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This is the kind of thing that gives the Pubbies a bad name.

Remember when the Beach Boys were scheduled to play at the innagural ball of Bush-1,and some idiot "brain-trust" at the RNC cancelled their appearance because they thought the Beach Boys were too "wild and radical" for a appearance at a Republican event,and that it would "look bad"? Didn'tthey come up with Wayne Newton as a replacement? How far out of touch do you have to be to come up with crap like that?

some idiot "brain-trust" at the RNC cancelled their appearance because they thought the Beach Boys were too "wild and radical" for a appearance at a Republican event,and that it would "look bad"?

Personally, I'm a fan of Brian Wilson's music from the '60s (Pet Sounds, etc.), but the Beach Boys' singer Mike Love actually is known for his left-wing environmental views. Maybe that's why they were dumped. I remember back around '83, Reagan's interior secretary James Watt tried to block the Beach Boys from playing at the Capitol Mall because they supposedly attracted a "bad element." Watt took a lot of heat for that and eventually backed off. Could this be the incident you're talking about?