Posted on 08/29/2004 9:56:46 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
MTV, ROLLING STONE and the rock and roll establishment -- past and present -- have cast their vote, and their man is John Kerry.
So on Sunday night when John Kerry's daughters were announced to speak at the annual MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS, the MTV youth were expected to welcome his daughter's as pop culture princesses.
Instead, in an era of the unexpected, the daughters of the Democratic candidate were met with a resounding wall of boos at the filming in Miami.
From the moment Alexandra and Vanessa started speaking, the boos outweighed anything close to cheers, and the reaction turned worse when the daughters asked the VIACOM youth to vote for their father. So shocked by the reaction, the taller of the two daughters tried to 'shhhhhh' her peers to no avail.
Developing...
I have to admit...I find it surprising.
Nobody in that audience had the right to boo these women. Was anyone in the audience raised with millions of dollars, exotic vacations and leased cars every three years?
That audience doesn't know the meaning of sacrifice, of service. Shame on them for defaming the heroism of these two Veterans of the Bling.
I feel bad for them too. But, I never learn.
THIS IS MIAMI! THE REPUBLICAN STRONGHOLD!!!!!!!!! MIAMI ROCKS!!!!!!!!
Okay, someone is going to have to explain this to me. There must be more to this story.
How can this be???
The MTV Video Music Awards took place in Miami. If this was the Kerry Girls' "Welcome to Miami" from Generation Y, Kerry's in trouble in Florida.
Oh please...they're grown women, in their 20s. I think they can handle it.
In the immortal words of the WHO: THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT!!!
Miami?? A Republican stronghold?? You're being sarcastic, right?? It's anything but and that's what makes this so remarkable...
"Even if I hated Kerry, which I don't, I wouldn't take it out on his kids. If I'd been there, I'd have stayed silent, not booed."
If they weren't actively campaigning for their father I would agree. But once they step out and publicly start promoting their dad they're fair game.
I'm sure they can. I just think booing them is wasting ammo on the wrong target. Dad's a jerk, so I say save it for him. And Hillary. Make sure to keep some for Hillary.
They came with the express purpose of shilling, politically, for daddykins. They were invited solely for their perceived "usefulness" as potential lures, vote-wise, re: the present-day MTV generation.
If they're old enough to be sent out to wheedle votes on their idiot father's behalf: they're old enough to accept everything that, traditionally, has always come with the job.
President Bush (news - web sites)'s daughters, Jenna Bush, left, and her sister Barbara Bush, arrive at 'R The Party' at Roseland in New York Sunday Aug. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
The Bush twins were smart enough not to be there. People tend to boo politicians at places where the don't belong, it happened to Kerry himself at a Red Sox game in Boston on the eve on his convention. You would think his campaign wouldn't be stupid enough to send his daughters out to repeat his mistake.
"Don't know why but I kind of feel sorry for them."
Me too, but I DO know why!
what was so great about the whole thing was how the Kerry daughter turned to look at the screen behind her when the boos started. She assumed the Bush twins were being shown and they were the ones getting booed but they were not on the screen yet.
I think the Kerry girls are both very pro-abortion so for that reason I don't feel sorry for them -- otherwise I would. They should just see booing as someone aborting them.
Wait, did they tell the audience to vote for their father?
I thought MTV was only about telling people to vote in general, not permitting anyone to say who to vote for.
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