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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 08:57 AM
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Brooks & Dunn Tops GOP Entertainment Bill
not that I really care, maybe someone does..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4444775,00.html

Brooks & Dunn Tops GOP Entertainment Bill

Monday August 23, 2004 2:16 PM


WASHINGTON (AP) - The popular country music act of Brooks & Dunn head the entertainment lineup for the Republican National Convention in New York that starts in a week.

Top GOP officials say the duo of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn will perform during the convention at Madison Square Garden, along with country singer Lee Ann Womack, Latin gospel singer Jaci Velasquez and Christian rock band Third Day.

The performers were being announced Monday by Republican national Chairman Ed Gillespie and convention chief executive Bill Harris.

Among other performers who will appear the convention are Christian singer Gracie Rosenburger, rock band Dexter Freebish, country singer Darryl Worley and gospel singer Donnie McClurkin.

..more..
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:03 AM
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1. Brooks & Dunn....
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 09:07 AM by khephra
Oh well, there's an act my mother will have to stop listening to now.

Except for the Gatlin Brothers, Bo, and Newton, I've never heard of any of these other people. I'm probably glad that I haven't.

(edited due to missed "celebrities" on first read)
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:05 AM
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3. Me, too.
Who are those other people?
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:04 AM
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2. Hmmmmm
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 09:05 AM by ewagner
Gospel singers.

Christian rock

Country and Western singers.

Wonder who they're trying to appeal to? :eyes:
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kysrsoze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:20 PM
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43. Trash
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 02:38 PM
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54. Now there's a great attitude!
We could really put together a winning campaign based on the theme that people who listen to country and gospel are trash, don't you think?
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kysrsoze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 04:26 PM
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59. I think it goes along well with NASCAR, Wal Mart, etc.
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 04:54 PM by kysrsoze
You know exactly what I'm talking about, so please get off the soapbox.

I lived in Texas and downstate Illinois for awhile, and had to endure all the Bible-thumping, redneck "America"/pop-country songs and a distinct lack of analytical thought. You won't see real country musicians like Merle Haggard or Willie Nelson there. I'm boycotting Brooks & Dunn. No big deal cause I think they suck anyway.

Whether people want to believe it or not, this administration panders to uneducated, selfish, socially darwinistic, holier than thou trash. They certainly don't care about people who think for themselves, including minorities, and the super-rich aren't big enough in numbers to win the election themselves.

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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:45 PM
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74. So we should also heap contempt on people who like the races
and shop at discount stores?

By the time you get through purifying the party, we'll be able to have our convention in someone's living room. But oh how wonderfully pristine we'll be as we go down to one catastrophic defeat after another!

FWIW, I don't shop at Wal-Mart and I only like the kind of country singers you named--the real ones. We agree on these things. But I think that blithely dismissing "regular folks" as trash only serves to give the goopers more ammunition for the "liberal elitist" stereotype that they have used so effectively against us.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:06 AM
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4. I've never heard of any of these performers.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:08 AM
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5. Who are these guys?
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 09:09 AM by Tandalayo_Scheisskop
B&D I know, LeeAnn? Meh. The rest don't amount to a bucket of warm piss.

I wonder if B&D are gonna play that Rolling Stones ripoff song they do? If they do, I sure hope Keef Richards staggers and lurches onto the stage and knocks the nits offn' their heads.

On edit: Our stars kick their "stars" asses. My friend Bruce built a lot of guitars for Kix. Works of art. I hope he leaves them home.

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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:08 AM
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6. gee, with a line-up like that i expect a damn good ventriloquist act too
low B list, bordering on C list talent.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:10 AM
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8. And, maybe some plate dancers, and acrobats!
Don't count out the dancing bears, either.

One thing's for sure... the talent is on our side.
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 08:35 PM
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68. you mean like Willie Horton and Lester?
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:10 AM
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7. Stephen Baldwin?!
I thought the Baldwin brothers were all good Dems.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:11 AM
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9. Maybe he's the Jan Brady of the Baldwin Family.
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 09:11 AM by VolcanoJen
You know, the one that never really fit in.

