Steve M. reacted yesterday to the announced lineup for the Hurricane Sandy charity concert:
The next sound you hear will be thousands of right-wingers whining that this is a sneaky effort by the hated MSM to broadcast an Obama campaign rally disguised as an act of charity. Look at the lineup. Springsteen’s campaigning for Obama. Jon Bon Jovi has been called “the official troubadour of the Democratic Party.” Billy Joel did an Obama benefit show in 2008. Christina Aguilera was honored by Hillary Clinton at the UN last month for her work with the World Food Programme. Sting, in 2009, said of Obama, “In many ways, he’s sent from God.”
Even if they keep it 100% apolitical, even if some right-wingers join the lineup (or Chris Christie shows up), the wingers are going to howl. I really don’t expect partisanship to intrude (except maybe Jersey partisanship, or Long Island partisanship from Billy Joel), but future Regnery books about the 2012 election may go on for pages and pages about this charity show and what it says about the evil liberal mainstream media.
Then this happened on Fox & Friends this morning:
The paranoid crew at Fox and Friends uncovered what’s really going on here: Secret Obama propaganda. “Good intention, raise some money for victims, but the timing is more than suspect,” guest host Eric Bolling said this morning. “Is this more political? Is this more, let’s get this thing on TV before the election to help President Obama look more presidential? Or is it more to help out victims?”
Steve Doocy chimed in: “Keep in mind, there you’ve got Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi. Both supported the president of the United States.” And because Fox apparently does not support affirmative action for people of color, but does support ideological quotas for benefit concerts, Doocy asked earnestly, ”Where are the conservative performers?”
Bolling went on to note that during a previous NBC benefit concert to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Kanye West grabbed headlines when he declared that George Bush doesn’t care about black people. “How’s NBC going to control what people say?” Doocy asked. It’s a good question, but one he didn’t ask of, say, last night’s Country Music Awards or his own show whenever they bring a celebrities on air.
“Is it a hurricane benefit or a concert for Obama?” Doocy followed up, despite sounding like he’s already made his mind up. “I don’t know,” Bolling responded woefully.
This isn’t really very interesting, but it does prove that Steve M. is Nostradamus.
Yes, it is really ‘suspect’ to have a benefit concert to raise money for hurricane victims a couple of days after said hurricane.
Idiots.
Perhaps Steve M. can give us a list of results for this weekend’s NFL games.
Maybe they can talk the Oak Ridge Boys into doing a number with The Boss. Then Hank Jr and Trump can dress up in blackface and do some shucking and jiving.
Better…ask the all those corporations Chistie has given over a billion in tax cuts, how much are they going to contribute to the rebuilding of NJ?
where’s ted nugent when they need him most?
Stunning video compilation. My dog is smarter than these people
Omigod! It’s a bailout of hurricane victims! Those folks are surely 47 percenters!
On a related note, i caught some of Hannity’s show today, just for shits and giggles. he was complaining about all the failures of government in the wake of Sandy. I wanted to call and ask him why the private sector hasn’t stepped up to the plate, since they obviously would do a much better job.
It’s so funny: they hate the terrible federal government, until they need something. Then it’s “why isn’t the government helping fast enough?”
It’s like that joke about the the restaurant where the food is bad, and such small portions…
You know, I predicted that the GOP would be all about Sandy being “Obama’s Katrina” but then Chris Christie stopped that dead. However, with a disaster of this magnitude and with the Republican NYC Mayor’s inexplicable decision to keep the NYC Marathon on schedule (I see it is now cancelled, but only after days of wasting resources for the marathon instead of restoring services) there are going to be areas that don’t get help fast enough.
You can be sure that the vile racists who infest Fucked Noise and who blamed the BLACK people of New Orleans for the troubles there (did you notice they were BLACK????) will, without shame or conscience, point to the far fewer people with problems in NY and NJ and blame Obama.
The question is whether the MSM picks this up and runs with this Monday. There is no strategy in the GOP, only tactics … they are pushing this because if they are awake they are bitching about Obama, no other reason. Parts of the MSM have utterly had it with Romney … parts are totally in the tank for Romney … I worry about those not in either camp who might once again decide that if the wingnuts scream it must be news.
Having said all that, I hope that Obama’s team, which usually gets this shit, has plans to have Obama seen on TV sending extra supplies and relief stuff to NY and NJ all weekend.
I don’t know how you can stand it, brendan. I can deal with O’Reilly…even Beck. But Hannity just drives me up a wall.
New York City doesn’t even have a country-formatted radio station, and hasn’t had one for years. Country music has very little mass appeal in the Northeast. So who are they going to invite for “balance”? Nugent has like three songs that are playable,in long rotation, on one radio format today. He’s a relatively minor rock icon – not in the league of any of the announced performers – who has relevance today only because of his political notoriety. When he tours, he plays at casinos and county fairs. I can’t think of any significant pop/rock performer who would go all-in for Romney, despite their all being in a pretty high tax bracket.
Maybe instead of bitching about the lineup, Republicans should ask themselves why every pop artist who’s made a fortune by having enough empathy to write songs a lot of people relate to wants nothing to do with their party. Instead, the artists all object to their work being appropriated without permission for Republican campaign themes. I’m surprised Pink Floyd hasn’t had to sue Romney. Yet.
SERIOUS? No Country station in NYC???
Sounds like heaven. Now, I know that most “country” today is harder rock than the Eagles were before Joe Walsh joined, but even so the twangs drive me bats.
That kinda underscores the night-and-day contrast between NYC and rural dumbshit America. If you are unfortunate to get stuck on a drive in, say, western Kansas and turn on the radio during the day you’ll get maybe 6-8 stations, mostly with lots of static, mostly on the AM band, and all conservative. Reich wing politics, reich wing politics disguised as religion, and reich wing politics disguised as muzak. When sunset hits old fairness-doctrine-era laws force local AM stations to reduce broadcast power so some regional giants (KOKC, formerly KOMA, out of Oklahoma City) to broadcast widely, but they also are of the KKK/Nazi ilk.
They could ask Kid Rock. I’m so embarrassed that both he and the Nuge come from my home state.
L.L. Cool J and Fifty Cent are Republicans. Not sure why, but that seems to be the case. On a slightly related note – back in the day when all Blacks were Republicans – some things have changed, but some have not…
My prediction for the future is that by 24 hours after Obama is declared the winner, one of the key memes among Repubs will be that he couldn’t have won without Sandy.
Yup, the hurricane clinched the election for Obama. Because before the hurricane, Dick Morris and other experts knew Romney was in the lead.
For people who are always going on about personal responsibility, they sure don’t understand the concept of volunteering. If there are any popular Republican artists out there, they might try volunteering to perform. I’m guessing NBC would make room for them.