Take Back Our Rodeo Drive: Pat Boone Helps Launch 'Beverly Hills Tea Party'

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/take-back-our-rodeo-drive-pat-boone-helps-launch-beverly-hills-tea-party-videos.php


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Last weekend, famous crooner and national spokesman for the 60 Plus Association Pat Boone launched a "Beverly Hills Tea Party." Aimed at those lonely conservatives in Los Angeles, the rally featured the creme de la creme of right-wing celebrities, who, as always, warned against our socialist President and the tyranny he and his pesky liberal brethren are trying to impose.

Started by Beverly Hills resident Josephine Rescigno, who turned to Boone to help get the effort off of the ground, the Beverly Hills Tea Party site describes its mission statement: "The Beverly Hills Tea Party is an organization that believes in Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets."

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A marching band with drums, flutes and three-corner hats began the event with a Patrick Henry impersonator taking the stage and reciting an abridged version of the "give me liberty or give me death" speech made famous by Henry in 1775.

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He too added a little musical flavor, singing a song he said he wrote specifically for the event. In the lyrics, Boone refers to himself as "a rootin', tootin', flag-waving citizen" and says: "But I pray for our enemies, the Bible says I should. 'Cause if they mess with Uncle Sam they'll disappear for good."
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there are videos, one of him singing

bunch of nitwits

[Poll_Blind]

1. Pat Boone's idea of humor is putting his dick in a cardboard box. And then pointing to it.

And then taking a picture.

Google it, if you dare.

PB

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. So, he invented "Dick In a Box"?!! nt

[Poll_Blind]

14. Yes, and I suspect cardboard boxes weren't the only items which became unwitting...

...playthings of Lust in his filthy hands.

PB

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. .

:spray:

[marmar]

2. What an idiot.

nt

[itsrobert]

3. Also there was an appearance by Victoria Jackson

calling President Obama a socialist among other names.

[madmax]

4. I thought he died long ago. nt

[MurrayDelph]

6. No, just his career

and relevance

[TlalocW]

9. Nah...

Just his career.

TlalocW

[Greyhound]

5. I will wonder for the rest of my life why the rioters that took to the streets following

the Rodney King verdict didn't just head north, where the root of our problems lie.
:shrug:

[flakey_foont]

7. ah, geez

the Bible says he should...

Jesus still wants him for a sunbeam, I 'spose




wanker!!!

[bbernardini]

8. Such a shame...his "In A Metal Mood" album was brilliant.

Although that's probably more due to the guest performers and the arrangers than Pat himself.

[uncommon]

11. How many of those right wing celebs in LA have SAG memberships?

Assholes.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. Pat Boone can write songs? I thought he just stole Little Richard's stuff.

[MurrayDelph]

17. He did write the (lousy) lyrics for

Theme for Exodus.

Other than that, his career was built on "covering" songs other people wrote for themselves (or other groups).

Not just from Little Richard, his "covers" included:

"Tra La La-a" by the Griffin Brothers
"I Almost Lost My Mind" by Ivory Joe Hunter
"Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino
"Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard
"At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)" by the El Dorados
"I'll be Home" by The Flamingos
"Don't Forbid Me" by Charles Singleton.
"Blue Suede Shoes," by Carl Perkins
"Crazy Train," by Ozzy Osbourne
"Enter Sandman," by Metallica
"Holy Diver," by Dio album
"I'll Be Home," by The Flamingos
"Love Hurts," by The Everly Brothers
"No More Mr. Nice Guy," by Alice Cooper
"Panama" by Van Halen
"Paradise City," by Guns N' Roses
"Stairway to Heaven," by Led Zeppelin
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow," by The Shirelles
"The Wind Cries Mary," by Jimi Hendrix
"Yesterday," by The Beatles
"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" by Judas Priest

(info from http://www.coversproject.com/artist/pat%20boone/
I can't chastise someone for not giving credit where due while not giving credit where due)

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13. didn't know the Drive had been 'taken'. who does he think took it

he speaks nonsense garble

[frylock]

16. rollin' down rodeo with a shotgun

[devilgrrl]

18. Beverly Hills is Henry Waxman's district. Good luck with that Pat!

:eyes:

[eShirl]

19. lmao