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RocknationDespite being born in the country that the United States won its independence from, Ozzy Osbourne and his wife/manager Sharon appear to have a better grasp of the concept of American freedom of speech than many Americans do.
...(At the 2004 Ozzfest,) Ozzy opened his Black Sabbath set with a rendition of his classic
War Pigs, which was accompanied by a video featuring unflattering references to United States president-unelect George W. Bush...A member of Lamb Of God wore an anti-Bush T-shirt. And the bands Otep and Bleeding Through called for questioning "priests and police and politicians" and to come up with "a new leader" respectively.
...if the Osbournes had wanted Ozzfest's political message to be as one-sided as the
Fox News Channel's, they would have enforced such a policy with brutal abandon. So it's a great pleasure to be able to report that...(Superjoint Ritual's) Phil Anselmo said that "crushing the enemy" was something that "had to" be done by the Bush White House...(and that) Black Label Society frontman Zakk Wylde dedicated a song to Bush because he stood fully "behind" him.
Zakk isn't just anybody to the Osbournes--(he) replace(d) Ozzy's late guitarist Randy Rhodes...(Is) Zakk..guilty of biting the hand that feeds him, (or of) high treason?...(M)aybe Sharon realizes that a U.S.
draft--a certainty if Bush wins--would be REALLY bad for business. Nonetheless, the Osbournes deserve a lot of credit for allowing true fairness and balance to work...
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