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18 Aug 2004 02:44:00 PM |
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Re : : Bruce Boycotted for Bush Bashing |
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=795&e=20&u=/eo/14740
Bruce Boycotted for Bush Bashing
Tue Aug 17,12:15 PM
By Sarah Hall
Sometimes you pay the cost to be the Boss.
After Bruce Springsteen (news) announced plans to participate in the anti-Bush
concert tour, Vote for Change, a New York candidate for U.S. Senate has
countered with a "Boycott the Boss" television spot.
Conservative Party candidate Marilyn O'Grady appears in a 30-second televison
commercial, urging her supporters to show their solidarity to Bush by not
buying Springsteen's music.
"He thinks making millions with a song-and-dance routine allows him to tell you
how to vote," O'Grady says in the spot. "Here's my vote: Boycott the Boss. If
you don't buy his politics, don't buy his music."
(The spot makes no mention of O'Grady's views on illegally downloading
Springsteen's music for free.)
Springsteen is just one of the high-profile artists who have signed on for the
tour, which also includes Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, R.E.M (news - web
sites). and the Dixie Chicks (news - web sites), among others. So far, O'Grady
is only taking issue with the Boss' participation.
Springsteen "has a right to say what he thinks, but we have an equal right to
speak," O'Grady said in a statement. "Now that he's moved onto the political
stage to bash my president, it is entirely fair to respond."
Apparently the buck stops here in terms of the response gameSpringsteen's reps
said the musician has no plans to comment on the ad.
The Boss has generally refrained from political involvement in the past, but
said he felt his presence on the Vote for Change tour was warranted.
"I felt like I couldn't have written the music I've written and been onstage
singing about the things that I've sung about for the last 25 years and not
take part in this particular election," Springsteen said in a statement earlier
this month.
The Vote for Change tour kicks off Oct. 1 in Pennsylvania. Groups of musicians
have been matched up and are set to be dispatched to over 30 cities in nine
swing states, including Ohio, Wisconsin and (big surprise) Florida.
Springsteen and the E Street Band will team with R.E.M., John Fogerty (news)
and Bright Eyes to play five dates in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, St.
Paul and Orlando.
The tour will come to a close in Florida, with concerts organized in cities
across the state on Oct. 8.
Sponsors of the tour include liberal organization such as MoveOn.org and
America Coming Together. Tickets go on sale to the public on Saturday; presale
tickets will be made available to members of MoveOn at an earlier date. Ticket
prices have yet to be released.
Meanwhile, representatives for O'Grady declined to comment on how much the
ophthalmologist from Long Island is spending on the anti-Springsteen spot in
which she proposes that "it's time to tame the liberal elite."
The conservative Republican is lagging in the polls at presentmaybe she just
wasn't born to run?
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| Title: THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER - MODERN VERSION |
18 Aug 2004 06:47:22 PM |
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THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER - MODERN VERSION
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks
he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come
winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or
shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his
house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks
he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come
winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands
to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while
others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide
pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in
his comfortable home with a
table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a
country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody
cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson
stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news
stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has
the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings
that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both
call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair
share." Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and
Anti-Grasshopper Act," retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The
ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs
and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is
confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to
represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and
the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed
from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the
case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of
the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens
to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't
maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is
found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is
taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful
neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican
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