Remember when the right went bugnuts crazy on the Dixie Chicks because they dared say something critical of Bush?
Wasn’t that fun? I want to play, too!
I have never bought an album by Megadeth before, but now I never will! See why here!
(I wonder how many people will say this and mean it.)
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I felt the same way about Ted Nugent’s rants from a few months back. Saying you would like to do physical harm to the president is a far cry from saying you’re sorry he comes from a particular state and yet, not only did the right not condemn him , but they applauded him. Gotta love hypocrisy. Or not…
Oh, this is much worse than anything Ted Nugent has said…Yes, he has said some extremely insensitive and harsh things..but to accuse the President or any politician/person of staging two tragedies we all – well, all sane people – know happened is disgusting.
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One could make the argument what the Dixie Chicks said was disrespectful or even dishonorable…or that what Nugent says is beyond provocative.
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Hëll, the jury is still out on Fast and Furious.
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But what Mustaine said about Obama is worse and more paranoid than the 9/11 Truthers who are convinced “Bush Knew”.
Well, unfortunately, some of those 9/11 “truthers” are not only convinced that Bush knew, but that he probably had it staged as well.
And while I don’t believe any of that crap, what happened in the wake of 9/11 (Patriot Act, creation of DHS/TSA, the eventual Iraq War) made it really easy for those people to run wild.
I’m sure I’ll take flak for this too, but in the end, whether it’s been under Bush or Obama, there’s certainly some things this country has done since 9/11 that are a lot closer in tone to fascist than democratic. (And yeah, there are some things a lot closer in tone to socialist, too, but fascist scares me a helluva lot more.)
At least what Natalie Maines said was mostly a joke, spurred by the anti-American sentiment they experienced while abroad (which makes the right’s attack upon her for saying what she did “in a foreign country” all the more idiotic), and to the extent that what she said was genuinely critical, at least it was for things Bush was actually doing.
By contrast, Mustaine, who has now indicated that the “deth” in “Megadeth” refers to his brain, has falsely accused the President of murdering American civilians. Pretty ironic, given how many Iraqi civilians were maimed or killed in the Iraq War.
Despite this, watch the same right-wing fûçkŧárdš who attacked the Dixie Chicks say nothing about Mustaine, or worse, rationalize the matter.
“Despite this, watch the same right-wing fûçkŧárdš who attacked the Dixie Chicks say nothing about Mustaine, or worse, rationalize the matter.”
Nah, they’ll try to leave Dave alone at all costs. Besides, Dave ain’t the first one to say it. There were more than a few people on Facebook who were sharing a piece written only days after the theater shooting saying the same thing. Sadly, I saw more than a few people who said the piece made sense or that they were thinking the same thing when the news covered how much stuff the guy had.
And, hëll, we’ve had everyone from a divorced from reality poster here to elected Republicans who are suggesting that ‘Fast and Furious’ was done so that Obama could point to the problem “he created” and use it to take our guns away or that this theory at least made sense.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/darrell-issa-tougher-gun-laws-may-have-been-aim-of-fast-and-furious/
He’s not the only one and it was an idea pushed on Fox News as well. Why would they bother with the extreme nuts like Dave when they have their own moderate, semi-sane nuts in office, on cable TV and on rightwing blogs to push such garbage?
Really, Luigi? I’ve come to expect better from you. Let’s see..
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“At least what Natalie Maines said was mostly a joke,”
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No. It wasn’t. It sure looked and sounded heartfelt..and Maines would later say, while being lionized in cover stories by Time and Entertainment Weekly, that what she was thinking when she said those words was the young men and women serving and being killed and wounded in Iraq. It was not a joke. She meant every word of it.
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” spurred by the anti-American sentiment they experienced while abroad”
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What is this supposed to signify exactly? She says she experienced some anti-American sentiment…Gee, that’s funny..if foreigners express a bad opinion of the U.S. based on what they’ve heard and seen, that is supposed to automatically be true and representative and just of their entire population’s feelings and we need to examine ourselves..but if a few Americans have something bady to say about France to the French here or about Iran to Iranians here..then they would almost certainly be characterized as xenophobes – who in liberals minds got fuel for their ignorance and hatred from right-wing radio and Fox News – and not representative of American opinion at all, let alone a cause for the foreigners to reflect on their home countries.
