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it doesn't really matter which side they are on, i think celebrities who stump for politicians are pretty ridiculous. when i saw a link to this article i couldn't help but read it and laugh. first, because alice cooper is my dad's cousin and second, because i like what he said.
"To me, that's treason," Cooper told the Canadian Press. "I call it treason against rock 'n' roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics."
"When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick...
..."If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal."
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it doesn't really matter which side they are on, i think celebrities who stump for politicians are pretty ridiculous. when i saw a link to this article i couldn't help but read it and laugh. first, because alice cooper is my dad's cousin and second, because i like what he said.
Alice is a cool guy--I met him once at a sushi restaurant in Scottsdale. Real nice.
I don't know what his politics are, but I'm curious as to whether he would have made the same comments if the artists mentioned we're against KERRY rather than Bush. Hmmmm. Never heard of that website before--WorldNetDaily. That's some seriously right wing stuff going on there....
Never heard of that website before--WorldNetDaily. That's some seriously right wing stuff going on there....
oh yeah, they are definitely of the right wing nut variety. there are a few sites of that strain i visit because they do link to a lot of different sources. i couldn't care less about there personal exclusives, but i do like the availability of links.
I just don't pay attention much to celebrity politics. There probably are some well-informed celebrities, but, I would guess that many are, as Cooper puts is, "morons".
well, as Ben Stein said in an interview around the time of the war - "Martin Sheen is a very good friend of mine. Sometimes he just forgets that he isn't the president, he only plays one on tv."
well, as Ben Stein said in an interview around the time of the war - "Martin Sheen is a very good friend of mine. Sometimes he just forgets that he isn't the president, he only plays one on tv."
I saw that on TV too.
Ben Stein is a smart person.
Ben Stein is a smart person.
sure, but some people are smarter... they can win HIS money.
Mmm...right-wing-nuts....ooohhhh.....
Hey, stop busting on WND! They also do a print magazine, Whistleblower, which does something fairly innovative in terms of format ... they focus on one issue per issue, and provide a lot of information and opinion on that topic.
Speaking of Alice Cooper ... has everyone seen the Staples commercial by now? I saw it last weekend and was in hysterics.
ok, wolf - you know i lean right but even i say that WND is pretty far right. better than newsmax though. i don't have any problem with that because i use my bias-equalizing lenses any time i watch/listen to the media; but some folks will ignore anything WND says simply because of their far-right ideology.
That's more of what I meant ... people who discount anything appearing on WND solely because it's WND. I seem to recall them having scooped the major media a couple times.
I'm just saying I respect what Farah is doing with the site and the magazine.
I gotta say that any rock star appearing in a Staples commercial really has no standing accusing someone of being a traitor to rock & roll. The admonition against paying attention to celebrity opinions stands, though.
I'm just saying I respect what Farah is doing with the site and the magazine.
Considering that Farah is a Scaife puppet largely responsible for the Clinton Body Count and Hillary Murdered Vince Foster "stories," I have negative levels of respect for him, and give him even less credibility.
Wasn't that actually Christopher Ruddy from newsmax.com?
'Twas both. Scaife spread his money and conspiracy theories far and wide.
I would NEVER vote for someone just because a star, rock or otherwise, endorsed them, but some popular music can be fairly political. Just listen to a sampling of the music that was popular on the airwaves in the 60's during Vietnam. That was some pretty powerful stuff.
And a fair amount of 80's punk rock was a political barometer of sorts, the Dead Kennedys being the most obvious example. Lately, NOFX are trying to be the musical antagonist to Bush II that the DKs were to his father. Frank Zappa skewered politics and politicians regularly, particularly in the aborted '88 tour (which generated three albums full of potshots at pompous politicians, the religious right and Jimmy Swaggart).