Goodbye Yellow Brickhead
Assholes like that always claim they’re being censored or suppressed in their free speech. I disagree, they are feeling the heat of the truth. They use this ploy every time they are called on their lying and we expose their elitist leftwing asses for what they are.
Posted by Jack
07/17/2004 at 12:39 PM
These asshats are so used to being surrounded by sycophants they think they’re being persecuted when people disagree with them.
They can’t understand that their opinions aren’t the only ones in the universe. Most of them can’t put together an intelligent sentence without a script writer.
Posted by MAJ Mike
07/17/2004 at 01:02 PM
Can anyone tell us where we can address a letter (e-mail or snail) to “Sir” and Whoopi and the like? I’d like to send them Allan’s post, along with a few pointed words of my own. I don’t expect they read Barking Moonbats Early Warning System with any regularity, so they won’t see the post unless we all help them to it.
Posted by Pat
07/17/2004 at 01:12 PM
Excellent as usual......
Truth is I’ve never been much impressed by this guy ever. But then I’ve never based my opions on world affairs or anything else just because an entertainer says so…
Why doesn’t he go someplace he likes better..
Posted by Ric Brandt
07/17/2004 at 01:27 PM
The leftists fail to recognize the difference between peer pressure and censoring. Or, perhaps they don’t consider us mere mortals their peers…
Posted by Deb
07/17/2004 at 01:34 PM
From the leader in the UK Daily Telegraph today:
Elton John’s witch-hunt
(Filed: 17/07/2004)First, they came for the Communists, to paraphrase Martin Niemöller, and I didn’t speak up, because I was not a Communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up, because I was not a Jew. Then, they came for the short, stout blokes from Watford with unconvincing wigs and enormous egos, and I did not speak up, because…
Forgive us for giggling. Sir Elton John, reflecting on the shortage of successful pop songs condemning the invasion of Iraq, tells Interview magazine: “There’s an atmosphere of fear in America right now that is deadly. Everyone is too career-conscious. They’re all too scared… Things have changed. I don’t know if there’s been a time when the fear factor has played such an important role in America since McCarthyism in the 1950s as it does right now.”
We need to set Sir Elton’s remarks in context. He is speaking out - risking, he seems to suggest, his career - at a time when Michael Moore’s polemical anti-war film Fahrenheit 9/11 is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. He is bravely breaking the wall of silence, at a time when the Left-wing writer Al Franken is basking in the success of a book called Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.
There are many complaints that may be levelled against the current US administration. The institutional persecution of free-thinking artistes is not one of them.
A trio of country singers, the Dixie Chicks, were rude about President Bush last year. Several local radio stations temporarily refused to play their records, and their album sold only six million copies. The comedienne Whoopi Goldberg was deprived of a lucrative sideline endorsing Slim-Fast diet products after making a crass joke punning on the pudendal connotations of the President’s surname.
But the blacklisting of Communists in 1950s Hollywood - with the institutional support of the studios and the Screen Actors Guild - destroyed careers. To invoke it now is the purest fatuity.
Posted by Dave T
07/17/2004 at 04:54 PM
“short, stout blokes from Watford with unconvincing wigs and enormous egos”
Please forgive ME for laughing my ass off!! Congratulations to the UK Telegraph for putting it so well. Thanks, Dave for digging that one up. It made my day!
What gets me is, why this guy (and many Brits like him) live here in the U.S.? I thought the Brit Tax Man gets them no matter where in the world they live!
Posted by Macker
07/17/2004 at 06:38 PM
In my career as a professional engineer in private practice, there may have been clients with whom I disagree about politics. [Many of my clients are Architects, and Architects are mostly liberal assholes] but I refrain from calling them what they are, because that is not conducive to a business relationship.
To demand your right to insult your customers and yet deny them the right to take their business elsewhere, which is what a lot of former Dixie Chicks fans did, is to demonstrate both contempt for your customers and ignorance of what free speeckh is. Censorship is a government action. Freedom of choice is a democratic action.Posted by Walter E. Wallis
07/17/2004 at 06:49 PM