I’m thrilled that Bruce Springsteen and so many others are touring in the Rust Belt to raise money for ACT and MoveOn. What cracks me up is how much outrage so-called fans are expressing against Springsteen, Mellencamp, and previously Linda Ronstadt and Don Henley, for daring to express “nakedly partisan” views. I keep seeing quotes from the outraged to the effect of “I like his/her music, but now that she’s gotten all political, I’m boycotting him/her.”
How ridiculous. Why is it that some people cannot separate the art from the artist? You used to love to hum Springsteen’s “Born to Run”, but now that he’s a Bush-basher, you suddenly dislike the song? It’s a good thing we liberals are so much more mature than that.
For example, Ted Nugent’s and Johnny Ramone’s political views couldn’t be more opposite of mine, but I’ll still sing along with “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang” and “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue” (how’s that for “family values”?). I disagree with a lot of what Governor Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis think, but I still think “Total Recall” and “The Fifth Element” are great sci-fi movies (with all of their blood-and-gore shoot-’em-ups, how’s that for “family values”?) I think Woody Allen and Roman Polanski are disgusting child-abusing pervs, but I’ll still rewatch “Sleepers” and “Chinatown” from time to time.
I’m even more thrilled that Britney Spears is going to be at the Republican Convention (I didn’t catch if she was attending, speaking, or performing.) What better way to champion family values and protecting the sanctity of marriage from the homosexual agenda than a married-for-55-hours-in-Las-Vegas-on-a-lark stripper with a recording contract? Goes well with the former-drug-using, kinky-group-sex, serial-groping California governor and the former New York City mayor who had an adulterous affair and publicly humiliated his wife who’ll be speaking there for the DUI-convicted, AWOL cokehead they’re nominating.
“Radical” Russ — there is a point where hypocrisy is so ingrained in these people that their actions are no longer ironic… and they passed that point in the South Carolina Republican Primary of 2000…
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