Go Alice!
mid-afternoon on Monday, the 23rd of August 2004 by Chad
Alice Cooper, my hero…
WINNIPEG — In the eyes of Alice Cooper, all the rock stars campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry are guilty of one thing: treason. The shock-rock legend, a staunch Republican who attends NBA games in Phoenix with Arizona Senator John McCain, was disgusted when he learned of plans by Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, R.E.M. and other bands to hold a series of concerts aimed at unseating U.S. President George W. Bush.
“To me, that’s treason. I call it treason against rock ‘n’ roll because rock is the antithesis of politics. Rock should never be in bed with politics,” says the 56-year-old Cooper, who begins a 15-city Canadian tour on Aug. 20 in Thunder Bay, Ont.
“When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I’d run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick.
“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”
Despite his strong insistence that rock has no place in politics, Cooper is one of just a handful of high-profile musicians who’ve proclaimed support for Bush.
The list of pop-culture Republicans includes Britney Spears, Toby Keith and Ted Nugent. the latter being one of Cooper’s old buddies from his early days in Detroit.
Repeat after me: “If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. ”
One more time!
“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. “
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August 27th, 2004 at 5:21 pm
i have a conflict here.. Alice makes sense.. so if he makes sense he is not a moron.. yet that special group of “musicians” who are promoting Kerry.. ugh yeah well..
I had heard about that “Kerry” tour on the radio and the dj was saying if you like the music go just for the music, regardless of your support or otherwise for kerry.. umm the whole concept of this tour is promoting Kerry, then I would pass (and if i have any recordings by these “musicians” I just might be burning them, the recordings that is)..
i do agree with Alice though.. but the problem is any person who is supporting kerry, well is in fact a moron.. so those moronic musicians they shall follow.. and that is frightening.. we can only hope they get too drunk to remember when to vote or something.. sigh!