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2004-06-08 Fifth Column
Music "legend" calls for death of President Bush
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Posted by Mike 2004-06-08 6:35:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Morrissey (lead singger in 80's indie band, The Smiths - if you aren't being facetious) has just released his first single in ten years. Hence record company induced courting of controversy and generally obnoxious behaviour in public. He is a complete fucking ringpiece - and possesses the kind of face that you just won't want to stop punching should you meet him.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-06-08 6:49:10 AM||   2004-06-08 6:49:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 He's always had something of a way with words.

Yes, I am blind
No, I can’t see
The good things
Just the bad things, oh...

Yes, I am blind
No, I can’t see
There must be something
Horribly wrong with me?
Posted by Bulldog  2004-06-08 6:56:53 AM||   2004-06-08 6:56:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Morrisey is a whiney asshat who is full of himself. I dated a girl who used to listen to that noise incessantly, what crap - no wonder he says stupid things as well.
Posted by JerseyMike 2004-06-08 7:09:03 AM||   2004-06-08 7:09:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Or his other touching pieces: Girlfriend In a Coma
or Unhappy Birthday, or.....

whiny loser is right
Posted by Frank G  2004-06-08 7:44:59 AM||   2004-06-08 7:44:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 In my youth, I really dug the Smiths, and, personal feelings aside for the moment, they made some really cool music. There, now that I've gotten that out of the way, I can continue.

What a dick.

"I was looking for a job and then I found a job, and heaven knows I'm miserable now" Miserable then, more miserable now. It's one thing to do the "everything sucks" shtick when you're young, but grow the F*** up already. People are not supposed to be depressed. If you are really depressed, get yourself a therapist already, and stop telling all your fans how cool it is to be perpetually down, you ungrateful, forty-something, millionaire.

Go ahead, make another video about you playing with boys wearing school uniforms and pumps, you whiny, freakish tart.

Whatever you do, please avoid soiling the names of good men like our president or our former president, by passing them through your, "careful, you don't know where they've been..." lips. And lastly....

Why have we lost Daniel Pearl, Pat Tillman, Nick Berg, and hundreds of good soldiers, yet this guy festers on?

Sorry gang, but the sign on the door does say RANTburg.
Posted by Dripping Sarcasm 2004-06-08 8:06:39 AM||   2004-06-08 8:06:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Girlfriend In a Coma or Unhappy Birthday, or..... don't forget Bigmouth Strikes Again...

"Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head/
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking when I said by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed..."
Posted by Rafael 2004-06-08 8:56:59 AM||   2004-06-08 8:56:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Sorrow Will Come In The end" . . . "Girlfriend in a Coma" . . . "Unhappy Birthday" . . . "Viva Hate" . . . "It May All End Tomorrow" . . . For the love of heaven, man, swallow your pride and take the antidepressants! Quick, before you write another song!
Posted by Mike  2004-06-08 9:01:43 AM||   2004-06-08 9:01:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by Halfass Pete TROLL 2004-06-08 10:02:42 AM||   2004-06-08 10:02:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I think he's one of those poor struggling musicians who can only afford one name.
Posted by Fred  2004-06-08 10:10:40 AM||   2004-06-08 10:10:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 God, how I used to love The Smiths. Then, years later, I listened to them again and saw how all the supposedly morose lyrics were really just laughable. To quote something from another band, The Magnetic Fields, "I could make a career of being blue/I could dress in black and read Camus/
smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth/like I was 17/that would be a scream."

I thought about buying Morrissey's new album, then saw that track 1 is titled "America is Not the World." Yeah, and you're not the best thing since sliced bread either, Stephen Patrick Morosey.
Posted by growler 2004-06-08 10:15:39 AM||   2004-06-08 10:15:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 One more sign that the press is on "the other side". If he had waved a US flag and praised the end of Sadaam's rape rooms and genocide and sang "let freedom ring", they would have ignored it.

The only difference between the patriotism of WWII and this war is that the press only covers events like this. Every protest of 3 or more of fat and unhappy grandma's looking for attention and a chance to relive the 60's is put on the front page as a major event and expressed as "the American sentiment". Every rally with hundreds or thousands waving flags and well-wishing our soldiers is ignored.

This WILL help his record sales and it WILL help "the other side". And it's because the boardrooms in the big media circles make it so. If we don't do something to stop the undermining of our troops by the media, we can just go ahead and call this VietNam II.
Posted by B 2004-06-08 10:30:44 AM||   2004-06-08 10:30:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 I was a Morrisey and The Smiths fan, and still enjoy listening to their music. As with most musicians and actors/actresses, if I pay attention to their politics, I'd never listen to or watch anything. Laura Ingraham said it best -- "Shut Up and Sing."

