Jagger wimped out

[donsu]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8900758/


Jagger: ‘Neo Con’ song isn't anti-Bush
Stones front man says new cut isn't ‘personally aimed’ at president


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“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 ’Sweet Neo Con’ if it was.”

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“It is certainly very critical of certain policies of the administration, but so what! Lots of people are critical,” Jagger told “Extra.”

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sissy, ninny, hiss, boo

[Wickerman]

1. Street Fightin' Man, indeed

:eyes:

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

2. His reply makes perfect sense to me

He is attacking the neo-cons as a whole. Something wimpy about that?

[Iris]

21. Yep. And Bush will be gone in 3 years, while the song "Sweet Neocon"

has the potential to live on - and to continue being applicable.

[grytpype]

3. eh... not really a wimpout I think.

Jagger is right that the song is anti-neocon, primarily. And Bush is a puppet for the neocons, but it's not about Bush personally. So lay off Mick!

[sam sarrha]

8. same here, they are spinning it to discredit him

[annabanana]

4. just acknowledging that Bush isn't in charge, that's all..

no argument here...

[Nomad559]

5. CNN Video

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x22242

:)

[emulatorloo]

6. rice rummy cheney bush rove feith wolfie whatever -- GO JAGGER!!!!!

eom

[Ediacara]

7. I didn't take this as wimping out

But implicating everyone in the administration, not just Bush alone. He's right though, if it was meant to be just anti-Bush it would have had Bush in the name.

[louis-t]

9. Keith Richard looks horrible

dudn't he? I know guys in their 80's who look much better.

[BattyDem]

14. When I saw him on TV last night, I said ...

"How can that man still be alive?"

[walldude]

16. He's looked like that for the last 20 years

you watch, Keith is the one who always comes up with the best quotes in situtations like this. Mick is kind of an ass kisser, thats why he and Keith have falling outs occasionally. Mick will be "diplomatic" and say "it's not about Bush specifically". Keith will say "It's not about Bush, it's about all the bloody wankers who voted for him".

[Sweet Freedom]

10. Gimme Mick!

Gimme Mick!
Gimme Mick!
Are you woman, are you man?
I'm you're greatest messed up fan!
Gimme Mick!

(With apologies to SNL and Gilda Radner...the skit was sooo long ago, I can't remember if I got the words exactly right.)

[chaska]

17. Rock me till I'm sick...

I can't remember 'em either.

[BattyDem]

11. That fact that everyone assumes it's about Bush* ...

is far more telling than anything Jagger could say about it.

[second edition]

12. It came down to money with Jagger!

I believe the Stones have a deal with the NFL and you can bet the Repub machine applied pressure, and forced this recant of such. IMO, the songs subject is obvious.

[walldude]

13. Actually, wimping out would have been

sitting in his mansion with his millions of dollars and not saying shit. Why do people feel the need to shit on someone who is getting the message out? Whether the Stones have sold out, been bought out, been lazing around the last 20 years or whatever, they are spreading the word. People on DU expect too much. I don't know why I come into threads like this: "John Stewart has sold us out!!!!" "Bill Mahr is backing Bush!!" Gimme a break.

[clover]

15. & you're so vain isn't about warren beatty nt

[DemonFighterLives]

18. I'm sorry I didn't read all the links here

but CNN reported yesterday that the gropenator was going to have some deal going with the Stones. Will he change his steroidal mind?

[Tinoire]

19. Nothing wimpy there. Sweet neocon applies to a lot of Dems to

if you're not going to be technical enough to throw in the word neolib which most people wouldn't understand anyway.

Can't wait to get this album.

[CatWoman]

20. how exactly is he "wimping out"?

:shrug:

[Iris]

22. Apparently, some rw talk shows are trying to get the NFL to sever

ties with the Stones who are doing some kind of promotional thing for them. (Sorry, don't follow football, so can't be more specific).

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. snicker

yeah, the nfl is going to ditch the stones and their millions of fans for a few disgruntled freepers who send in misspelled complaint letters

[Iris]

24. thanks for the laugh!

Their concerts regularly sell out football stadiums even without the football game!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

25. he's a corporate whore, anyway

$300+ for tickets - yeah, he needs the money

they haven't had a decent album since 1979's 'some girls' (though i will admit bridges to babylon had its moments)

but i'll never forgive the greedy fucks for suing the Verve into oblivion and causing one of the few decent rock bands of the late 90s to split

[deutsey]

26. A John Lennon, he ain't (or never was)

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