Who is he, anyway?
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Torgo Johnson Donating Member (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:33 AM
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15. He became a born-again Christian after 9-11
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 09:34 AM by Agitator
and now tells everybody he meets to vote for Idiot. The right-wingers finally get a Baldwin, but sadly for them it is Stephen. A moron supporting a moron. Thanksgiving dinner with the Baldwins must have been very interesting last year.
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malachi Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:35 AM
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16. Read an article in the Phila Inquirer that
Baldwin became a born again christian after 911 and is currently touring the country promoing a book he has written about god and skateboarding. I shit you, not. Sounds like a good candidate to be a repug.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 03:51 PM
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58. Noo... I will have to stop watching BioDome now
:eyes:
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:33 AM
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26. Wasn't Stephen the one with all the alcohol problems??
That makes sense... kind of how Bush is supposedly a Christian now. One addiction to another... next it will be Amway.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:46 AM
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27. That could explain his appearance on "Celebrity Mole"
:eyes:
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kysrsoze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 04:39 PM
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60. I'd like to see Alec kick his stupid @ss!
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President Jesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 08:46 PM
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69. hasn't he been in half-a-dozwn soft-core pornos (late nite cable)?
Jesus forgives him, I'm sure.

Now I'm really dreading the rapture, because we won't have any new Stephen Baldwin movies to watch!
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 12:43 AM
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88. is he the born again baldwin?
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:12 AM
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10. Uh---a "very liberal" Supreme Court?
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley told a Republican breakfast that President Bush's re-election will change the U.S. Supreme Court, described by the governor as ``very liberal.''

Riley joined GOP activists Saturday in Florence, Ala. for a breakfast held by a group called the Shoals Concerned Conservatives. About 350 people attended.

Riley said because the next president could appoint up to three Supreme Court justices, the coming years could be a turning point for the Republican Party if Bush is re-elected.

``This is the greatest opportunity we will have to return to the value set that makes us unique in the world,'' Riley said.

Riley, a former congressman, blamed the ``very liberal Supreme Court'' for letting the country degenerate over the past few decades.

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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:29 AM
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99. Oh, believe it!
Our esteemed Oklahoma candidate for senator, Tom Coburn (R-Nutso), is now airing an ad that shows him talking to a group of "plain ordinary folks" (who are all nodding their heads like a bunch of brainwashed zombies) while some patriotic music plays in the background (America the Beautiful, or perhaps Amazing Grace). Anyway, Coburn says that this could be the first generation in history that will be worse off than the previous generation...and that is because of "liberal, activist judges who sit on the bench."

I just about fell to the floor.
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lottie244 Donating Member (903 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:18 AM
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11. I won't be watching, no matter who they have.
I just refuse to watch the people who led our children off to die in an illegal, immoral invasion of sovereign nation not at war with us.
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quaoar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:27 AM
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12. Where's Lee Greenwood?
How can you have a Republican convention without "God Bless the USA."



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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:56 AM
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19. What about Darrel Worley reminding us about 911?
Has he forgotten?
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:00 AM
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32. He's Been A Guest On Al Franken...
they did a USO tour together....I believe he did say he was GOP but he dind't mention GWB one way or another, got the feeling he's not a huge GWB fan.
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GiovanniC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:20 PM
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44. He Hasn't Forgotten
Among other performers who will appear the convention are Christian singer Gracie Rosenburger, rock band Dexter Freebish, country singer Darryl Worley and gospel singer Donnie McClurkin.

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JohnOneillsMemory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:34 PM
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70. Ouch. I once had to mix Greenwood's faux-car commercial-national anthem.
That song gives me the creeps and I'm still doing penance.

I was sound system engineer in Orange County in 2002 when Lee Greenwood came to the venue I was working. He didn't have an engineer and I had to mix his show for 10,000 fans.

Gross. Gross. Bad. Musical rape of my mind and senses.
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NEDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:00 PM
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72. I remember
around the start of the Iraq debacle, Greenwood made it VERY clear he didn't want his song used in conjunction with Iraq. He may not be a * supporter.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:33 AM
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13. They're going to focus on their agenda
not on entertainment, that's what it sounds like. Maybe they'll have the next one here in Branson, that way they can wear their sheets out in the open.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:33 AM
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14. sorry to hear about LeeAnn Womack
She's a great singer.

