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Grammy Winner Bonnie Raitt—Hypocrite Extraordinaire
townhall.com ^ | 2/11/2023 | Humberto Fontavo

Posted on 02/12/2023 10:14:17 AM PST by rktman

“When Bonnie Raitt won the award for Song of the Year at the 2023 Grammys on Sunday night for her track Just Like That,” The Daily Mail reports this week, “some were shocked that the accolade went to the 73-year-old folk singer - over huge artists like Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Beyonce and Adele, who were also nominated for the category.”

Much less shocking, given Raitt’s social and political milieu, is this rock and roller’s propaganda ministrations for the only regime in the modern history of the Western Hemisphere to criminalize rock & roll and herd its practitioners and fans into forced-labor camps.

You see, amigos: Back in March of 1999, Bonnie Raitt was among the top acts of a celebrity-studded propaganda extravaganza for Stalinist Cuba titled “Music Bridges Over Troubled Waters." During her visit to the Castro-Family-Fiefdom, Raitt stopped hyperventilating just long enough to compose a song in Fidel Castro's honor titled, "Cuba Is Way Too Cool!" Among the lyrics: "It's just a happy little island!" and "Big bad wolf (the U.S.) you look the FOOL!"

With Woody Harrelson gyrating drunkenly beside her, the rapidly oxidizing chanteuse, she of the big red hair and the famous gray roots, rasped out her ditty at Havana's Karl Marx theater. "Rock Against Freedom" sounds much better to me. A beaming, waving Jimmy Buffet came on after Bonnie.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: communism; cuba; dumbassery; grammys; music
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Geez that's mighty nice of them to donate their time to entertain the oppressed folks in cuber.
1 posted on 02/12/2023 10:14:17 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Presented to her by the dildo, “Doctor Jill”.


2 posted on 02/12/2023 10:18:02 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
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To: rktman

From the clips, I saw the Grammys should be renamed the Mammys.


3 posted on 02/12/2023 10:24:31 AM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: rktman

And the ratings continue to plummet!


4 posted on 02/12/2023 10:25:29 AM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: rktman

modern day court jesters


5 posted on 02/12/2023 10:25:33 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: rktman

Her father had a beautiful voice.


6 posted on 02/12/2023 10:27:12 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: rktman

If you ever get a chance, and you happen to cross the first release of this artist, take note of the dedication on the back cover. It was dedicated to Uncle Ho.

Daddy Raitt was in Oklahoma on Broadway for 20 years he was a tenor I believe.

I heard Rihanna was ticked off about the whole Grammy thing. Say what you want about Rihanna, I doubt if she dedicated any release to Uncle Ho.


7 posted on 02/12/2023 10:28:29 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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And the ratings continue to plummet!

until there is no one left to support it aside from the woke commies and then it is added to the list of sh## we all pay for on cable like black entertainment network, NPR, PBS, a plethora of ethnic channels as well as the government run ALPHABET LOCAL CHANNELS which include the view, MSNBC, and CNN.


8 posted on 02/12/2023 10:33:30 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: rktman

Lizzo...a disgusting pig with zero talent.


9 posted on 02/12/2023 10:34:00 AM PST by Ouderkirk (The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.)
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To: ridesthemiles

Bonnie Raitt was married to Michael O’Keefe, the Danny Noonan kid in the Caddyshack movie for 9 years.....talk about an odd couple.


10 posted on 02/12/2023 10:47:57 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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“ Say what you want about Rihanna, I doubt if she dedicated any release to Uncle Ho.”

Rhianna is a non American who will take over the Super Bowl tonight for the distinction of having written F—- Trump on the world stage. That and for being a stripper, a prerequisite for the job


11 posted on 02/12/2023 10:50:00 AM PST by stanne
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To: rktman

Laura Ingram wrote a book in response to the Dixie Chicks liberal rants called “Shut Up and Sing”.

I will all in entertainment would follow that.


12 posted on 02/12/2023 11:00:22 AM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Ouderkirk

Well they did say YUGE stars......😲😂👍


13 posted on 02/12/2023 11:00:47 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: llevrok

Yup!


14 posted on 02/12/2023 11:01:51 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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I have never seen a negative comment at FR about Richard Thompson. Here he is with Bonnie Riatt. Singing “Dimming of the Day”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8M74ufF4Q (13 years ago)

Here is Allison Kraus doing it >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBct0wer-II

Allison does it better. And even better in her Trans-Atlantic sessions


15 posted on 02/12/2023 11:08:35 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: llevrok
Absolutely. Their egotistical celebrity mindset goes to their head, making them feel important in all matters. Read the article at Townhall. Humberto gives some real doozies on others like her—Jimmy Buffet, Joane Osborne, Peter Buck, Andy Summers, and others. Excellent article and Humberto nails it.
16 posted on 02/12/2023 11:27:48 AM PST by Fungi
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To: rktman

She was one of the most beautiful women of the 70s.


17 posted on 02/12/2023 11:52:05 AM PST by bray (Order at TheRepublicofTexas.store)
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...over huge artists like Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Beyonce and Adele, who were also nominated for the category.”

Well, Lizzo is huge no doubt about that.

18 posted on 02/12/2023 12:21:05 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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You see, amigos: Back in March of 1999, Bonnie Raitt was among the top acts of a celebrity-studded propaganda extravaganza for Stalinist Cuba titled “Music Bridges Over Troubled Waters." During her visit to the Castro-Family-Fiefdom, Raitt stopped hyperventilating just long enough to compose a song in Fidel Castro's honor titled, "Cuba Is Way Too Cool!" Among the lyrics: "It's just a happy little island!" and "Big bad wolf (the U.S.) you look the FOOL!"

All these entertainment types - musicians, filmmakers, actors - loved Castro. WHY?!

19 posted on 02/12/2023 12:22:27 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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Yup! Chez would have been more than happy to take them out.


20 posted on 02/12/2023 12:24:04 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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