Dumb As A Rocker: Popular Musicians Unite To "Oust Bush"

TOOGOOD REPORTS ^ | 12/04/03 | Bob Ellis

[Dr. Frank fan]

Rock stars: Is there anything they don't know?

[craig_eddy]

SHUT UP AND SING!!!!!!!

[Tempest]

Great article, so very true, so very, very true.

[Hodar]

I'll never understand these people. Never. If I make my living by selling my 'art' (song, dance, acting, carpentry, cheese making skills) why would I intentionally alienate a substancial percentage of my customers? Then, when the insult is finally given; and the protests start, the 'artists' claim that they are the victim.

It requires only a lukewarm IQ to figure out how to avoid this problem. If the Dixie Chicks had not used a foreign concert as an opportunity to attack the USA; they would still be as popular (if not more so) than they were before the cow opened her mouth.

[USA4ME]

If some liberal president were doing the exact same thing that President Bush was doing now, these morons would be singing his praises. I spit on them. Hypocrites!!

[Mrs.Liberty]

Wasn't it Elvis who, when asked his opinion about the war in Vietnam, said that basically his job was to entertain?

[sushiman]

" Bruce Springsteen , John Cougar Mellencamp , Don Henley, James Taylor, Jethro Tull, Moby, NOFX, Green Day, Offspring, and Willie Nelson ... "

At least 6 out of 10 are has beens ...POPULAR ? Nyet !

[BossLady]

Agreed. Entertainers.....entertain....period. When the record companies etc start cancelling and not renewing recording contracts.....maybe these people will get the message we are not buying what they are selling....literally.....

[dfwgator]

SHUT UP AND SING!!!!!!

Nah, just shut up.

[Hodar]

When the record companies etc start cancelling and not renewing recording contracts.....maybe these people will get the message we are not buying what they are selling....literally.....

One would think so, but it isn't likely.

No, foolish mortal. The reason people aren't buying albums from these artists isn't because the artists are producing crap. It's not because there are less new releases than there were 30 years ago. It's all the fault of you greedy file-sharing users out there... The RIAA always knows what is best.

[ErnBatavia]

Bruce Springsteen, no stranger to anti-establishment and anti-American acts, told a crowd, "shout a little louder if you want the president impeached."

Slap SF Ping!

[oyez]

There is something about not having to work for a living and liberal ideas going hand in hand. Reality challenged I guess.

[BossLady]

LOL! We will have to see how this all plays out. Some of the biggest recording artists have had their multi-record contracts cancelled because sales were lower than advertising costs.

RIAA = Gestapo

[kaboom]

Bruce Springsteen, hoping to profit again off of another tragic terrorist strike, speaks out against Bush.

Said the Boss: "9/11 brought new life to my career and this Bush fellow wants to deprive me of my livelyhood by wiping out terrorism. He has got to go."

[BansheeBill]

Let's not forget country rocker Steve Earle, who was described this way in a magazine article:

Earle has described his political stance - probably jokingly - as "to the left of Mao" but his neck is as red as his politics and he is a good ole boy at heart - the true heir to Johnny Cash’s liberal humanism, albeit crossed with the political nous of Noam Chomsky allied with the rock firepower of vintage Sprinsgteen and the E Street Band.

Ex-con, ex-long time Heroin (and crack) addict (they say he's clean these days). Yup, I always go to someone STUPID enough to become a long time heroin addict to get their opinion on politics, so I can know what side of a position to be on. < sarcasm / off >

[TheBigB]

Broooce is just PO'd that he lost the best Album Grammy to Norah Jones.

[metalboy]

Bruce Springsteen, no stranger to anti-establishment and anti-American acts, told a crowd, "shout a little louder if you want the president impeached."

How about we shout a little louder about an unintelligible "singer" whose so overrated and snooze dead boring that you know exactly what his albums are going to sound like before he even releases them? "Duh duh the RISING! duh duh the RISING..NA NA NA NA" Wow, Gee Bruce, what a suprising new original sound. Maybe if you shove it into our ears a billion more times until our brains are mush, we`ll think just like you and want to impeach a President who is following his oath of office.

[vpintheak]

I like this guys style, pissed off and yet so on target.

[dfwgator]

"Duh duh the RISING! duh duh the RISING..NA NA NA NA"

After hearing that song, I thought Bruce had become the new Viagra spokesperson.