The number of kneejerk, ignorant repukes in Nashville is staggering. I have yet to find one who knows what they are talking about. They spout some superficial crap about small gummint and lower taxes (GOP rhetoric that hasn't been true for over a generation now, if it ever was), or babble some Limbaughish Clinton attack like a mantra for stupid people. Meanwhile, their industry is being gutted by media conglomerates empowered by the bushgang and the personal tax burden for all but a select few at the very top is gradually eroding their own economic futures.

Fools.
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trapper914 Donating Member (796 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 08:12 AM
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98. For some country artists, it's a career move
I've been in the industry for most of the last 18 years. Playing the traditional family values card and paying homage to the GOP is good for the career. Ever wonder why you don't see any publicly open homosexuals in country music? Trust me, the gay artists are there, but they don't dare admit it. For the the most part, country music speaks to conservatives, and unless you're a legend (Willie, Merle), you don't rock the boat.

I don't know about Lee Ann Womack, but as for Brooks and Dunn, I don't doubt they're died in the wool republicans. They're also pretty good guys. I, for one, refuse to "Dixie Chick" them because I disagree with them politically.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:37 AM
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17. Jeeze it must SUCK to be a republican
ARRGGGGHHHHHHHHH. They have to LISTEN to that smarmy crap?

Good god.
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:52 AM
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18. and who are these people ?
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SOS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:58 AM
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20. Nugent
doing a medly of "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" and "Yank Me, Crank Me" would be a nice addition.
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:58 AM
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21. I wouldn't watch if they booked Jesus Christ.
Wait, with all o' them thar "Born Agin's" wasn't he set up for a speech? No? Consarn it! Well they got George and Dick: close enough.
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Philostopher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:58 AM
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22. Dexter Freebish,
the 'rock band' they list, released one album back in 2004. They're from Austin, Texas by the way. The Allmusic Guide entry makes them sound like calling them mediocre would be flattery -- they are a Texas pop band whose first album flopped, and they've been financed to release a second one independently this year that the Allmusic reviewer makes sound like a piece of crap. Wonder which GOP 527 paid for the release of their second album, since the first one swirled down the toilet with no fanfare almost half a decade ago?
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shadu Donating Member (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:00 AM
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23. Do I live in a cave? I cannot name one song by any of these
I wouldn't pay a penny to see these acts.
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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:30 AM
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24. That's entertainment. Big entertainment. Someone fan me.
Don't forget the official mascot of the RNC, "Nutsy" the Neoconservative squirrel. He and his team of three "Acorns", Fundy Nut, Freedom Nut, and Corpy Nut have hilarious routines.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:47 AM
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28. I thought celebrities were supposed to keep their mouths shut
The mascot thing is hilarious.
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:36 PM
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46. Hark, the words of Barry Goldwater
"When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the republican party away from the republican party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics good-bye."

(From Pete Hamill's article, "Words Worth Fighting For", in the Sept. issue of Fast Company magazine)
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:32 AM
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25. We have one of "THIRD DAY"'s gold records here at home..
.. hmmm... it's looking like I'll mail it off to my born-again relative's house.. THEY can look at it now.

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DancingBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:48 AM
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29. Where's Charlie Daniels?

I thought he was a mainstay at every GOP "where are they now" musical extravaganza.
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:58 AM
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He's One Of The Embarassing GOP Uncles...
that they don't want anybody paying attention to at Thanksgiving dinner. They have LOTS of those -- Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell to name two!
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TommyO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:50 AM
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30. It's a good thing...
that my musical tastes have changed somewhat over the past few years. No need to listen to "Brooks & OverDunn" anymore. I won't be tossing my CDs, but I also haven't bought a lot of new country recently, and none of it has been B&D.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:58 AM
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31. who? <- times 7
seriously, who the fck are these people? :shrug:
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:18 AM
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33. Why don't they have Toby Keith if they're going for the "Hee Haw" crowd
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 11:19 AM by calimary
so hard?

I have never heard of those acts (beyond Brooks and Dunn and Lee Ann Womack), either, and I used to be in music radio - for years. Then, I covered entertainment for years for the Associated Press. I've never heard of these people. My kids are into lots of music and have introduced me to a lot of new people (for example, I was VERY familiar with Black Eyed Peas - LOVE 'em!), but these people?