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” (which makes the right’s attack upon her for saying what she did “in a foreign country” all the more idiotic),”
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No. It’s not. It’s wrong.
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” and to the extent that what she said was genuinely critical, at least it was for things Bush was actually doing.”
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Well, if you’re talking about leading us into war, then yes..if you talk about the other garbage and lies Bush has been hit with, then no. But yeah, that’s why I think Dixie Chicks were disrespectful, while Mustaine is detached from reality.
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“By contrast, Mustaine, who has now indicated that the “deth” in “Megadeth” refers to his brain, has falsely accused the President of murdering American civilians.
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Which is reprehensible..he may be indirectly responsible for the death of Mexicans, not Americans in the latter two incidents however. That is an accusation beyond the pale.
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“Pretty ironic, given how many Iraqi civilians were maimed or killed in the Iraq War.”
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Blah, blah, blah…it’s not ironic at all..it’s the same tired crap that’s been spouted for nine years now.
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“Despite this, watch the same right-wing fûçkŧárdš who attacked the Dixie Chicks say nothing about Mustaine, or worse, rationalize the matter.”
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Name one prominent Republican/conservative that has done so Luigi…if you can’t,maybe it’s time to turn it down a few notches.
Brahms it ain’t.
MegaDeth is trying to capture the lucrative Juggalo fanbase.
I’ve been a fan of Megadeth through the years. I saw them in concert once, bought several t-shirts, CDs, and a cassette, even. Back in ’92 Dave Mustaine even covered the Democratic National Convention for MTV, and it was clear to me he was a supporter.
Now he seems to just be bug-f**k crazy.
Looks like Mustaine is trying to out-batshit ol’ Hank Williams Jr.
No, what Mustaine said goes beyond the usual fringe, batshit remarks by either side and is actually delusional and dangerous.
Ever since Mustaine and Megadeth bassist David Ellefson went all born again christian, they’ve been absolutely barking stars.
And I can honestly say that I won’t buy Megadeth CDs because I used to be a fan but the band hasn’t done much to interest me in at least a decade.
Why do objective facts seem to mean nothing to anyone who dislikes Obama? The birthers linger, refusing to believe all the proof they’ve requested. They stopped believing he was a radical Christian to believe he’s a radical Muslim. Romney’s put his “I approved this message” on ads claiming Obama dropped work requirements that he, well, didn’t. (Even Newt Gingrich had to say the message was what they believe Obama would do — not what he, you know, did.) And now there’s the claim Obama orchestrated two shootings to lay down gun laws he never tried to push.
The sad thing (almost as? more?) is the Republicans who won’t refuse these charges for hopes of stirring up anger against Obama.
Why do objective facts seem to mean nothing to anyone who dislikes Obama?
Seriously? The approximately 1/2 of the country that will vote against Obama care nothing about objective facts? Seriously?
It’s fine to be a supporter but being an out and out acolyte gets no credit from me.
As for the opinions of this guy I’ve never heard of, from a band I don’t listen to, I’ll expect Republicans, conservatives, the sane, etc to refute the charges when and if it is agreed that every time someone on the left says something stupid liberals and Democrats will drop what they’re doing and stand up and be counted in their condemnation of it.
Which I actually hope doesn’t happen. It’s a silly Muggs game. I could see having to apologize for Nugent when he has been used as a spokesman and certainly every other word out of Joe Bidens piehole may need an official White House clarification, but expecting everyone to give the same amount of attention to whoever one deems a celebrity is foolish. What, I have to worry what the bass player of Whitesnake thinks? The BASS PLAYER???
(As an aside–Phyllis Diller, Earnest Borgnine, Andy Griffith…those people were celebrities. You knew who they were, even if they were not your faves. Dave Mustaine??? If he mugged me on the street and took 3 hours to forcibly carve a tattoo of his face on my chest I still wouldn’t be able to pick him out of a police lineup. If a gun were held to my head and I was told to “sing any megadeth song” I would instead be forced to blubber like a baby while screaming for help, which might actually fool them into thinking it was a really bad rendition of a megadeth song. Jesus! Even our D-list celebrities are mediocre. This is truly the Golden Age of Meh.)
