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TOWNSHEND NO FOOL FOR MICHAEL MOORE
World Entertainment News Network ^ | 10/31/06

Posted on 10/31/2006 8:16:08 AM PST by presidio9

PETE TOWNSHEND refused to let documentary maker MICHAEL MOORE use THE WHO's WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN in his FAHRENHEIT 9/11 film because he didn't want the anthem to become an anti-PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH song. The rocker claims the tune has been misinterpreted many times and he didn't want to add to the confusion by letting Moore use the song against Bush. He tells Rolling Stone magazine, "When ROGER (DALTREY) sang it, suddenly it became almost an anthem of the counterculturalists. "You say to somebody, 'I'm not doing it,' and they hear you say, 'I'm doing it.' Like, 'I'm not going to tell you President Bush is a bad man.' And people go, 'Oh, OK, so President Bush is a bad man.' Let me tell you again, 'He f**king is not a f**king bad man, you f**king idiot!' "The debates I had back and forward through HARVEY WEINSTEIN (producer) with MICHAEL MOORE were beyond belief. He wanted to use my song Won't Get Fooled Again. "I said to Harvey, 'The guy wants to misuse the misuse of the song.' It's not political or partisan or parochial." The rock anthem is now the theme to TV hit CSI: MIAMI.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fahrenheit911; harveyweinstein; michaelmoore; neutralpedophiles; petetownshend; rogerdaltrey; thewho; wontgetfooledagain
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To: bigfootbob
From 'half a Who,' a new album and a tour

This summer, National Review magazine called "Won't Get Fooled Again" the greatest conservative rock song of all time. Townshend says that's "on the money." The self-described "working musician" who sees his job as "helping the audience to forget themselves," says he never really bought into "all that hippie s- I so despise."

61 posted on 10/31/2006 8:37:25 AM PST by dirtboy (700 miles of fence - it's a start)
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To: RockinRight

He was never charged, and if they had the goods, they would've charged him.

It was probably a plot by the vast Left-wing conspiracy.


62 posted on 10/31/2006 8:37:39 AM PST by jerod
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To: 54skylark; RockinRight

IIRC, Pete admitted he was confused about his sexual identity and attributes such confusion to childhood situations (I think his parents were in show business). IRC, he views his problems with alcohol and drugs to this childhood trauma. He made some really odd statements about his "feminine side" etc. which needed to be worked out. The story goes that he was researching childhood abuse on the internet.

In the end the authorities in the UK (the UK is a police state compared to the US with public and private cameras watching your every move) cleared him of charges because they investigated his claims.


63 posted on 10/31/2006 8:38:07 AM PST by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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To: Volunteer

"I may need to go buy the new Who CD."
I suggest the old ones...


64 posted on 10/31/2006 8:38:10 AM PST by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
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To: Buck W.
Getting the remastered Quadrophenia CD is on my list.
65 posted on 10/31/2006 8:39:49 AM PST by dirtboy (700 miles of fence - it's a start)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Townshend penned a couple of songs on Gilmour's "About Face" solo album that were excellent.


66 posted on 10/31/2006 8:39:49 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: presidio9

Perhaps this is a mis-interpretation on my part, but I always thought of the song as a counter-countercultural anthem. As if The Who was saying, "we were led by one group, then another took over, but nothing really changed."


67 posted on 10/31/2006 8:40:31 AM PST by GoBucks2002
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To: Sicon
Sort of like someone who gets caught hauling bags of cash out of a bank vault was just going about getting a loan in the wrong way...

Oh, please.

Forget innocent until proven guilty, for you he's guilty after being proven innocent.

68 posted on 10/31/2006 8:40:58 AM PST by Terabitten (Be humble and be kind.)
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To: MikeSkywalker210

Charges were dropped. Read the thread.


69 posted on 10/31/2006 8:41:50 AM PST by Terpfen (And in the second year, Nick Saban said "Let there be a franchise quarterback...")
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To: GoBucks2002

See the link in post #61 - you're dead-on target.


70 posted on 10/31/2006 8:42:30 AM PST by dirtboy (700 miles of fence - it's a start)
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To: presidio9; RockinRight

Huh? All I know is, I read years ago that he left his wife because he needed more violent sex and felt he could only have that with another man.


71 posted on 10/31/2006 8:42:41 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: MikeSkywalker210
Wasn't Pete in trouble on Child Porn charges a few years ago?

Yikes!

I realize you're new to FR. Some friendly advice: Read the thread before posting.

This has been debunked here several times.

72 posted on 10/31/2006 8:43:07 AM PST by mplsconservative
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To: 2Jedismom
Glad to assist. Here is a scene from a hippie episode:


73 posted on 10/31/2006 8:44:49 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: GoBucks2002
If you read the lyrics on post 35, you can come to no other conclusion. At the very least it's a weary look at the promises of a new society the hippies were promoting.
74 posted on 10/31/2006 8:45:30 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: presidio9

See post 24.


75 posted on 10/31/2006 8:45:42 AM PST by RockinRight (Maintaining a Republican majority is MORE IMPORTANT than your temper tantrum.)
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To: Froufrou

See post 24.


76 posted on 10/31/2006 8:45:55 AM PST by RockinRight (Maintaining a Republican majority is MORE IMPORTANT than your temper tantrum.)
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To: GoBucks2002

'Perhaps this is a mis-interpretation on my part, but I always thought of the song as a counter-countercultural anthem. As if The Who was saying, "we were led by one group, then another took over, but nothing really changed."'

My take too!


77 posted on 10/31/2006 8:46:32 AM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: July 4th
One word....QUADROPHENIA!

Another word...TOMMY!

Bravo!

78 posted on 10/31/2006 8:47:49 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: presidio9

But wait, isn't Townshend a convicted hemophiliac?


79 posted on 10/31/2006 8:48:23 AM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Conservomax
Hoffman was hanging around on the side of the stage during The Who's set.

Just as The Who were about to break into their next song, Hoffman ran up to the microphone and started whining about how John Sinclair, the MC5's communist manager, was in prison for dealing drugs.

Townshend was enraged that this filthy loser he never met had interrupted his set and he shouted "F*** off! Get the f*** off my f***ing stage!" and smacked Hoffman upside the head with his guitar.

80 posted on 10/31/2006 8:49:18 AM PST by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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