Shut up and sing
by digby
A Real American:
Following the song “We Don’t Apologize For America” a chant of “USA, USA” broke out amongst the crowd. Williams smiled, telling the crowd that he was their mouth piece and adding:
“We’ve got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the US and we hate him!”
The cheers that followed were loud and enthusiastic.
Of course, as nasty as that was, it was nothing to what Dave Mustaine of Megadeath said last week in Singapore:
"Back in my country, my president is trying to pass a gun ban so he's staging all of these murders. The 'Fast and Furious' thing down at the border. And Aurora, Colorado, all the people that were killed there. And now, the beautiful people at the Sikh Temple. I don't know where I'm going to live if America keeps going the way it's going because it looks like it's turning into Nazi America."
I don't care if musicians criticize the president -- it's a fine American tradition --- but surely we can all recall a time when there was quite the uproar about the Dixie Chicks saying they were ashamed that the president was from Texas to a London audience:
They threatened to kill them. But, as always, IOKIYAR.
Also too:
h/t to Atrios
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