I’ll expect Republicans, conservatives, the sane, etc to refute the charges when and if it is agreed that every time someone on the left says something stupid liberals and Democrats will drop what they’re doing and stand up and be counted in their condemnation of it.
I do that all the time, Bill. All the time. Not that that has done a thing to deter the belief that right wing commentators here have that I move in as lockstep formation to my party’s interests as they do with theirs.
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“If a gun were held to my head and I was told to “sing any megadeth song” I would instead be forced to blubber like a baby while screaming for help, which might actually fool them into thinking it was a really bad rendition of a megadeth song.”
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I don’t know you anymore.
(Dude! You’re a wrestling fan. Guess who starred in a bad film and then walked to the ring for a year to the Megadeth song from that bad film.
One hint – Who’s Next?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkJEvpwDBXY)
I do that all the time, Bill. All the time. Not that that has done a thing to deter the belief that right wing commentators here have that I move in as lockstep formation to my party’s interests as they do with theirs.
Now, see, the allegation of lockstep formation was just gratuitous there. Bill Mulligan and I aren’t exactly guest commentators on Fox and Friends. And Bill wasn’t necessarily referring to you specifically in his reference to “liberals and Democrats.” I think the contrast being drawn here is that Rep. Akin is being asked to withdraw from the Senate race by pretty much every Republican leader imaginable, whereas Rep. Grayson was designated a “progressive hero” by Howard Dean and other leading Democrats when he compared health care to the Holocaust and claimed that Republicans want sick people to “die quickly.” Or the echoing silence from the Democratic party when Vice President Biden claimed Republicans want to put “y’all” back “in chains.” (Criticized by a number of newspaper editorials. Fellow Democrats? Not so much.) Remember the footage of John McCain arguing with a lady at one of his rallies when she claimed then-Sen. Obama was a secret Muslim? Where was the President’s outrage when one of his PAC allies accused Mitt Romney of causing some woman’s death because of something Bain Capital did seven years earlier? I seem to recall the leftist commentariat doubling down and getting outraged when political fact checking organizations hit that ad with the “pants on fire” label.
I think the real reason that the left expects the right to disavow our lunatics is that many people on the left don’t think we’re acting in good faith. Many people on the left don’t think that Republicans actually have legitimately held diverging world views that lead us to oppose leftist policies. I think that’s why someone like Mr. Lynch, above, would say “Why do objective facts seem to mean nothing to anyone who dislikes Obama?” Because many leftists actually think we disregard facts and are on the take or acting out of malice or something, instead of pursuing the best interests of the country as we see them. (Because clearly, if we understood the facts, we’d be liberals too.) So, in looking for alternate explanations, Bill Maher claims that it’s racist to oppose Pres. Obama. And, in 2008 Jacob Weisberg in Slate claimed that racism would be the only reason for Obama to lose. Bear in mind that no white Democrat, at the time he was writing this, had cleared 50% of the popular vote in 32 years. The only possible reason for a war hero Republican to win the White House for the 8th time in the last 11 Presidential elections was race. Uh huh. We’re the ones who ignore facts when convenient, sure. And Mr. Weisberg topped it off by mentioning that some screed called Obama Nation was at the top of the bestseller’s lists. “John McCain has yet to get around to denouncing this vile book.” Because, of course, it’s important for Presidential nominees to comment on book sales. I truly enjoyed the President’s recent press conference on 50 Shades of Grey, for instance. But hey, if you walk into a discussion assuming that the other side is corrupt, malicious, greedy, and out to screw the country over for their own self-interests, then any sign that one conservative isn’t actively opposing someone you hate is just further proof that you were right all along.
Though, for the record, as a sane, Republican conservative, I think the Megadeath guy and the current Republican Senate nominee from Missouri are both barking mad. (Something I hadn’t realized until I looked at Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball blog today, but Rep. Akin is actually on the Science Committee in the HofR. Holy crap.)
