“Like millions of other Americans, I have always had a good impression of Paul McCartney and thought of him as a classy guy, but I was surprised and disappointed by the lack of grace and respect he displayed at the White House,” Boehner told HUMAN EVENTS. “I hope he’ll apologize to the American people for his conduct which demeaned him, the White House and President Obama.”I don't know what's funnier. That Boehner thinks it's smart to take on one of the most popular people in the history of the planet. Or that we're actually supposed to take W's "master's degree" seriously. Or that Connie Hair (her real name, I did not make that up) actually wrote "W." Or that she thinks working in the fact that Paul McCartney, a billionaire, will feel "zingered" by his not having gone to college.
McCartney is the third recipient of the Gershwin Prize. Hailing from England and having earned no university degrees of his own, the Beatle may not know W. was the first American president to earn a master’s degree in business administration. (The fact the MBA is from Harvard really irks the left.) Not to mention Bush is married to a librarian.
Then again, McCartney is British and therefore a socialist, which will have the Tea Partiers licking their chops. Let's see how long until Let It Sniff Facebooks her outrage....
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Boehner is silly, but it was bad form, and if he'd been ripping on your ebony god, you'd be writing a different post.
That said, despite his catalogue, it is what I expect from a dude he marries a chick with one leg and insists that songs be re-attributed to "McCartney-Lennon."
sure. but I am not the House Minority Leader. i LITERALLY don't have anything better to be doing. how is Boehner gonna cut off people's unemployment insurance if he's spending his time wagging a finger at incredibly old British musicians?
also, Yglesias has a good point re: the right's curious relationship with Bush http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/06/mccartney-mocks-bush-boehner-demands-apology.php
and the first Beatles album WAS McCartney/Lennon. then he agreed to switch it. BECAUSE HE'S AWESOME!!!!!!
If Ringo got up there and accepted some award from Obama and gave him shit for his handling of the spill and then Pelosi remarked the next day that Ringo should apologize, I guarantee that your post would have been all over the monstrosity of Ringo's comment followed by a scathing autopsy of "Don't Pass me By."
And that is why you'll never be more than the third leg of a triumvirate with Boozler and Maher.
GOOD DAY (SUNSHINE), SIR!
please. unlike you with your childish, blind allegiance to all things Bush (the "I can't quit you!" line is not even funny anymore because it's so true), there's no way I would choose a President over a Beatle.
also, I love Don't Pass Me By.
maybe its time to grow up and let Bush go? You can do it buddy. if you need some support Ill be there to Hold You Hand. I Wanna. Help! me Help! you, buddy!
If someone shits on Obama or Bush or Zachary Taylor like that, I call him on it.
You don't. Your outrage (and don't think I'm not impressed at how much you're able to generate) is elicited first and foremost by ideology formulated after a quick scan of Yglesiai and "Andy" (and boobies, or lack thereof, a semi-saving grace).
"Don't Pass Me By" is dreck.
well, my vagina is not so thin as yours i guess. you people like to screech that any celebrity's thoughts on politics should be immediately dismissed (a la The Boss), but you now think it's okay for the Minority Leader to to take a celebrity's opinion so seriously so as to waste everybody's time "demanding!" an apology? really? you cant have it both ways. hey, I know you're in a tough spot; I know that a Day in the Life of being a Bushian soldier means never having to Think for Yourself.
and let me guess how this ends: somehow Boehner gets a breakfast meeting with McCartney where Macca has to stroke his hair while Boehner sobs "why they so mean to W?", after which Boehner spends the rest of his life bragging to anyone who will listen about the time he met Paul mcCartney.
"you people" - okay, we're gonna' go racist?
I'm not dismissing McCartney's views. They're stupid, but so are the views of most people who aren't me. He's as free to express them as he is to write shitty songs into his 70s.
The point is simple: the venue. McCartney made a classless, infantile remark at exactly the wrong time (which reminds me, please make sure Will keeps his anti-BP screed to less than 15 minutes prior to playing "Rabbit's Run")
And if the same thing had happened to Obama, and had Pelosi done a Boehner, you'd have reflexively written an entirely different mildly comic analysis crapping all over McCartney. You know it, I know it and the American people know it.
And that, well, it's a little sad.
Though I notice you mentioned Bruce - two questions. First, have you heard his live show in 1977 at Hammersmith in London and am I getting old, or did I hear you met him?
1) it was funny. admit it.
2) if you wanna say it was crass, stupid, not funny, inappropriate thats fine. i wouldnt even disagree.
BUT.
3) whats dumber - his offhand remark, or Boehner soiling his panties over it, trying to make it some sort of issue? which one should embarrass you more?
do you mean the 1975 joint that came with the BTR re-issue? when your Darkness re-issue finally coming out?
(dude - i old you, DON'T being up that I met him!! its fine that I told you in confidence, bhut you KNOW I don't like to talk about that shit in public!!)
and yes, youre old :(
ps - you get points for you "They're stupid, but so are the views of most people who aren't me." line. finally, youre learning somethign from me.
pps - until this moment I thought by "BP" you meant "Brian Patterson." Hey, Im locked in, what can I say!! only 21 more days!!!
Yeah, the venue for the Macca's was questionable but, X, you nailed the conservative hypocrisy vis-a-vis celebrity pronouncements: I don't recall any conservatives hollering "Shut up and sing!" when Charlie Daniels or Ted Nugent spew their nonsense.
And if someone wants to compare the quality of Macca's supposedly shitty song catalog to that of ANY of his conservative counterparts, we can have that debate. But then again, in all fairness, that would be like Mike Tyson in his prime taking on one of X's charges in the ring.
(I meant to say "Macca's joke" in the first line of my previous post. Oh, and sorry 'bout the alliteration, too.)
McCartney's "conservative counterpart"?
Perry Como.
oh oh.
Yea, boooooooyyyyeeeeeeeeeeee.
It's on.
It's on like donkey kong.
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