“Paul just jumped the shark with this comment, and I for one will never give him one more cent. He just alienated a good percentage of his fan base with this sucking up to Obama and getting partisan about it.”
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MM,
Don't count on Beatles Fanatics leaving Paulie in droves...
it won't happen!
For one thing, MOST ‘Beatles Fanatics’ would applaud and agree with ‘Sir Paulie’ in dissing our former president!
As for me-thankfully-I have been a mild Beatles fan-not a Fanatic- so Paul is no big loss to me!
Too far is too far-and McCartney went Way too far - and unnecessarily!
June K
JK said: "Don't count on Beatles Fanatics leaving Paulie in droves... it won't happen!"
Prolly not, yer right in that respect .. but I notice a whole bunch of FReepers posting within this thread saying the same thing that I said above - that for decades we knew of Paul's proclivity towards 'liberal causes' but we gave him a pass because he never actually crossed the line into direct political advocacy. This time he did, directly so, and in doing this he just lost me and a whole lot of others. Paul McCartney never gets another penny (lane?) of my money .. I will make sure of that whenever considering buying any Beatles related product in the future.
I still love the music though, and thank goodness that the Remastered CD sets came out last year and I already have them, otherwise if they were due to release this year (after Paul's latest folly) I would have to seriously consider boycotting them. (although you know I wouldn't ... /laughs)
But this is far worse than Paul trying to dictate to a concert venue that they must not serve meat products during his concerts (the venues told him to go pound sand! LOL) ... this is Paulie actively engaging in partisan politics and pissing off a good portion of his fan base, of which nobody really knows how many are liberal and how many are closet conservatives. My guess is that there are far more conservative Beatles and Macca fans than meets the eye, just that we have to keep a low profile 'else we get badgered by illiberal liberals.
Paulie simply jumped the shark on this, tis a pity, but it is what it is .. oh well
-- MM