Of course, conservatives are in lockstep in arguing that the size of the Federal government needs to be reduced and taxes should generally be low. Largely because that’s what makes us, y’know, conservative. Pointing that out is about as inane as claiming that liberals are in lockstep because they support social spending and progressive income taxes. We join the conservative movement because we agree with most of their policies, we don’t fall in line because we happen to be on that team.
“(Something I hadn’t realized until I looked at Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball blog today, but Rep. Akin is actually on the Science Committee in the HofR. Holy crap.)”
Yup.
When Rudy Giuliani was on a Fox show with several other panelists, he claimed that there was never a terrorist attack on America when George W. Bush was president — and not one other person there contradcted him. Were they *all* ignorant about who was presient in 2001, or was it that what was said seemed to help the Republican anti-Obama view, so it was fine to just let it go.
Rick Perry had claimed that socialized medicine led to 10% of accidental euthanasia cases in a country (possibly Norway; one of those countries). When someone from the country pointed out that the statistic was completely wrong, a Perry aide responded, “It’s what he feels.”
And after Obama released his long-form birth certificate, there are still plenty of birthers out there — and Romney won’t simply say they’re wrong, but “everyone is entitled to their opinion.”
Y’know — facts.
The point, Peter, is you should not be expected to do so–it would be the only thing you’d be doing. Stupidity is the one natural resource we are not going to exhaust. Going after examples of stupidity on the left or right is a full time job, one with poor wages and lousy benefits, including dental.
It’s a common tactic to demand that people spend time condemning idiots who they have nothing in common with other than maybe voting for the same politicians but that’s a tactic best left to mountebanks and hacks. In no way shape or form are you responsible for stupid things a liberal says unless that liberal is you.
And anyway, as you say, it does you no good anyway. It only encourages people to demand more–“You condemned X but not Y so therefore ipso facto you must support Y.” You’d spend all your time cursing out idiots on your own side, leaving no time to condemn idiots on the other side, which might be what they wanted.
Jerry–all I got at that link was static and a message that an error had occurred. Dodged a bullet.
I can’t speak for Peter, but I can certainly speak for me.
I don’t think that the left or the right should be saying something about every dumb thing that every idiot says. My reaction to this when I posted about it on Facebook last week and again here is one of light amusement at the lack of “outrage” in some corners on the right now with things like this or with Hank JR. VS the manufactured outrage with anything like it on by someone on the left.
Sean Penn says something bad about W. and there are conniption fits by the Right Wing Media. There are two days of questioning his patriotism and his sanity. We get Right Wing Media calls for boycotting his films and they question how such a “real American” like Clint would stoop so low as to cast him in a film.
Natalie Maines said in a concert in London earlier that she was “ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.” That’s really all she said about W. The Right lost its mind. We had weeks of Right Wing pundits on radio and TV blasting them as idiots, unpatriotic, sympathetic to Saddam, etc, etc, etc…
They called for boycotts. Clear Channel quietly blacklisted them and Clear Channel stations sponsored Trash the Dixie Chicks days where you could bring your CDs down to the station and join the mob mentality brigade to watch the smashed, burned or even crushed by being run over with heavy construction vehicles.
Hëll, we even had a few elected Republicans get in on the act here and there.
But all of the same people are absolutely fine with Dave. And they’ll even defend to the death Ted’s threats or excuse his idiotic rants filmed at concerts as him just joking around and not really meaning anything by it.
Hëll, Sarah Palin goes overseas and šhìŧ talks Obama and his handling of the war while we’re still pulling out of Iraq and fighting in Afghanistan, she disrespects the Commander and Chief during a time of was and while boots are on the ground, and then comes home to Fox News with nary a peep about this activity that was deemed just so unpatriotic and offensive by her coworkers just one POTUS ago.
In the meantime, you don’t see the same reaction on the Left over these things. Usually it’s a “what the hëll is up with this idiot” response unless it moves into the realm of a threat like Ted’s. And, frankly, and maybe I missed it, I don’t remember seeing MSNBC, CNN and the rest of the supposedly “Liberal” media demanding boycotts and sponsoring days to destroy CDs or DVDs after such comments; even the extreme ones like Ted’s.