The guy who set up the entertainment is supposedly some "Christian" rock record or management guy who defined his show as "Preachers and Patriots." Pardon me while I go over to the corner and gag. My husband was active, for awhile, in a church where there were some would-be "Christian" rock people, and people who performed that "Contemporary Christian" music. They'd do it during the church service. It always felt REALLY, SERIOUSLY wrong to me. Very misplaced. Because it always seemed to me that the only "star" in that kind of show should be Christ. But you had all these people up there trying to do outrageous vocal solos and posturing and showmanship and fancy guitar stuff and all this crap that didn't really belong in church. I used to call it their "Kareoke Kabaret for Khrist." It always seemed like they wanted to turn church into some pathetic, smarmy Vegas lounge or something. They had everything but the gold lame and the Elvis impersonator. It was all about THEM, and THEIR performance, and THEIR show, not about the Lord. I always suspected they were up there, vamping and emoting like madmen and madwomen because deep-down they were hoping some agent was in the audience who'd "lift them up" to a record deal or a movie contract. It really had SO little to do with actual worship - unless it was the worship of whoever was performing. I kept reminding my husband (while gently trying to pull him away from it) that that's the reason people elsewhere wore choir robes - to look alike and look anonymous - and why Gregorian chanters were always faceless and anonymous, and at least in my church, nobody who was soloing with the choir was ever introduced lavishly, or by name, during the service, so it'd be about showcasing THEM and not about the message of the service. They never do that in the Mass. At least not at MY church. Razz-a-ma-tazz like that does NOT belong in church. All it does is make the whole affair about the performer and the "show," and not about Who they're really there for. And I never liked revival meetings, either. They make me want to run screaming into the night.

I don't want to watch any of it, either. I figure we have HEARD from these people, virtually nonstop, since before bush TOOK office. I don't need to have it jammed down my throat yet again. This whole past four years has been nothing but a propaganda enema for the republi-CONS. ICK.

The whole thing is repulsive beyond belief. Makes my skin crawl.
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 04:42 PM
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61. Why, Toby finally put his money where is big mouth is, and signed up!
Just kiddin'.
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JoFerret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:20 AM
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34. Gloria Gaynor too
...just like those fun-loving rethugs to love dated gay themed disco.
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 02:21 PM
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52. I thought I heard Randi Rhodes mention Chaka Khan too
Is Chaka Khan (or Shock and Awe as Randi likes to say) REALLY going to be there? And if so, WHY?!?!?
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 08:04 PM
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66. They better check her boobs
The last time I saw her at "The House of Blues" in Los Angeles she outed herself more than Janet! Her voice was great!

I heard that she is off the drugs and that is great news.
Maybe she and GW could talk at the convention about various Rehabs that work.
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:47 PM
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76. She went all super-Christian, didn't she?
At least that's what I remember from VH1's "One Hit Wonders" show.
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:21 AM
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35. sounds like the repug conv. will be more like a religious tent revival
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 11:23 AM by donsu
nt
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:27 AM
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36. We had Willie Nelson at the DNC
Willie can play circles around these morons.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 12:21 PM
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37. Where's Pop Princess Britney?
too busy making plans to marry guy who left his pregnant wife for her possibly?
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Ms. Clio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 12:48 PM
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38. LMAO--who the hell are those losers???
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 12:50 PM by meluseth
I've only heard of Newton, and vaguely, of Brooks & Dunn. But then, I listen to music, not crap.



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PopSixSquish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:00 PM
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39. No Jessica Simpson?
maybe that "dumb blonde" thing is an act afterall.

:shrug:
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lpricanprynces Donating Member (83 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 03:44 AM
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91. She could enlighten Bush
She could explain to Bush the difference between chicken and tuna. It would be a dumbass bonding experience.
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:02 PM
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40.  Wayne Newton...damn, I will never buy another one of his albums..
I'm so distraught now.....also, Bo Derek...I guess I'll rip her poster off my wall.....lol
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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:10 PM
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41. Their entertainment sounds more like crowd control to be used against
protestors.

