The Herald's Virginia Buckingham: "Teach Your Children Well:
CSNY Spouts Propaganda"
http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=153336
"Just don’t call it a concert. Call it what it was: A political rally. The aging bleached blonde in the white sundress would surely still have come. She didn’t sit down once during Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s “Freedom of Speech” stop at the Tweeter Center Wednesday. The woman in the sundress cheered equally for “Southern Cross,” “Our House” and “Impeach the President.” And there were thousands like her, singing along to the words “Let’s impeach the president for lying” as pictures of dead soldiers, flag-draped caskets and President Bush were paraded across a giant screen behind four aging musicians turned propagandists."
The Herald's Dave Wedge: "Neil Young, remember: we need you
around"
http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=153340
(Wedge argues it's Young's right to speak out. And it's our right to boo him of course)
From Buckingham's column:
>> A tepid call from the stage some 90 minutes in: “To all the vets out there, we are your brothers.”
("but...we support the troops!!")
>>Clip after clip of Bush speaking about Iraq followed by the words, so everyone could sing along, “Let’s impeach the president for spying.”
>>“Other than the ‘I hate America (expletive),’ the concert’s pretty good,” a 40ish man said to me during the intermission. “I’m no fan of Bush.”
>>But are you a fan of the United States? Do you understand that by saying - or singing - the president lied about Iraq, you are echoing the very excuse terrorists use to kill: that Bush invaded Iraq as part of a long-held American desire to wipe out Islam and impose Western values on the Arab world?
>>And it's our right to boo him of course
...for spouting propaganda