I just find it endlessly amusing that the Right Wing Media so often cries in manufactured outrage at these things and then the mass of mindless puppets dance to their commands but then none of them can see their own hypocrisy even if it was standing in front of them smashing them in the face with a mallet hammer.
“Jerry–all I got at that link was static and a message that an error had occurred. Dodged a bullet.”
The link works. Get your dámņëd computer fixed already.
Part of the problem, Jerry, is saying “The Right” did this, that , or the other thing, when, in fact, I doubt there are very many examples you could name where I couldn’t find plenty of examples of people on the right who did not go along with it. Saying “The Right” was all for banning the Dixie Chicks is like saying “The Left” is in favor of getting Niall Ferguson fired from Harvard for daring to write an article advocating Obama not being reelected or “The left” was advocating businesses be prevented from being able to exist in a town if the CEO advocates positions the mayor opposes.
In both cases there is no reason to assume those positions represent a majority of people on the left. Certainly, those who do deserve criticism but it’s indulgent to assume the reported opinions of a few loudmouths are proof of anything more. (the fact that both the Chicks and the Chik-fil-a survived the supposed boycotts by half the population should indicate that the support for those boycotts may have been over reported)
Now granted, anyone who thinks that Seam Penn should be blacklisted just because he supports murderous dictators had best not be upset at those who support banning Rush Limbaugh for saying something offensive…and visa versa, one should assume.
I just think it’s a foolish game to play, the outrage game. The folks who demanded that Sarah Palin apologize or even possibly face charges for putting targets on states before Gabby Giffords was shot have been quiet about that nut who shot the guard at the conservative groups headquarters a week or so ago. Do I think the over the top hatred aimed at Chik-fila and its patrons drove thos guy to potential homicide? No. But anyone who lives in a world where a target leads to assassination had best keep their rhetoric very very very clam and neutral or stand revealed as being more than a bit disingenuous.
(Similarly I sure hope nobody who approves of things like “Romney killed a woman with cancer!” Romney wants to put blacks back in chains!” “Ryan shot a grandmother–just for snoring too loud!” expects ever again to be taken seriously when they sadly bemoan the lack of civility in society or the preponderance of negative campaigning.)
I also think that one need not be terribly partisan to question Sean Penn’s sanity–his physical attacks have gotten him jail time and he abused his first wife, Madonna. The man clearly has issues.
For what it’s worth it, I was always quite vocal about my disdain of leftists that make excuses for dictators only because such dictators are opposed to the US or Israel.
I even have a name for such leftists: áššhølëš.
Except that I didn’t say “the Right.”
I said there was a “lack of “outrage” in some corners on the right now with things like this or with Hank JR. VS the manufactured outrage with anything like it on by someone on the left.”
I said very clearly in the second paragraph that I was talking about the “Right Wing Media.”
I said “The Right” when discussing the Dixie chicks flap because it was dámņëd near insane how many people were involved in that little. mob mentality stunt and, yes, the freak out was pretty much limited to the Right.
And, again, talking only about the people who freaked out before, I said –
“But all of the same people are absolutely fine with Dave. And they’ll even defend to the death Ted’s threats or excuse his idiotic rants filmed at concerts as him just joking around and not really meaning anything by it.”
Obviously talking about just the public screamers and the mobs during the Dixie Chicks flap there.
I even ended it by reiterating that I was talking mostly about a specific group.
“I just find it endlessly amusing that the Right Wing Media so often cries in manufactured outrage at these things and then the mass of mindless puppets dance to their commands but then none of them can see their own hypocrisy even if it was standing in front of them smashing them in the face with a mallet hammer.”
Could I have been maybe clearer? I don’t know. Maybe if I had said specifically the áššhølëš at Fox “News” and the dìçkhëádš in conservative talk radio and bloggers like Malkin… But then I would have had to list about a hundred names.
I thought I was pretty clear that I was aiming this at some corners on the right and the Right Wing Media and not The Right as an entire entity or every conservative out there.
Well, it’s kind of a mix…the line that set me off was “The Right lost its mind.”
