Sinead O'Connor Pleads For People To Stop Calling Her Crazy

[matcom]

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DUBLIN, Ireland -- Sinead O'Connor has taken out a full-page ad to proclaim her sanity.

The former pop star claims in the Irish Examiner newspaper ad that she's "consistently ridiculed" and "called mad."

She asks "not be bashed and called crazy and laughed at" when she sings or speaks.

The 2,000 essay also asks "If ye all think I am such a crazy person why do ye use me to sell your papers?"

http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3758030/detail.html

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Sheesh. Talk about counter-productive.

[skooooo]

2. Oh taking out a full-page ad will help!

[mac56]

6. Yeah! That'll show them who's crazy!

:evilgrin:

[skooooo]

18. Damn straight!!

Maybe Bush should take out a full page ad in the NYT declaring that he doesn't lie. That would clear things up.

[skygazer]

3. Two thousand word essays

about why she's not mad are not likely to change anyone's opinion real soon.

As for why they use her to sell their papers, I would venture because people enjoy reading about people who are nuts.

[Parche]

4. sin eed

WE DONT NEED............SIN EED
Just tell her to shave her head

Her so called songs and music are awful


ARE YOU STILL DRINKING THIS MORNING?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. Maybe if you don't want to be thought of as nuts....

...stop acting like you are? :shrug:
Duckie

[mac56]

7. A poem to Sinead:

Grow some hair
Get a life
I'm very glad you're not my wife

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. LOL, Mac...

You're so hilarious.
Duckie

[mac56]

thanks

can't claim credit - read it in Esquire magazine years ago, after her Saturday Night Live incident.

[skooooo]

19. Is that a protest song?

Put it to melody and you could make $$$$$$

[Nightjock]

9. Shut up has been.

I don't want to see her unless I'm watching a "Where Are They Now?" show.

And why do people still show a little interest in you.

It's like rubbernecking a bad accident on the expressway.

Nothing Compares-noth--ing compares to a "looney"....

[joefree1]

10. Ha! Sinead, being called crazy is a good thing

Do you really want to be like most "normal" folk?

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. Geez...she's all over the freaking map!

In recent years, she's clashed with her own siblings about her allegations of an abusive childhood at the hands of her late mother. Her siblings insist she's exaggerating claims of abuse.

She was ordained a priest in a breakaway Catholic sect in 1999, but subsequently stopped referring to herself as "Mother Bernadette Mary" and said she'd found the celibacy rule impossible to follow.

Last year she declared she was retiring from the music business, was interested in a movement called the "Death Midwives" that counsels chronically ill people, and planned to train as a religion teacher for elementary school kids.

She resurfaced on Ireland's airwaves Wednesday, when she told the national RTE radio network about her campaign to stamp out head lice in children.

O'Connor said her efforts to help people were unfairly ridiculed. She compared her treatment to that of U2 frontman Bono, whose lobbying of world governments on such issues as AIDS and Third World debt has earned him respect and humanitarian awards.

"If ye wrote about Bono like you wrote about me, he'd kick your asses," she wrote.

Whatever, chrome dome. You brought this on yourself.

I cannot see this woman without thinking of the skit on SNL years ago when Jan Hooks played Sinead, and Phil Hartman (RIP, man) played Frank Sinatra. They were parodying the McLaughlin Group, only it was the Sinatra group. And Sinatra kept calling her "Sine-Aid" and "Skinhead" O'Connor. Plus, Sting was playing Billy Idol. Freaking hilarious. I think I still have it on tape somewhere.

[mac56]

12. I was just thinking about that sketch this morning! Weird?!

Chris Rock as the guy from 2 Live Crew.

Mike Meyer and Victoria Jackson as Steve and Eydie.

[flamingyouth]

13. I had forgotten about the breakaway Catholic sect

Then again, I've pretty much taken no interest in her, so there you go. ;)

[ronnykmarshall]

14. I love that SNL skit.

Phil/Sinatra also called her "Uncle Fester" and "Cue Ball".

[Bronco69]

15. And at one point he called her

Uncle Fester! ROFLMAO! :-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

16. How could I forget Uncle Fester?

Great skit. I'll have to watch it again this weekend.

Faux Sinatra: "I got chunks of guys like you in my stool."

[tigereye]

17. yeah but at least she's not Madonna

and she is able to sing.

I feel bad for S, actually.