Rosanne Cash to John Boehner: ' STOP Using My Dad's Name As a Punchline, YOU ASSHAT.'

[Segami]

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" Republican House minority leader John Boehner has been using a dumb--trust me, really dumb--line involving Johnny Cash in some recent speeches. Cash's daughter Roseanne doesn't think much of that. And she let Boehner know, by calling him "asshat."


I bet Boehner's speechwriters all gave each other high fives when they thought of this line:


Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.


And, well, yes, it is a very stupid line, even by stump-speech standards, but it's pretty successful at ignoring any kind of socio-historico-cultural accuracy (I mean, Johnny Cash, a Reagan-era cultural touchstone?) in favor of connecting three vaguely iconic Americans in some kind of nostalgia wonderland as though they really had anything to do with each other, like the rhetorical equivalent of those airbrushed t-shirts where Kurt Cobain is jamming out with Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis is there or something.

Anyway, instead of high-fiving each other, they might have wondered what Cash's outspoken daughter, singer and author Roseanne, would say. Turns out, she called him an "asshat":


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[Lifelong Protester]

1. Johnny, at the end of his life, was quite concerned about the

wars going on. He'd have plenty of reason to still be wearing black today, looking at our homelessnes, the way we treat (or at least some of the Republican stripe) treat anyone who needs a helping hand, anyone who is sick and needs medical care, anyone who can't work, is disabled, lives from paycheck to paycheck, depends on Social Security and Medicare. Lord help us if the republicans are successful today.

[Oceansaway]

2. can't get this jam outta my head.....

Seven Year Ache.....

You act like you were just born tonight
Face down in a memory but feeling all right
So who does your past belong to today?
Baby, you don't say nothing when you're feeling this way

The girls in the bars thinking, "who is this guy?"
But they don't think nothing when they're telling you lies
You look so careless when they're shooting that bull
Don't you know heartaches are heroes when their pockets are full

Tell me you're trying to cure a seven-year ache
See what else your old heart can take
The boys say, "when is he gonna give us some room"
The girls say, "god I hope he comes back soon"

Everybody's talking but you don't hear a thing
You're still uptown on your downhill swing
Boulevard's empty, why don't you come around?
Baby, what is so great about sleeping downtown?

Splitting your dice to be someone you're not
You say you're looking for something you might've forgot
Don't bother calling to say you're leaving alone
'Cause there's a fool on every corner when you're trying to get home

Just tell 'em you're trying to cure a seven-year ache
See what else your old heart can take
The boys say, "when is he gonna give us some room"
The girls say, "god I hope he comes back soon"

Tell me you're trying to cure a seven-year ache
See what else your old heart can take
The boys say, "when is he gonna give us some room"
The girls say, "god I hope he comes back soon"

[blm]

17. Rosanne's Seven Year Ache album is one of my Top Ten Desert Island Picks.....still.

What would I give to be a diamond in your eyes again?

My baby thinks he's a train.....

oh yeah....great album

[Beaverhausen]

30. Her recent work is great!

Her last few CDS are really wonderful.

[Dinger]

47. Actually, It Was An 8 Year Ache (2000-2008) nt

[Alameda]

67. Love that song....love Johnny and love Roseanne

.........and thanks for the memory!

[sarge43]

3. That apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Except she pulled her punches. The Man in Black would have said something that would have stripped the bark off trees.

:thumbsup: Miss Rossanne, Daddy would be proud.

[gratuitous]

7. Well, it is just Twitter

140 characters can be rather limiting. In the space provided, I think she did pretty good. Daddy would indeed be proud.

[sarge43]

25. She did. n/t

[jmondine]

4. BOEHNER is making puns about people's last names?

Dude, do you really want to go there!? Because we will.

[babylonsister]

11. Ha! +1. nt

[AspenRose]

20. !

:spray:

[racaulk]

23. Win!

:rofl:

[Ken Burch]

38. And wasn't he the guy who led the New Mainstreet Singers in "A Mighty Wind"?

I distinctly remember that the wife of that character(played by Jane Lynch)proudly remembered the day when she became "Mrs. Boehner".

[xxqqqzme]

63. Yep! I was taught

when two vowels go walking the first one does the talking - BONER!

[butterfly77]

5. Kicked&Recommended!

[jmondine]

6. Oom Pa Loom Pa Doompity Dasshat

Johnny Cash's daughter just called me an asshat

[fizzgig]

29. ..

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

[pgodbold]

8. Fabulous nt

[PopSixSquish]

9. Go Miss Roseanne!!!

Sic 'em girl!

[grace0418]

10. AGHGH! My hand slipped and I unrec'd! Sorry, meant to REC! GO ROSEANNE!

Asshat is too kind.

[flamingdem]

12. REC - I agree he's worse than an asshat nt

[EOTE]

14. Offset. NT

[kwolf68]

13. Remember when Cash played for the Vietnam troops

They asked if he was a Hawk and he replied, "no i'm a dove with claws". Sounds like the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

[Segami]

16. Thank God for that! BTW, those that liked being referenced as ' hawks ' were nothing more than

swaying cowards hosting BIG belt buckles that managed to con getting deferments from serving.

