Posted on 05/18/2010 4:41:20 AM PDT by SJackson
BTW, has anyone listened to "The Juliet Letters"? Anyone? (crickets chirping)
I'll bet he would bomb there.
Maybe he should play in Gaza, let Cynthia McKinney sing a little also, and maybe Rev Wright can come to bless the Qassams.
This Elvis couldn’t find his A$$ in a lighted room with both hands.
A talented guy who has always been misguided in his politics.
But Elvis you could be in Palestine, overrun by the Chinese line, with the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne
my favorite lines.
Oh well, another musician/actor/writer/artist that joins the group of those I no longer want to know about and will no longer buy .
Reminds me of this
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cba_1207163405
Elvis should go play the West Bank.
I’ll bet he would bomb there. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Especially if he playing during Bomb-a-dan
Wasn’t Obama a part of those protests against “Apartheid” in South Africa that eventually led to performers boycotting South Africa and the collapse of the government there? (Leaving that connection to Bill Ayers alone for a moment)
I notice since Obama has been in the national public eye, there are more and more comments trying to equate Israel with South Africa and Apartheid.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1206
(Funny, if it was really based on race - how would so many “Arab-Israelis” survive living inside Israel?)
This is politics - Obama wants to collapse the Israeli government - he wants Bibi replaced by “Tzipi” Livni.
Elvis Costello is an Obama supporter:
http://www.nme.com/news/elvis-costello/41953
http://www.breitbart.tv/explicit-elvis-costello-doesnt-think-much-of-oreilly-dobbs/
ISRAEL: Activists urge musicians not to perform in Israel
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/03/israel-israeli-peaceniks-pick-on-the-pixies.html
(Of course, the article doesn’t mention that the “Israeli citizens” who are calling for boycotts are probably “Palestinians” who chose to remain in Israel as Israeli citizens.)
Don’t get me wrong - Apartheid was awful. Israel is not South Africa.
sometimes a silence in music is better than adding to the staticIn his case, all the time. Thanks SJackson.
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