis are just homosexuals who refuse to fully leave the closet. Why is it they believe that the "mistake" people are making about their sex life is always in their favor? Couldn't some homosexual somewhere be living the lie? Staying there because of low self-worth, easy company, and drugs?
I'm all for Ralph Nader getting increased support. If he had ever garnished enough votes he could receive matching funds and become a significant drain on leftist votes.
If you look at the Florida 2000 ballot and results, enough Floridians voted for Green, Socialist, Socialist Worker, and Worker's World parties that the combined commie vote cost Gore Florida (he didn't go left enough). I think that even just the non-Green Communists would have been enough to hand Florida to Gore.
Un/Fortunately, the Democrat coalition of voters is nothing but combined special interest groups, not united on common ground. The more they lean left or favor one group/position (homosexuals, abortion, immigrants) the more other members of the base leave the party or sit out the election.
Back to Ralphie, he accomplished what Republican leaders never could. He took down the Reform Party, which stood for nothing if they could nominate Buchanan one cycle and Nader the next. There were competing factions within the RP. It is clear that Perot syphoned votes from some candidate (as well as inspiring some first time voters).
As things continue to polarize, I would like to see a constitutional change on elections. I'm all for multiple parties, I just want to see a runoff election between the top two candidates if no one gets above a certain amount (it could be 50%, it could be 45%; 50% would be hard to reach in an open election). I think it does not serve the country well to let a candidate with 42% of the vote claim "mandate" when two other candidates offered a significant challenge.
Mayors, governors, and other office holders have runoff elections. I would like to see the same for President.
Wha? How did you manage to listen to 10 seconds of DiFranco's music, without realizing that she probably neither supports Bush, or conservatives, etc.?
What can I say, I was young, dumb and ignoring the lyrics.
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