Not so cute: Paul McCartney and other stars make public displays of their ignorance

WORLD ^ | July 03, 2010 | Arsenio Orteza

[ridesthemiles]

As I recall: Bush was married to a librarian!!

Maybe Paul should have done some research in a LIBRARY before he made those comments.

[OldArmy52]

Well, he just proves you can be one of the rich and ignorant.

[Girlene]

"it's great to have a president who knows what a library is"—

LOL, the only thing obama reads is his teleprompter.

[Albion Wilde]

He says, “Hello.” I say, “Goodbye.”

ROFLOL!!

[Albion Wilde]

She went on and on about how wondeful the food was, and how great the people were, summing up the whole experience with “I want to be a Muslim!”

We had one waiting on customers in our local Rite Aid convenience store. An Irish-German face, with Lennon glasses, and a long burka and head scarf practically down to the floor. About a year later, apparently the romance was over, because I saw her in her native garb -- a dirty sweatshirt and grubby jeans with bed-head hair.

[JPG]

...”There were birds in the sky, but I never soar them winging.” CUT!! Dammit, Paul, for the 50th time it’s SAW...SAW them winging...not Soar or sore but SAW!!. OK, let’s try it again...take 51.

[righttackle44]

HEY! You give Forrest a bad name comparing him to liberals.

[a fool in paradise]

To be fair, nobody ever called McCartney the Smart Beatle. (That was John Lennon).

Lennon was so smart he thought that Marxism could work and that the world would be a peaceful place if we were all atheists living for today.

[a fool in paradise]

Obama's white house library. Look it up if you don't trust the photo.

The Populist Moment
The Populist Revolt
The Socialist Party of America
The American Socialist Movement (1892-1932?)
The Social ?????? Of American ????? (Communism?)
The Invention of the American Political Parties

[donna]

It could be that James Taylor and Carol King invested their money with a Bernard Madoff and now they don’t have the option to be insulting.

[sniper63]

"McCartney doesn’t even come close to the song writing genious of James Taylor."

James Brown would be a better example......hee hee

[norraad]

That was one of the songs he stole from a Broadway play from years earlier.

Don't know how it was 'arranged' but it was published years before he ever sang it.

[Girlene]

Supposedly those books were selected by Jackie Kennedy in '63. Socialist books in the White House library?

Who knows.

[HerrBlucher]

It was written by Meredith Wilson for his musical “The Music Man” which came out in 1962. The Beatles didn’t steal it any more than they stole Twist and Shout or Long Tall Sally, they just covered it.

[norraad]

Thank you, I thought I saw it as a “Lennon-McCartney” in songbooks over the years.

[stratman1969]

Well Elvis Costello's racist remarks and his lame excuse for saying them are completely overlooked. He's not talented anyway.

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

Costello's standing in the U.S. was bruised for a time when in March 1979, during a drunken argument with Stephen Stills and Bonnie Bramlett in a Columbus, Ohio Holiday Inn hotel bar, the singer referred to James Brown as a "jive-ass n___r", then upped the ante by pronouncing Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant, n___r". Costello apologised at a New York City press conference a few days later, claiming that he had been drunk and had been attempting to be obnoxious in order to bring the conversation to a swift conclusion, not anticipating that Bramlett would bring his comments to the press. According to Costello, "it became necessary for me to outrage these people with about the most obnoxious and offensive remarks that I could muster."

[Tallguy]

Interesting juxtaposition considering that James Taylor was once signed to Apple Records...

[Tallguy]

Exactly, how good would you look in a burkha, Chrissie...

Not a bad idea come to think of it.

[Rocko]

James Taylor was certainly making himself heard during the 2004 election. I wonder why he’s so quiet now...he couldn’t be wising up. ;’)

[kcvl]

On 15 May 2010, Costello announced he would withdraw from a concert performed in Israel in opposition to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. In a statement on his website, Costello wrote, “It has been necessary to dial out the falsehoods of propaganda, the double game and hysterical language of politics, the vanity and self-righteousness of public communiqués from cranks in order to eventually sift through my own conflicted thoughts.”

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3 hours ago

TEL AVIV, Israel — Pounding his piano in blue-tinted sunglasses before nearly 50,000 screaming fans, Elton John took center stage in a battle over Israel’s image.

The legendary British rocker’s concert on Thursday night followed a string of cancellations by artists like Elvis Costello and the Pixies. Resisting a growing wave of calls from pro-Palestinian activists to boycott the Jewish state, John gave Israelis a rare reason to smile amid their increasing sense of international isolation.

“Ain’t gonna stop me from coming here, baby,” he told the cheering crowd in Tel Aviv, saying he believed music should spread peace and bring people together: “That is what we do. We do not cherry-pick our consciences, OK?” he added, in an apparent swipe at the artists who have canceled concerts in Israel.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ivnlatFCThfhNue46HkDA0jhWIcgD9GDMQQO0