Posted on 12/15/2011 4:30:05 PM PST by presidio9
One band you won’t see playing in Zuccotti Park is the grunge-like — and openly conservative — quartet Madison Rising. Their application to perform there has been rejected by Brookfield Properties, which owns the park but for months hasn’t really controlled it.
The tents are gone, but dozens of Occupy Wall Streeters still swarm Zuccotti during the day. Madison Rising’s manager and organizer, Richard Mgrdechian, says the band had hoped to give Downtown a “Take Back Wall Street” concert, something “pro-American and pro-capitalist.” A chance to say “thank you to the firemen for all you’ve put up with, thank you to the police for all you’ve put up with.”
Bass player Alex Bodnar admits this isn’t the first time Madison Rising has run into trouble trying to book an intended spot. “A couple venues, when they heard our topics, were like, ‘We don’t cater to that sort of thing.’ One liberal blog that attacked us had nothing but negative comments from its readers — and one of them admitted, ‘Dude, I only listened to four seconds.’”
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Luckily for the fledgling band, some places have been more welcoming than Zuccotti and the left-blogosphere. They were the headlining act at the Oct. 8 “We Stand with Gibson” concert in Nashville, honoring the Gibson Guitar company during its battle with environmental regulators over using rare woods in its guitar fingerboards.
By picking causes like that, they may not get invited to many Manhattan cocktail parties, but you’ll likely hear them at a few Tea Parties.
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They should go there and do a cover of Oingo Boingo’s “Capitalism.”
And leftists continue to call conservatives intolerant...
I just listened to it on YouTube. Great! Great!
Someone has got to use this in a documentary on the OWS’rs.
Johnny Ramone used to wear a “Kill A Commie For Mommy” T-shirt, and you can still buy one btw.
Just remember, your brand of intolerance will NOT be tolerated by the state....I mean by the Occupy Movement(t). Bear in mind, Capitalism is Bad(t) and if you try to promote it, you will not be tolerated. We are the 99%(t) and we will be heard*.
* - Market research shows slogan to be slogan only. Actual numbers vary depending on poll and which position we’re taking today. Anywhere from 2% to 13% support. But, we will continue to use our trademarked slogan of We are the 99% in a march against Capitalism.
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