Rockers Unite to Oust Bush

Rollong Stone ^ | November 26, 2003 | DAMIEN CAVE

[EGPWS]

"We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action."

We did take action, for we elected a Republican President, took the Senate and Congress, and got a tax cut to boot for our actions!

[sandlady]

Merle Haggard, who recorded his own anti-war song, "That's the News," this year, says that the attacks on the Chicks "reminded me of things I'd read about Berlin in 1938. It pissed me off."

Hey Merle! What is it you don't like? That she practiced freedom of speech and slurred our President on foreign soil while our fighting men and women were at war so we practiced our own constitutional right to free speech and right to NOT buy concert tickets or CDs? What is it that you don't like?

Sorry, I'm a little steamed!

[Dane]

Merle Haggard, who recorded his own anti-war song, "That's the News," this year, says that the attacks on the Chicks "reminded me of things I'd read about Berlin in 1938. It pissed me off.

Yeah right, Merle, the Dixie Chicks were hauled off to a gas chamber.

Sheesh these "artists" have a way with hypebole.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Well, let's go over the list:

Green Day (no career, washed up)

Eddie Vedder (no career, washed up)

NOFX (are they still around? harcore punk band I think, are they played on MTV?)

Tom Morello (formerly the horrible screechy Rage etc., limo liberal, was born wealthy and always talks about "the poor", "the Latinos"...***snort***, did I mention he's horribly ugly?, does he STILL have a career?)

Dixie Chicks (came into country known as the Spice Girls of Country Music. Had a huge hit with the Earl song. Not sure if still relevant to country music though due to unacceptable political antics.)

Don Henley (had a pro-pedophile song at one time, I think it was the dance song, really hasn't been relevant since the 70's with the Eagles)

Willie Nelson (supposedly one of the stalwarts of New Country. I've never liked his voice - too whiny. And he's treated women like dirt. And he's also extremely fugly. Cut your hair HIPPIE!)

Steve Earle (had one good song - copperfield whatever. Has not really been relevant since, except for hardcore fans of semi-celebrity).

Moby (still relevant, good songs, total d*ck and is a weird bisexual wannabe)

JayZ (dating Beyonce, still relevant in the Hip Hop world, but younger hungrier people like 50 cent - who's schtick is totally made up, 50's is that is, younger rappers are going to knock him out soon. He's almost "played out").

Offspring (omg, are THEY still around? They're like 40ish now, still playing rebellious punk pop??)

John Cougar Mellencamp (not relevant except in those small venue type things of hardcore fans. Burned through a lot of women and children)

[SAJ]

I don't suppose we could trade Britney for a draft choice or something, could we? The thought of THAT airhead making pronouncements about anything political at all is downright scary.

[international american]

Lou Reed...the only survivor of the notorious band "Velvet Underground"...All of em died of AIDS or drug overdoses. Lou Reed for prez:)

[Mr. Mojo]

And let's face it, endorsing Kucinich is just something to find vaguely amusing, not something to find offensive.

True enough. Kucinich probably wants to legalize weed and use hemp to make paper and fuel, and it caught Willie's attention.

[EGPWS]

"People listen to us."

Wrong, people listen (or used to anyway) to your music!

Stick to what made you famous!

[prairiebreeze]

More reason to keep buying bluegrass music.

Prairie

[the invisib1e hand]

mellencamp surprised me. the others, well, half i've never even heard of and could care less about the lot.

We need a good dose of Ted Nugent and Ten Years After.

There was a thread about conservative rock music a year or so ago...

[I_Love_My_Husband]

You might not like her or approve of her, but Courtney Love is pro-Bush.

[Tuxedo]

"The America we believe in can't survive another four years of George Bush," says Moby

How anyone can even say this with a straight face is beyond me. If we survived eight years of Bubba... I wonder what America he believes in looks like? Maybe Berlin 1938? It is we the conservatives that they (the liberals) would deport to concentration camps. Does anyone doubt it?

[DoughtyOne]

Rockers Unite to Oust Bush

Rockers Unite to Make Fools of Themselves
and Advocate Capitulation to Terrorism

[the invisib1e hand]

So I gather from this article that not one artist supports the President.

That depends on what you mean by 'artist.':)

[Mr. Mojo]

Yep, we won't ever see Earl Scruggs or Doc Watson mentioned in any of these articles.

[sandlady]

I've never bought any of there trashy music anyway!!!!:-)

I used to love the Dixie Chicks and still think them very talented. My 5 yr old daughter knows the words to all their songs but now she also knows how the chicks said disrespectful things about the leader of our country so we don't listen to them anymore. I also used to listen to JC Mellencamp when my husband and I were dating in high school. I guess I just outgrew him as I matured.

[BobbyK]

blah, blah, blah, aging has beens still irrelevant.

[prairiebreeze]

Exactly! Del McCoury or Ricky Skaggs won't be shooting their mouths off either.

Prairie

[StriperSniper]

Jay-Z, a member of Russell Simmons' Hip-Hop Summit, which aims to register 4 million voters before the 2004 election.

He later added that if R boyz R good, there may still be a million left before the election that haven't been locked up.