Posted on 09/24/2004 6:57:04 PM PDT by MarlboroRed
One-time pop sensation Sinead O'Connor was back in the news last week -- by taking out a full-page ad pleading for people to stop making fun of her.
O'Connor claimed she had been "consistently ridiculed, lashed and called mad" for decades, particularly in her native Ireland.
"If ye wrote about Bono like you wrote about me, he'd kick your asses," wrote O'Connor in a 2,000-word essay in Friday's Irish Examiner newspaper.
The singer has been involved in social causes ranging from the environment to a delousing campaign. Although head lice are a huge problem in Irish schools, O'Connor has been mocked as a "nitwit" for her efforts.
While we certainly don't wish to justify whatever sort of hell poor Sinead has been enduring, we'd like to point out that her behavior has been a bit erratic at times -- a sure way to attract the attention of the public as well as the media. Let's look at a timeline:
1992 -- O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live" and declares, "Fight the real enemy."
1999 -- O'Connor is ordained a priest by a breakaway Catholic group, calling herself "Mother Bernadette Mary." She soon drops the name and title because she finds celibacy impossible.
2000 -- O'Connor, mother of two (one with a drummer, one with a columnist), tells Curve magazine that she is, in fact, gay.
2001 -- She marries a reporter and continues to fight with her siblings over allegations of an abusive childhood at the hands of her late mother. Her siblings insist she's exaggerating claims of abuse.
2003 -- She announces she's retiring from music and becoming a religious teacher in a movement called the "Death Midwives."
she is still around???
she had a nice voice I guess.
Pick on the Pope, and you might be in Hell before you know it.
Recall, she went on some night talk show and tore up the Pope's photo.
Maybe she shouldn't have ripped the Pope's face in half and call him a devil or whatever...btw, did Cueball O'Connor ever apologize for that assinine act?
I don't think she ever apologized, although Frank Sinatra did tell her he'd kick her behind if he ever saw her.
A marginal voice and bald head can only get you so far.
If it weren't or her "crazyness", she wouldn't get any press.
well if she wanst crzay before then taking out an ad in the papaer insisting she isnt crazy certainly makes her so
Simply STOP TALKING. Is that so hard to understand?
She hasn't changed a bit,,she is still a wacko! Maybe she should think about the consequences of her actions,,nahh,,
that requires responsibility...
easier to blame others.....
Those Brits sure are wits.
I don't think I've ever said this, but: Shut up and DON'T sing either.
She sounds as if she is insane. But gay and insane are pretty much the same thing.
LOLOL Every time she feels to ignored by the press she gets out and makes this comment. She needs to write a new song.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Ok, who's got the graphic of the little tiny violin.....
http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/SineadOConnor/Videos/ThisIsARebelSong.mov
Or the Pope (or past Popes) might be in Hell, for all you know. He is not the deity you make him out to be. Don't worship him as one.
She should have tore up a picture of cardinal let um molest the little boy s mohoney out in l.a.
Her mother didn't beat her enough!
Although Frank Sinatra once offered to do it for free!
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