There's alot to gripe about with Eminem, but one thing that annoyed the hell out of me was his political ignorancy when making statements.
He said he was backing Kerry because Bush was going to bring back the draft (he actually believed it, since everyone around him kept telling him that).
In a bit of irony, its been hinted at strongly, that in 2000 he probably did vote for, or at least support, Bush (not ironic reasons though, he wanted tax cuts, though he really does not like Mrs Cheney, who ripped into him repeated times, he mocked her and her husband in a music video).
His other statements on politcs show a mindset that could or should be libertarian, but seems to have the GOP confused with the democrats on ideas and other things.
on other words, Eminem has some potential if he just got educated, because he does seem to diss targets on the left as well as the right, I mean the whole Eminem shtick is a persona, the guy knows he's an actor, he's PR savvy, he will say and do what makes his constituency, ie the kids who buy his stuff happy, so he got's to hold himself out to be the anti establishment guy, I I mean that's just the way it has always been
Moby, there is no hope, he's not acting, he's a bona fide knob
I think that there are a lot of people who have that problem. My cousin and I had a huge blow up fight about the election where he said that I was a spoiled, rich college student who didn't know anything, and that was the only reason I was voting for Bush, and he wouldn't consider voting for anyone but Kerry. But then, when he actually talks about politics, he has many more right wing views than left wing. For example, against gun control, against affirmative action, wants lower taxes. He just doesn't get what the republican party is supposed to be about
But Moby went out of his way to praise Eminem's "Mosh" video.