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US Calls For George Michael To Quit
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| Last Updated: 09:34 UK, Saturday July 06, 2002
| Editorial Staff
Posted on 07/07/2002 6:16:08 PM PDT by vannrox
US Calls For Michael To Quit
Americans have rallied to call on George Michael to be kicked out of the country over his controversial new anti-US single.
The British multimillionaire, who has homes in the US, has been slated coast to coast for Shoot the Dog in which he ridicles President George W Bush.
The star criticises America and close ally Britain for their war against terrorism and portrays Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair as gay lovers in the accompanying video.
The video jokes about the fight for freedom in the wake of the World Trade Center atrocity. Neither the song nor video has been released in the US over fears that George's career would be ruined.
'What a coward'
American radio stations have been bombarded with complaints from listeners who have managed to hear the song.
Popular American DJ Lisa Stanley summed up the feelings. "If he released that song here, he would be torn apart. What a coward," she said.
"He owes it to his fans here to show what he is really like, and with the current patriotic feeling here, I doubt his fans would be impressed."
'Safer toilets'
She added: "Do we really need to let him back in? Our toilets would be safer without him," referring to the singer being caught performing a sex act in a public loo in Los Angeles.
In Britain, radio bosses have refused to play the single on their airwaves but a defiant George hit back (Demanding that the song be played) saying he was only expressing his concerns about the terror campaign.
"I would never knowingly disrespect the feelings of a nation which has suffered so much loss, so recently," he said in The Sun. "I am definitely not anti-American. How could I be? I have been in love with a Texan for six years."
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 911; american; antius; binladen; george; iran; iraq; michael; music; record; star; taliban; terror; uk; wtc
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posted on
07/07/2002 6:16:08 PM PDT
by
vannrox
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: Norvokov
What, no petition?
To: vannrox
"I have been in love with a Texan for six years." So, don't keep us in suspense. What's his name?
To: vannrox; Norvokov; SouthernFreebird
I have been "in love" with a Texan for six years.
Met "him" at a favorite lavatory?
With time out for some extracurricular dalliance with a Los Angeles' pervert-police posse -- that we know about.
[And: Sorry George -- but the abstract defense is the hallmark of Yasser Daschle, the ACLU, AARP, ABA and other Evil liberal liars and terrorist gangs and sympathizers -- and won't wash hereabouts!]
Comment #6 Removed by Moderator
To: GWELO
Run him out on a rail. Not a good idea. He might enjoy it, and then we'd never get rid of him.
Comment #8 Removed by Moderator
To: vannrox
As much as I loathe the stuff the guy says, and make a point not to listen to it--we do happen to live, or so I thought, in a country that has a free speech right.
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posted on
07/07/2002 6:49:33 PM PDT
by
basil
To: vannrox
Tabloid generated bullsh*t, exactly as George intended. Nobody cares in real life. Next.
10
posted on
07/07/2002 6:56:49 PM PDT
by
Jhensy
To: basil
Isn't George the dude that uses public restrooms in parks
to find sex? A real gem of a human. He is sort of like that
old ratty dog in the city that you used to see stuck to a
female stray. Waiting for city buses and watching stray dogs
get one used to things like scummy George Micheal
To: basil
Hey~~nobody said to put him in jail. But he does not have a Constitutional right to force a radio station to play his crap or to force people to listen to it.
To: vannrox
I think the aids virus is eating his two brain cells away.
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posted on
07/08/2002 2:39:19 PM PDT
by
Rollee
To: vannrox
Our public restrooms would be safer.
To: basil
As much as I loathe the stuff the guy says, and make a point not to listen to it--we do happen to live, or so I thought, in a country that has a free speech right.Sure. Anybody can say anything they would like to say.
They can also suffer the consequences if someone doesn't take kindly to their views or words.
To: Brian Allen
I have been "in love" with a Texan for six years.
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posted on
07/08/2002 2:48:37 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: vannrox
Americans have rallied to call on George Michael to be kicked out of the country over his controversial new anti-US single. Smooth move. George attempts to be controversial in hopes of staging a comeback & gets himself expelled from the western hemisphere instead.
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posted on
07/08/2002 3:05:56 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: basil; vannrox
..... we do happen to live, or so I thought, in a country that has a free speech right .....
..... both of which -- Our Beloved FRaternal Republic and Our Nation's Right to FRee Speech [Renamed "harrassment" by his "Deviate Community"]-- despised by this convicted lewd lavatory loiterer -- and by his ilk.
Let him stay in once great Britain and accompany Turd-Way-Tony Blair and the rest of his countrymen on their head long plunge into the EUrinal.
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