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Elton John's choice words for boycotting musicians (rips musicians for boycotting Arizona !)
Arizona Daily Star ^ | 07/24/2010 | Cathalena E. Burch

Posted on 07/27/2010 10:54:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Elton John didn't mince words in slamming his fellow musicians for boycotting Arizona over the controversial SB 1070 immigration law. From the stage at his sold-out Tucson Arena concert Thursday night, John savored a few choice, not-so-family-friendly words:

"We are all very pleased to be playing in Arizona. I have read that some of the artists won't come here. They are (expletive)wits! Let's face it: I still play in California, and as a gay man I have no legal rights whatsoever. So what's the (expletive) with these people?"

John has never been one to cave into political pressure from his musical colleagues. He ignored an artist boycott of Israel in June over the flotilla fiasco and played a show in Tel Aviv. He also played Rush Limbaugh's latest wedding reception in early June, which drew the ire of gays and lesbians. Limbaugh is vehemently anti-gay marriage; John is married to his longtime partner David Furnish


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; barackhole; boycott; eltonjohn; maybealittleblow; musicians; screwingarizona; typicalwhiteperson
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To: SeekAndFind

Surprising.He’s the last one earth I’d expect to support (or even to tolerate) the new law.


21 posted on 07/27/2010 11:09:23 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sir Elton knows that Conservatives buy ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ also.


22 posted on 07/27/2010 11:10:10 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: GSWarrior
Does Elmer Fudd play a mean fiddle?

Bwhahaha! I haven't laughed at post that hard for a little while. I'm so using that later.

23 posted on 07/27/2010 11:12:04 AM PDT by techcor (I hope Obama succeeds... in becoming a one term president.)
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To: Parley Baer

RE: “John is married to his longtime partner David Furnish”

Rush said that is a flat out lie.


I believe they are not MARRIED but had a CIVIL CEREMONY formalizing their “partnership”. They did not call it a wedding but a “civil partnership”.

See here :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4546670.stm


24 posted on 07/27/2010 11:13:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Elton John paid his first ever visit to my town. I boycotted him.

Thanks for proving me right about you.


25 posted on 07/27/2010 11:17:48 AM PDT by BenKenobi (We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. -Silent Cal)
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To: Marty62

“The fascist will just claim RUSH brainwashed him”

Yeah, man, you ever hear “2112” played backwards? That’s some freaky-ass stuff!

Oops, wrong Rush. ;)


26 posted on 07/27/2010 11:18:01 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Hang in there, baby! November's comin'...)
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To: GSWarrior
Does Elmer Fudd play a mean fiddle?

LOL!!

And Charlie Daniels says it's wabbit season!

27 posted on 07/27/2010 11:20:16 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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To: GSWarrior

Does Charlie Daniels hunt wabbits?


28 posted on 07/27/2010 11:21:10 AM PDT by Ed Condon (Give 'em a heading, an altitude, and a reason.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rush is vehemently gay marriage? Odd, I’ve never heard him mention it... maybe he has but I missed it.

As a matter of fact Elton John is not in favor of it either. He says a legal document works just fine.


29 posted on 07/27/2010 11:30:54 AM PDT by altura
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

Not if he lives in the zoo!!

Zing, could not help myself!


30 posted on 07/27/2010 11:33:02 AM PDT by lowbuck (The Blue Card (US Passport) Don't leave home without it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Looks like being friends with Rush has knocked some sense into him

I thought it was nice of him to visit rush when he had his heart attack in the hotel


31 posted on 07/27/2010 11:34:07 AM PDT by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofreed (<---oops! see?))
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To: Fabozz

He makes a great point!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALL GAYS SHOULD BOYCOTT CALIFORNIA!!!

No more Hollywood movies


32 posted on 07/27/2010 11:35:25 AM PDT by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofreed (<---oops! see?))
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To: SeekAndFind
"We are all very pleased to be playing in Arizona. I have read that some of the artists won't come here. They are (expletive)wits! Let's face it...(snip)

Why shoot the messenger, people? Arizona needs all the help it can get.

sw

33 posted on 07/27/2010 11:43:16 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: Parley Baer

I think what Great Britian has is domestic partnership and that is what they have.It is our media who have seized on the word marriage.


34 posted on 07/27/2010 11:47:44 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Rastus

if elton’s male mate, transexualizes, wouldn’t that solve his marriage problems...

will he still be gay.

will he still be able to sing.

enquiring minds want to know.

teeman


35 posted on 07/27/2010 11:48:06 AM PDT by teeman8r (NO vember is coming... vote them out)
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To: Parley Baer; SeekAndFind; Marty62

““John is married to his longtime partner David Furnish”

Rush said that is a flat out lie.”

So does Wikipedia...

“He met his Canadian-born partner David Furnish, a former advertising executive and now film maker, in 1993. On 21 December 2005, they entered into a civil partnership.”

In fact Elton John himself is not in favor of gay marriage. Here’s what he has said on the subject:

““What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage… I don’t want to be married. I’m very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership… You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.” – Elton John

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2010/06/08/memo-to-msm-rush-elton-john-agree-on-same-sex-marriage/


36 posted on 07/27/2010 11:55:49 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: SeekAndFind

Politics, being a blood sport, is best left to the politicans. Smart move Elton.


37 posted on 07/27/2010 11:59:56 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Gay State Conservative
He’s the last one earth I’d expect to support (or even to tolerate) the new law.

I agree, but then, he's seen what immigration has wrought in old Blighty.

38 posted on 07/27/2010 12:14:00 PM PDT by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: Fabozz

AWESOME!


39 posted on 07/27/2010 12:23:18 PM PDT by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: Maverick68
"Someone Saved My Life Tonight” is one of the best songs ever.

I agree. Elton John has come out with some beautiful songs over his career - this is one of them.


40 posted on 07/27/2010 12:29:28 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Never trust anyone who points their rear end at God while praying.)
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