Now, I get it that you are fully aware that there is no “right” and there is no such thing as a collective mind to lose. I would never suggest otherwise. But there are an amazing number of people on both sides who really do think that way and I think we who are not so, uh, not sure what the word I want to use is so I’ll go with “stupid” need to be careful not to feed their delusions.
It doesn’t count, since he’s an illegal president, what with being born in KENYA and not being an American Citizen. It’s not comparable to the Dixie Chicks at all. /sarcasm.
I must say, I hadn’t heard that conspiracy theory yet.
Yeah…I used to like Megadeth. I actually unliked their Facebook page a couple of weeks ago.
The extreme right continues to believe disproven “facts” about Obama because they only listen to extreme right media and “news.”
I heard something today about (I think) a sheriff in Texas who is getting ready to resist the U.N. force that Obama is going to allow into the United States to take away our guns.
It’s getting to where I think Texas should go ahead and secede, allow the equally crazies to go there, and THEN we put up a dámņëd good fence to KEEP them there.
Hey, it’s as sane as a lot of the stuff we’re hearing about today.
Well, Kim..There was a U.N. Gun treaty that was debated recently and therefore you could make the argument that the sheriff..while still a bit extreme…might actually have a point.
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But to me having far-fetched ideas about what MAY happen is a lot less dangerous than not believing what every rational person knows ALREADY HAPPENED.
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It is not funny. It is the sign of an extremely paranoid, delusional person. It is not right-wing. It is being cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
There was a U.N. Gun treaty that was debated recently and therefore you could make the argument that the sheriff..while still a bit extreme…might actually have a point.
It isn’t a very good point, though. Snopes has a link to the draft treaty, and it seems to be remarkably devoid of content.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp
Eh.
I’ll still listen. Hëll, I’ll even still buy anything Nugent is playing guitar on (so long as he doesn’t have a hand in writing the lyrics.) I have been somewhat amused by the deafening silence from the “Shut up and Sing!” crowd though.
I refuse to support Hank Williams Jr. though. Not in protest of the nutty crap he said, but rather because his music sucks.
Well, I hadn’t been buying Megadeth albums because I didn’t care for their music (I feel it’s redundant and formulaic). So now my boycott of their stuff won’t mean much, I guess…
Anybody have a bucket ? (Enough said.)
I must say, I wouldn’t have guessed rebel heavy metal rock ‘n rollers would be so conservative.
Though yeah, Mustaine has clearly gotten into some bad weed or some such.
I must say, I wouldn’t have guessed rebel heavy metal rock ‘n rollers would be so conservative.
I gave up on trying to figure out musicians when I learned the lead singer from Staind has his own golf tournament. (Hard rock checklist: Guitars? Check. Distortion pedals? Check. Putters? Check… wait, what?)
What, you mean you didn’t freak at Alice being a major golf freak long before this?
It was Maynard James Keenan of Tool starting up a vineyard that did it for me.
With the Dixie Chicks, the Republicans acted like the biggest problem with their statement was that it was “on foreign soil during a time of war!” As we all knew, that was complete bûllšhìŧ because the Republicans haven’t šhìŧ any bricks about the Megadeth dude.
Or Sarah Palin…
It wasn’t complete bûllšhìŧ. The Dixie Chicks specifically were scolded for saying they were ashamed the President of the U.S. was from Texas.
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It was specifically against the war.
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And they are way more popular.
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And Obama has seemed anything but interested in winning Iraq while in office..and seems to view Afghanustan purely in political terms as well.
And yet the same people who told them to shut up and sing excuse Ted for his threats against Obama and Hillary in 2008 and then his threats made while talking to the NRA.
Palin’s Remarks were directed at Obama and the military action in Libya.
And I’ve really yet to see anyone give a realistic definition of “winning” in Iraq or Afghanistan, so perhaps he’s just being realistic on the matters.
“In India, Sarah Palin bashes President Obama”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51587.html
Is there a world record time for invoking Godwin’s Law?
Did someone invoke Hitler? Where?
And if you’re planning to bring it up JUST to shut down a thread, I don’t think that counts.
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Mustaine referenced “Nazi America”, which is what I guess Jarrod is referring to.
