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Mick Jagger: Romney a mensch and a hard-working man.
NBC / youtube ^ | 19-May-2012 | Saturday Night Live

Posted on 05/21/2012 5:44:23 AM PDT by bagadonutz

Great blues number by Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck with SNL band.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blues; jeffbeck; media; mickjagger; rock; romney
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This is amazing. The media is reporting this as an anti-romney performance. But listen to the lyrics. No mention of Obama. Mick Jagger refers to Mitt Romney as a mensch. Jagger knows something about socialist governments - he fled the UK in the early 70's to avoid a tax on 'millionairs and billionairs'.
1 posted on 05/21/2012 5:44:28 AM PDT by bagadonutz
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mensch: The term is used as a high compliment, expressing the rarity and value of that individual's qualities.

I assume, therefore, that Jagger was complimenting Romney? Why am I confused about this posting.

Is the theme that Jagger was saying something nice about him or not?

2 posted on 05/21/2012 5:52:32 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: bagadonutz

at least Romney can support himself and his family in good fashion


3 posted on 05/21/2012 5:52:48 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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When I heard I’d missed Jagger on SNL I didn’t think twice, but JEFF BECK was on too? Man, I hate to have missed that. Beck is to a guitar what DaVinci was to a canvass and oils.


4 posted on 05/21/2012 5:54:16 AM PDT by circlecity
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yes - my point is that he was actually complimenting romney. it is political satire in a blues song but it is hardly anti-romney as reported in the media outlets. A mensch is yiddish and the highest compliment you can give a man.


5 posted on 05/21/2012 5:57:18 AM PDT by bagadonutz (knuckledragger)
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I watched the beginning of SNL but was so depressed to see Mick Jagger looking so old that I fell asleep. I think Mick is turning 70 next year but I’m old enough where I can’t stay awake after midnight anymore.


6 posted on 05/21/2012 5:57:38 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: circlecity
Beck is to a guitar what DaVinci was to a canvass and oils. Beck tears it up! I hope a better quality version gets posted to youtube soon.
7 posted on 05/21/2012 6:00:35 AM PDT by bagadonutz (knuckledragger)
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Mick always looked worse than his age. And I find it hard to find any pity for him. He’s such a low-life. And I was a fan, back in the day.


8 posted on 05/21/2012 6:01:52 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (hViva Christo Rey!)
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But he did show up at some WH event not that long ago.


9 posted on 05/21/2012 6:03:03 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks bagadonutz.


10 posted on 05/21/2012 6:07:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Definitely — there are virtuoso guitarists (Steve Vai for example), but Jeff Beck is the top.


11 posted on 05/21/2012 6:09:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Apparently the SNL writers asked Skinny Mick to come up with something biting - one thing I’ll say to his credit he always kept his nose out of American politics. Unlike, say, Paul McCartney.


12 posted on 05/21/2012 6:09:44 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

He has finally become an “Old” blues man.


13 posted on 05/21/2012 6:09:58 AM PDT by Autonomous User ( I guess a liberal and an out-of-work bum look a lot a like, daddy.)
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To: circlecity

Jeff Beck was great. I haven’t heard him in years but he hasn’t lost a step.


14 posted on 05/21/2012 6:18:05 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (I like Obamacare because Granny signed the will and I need the cash)
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but JEFF BECK was on too? Man, I hate to have missed that. Beck is to a guitar what DaVinci was to a canvass and oils.

Me too! But it's good to see that Tal Wilkenfeld is playing in his band again. She was off doing other things for a while, but her groove with Vinnie C on the drums is just SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!

Mark

15 posted on 05/21/2012 6:24:44 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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I saw SNL and MJ and I heard him say “mench” but I am not quite sure what it means. He grinned when he said it. MJ has never been plump but he is so skinny I am worried about him.
16 posted on 05/21/2012 6:30:54 AM PDT by Ditter
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http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/05/video-mick-jagger-arcade-fire-and-foo-fighters-on-saturday-night-live/

Here is the Beck/Jagger video plus Foo/Jagger doing "19th Nervous Breakdown" plus a version of "Last Time"

I'd like to see ol Mick doing his down and dirty song "Memo From Turner" but I don't think it has ever been done live...only on record

17 posted on 05/21/2012 6:32:50 AM PDT by dennisw
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This is amazing. The media is reporting this as an anti-romney performance.

Of course they are. They are now the Soviet American Press Surrealists (S.A.P.S. is the acronym).

Should Obama lose in November, I expect them, in unison, to congratulate Obama on his victory, speculate on the Obama second term agenda, and call Mitt Romney a sore loser who just happened to get a few more votes than the winner, Obama.

They the THAT bad, these days.

18 posted on 05/21/2012 6:38:18 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The so-called 'mainstream' media has gone from "biased" straight to "utterly surreal".)
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I don’t think “always says his prayers ...but don’t ever let him cut your hair” was exactly a compliment.

Could have been worse, of course.


19 posted on 05/21/2012 6:39:32 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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Jeff Beck, in my top five still alive, along with:
Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Eric Clapnor (sic).

Definitely — there are virtuoso guitarists (Steve Vai for example), but Jeff Beck is the top.


20 posted on 05/21/2012 6:42:49 AM PDT by thepoodlebites (and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.)
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