[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!!

[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!

[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 >

[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.

[StoneColdGOP]

With the exception of Willie Nelson and Don Henley (Eagles), I've never bought an album or downloaded a stolen mp3 from any of these clowns.

Why the f should I care what they think?

[squidly]

This wouldn't deter me from buying a Springsteen record. Unlike the Dixie Chicks, at least he has something worthwhile to offer musically. For that matter, I'd have a lot more respect for the DC's if they'd said what they said at a concert in Houston as opposed to Wembley.

[metalboy]

" John Cougar Mellencamp is declaring on his web site that America has "been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action."

These guys are killing me! This is a quote from John "USA" Mellenhead, I mean Cougar, I mean Mellencamp??? Say what? Is everyone turning into Barbara Streisand now? Wow John, I didn`t know our own government brought down the WTC. Yeah, maybe we gave those guys who bombed it the first time those Iraqi passports. *whew* Let`s hope it never comes down to burning to death 81 people for practicing their 2nd amendment right, or kidnapping a kid at gunpoint to send back to a ruthless tyrant after his mother gave her life so he could live in freedom.

[Astronaut]

Pop stars. Moby - who should get stomped by Obie because he is a 36 year old bald headed fag who doesn't know its over and no one listens to techno. (Thanks to Eminem).
John Cougar Watermellon. Hasn't had a hit in years. Springsteen - washed up.
Natalie Maines and the Dixie Sluts - what more can be said?

No one cares what a bunch of brainless moron celebrities think.

[Soulcleaver]

Wha...? I'd think that at least Willie Nelson would have a bit of sense in him, despite being an aging hippie.

[Jorge]

The more I hear about these losers and and has-beens opposing Bush, the more convinced I am he'll be re-elected in 2004.

[sandlady]

Related thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1030761/posts

[Lizavetta]

When people or a society in general gets too affluent or comfortable, they begin to be able to afford nutty and counterproductive ideas.

Ain't that the truth.