PS - How's this for a downbeat line? "Come Armageddon, come Armageddon come . . . come, come nuclear war." from "Everyday is Like Sunday."
Posted by Tibor 2004-06-08 11:42:26 AM||   2004-06-08 11:42:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Free speech... OK I am for that... no censorship... sign me up... "I am an artist and I need my space"... Fine, just so long as its not in my livingroom.
But the minute I see this nitwit coming to America to "pick up a USA check", ala Alanis Buttface and skanky "America is no longer safe" Madonna, it is time to call the little shit the capitalist lackey that he most assuredly is.
Go sell your art in Cuba, you wanker!
Posted by Capsu78 2004-06-08 12:02:15 PM||   2004-06-08 12:02:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Im surprised the could understand anything he said, considering he probably had another mans johnson in his mouth at the time.......
Posted by Anonymous5165 2004-06-08 12:03:28 PM||   2004-06-08 12:03:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Eurotrash singing to the Europtrash choir market.

We can be amused at US singers like the trailer-trash Dixie Twits make insulting personal remarks, and watching once promising careers go down the toilet.

Simply making political remarks can be ignored as stupidity, but when it gets personal, those folks are best left ignored, and to stew in their dwindling audiences, eh, Natalie Maines?
Posted by BigEd 2004-06-08 12:06:46 PM||   2004-06-08 12:06:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 legend is a little of an exaggeration...you really only hear the guy when radio stations do a flashback to the 80's...cannot remember a concert he had in los angeles for some time......

and he is kinda gay...
Posted by Dan 2004-06-08 1:03:28 PM||   2004-06-08 1:03:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 "A legend in his own mind."
Posted by mojo  2004-06-08 1:26:57 PM||   2004-06-08 1:26:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Old Trafford—isn't that where Arsenal plays? We need an arsenal; we do not need Morrisey.
Posted by Eric Jablow  2004-06-08 1:56:31 PM||   2004-06-08 1:56:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Manchester United plays at Old Trafford. Perhaps there's a cricket grounds and a football pitch both?

Arsenal play at Highbury.
Posted by eLarson 2004-06-08 2:08:14 PM||   2004-06-08 2:08:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Manchester United play at Old Trafford/ Arsenal play at Highbury. Morrissey just 'plays' with himself.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-06-08 2:09:10 PM||   2004-06-08 2:09:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Forget Morrissey. Anyone notice that the Dubliners cheered Reagan's death?

Nice.
Posted by someone 2004-06-08 2:16:31 PM||   2004-06-08 2:16:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Frankly Mr. Shankley.... STFU
Posted by Secret Master  2004-06-08 3:11:29 PM|| [www.budgetwarrior.com]  2004-06-08 3:11:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Hey, guys, I'm human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does!
Posted by Morrissey 2004-06-08 3:13:55 PM||   2004-06-08 3:13:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Someone: Since I'm half-Irish by descent, I did particularly notice that and it did particularly piss me off.
Posted by Matt 2004-06-08 3:18:04 PM||   2004-06-08 3:18:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 alot of us are 1/2 irish..i am...what pissed me off was the fact they cheered the death of reagan....how could someone's post overshawdow that bullshit?? so what are heritage is irish--i am 100% red blooded american and damn proud of that! scew them ole irish if they have no respect...

just heard that idiot's new single on the local alt radio station in los angeles (KROQ) --and just changed my radio to the classic rock station!
Posted by Dan 2004-06-08 3:36:09 PM||   2004-06-08 3:36:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Yeah but consider who goes to a Morrissey concert.

what pissed me off was the fact they cheered the death of reagan

There were other places in Europe that cheered Reagan's death. It's a good thing you guys can't read Polish.
Posted by Rafael 2004-06-08 4:01:01 PM||   2004-06-08 4:01:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 Who?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-06-08 4:55:17 PM||   2004-06-08 4:55:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 Still like the Smiths. As for the commentary, well... this is a guy who says he doesn't like sex -- of any kind. None. So, right about there I'd say his opinion is not really worth the oxygen spent to share it.
Posted by BH 2004-06-08 5:36:02 PM||   2004-06-08 5:36:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Like everything else, looks like the standards for "legend" have dropped. Drastically.
Posted by tu3031 2004-06-08 8:14:33 PM||   2004-06-08 8:14:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#30 Comments like Morrissey’s make me smile. Observations such as Danny Glover’s (“"We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military …”) cause me to chuckle. I giggle uncontrollably when the Democratic Underclass Underground dumps on Ronald Reagan. I laugh out loud when Ted Rall says that President Reagan “should be crispy brown by now.”

I celebrate their First Amendment freedoms. I encourage them to continue, and for the media to report their opinions in full.

Because each time one of these malicious little jerk-offs opens his yap, each time yet another mental midget gives in to his uncontrollable urge to malign one of America’s greatest presidents, each time another sad little feeb goes into full-scale Tourette Syndrome mode and spouts this vile gibberish, Kerry loses another 10,000 votes.
Posted by Darth VAda 2004-06-08 8:53:43 PM||   2004-06-08 8:53:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#31 Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by Halfass Pete 2004-06-08 10:02:42 AM||   2004-06-08 10:02:42 AM|| Front Page Top

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