Posted on 05/20/2010 8:13:57 AM PDT by kristinn
Punk singer John Lydon, better known by his Sex Pistols moniker Johnny Rotten, urged fans at a Public Image Ltd., concert in Brooklyn last night to spit on Sarah Palin and what he called "Tea Party chimpanzees."
The group was playing the finale of their first U.S. tour in almost twenty years at the Music Hall of Williamsburg when Lydon was spat on by a fan reliving the early days of punk when spitting on the band was (briefly) considered a sign of support.
According to Spinner, Lydon became angry when a lunger landed on his cheek. A few songs after threatening the spitter he was going to "lacerate your ****ing face" if he spat on him again, Lydon urged his audience to spit on their enemies.
"You only spit on your enemies, and I have never been your enemy. Save it for Sarah Palin and the Tea Party chimpanzees."
Lydon appeared on the Fox News Channel's Red Eye (video here) in April to promote PiL's tour.
Lydon has fronted two of the most influential, groundbreaking bands in modern music. Sadly his politics are caught in the well-trod ground of hate-filled, violence provoking, mindless liberalism.
Photo by Ryan Muir, Metromix New York.
*shocking*
Another unique and intelligent thought from some lib in the entertainment industry...
I thought it was ‘punk’ to go against the mainstream?
How not ‘punk rock’ of him. Poser.
“the early days of punk when spitting on the band was (briefly) considered a sign of support.”
Another reason to dislike “punk”. Sounds like the white man’s form of rap.
He’s an old fool, trying to regain the limelight by pandering to his audience.
If one of them spits on me, I will quickly break him from that bad habit.
Hey Lydon. You’re an abortion.
The Muslims are destoying YOUR country thanks mainly to cowardly Leftists like yourself.
Go “Save YOUR Queen”
Pretty Vacant, you are.
He is a degenerste pervert. If he wasn’t, he would not be a punk.
What would you expect from an obvious Labour voter with spiked hair? Probably supports putting CCTV cameras everywhere, letting yobs who break into peoples’ homes off with a warning, and throwing the proverbial book at householders who have the temerity to defend themselves.
humph ... I thought he was dead.
I’ll bet the liberal-establishment hack thinks he’s cleverly anti-establishment.
We all know he’s Pretty Vacant.
Ahhh. Scratch an anarchist, find a socialist. Typical. True anarchy (no government control) is to the right of conservatism (less government control).
Yeah, me too. Maybe they're just words from an old performer trying to liven up his career a bit.
Sid and Johnny were talentless, crass, slovenly tw@ts. Now Ian Curtis, he was a Torie!
At least he is/was against abortion.
I’d post the lyrics to the Sex Pistols song “Bodies” but I’d be banned for sure.
J Rotten and SO many people like him who rode the countercultural waves of “rebellion” from the mid or late sixties, all the way through the late 70s, now find themselves in a very conflicted position: they are FINALLY more mainstream than they ever were, they are treated like musical ‘legends’, and they are in effect, neatly ensconced in THE ESTABLISHMENT. They don’t and can’t understand this, OR that the ‘rebellion’ is now coming from people like Sarah Palin, and the “Tea Party Chimpanzees”. He still has to believe he’s an icon in an expanding pantheon of cultural rebels, so he still has to take aim at these imaginary ‘enemies’. He’ll never grasp the fact that our new and ever growing consitituency, “OLD” as some of it is,
actually represents ‘youthful rebellion’ better than he and his ilk ever did. What they represented was cultural suicide, culture’s dead end. Symbolically, the Sex Pistols now all need Viagra.
'I want to be American. America is the coolest place on the face of the Earth. You've got freedom of speech. You've got McDonald's."
Any lefties out there reading this; try spitting on me; I'll shoot you on the spot.
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