Posted on 06/28/2010 1:48:33 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Sheryl Crow: Tea Partiers are too ‘Uneducated’ to ‘Understand What’s Happening on Wall Street’ By Alana Goodman Created 06/28/2010 - 16:39 Pop-star and courageous anti-toilet-paper crusader [0] Sheryl Crow apparently has a new political concern: Tea Partiers.
The country crooner told CBS journalist Katie Couric that Tea Party members are uneducated, angry and potentially dangerous in an interview [1] with Glamour magazine this June.
After Crow complained in the interview that Americans have become too blasé about politics, and that nobody has taken to the streets to cause "a riot or a revolution," Couric correctly pointed to the Tea Party as an example of modern day activism.
"What do you think of the Tea Party movement? Because that is the specific sort of group of people who would say we're out there, we're getting involved in the process...," asked Couric.
"I appreciate the fact that those people are out there and that they are fired up," responded Crow, before adding that Tea Partiers "haven't educated themselves...they're just pissed off."
"My main concern is that [the Tea Party is] really fear-based," said Crow, a cancer survivor and environmental activist. "What's coming out of the Tea Party most often, especially if you go onto YouTube, and you see some of the interviews with these people who really don't even know what the issues are, they're just swept up in the fear of it and the anger of it."
"They're not sure what they're angry at," Crow continued. "[T]hey don't understand what's happening on Wall Street."
The singer also worried that the "uneducated" and "angry" Tea Partiers could even become dangerous. "[K]nowledge is power, and anything less than that when it comes to anger can be dangerous," said Crow.
But before she snubbed the education level of Tea Partiers again, maybe Crow should have checked out this New York Times poll [2], which found Tea Party members to be "more educated than the general public."
The Grammy-award winning songstress could also serve to learn a thing or two from the Tea Partiers - in the past she's come under fire for her own bone-headed remarks. In 2007, Crow was mocked across the political spectrum for suggesting in a Huffington Post column [3] that people should use "only one square [of toilet paper] per restroom visit" in order to conserve trees.
Other ideas in Crow's 2007 column included using a reusable "dining sleeve" instead of a dinner napkin, and a creating a "greenest lifestyle" contest for aspiring musicians.
Crow later backed away [3] from her statements, claiming they were merely brilliant satire written in order to bring attention to the dire threat of climate change.
Later in her June Glamour magazine interview with Couric, Crow slammed Karl Rove and other conservatives for harping on her toilet paper idea. She claimed this was done "[j]ust to discredit me and to make me look silly."
Sub-Driver,
you are way too kind.\
These “celebs” Who make far too much and are taken far too seriously.
This particular one, Crow is about as intelligent as a poodle.
Miss Elitist has a BA in Music Appreciation. ‘Nuff said.
My guess is that she never went to a Tea Party event!
The leftist media creates a narrative or talking points for their left wing supporters to repeat.
I wonder if she meant Washington and got it confused with Wall Street.
Not only that but I don’t care someone’s IQ, I’d rather have 100 mentally challenged conservatives than 1 “intellegent” liberal (I know oxy-moron as that might be..).
It appears that she may have had plastic surgery. Her face, in particular her eyes, looks different.
This woman’s a moron. The fact that she can sell recordings does not make her a deep thinker.
I have a 4 letter word in mind that begins with a “C” and ends with a “t”.
LLS
That ain't the cat box...
She’s 47.
LLS
Look at it this way...Her TP practice keeps the flies out of the head screen shots and photo ops.
Nothing demonstrates stupidity better then a liberal calling others ignorant.
:-)
LLS
Hey! Watch it, Crow. I resemble that kind of talk.
First lady and celebs mentor local high school students
While her husband’s away, first lady Michelle Obama will play — mentor, that is. She enlisted the help of a long list of celebrities to join her Thursday to visit area high school students to talk to them about their career goals.
Mrs. Obama started the daylong event in honor of National Women’s History Month at the White House, welcoming the celebrities who would help her surprise high school students with visits. The high-profile women included singers Alicia Keys and Sheryl Crow; actresses Fran Drescher, Debbie Allen, Phylicia Rashad, Alfre Woodward, Kerry Washington and Tracee Ellis Ross; athletes Dominique Dawes and Lisa Leslie Woodward; and make-up artist Bobbi Brown
And I thought Joe Bite-me was a dipshit.
Crow has him beat by a mile.
By the way, Sheryl, I have a college degree.
Try passing Crap and Tax, and we’ll show you what angry is all about, Sheryl, you moonbat.
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