Loudspeakers blaring such offensive noise will send all people with good taste fleeing.
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stealyourface Donating Member (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:19 PM
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42. "One Toke Over The Line" am gold
Brooks and Dunn one-hit wonders. ironic?
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alterfurz Donating Member (723 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:27 PM
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45. no, "OTOTL" was Brewer & Shipley!
not Brooks & Dunn. And "50 States of Freedom," "Platte River," "Seems Like a Long Time" still apply today!
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:36 PM
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47. Sweet Jesus....I'm glad you caught that it was "Brewer and Shipley"
I bought that album when it first came out and still play it from time to time...lot of good songs.
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stealyourface Donating Member (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:39 PM
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49. doh!
i had a feeling i might have gotten them confused. that was my first post too! i really have NO clue who these GOP performers are now.
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NJGeek Donating Member (680 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 01:38 PM
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48. Really Love that NEW YORK Sound!! WAY TO GO GOP!
dorks.
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NervousRex Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 02:19 PM
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50. Well, there goes the Hee-Haw vote.
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 02:21 PM by NervousRex
Weren't these chromosome-deficient hill-folk on Hee Haw?


NOPE!....They look like they were runners-up for the "Cowboy" role in the Village People, though.

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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 02:21 PM
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51. Whew...proud to say I never listened to any of them.(most never heard of)
hah.

And Alice Cooper you are now on my no listen list as well. (not that you're not a washed up 70's dude anyway, but school's out forever was everyone's anthem back them...)
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 02:32 PM
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53. where's Ted Nugent and Alice Cooper
Ted can do "Cat Scratch Fever"

Alice can do "Billion Dollar Babies"
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 02:46 PM
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55. Who?
I know Brooks and Dunn, but there are very few of the others I recognize. It seems Ed Koch and Zell Miller are going to be the prime attractions of the RNC. ;)
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dubyaD40web Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 03:30 PM
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56. How 'bout Marilyn Manson singing "The Beautiful People"
Edited on Mon Aug-23-04 03:30 PM by dubyaD40web
at the RNC?






HAHAAHAHA.....I could hear it now: "It's a Democrat Conspiracy..."
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 03:39 PM
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57. They're Assured Of The "Latin Gospel" Fans Votes...
both of them!

Sheesh...what a lame lineup!
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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 04:48 PM
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62. Also, Greenspan's "Find my Wad o' Cash" extravaganza.
It's on his body.....somewhere.
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President Jesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 05:55 PM
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63. of ALL these 'stars', only Newton and Gatlin have ever donated to the GOP
That's pretty pathetic...with all their money, never once making a donation in support of their cause. Makes me wonder about their convictions...

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/hof.php
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jdj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 08:25 PM
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67. Thanks for all your postings.
They've saved me many a trip to Open Secrets, which is slow.
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Democat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 06:27 PM
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64. Dun & Bradstreet would make even more sense
:)
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jackieforthedems Donating Member (534 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 07:51 PM
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65. I'm Surprised
That Alice Cooper isn't the headliner. We're not missing anything -that's for sure.:puke:
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 09:46 PM
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71. What have they done lately?
The only song I remember of their's is "Boot Scootin' Boogie" some twelve years ago. Have they had any hits since then?
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:37 PM
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73. Brooks & Dunn
The Siegfried & Roy of pseudocountry music.
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:49 PM
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77. Hey, you leave Siegfried & Roy out of this!
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:02 PM
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79. I meant it in a bizarro world reverse kind of way
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:46 PM
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75. What about Boxcar Willie? n/t
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:02 PM
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80. he died a few years ago
Not that a corpse would be out of place at a GOP convention.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:46 PM
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82. True--LOL! n/t
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NervousRex Donating Member (958 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:22 PM
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81. Is Slim Whitman still alive?
or Christie Lane...
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:47 PM
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83. Slim is also gone
Not sure about Lane, but probably so.
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:52 PM
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84. Box Car Willie has talent.
So he probably was not GOP.

I love his heartfelt rendition of "Mom & Dad's Waltz"
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:59 PM
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86. That's a great old song.
Never heard his version of it, but dearly love Lefty Frizzell's and Iris DeMent's. Just about makes me cry.
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mediaman007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 06:48 AM
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95. Boxcar Willie was an Air Force officer and a part of the crew of
the B-29 bombers in the 1950's. He flew C-5's until 1976 and I think that he retired a colonel.

I saw him once at a show, he ran his band just like a military officer. I think that he might be a Repug.

http://www.boxcarwillie.com/biography/
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GingerSnaps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 10:54 PM
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78. That's the concert of a lifetime
Shoot I am going to miss it! :argh:
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-23-04 11:57 PM
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85. Man, those Repubs sure know how to get down.
Not.