Sorry, PAD! (And thanks, Craig.)
Yes, I read the linked article. As if Mustaine’s comments weren’t stupid enough already, he then mentioned Nazi America.
My immediate thought was “automatic fail”.
I do not see a Hitler reference in the comments but the linked article has a quote of Mustaine mentioning “Nazi-America”.
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I had the Megadeth Album Rust In Peace on tape when I was a pre-teen and that was it. I liked the guitars but Mustaine’s voice and the melodies of the songs were awful.
All of us Liberals should buy more Megadeth albums. Mustaine is doing an amazing job of making his own side look bad and crazy. Good work, Dave!
Just buy the classic stuff. Some of the newer stuff is a little weak.
It’s not “his side”. I have not heard even some of the more rabid conservative pundits say Mustaine has anything resembling a point – save on Fast and Furious. Not Rush. Not Coulter. Not Savage. Cerainly no GOPer in a position of power. Nice try though.
In response to this, I understand President Obama will be seeking the endorsement of KISS and Jimmy Buffett.
I’m for that. I’d donate an entire paycheck for tickets to see Gene Simmons and Jimmy Buffet do a duet concert.
If Megadeath’s sales plummet or rise from this, so be it. That’s the risk you take when you put your ideas out there.
I have a question for you Peter, not related to this partiular thread, but affecting world politics non the less. Have you been keeping up with what’s going on between Israel and Iran?
I have a fear we are heading into WW3. I know WW3 gets thrown in a lot but I think this is something we should all be extremly concerned for. Ramifications to the supply and demand of oil, food, medicine, and inflation will be magnified.
What’s alarming is not just Iran’s increasing store of uranium or the growing sophistication of its rocketry. It’s also the increasingly menacing annihilationist threats emanating from Iran’s leaders. Israel’s existence is “an insult to all humanity”, says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “Anyone who loves freedom and justice must strive for the annihilation of the Zionist regime.”
Explains the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Israel is “a true cancer tumour on this region that should be cut off”.
Everyone wants to avoid military action, surely the Israelis above all. They can expect a massive counter-attack from Iran, 50,000 rockets launched from Lebanon, Islamic Jihad firing from Gaza, and worldwide terror against Jewish and Israeli targets, as happened last month in Bulgaria.
Yet Israel will not sit idly by in the face of the most virulent genocidal threats since Nazi Germany. The result then was 6 million murdered Jews. There are 6 million living in Israel today.
Time is short. Last-ditch negotiations in Istanbul, Baghdad and Moscow have failed abjectly. The Iranians are contemptuously playing with the process. The strategy is delay until they get the bomb.
An influential Israeli rabbi has called for prayers for Iran’s destruction, a week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to court his support for a possible attack on a nuclear program Israel sees as an existential threat.
The sermon by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef added to a flurry of recent rhetoric from Israeli officials that has raised international concern that Israel, widely believed to be the Middle East’s only atomic power, might attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
We are in a very dangerous time. I think in the future we will long for a time we could disagree about Megadeth or the Dixie Chicks or Obama vs Romney. I think soon, none of this will matter and we will be engulfed in a serious war. MSNBC now report N Korea’s Kim Jong Un is planning on visiting Iran this week.
The below article is from the Russian perspective. Evgeny Satanovsky: The threat of a military conflict with Iran is real. Russia expert believes a war between the Islamic republic and Israel will break out in the first half of 2013.
http://rbth.ru/articles/2012/08/23/evgeny_satanovsky_the_threat_of_a_military_conflict_with_iran_is_rea_17605.html
This one is a very interesting OPINION piece.
http://presstv.com/detail/2012/08/25/258067/iran-war-prelude-to-nuclear-armageddon/
I don’t know what to say except that I am deeply concerned about the future.
Jose V
Dave Mustaine has always been a crazy son of a bìŧçh. He was nuts when he was kicked out of Metallica almost 30 years ago, he was nuts when he couldn’t keep a steady line up in Megadeth basically ever, and he was nuts when he went to rehab dozens of times. Nothing he says or does really surprises me. I still think Rust in Peace is one of the best albums ever.