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Open letter to [Elvis] Costello (Sanctimonious Celebrity Takedown)
Ynet News ^ | 5/25/2010 | Assaf Wohl

Posted on 05/25/2010 11:35:37 AM PDT by mojito

Dear Costello:

Firstly, accept my sincere apologies for being unable to refer to you as “Elvis,” for the obvious reason that you aren’t really Elvis.

Secondly, allow me to address your decision to cancel the show planned for Israel. I attempted to understand the reasons you referred to in your cancellation notice. You addressed the “humiliation of Palestinians civilians in the name of national security,” and I wonder what you meant.

Perhaps you’re referring to the roadblocks and fence we built in order to prevent suicide bombers from exploding in our buses and coffee shops. The dramatic decline in Palestinian massacres, from an average of one a day to almost nil may indeed be humiliating for them, as you noted.

Or maybe you referred to Operation Cast Lead. If that’s the case, you are in fact condemning us for deciding to put an end to eight years of rocket attacks targeting our kindergartens. If you think this is demagoguery, please go ahead and check the timers which the “humiliated” terrorists set for the rockets. They were aiming for the hours where our children head to kindergarten and to school.

Immediately after doing so, these terrorists rushed to hide being their own women and children. And why did they do so? So you, Costello, will see our response on your television screen, and proceed to express shock and suddenly call off your show in Israel – a year and a half later.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: elviscostello; palestinians
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To: mojito

Why would anyone in Israel even care if this Costello guy cancelled an appearance? I know I sure wouldn’t.


21 posted on 05/25/2010 12:25:33 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: mojito
Shut up and sing, whiny leftist entertainer. For Elvis Costello, just "shut up" is enough. It solves two problems at once.
22 posted on 05/25/2010 12:26:50 PM PDT by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: mojito

The wrong Elvis kicked the bucket.


23 posted on 05/25/2010 12:30:51 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Never trust anyone who points their ass at God while praying.)
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To: gorush

I liked his spectacle show on tv, but his Costello himself stinks. I wouldn’t say that about his wife; have all here dvds and try my best to pick up her songs. What did she ever see in him?????


24 posted on 05/25/2010 12:55:39 PM PDT by Eska
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To: dfwgator

Ray wasn’t ignorant.


25 posted on 05/25/2010 1:26:46 PM PDT by RickB444 (beat your sword into a plow and you'll wind up plowing the fields of someone who kept their sword.)
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To: mojito

STFU and play yer guitar! Dumb@ss.


26 posted on 05/25/2010 1:28:29 PM PDT by paulcissa (The first requirement of Liberalism is to stand on your head and tell the world they're upside down)
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To: mojito

when he teamed-up with Burt Bacharach and Heather Graham in that Austin Powers movie, it was almost more Tin Foil Hat Leftist Whacko-ism than the screen could hold.


27 posted on 05/25/2010 1:28:37 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: latina4dubya

I wouldn’t recognize him if I heard him. Or saw him, probably.


28 posted on 05/25/2010 1:40:40 PM PDT by FrdmLvr ( VIVA la SB 1070!)
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To: RickB444

Ray Charles was a great American.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghz4_kikLkE


29 posted on 05/25/2010 1:42:03 PM PDT by happygrl (QA231)
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To: whence911

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Costello

Search on the “N” word ...


30 posted on 05/25/2010 1:57:21 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Tunehead54

There goes the humanitarian award. LOL!


31 posted on 05/25/2010 1:59:53 PM PDT by whence911 (Here illegally? Go home. Get in line!)
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To: mojito
Shut up and sing, whiny leftist entertainer.

How about just "Shut up?" Could have done with out his emascualted whining all these years.

Also note that Gil Scott Herin, perenial race-baiter from the seventies, "refuses" to "play" Israel. However, Elton John still has plans to perform their, for the moment.

They're all boycotting Arizona, too, right?

32 posted on 05/25/2010 2:02:20 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (we shall overcome a generation of affirmative action.)
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To: mojito

Well, actually, he’s not really Costello, either.


33 posted on 05/25/2010 2:03:08 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: keepitreal
just "shut up" is enough.

You beat me to it. And, I'm fond of saying "keep it real."

This is creepy.

34 posted on 05/25/2010 2:03:23 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (we shall overcome a generation of affirmative action.)
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To: mojito

Every day they write the book, problem is they can’t because it’s in ENGLISH and they only speak and write SPANISH.


35 posted on 05/25/2010 2:05:06 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Elton John is Jewish, I’m afraid to say. Maybe he wants to lend support to suicidal Israeli leftists.

Elvis Costello is surprisingly Jewish, although he did not find out about his mother being Jewish until he was an adult.


36 posted on 05/25/2010 2:12:17 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: mojito

what can you expect from the guy who sang, “Alison...I think somebody better put out the big light...my aim is true...”


37 posted on 05/25/2010 2:21:29 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (we shall overcome a generation of affirmative action.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Great minds..... ;-)


38 posted on 05/25/2010 2:36:00 PM PDT by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: mojito
Firstly, accept my sincere apologies for being unable to refer to you as “Elvis,” for the obvious reason that you aren’t really Elvis.

Poor writer probably doesn't even realize there were people named Elvis before E. Presley and after EP without any reference to EP.
39 posted on 05/25/2010 2:38:32 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: jjotto

Elton John is Jewish, I’m afraid to say.

Where can one verify that? IINM, his name at birth was “Reginald Dwight.”


40 posted on 05/25/2010 2:40:30 PM PDT by eddiespaghetti ((with the meatball eyes))
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