Who the heck are these performers? Never heard of any of them. Guess I'm just not with it like our winger friends. "Dexter Freebish"? You gotta be kidding. It's just too bad Lawrence Welk isn't still around, or The Carpenters. Couldn't they get Manilow? Or is his style a little too close to Iron Maiden?

Whoopee! Rock on!
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stealyourface Donating Member (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 01:07 AM
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89. the surprise Guest?
"You may remember his gifted banjo stylings in the film 'Deliverance', so won't you please GIVE IT UP for ..."
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arikara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 12:37 AM
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87. Ha ha ha... all they need to round it out is that old feather dancer
Remember the movie "the Right Stuff" when they had that old burlesque dancer on stage with all those feathers at that Texas barbecue, that would be the icing on the DNC cake! hahaha
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 03:32 AM
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90. Billy Baldwin, that name says it all
Comparing the Republican musical lineup
with the Democrats is like comparing
Creedance Clearwater Revival
with Creedance Clearwater Revisited

Pales in comparison.

I mean, look at the Baldwin brother the Republicans got?!
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JSJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 03:57 AM
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92. b & c list celebrities one and all n/t
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 04:09 AM
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93. Photos from the 1948 Republican convention........

Bare-knuckle politics: Illinois governor Dwight Green introduces former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Gene Tunney to a cheering crowd.



Talk about big tents: Mrs. Worthington Scranton does the hula at a convention party
:eyes:


Getting this, boys? Press Chief James A. Hagerty attends a press meeting



Sitting mates: Candidate Dewey is schmoozed by Senator Edward Martin (left), a former Pennsylvania governor, during a break at the convention.



Before there was PETA: With the god of the GOP gazing sightlessly from above, a pandering pachyderm works a crowd supporting Ohio?s Senator Robert A. Taft, who unsuccessfully challenged New York governor Thomas Dewey for the Republican nomination.


&imgrefurl=http://www.time.com/time/daily/special/photo/con48/&h=396&w=320&sz=32&tbnid=hDweTFcqy7AJ:&tbnh=118&tbnw=96&start=26&prev=/images%3Fq%3DRepublican%2Bconvention%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26c2coff%3D1%26sa%3DN">~~~~ more Time photos ~~~~

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What d'ya want to bet THIS convention was far more interesting than the 2004 Republican Convention will be? Yeow!
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theHandpuppet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 05:16 AM
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94. Hijacking Jesus
I wonder to which "gospel" these Christian artists must subscribe? The one whose messenger said, "You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.'But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also," or the Bush gospel of pre-emptive war on a people who had never attacked us in the first place? I guess when Jesus rebuked his own disciple with "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword" he was just kidding -- rather like Bush rebuking his followers for those 527s while avoiding a direct condemnation of those Swift Boat ads.

Further, I must wonder if those who publicly market their Christianity at the GOP convention -- as if to brand Republicans with the "Party of Jesus" label -- have ever considered these words of Christ: "Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you."

Funny how folks who so want to send multi-ton blocks of granite inscribed with the Ten Commandments on a cross-country tour seem to missed the not-so-fine print of those tablets, which contain such Godly pronouncements as, "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor". How this fits in with blind support of a warmongering liar like George Bush must be one of those conundrums of the "new neocon gospel".

Then there's inconvenient notion of tolerance and hypocrisy, too: "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."

In the end, I have to marvel at those who appear to have pulled off such a successful hijacking of Jesus while managing to embody the very antithesis of his teachings. There's an insightful essay on the subject at http://www.counterpunch.org/stanton05062003.html

Sad to say if Christ were walking the Earth today, he'd no doubt be arrested for trying to take the stage at the GOP convention, only to later be described by the mouthpieces at Faux News as an unemployed, anti-war librul in Birkenstocks. There are those times when the truth is just too damned inconvenient.
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scarface2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 06:52 AM
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96. christian rock band???!!
where s that palestian klesmer group when ya need 'em??!!
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dubyaD40web Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 07:51 AM
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97. Ohhhhh SNAP!
Edited on Tue Aug-24-04 07:51 AM by dubyaD40web
How about bringing the author's of MY PET GOAT to the RNC?


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nightfox02 Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 10:05 AM
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100. Better Idea...
How about brining Iron Maiden or Metallica to sing about Bush's foreign policy success with songs such as Master of Puppets or The Troooper...

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