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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Jagger Says Song Not an Anti-Bush Tirade
2005-08-11
Via Drudge
The Rolling Stones' upcoming album contains a song seemingly critical of President Bush, but Nigel Tufnel Mick Jagger denies it's directed at him, according to the syndicated TV show "Extra."
"Yeah! It's directed at... ummm... somebody else... No, wait! I got it:"
"It is not really aimed at anyone," Jagger said on the entertainment-news show's Wednesday edition. "It's not aimed, personally aimed, at President Bush. It wouldn't be called 'Smell the Glove Sweet Neo Con' if it was."
Somebody must have told the stupid, drunken limey that more than half of us American ticket-buyers voted for said "Sweet Neo-Con".
The song is from the new album, "A Bigger Bang," set for release Sept. 6.
I'm waiting for the Rolling Stones to start their "Invincible" tour...
There is no mention of Bush or Iraq. But it does refer to military contractor Halliburton, which was formerly run by Vice President Cheney and has been awarded key Iraq contracts, and the rising price of gasoline. "How come you're so wrong? My sweet neo-con, where's the money gone, in the Pentagon," goes one refrain. The song also includes the line: "It's liberty for all, democracy's our style, unless you are against us, then it's prison without trial."
"Like, profound, man! Gimme a hit off that bong, wouldja?"
"It is certainly very critical of certain policies of the administration, but so what! Lots of people are critical," Jagger told "Extra."
Lots of drug addicts overdose and slip into a coma too. Too bad you can't be more like them.
A representative for the Stones said the group had no further comment about the song. The Rolling Stones intend to kick off a U.S. tour in Boston Aug. 21.
"This one goes to 11!"
Boston. Figures.
Posted by:Chris W.

#24  I completely understand why the Rolling Stones don't like Bush. The Dems keep telling them that Bush is going to cut back on their Social Security checks.
Posted by: Cromoth Ebbosh6643   2005-08-11 23:34  

#23  My brother, the AF Major, liked their song Highwire. What in Heck happened?
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2005-08-11 22:09  

#22  Hey Mick,
Show us you care. Donate all profits from the new album to the starving kids.
Posted by: Stephen   2005-08-11 19:52  

#21  the worst part is that we will be forced to listen to this song on our radios - thanks to payola or however else they get it on there. Just like the Bitchy Chix. And yeah, I'll flip the channel - if I notice enough to care.

Outside of my now having negative feelings about songs I USED to like, - this controversy is just a big ol' yawn.
Posted by: 2b   2005-08-11 18:33  

#20  just pimping their new album/tour with contrived controversy. Of course, when I want to discuss American foreign policy, I usually turn to non-college educated foreign artists. They do know best....ask Bianca
Posted by: Frank G   2005-08-11 14:36  

#19  hez talkin bowt chainey
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-08-11 13:34  

#18  Sorry, just the early onset Alzheimers kicking in. I love everybody who can pay.
Besides, Keith wrote it, and who knows what'll come out of that drug addled mind of his. Damn commie. So get off my arse, okay?
Posted by: Mick   2005-08-11 12:57  

#17  That half that doesn't support this kind of @#$% now has to put up with these guys, compliments of the NFL. Wonder if they will be singing this song in Irving, TX before a game?
Posted by: Sherry   2005-08-11 12:50  

#16  And this middle finger pointed at a mossy, big lipped, over-rated BritishRock has-been isn't directed at Micky, either...
Posted by: Hyper   2005-08-11 12:21  

#15  I bet the song's aimed at Sec. Rice, but he already wrote a song called "Brown Sugar".
Posted by: Xbalanke   2005-08-11 12:17  

#14  The thing that bugs me is not that he's a left-wing jackass. So are plenty of other people, and they have a right to be. What bothers me is that he thinks I'm stupid. "It is not really aimed at anyone," he says. Okay, Mick! If you don't have the courage to admit you're a pinko, then you're not being honest, and I don't respect that.
Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck   2005-08-11 12:15  

#13  Funny thing is when I see Mick Jagger I always think of that movie FREEJACK where Jagger went around hunting down the hero. Now the movie was probably intended as a sly attack against capitalism but it seemed much more like a Socialist-communist nation to me. Masses in poverty with elites living in wealth is something far more common in Soviet style communism than any of the western nations.

Misguided fools then and now.
Posted by: RJSchwarz   2005-08-11 10:53  

#12  Gosh, I...so don't care.
Posted by: mojo   2005-08-11 10:18  

#11  In terms the senile rocker can understand, FOAD. The Rolling Stones havn't done anything creative since 1974 and since the aging babyboomers who have tried to regain their youth by watching the geriatric posturings of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are starting to die out, Jagger decided to do a Dixie Chick for publicity, thinking that there are enough of the Michael Moore crowd to boost album sales. If he had thought that through, he would have realized that he had just alienated over half the US market and that the other half, while generous with other people's money, keep their own wallets in their pockets. So, Mick, get off of my cloud.
Posted by: RWV   2005-08-11 10:10  

#10  I'm so sick of the damn libs saying that Bush and the republicans throw them in jail for speaking out. They repute that statement everytime they walk off stage and go home to a quiet night. If we were throwing people in jail, the libs wouldn't make it off stage and would dissappear after a group of police dragged them off.

Asshats...
Please just die already Jagger, you fuckin' old mick.
Posted by: mmurray821   2005-08-11 10:09  

#9  Mick's just pissed that some people thought Bono should be head of the World Bank, and no one nominated him (so much for his education at the London School of Economics, eh?).
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2005-08-11 10:07  

#8  I look forward to Sir Jagger's leadership on the nuclearization of Iran.
Posted by: Curt Simon   2005-08-11 10:02  

#7  PF: Also... I'm beginning to dislike the term "neocon;" it's beginning to look like a term invented by the liberals and isolationists to suggest that anyone who disagrees with them isn't normal or even a conservative.

It's a term invented by anti-American liberals and conservatives to describe pro-American liberals and conservatives. How can you tell that someone is an anti-American conservative? When he criticizes actions taken to further American interests. You can be anti-war and pro-American - the problem with a lot of anti-war conservatives is that they're anti-war and anti-American. The anti-war and pro-American conservatives don't have a problem with beating the crap out of America's enemies. The anti-war and anti-American conservatives seem to think that stomping America's enemies is some kind of exceptional practice, and line their arguments with leftist criticisms of American foreign policy.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2005-08-11 09:49  

#6  Who?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-08-11 09:39  

#5  Sure sign of being old and senile.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-08-11 09:00  

#4  I care little for the idiot Jagger, his ramblings, and his whacky spawn. There was a time when he had some talent but that was over 25 years ago.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-08-11 08:54  

#3  Also... I'm beginning to dislike the term "neocon;" it's beginning to look like a term invented by the liberals and isolationists to suggest that anyone who disagrees with them isn't normal or even a conservative.

Bah; he can't get no neuron action....
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-08-11 08:38  

#2  In short, of course not; he'll be GLAD to take our money anyway, without regard to political leanings.

(Or in other words: he thinks those opposed to him are stupid.)
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-08-11 08:32  

#1  Of course it isn't aimed at Bush -- it's aimed at the Untermenschen who voted him into office... twice.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-08-11 08:08  

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