[ismnotwasm]

15. LOL

Right on.

[cascadiance]

18. And if we have a Republican House, then we'll realize what a "big boner" we let happen!

... that unchecked will lead to this country's destruction...

[lpbk2713]

19. Well my Daddy left home when I was three.

And he didn't leave much to my Ma and me
'cept this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

Now I don't blame him 'cause he went and hid
But the meanest thing that my Daddy ever did
Was before he left he went and named me Boner.







I'll tell ya, life aint easy for an orange asshat named Boner.

[Segami]

21. LOLOL.

:thumbsup:

[sarge43]

26. He shoots. He scores. The crowd goes wild!

:rofl:

[herbm]

57. So Boner IS a man of color: orange.

[herbm]

58. Looks like daddy left him a bad batch of coppertone, too.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

65. Good one.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

22. A class act just like her father

We miss you Johnny Cash but thank goodness you left us your wonderful daughter

[luvs2sing]

28. Couldn't have said it better

And I'd think Roseanne rocks even if she weren't Johnny's daughter. One freakin' COOL woman! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[Tsiyu]

24. K&R

"Stop using my Dad's name in vain."


It made me laugh to think about it that way. Rosanne as Jesus. Which makes Johnny God. Works for me...
:)


:yourock: Rosanne

[Jennicut]

27. Bob Hope and Johnny Cash?

Bob Hope was already 70 in 1980. Boner doesn't even know what was popular in the 80's. What a...Boner! I am a child of the 80's. Could Boner have at least mentioned a popular figure from that time? Johnny Cash? How about Michael Jackson or Madonna? I guess they didn't fit in a right wing agenda.

[paparush]

31. Johnny Cash "One for the Warden"

When the photographer asked, "Hey Johnny, how about one for the warden?" This was Cash's response:



I think he'd reply to "Hey Johnny, how about one for Boehner?" in the same manner.

[elmerdem]

32. called his office

to let them know that 'I agree with Roseanne Cash'

edit to add the number in case you want to tell them you agree with Roseanne: 202-225-6205

[SemperEadem]

33. I follow her

she's a hoot!

[lunatica]

34. Suddenly I love Twitter!

Up to now I wasn't too impressed with it, but this is just too lovely!

[Uncle Joe]

35. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Segami.

[gmoney]

36. What was the old Subgenius bit?

Jesus is Hope
Bob is our Jesus
Jesus is Bob Hope


...or something like that

[Chulanowa]

37. Hey! Remember the 80's?

Skyrocketing unemployment. The dissolution of the middle class. Federal union-busting. A huge chunk of our budget going to the Contras and Iraqi baath. I remember, as a kid, eating kool-aid popsicles for dinner because there was no work.

Ronald Reagan was the devil

[Politicub]

39. Roseanne, I love you!

:rofl:

[JuniperLea]

40. I will always love Johnny Cash...

And his beautiful, brilliant daughter, Rosanne!

Well done!

[Bluenorthwest]

41. Roseanne is such a great singer

And a straight forward person. Boehner is an asshat.

[KamaAina]

42. More proof that America just isn't ready for an orange Speaker of the House.

:eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

43. Awesome

The most fitting use of the word 'asshat' in a Tweet.
:thumbsup:

[AngryOldDem]

44. Laughed at Ratigan right now.

In reporting the story he got to the "offensive" word, stopped, and said, "um...it rhymes with BASSHAT."

:D

[tanyev]

45. Sounds like the speechwriters stole an idea from the Dixie Chicks.

from Long Time Gone:

Now, me and Deliah singing every Sunday
Watching the children and the garden grow
We listen to the radio to hear what's cookin?
But the music ain't got no soul

Now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard
They've got money but they don't have Cash
They got Junior but they don't have Hank
I think, I think, I think

The rest is a long time gone
No, I ain't hit the roof
Since I don?t know when long time gone
And it ain't coming back

[Toucano]

46. I knew that would send her fuming.

As soon as I heard him say that, I thought, "Well, that's torn it."

Good for you, Rosanne.

[Dinger]

48. K & R!!!!!!

[B Calm]

49. K&R

[Ikonoklast]

50. Roseanne makes her Daddy proud.

Johnny Cash always stood up for the little man, the downtrodden, and the hopeless.






.

[louis-t]

51. I wish she had called him a 'jack-wagon' as well.

:P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

52. Boehner's the Man In Orange.

[StandingInLeftField]

70. Yep!

[Democrafty]

53. Love this! n/t

[Zambero]

54. One picture says it all

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.penmachine.com/musicpages/greatestphoto.html&h=289&w=300&sz=39&tbnid=xdcY90bED2-ViM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djohnny%2Bcash%2Bgiving%2Bthe%2Bfinger&zoom=1&q=johnny+cash+giving+the+finger&usg=__qLJpkhvRApCOorry5RBfRFY1O2o=&sa=X&ei=_pLQTP2AC4W9nAeq35GOBg&ved=0CCAQ9QEwAA

Thank you Roseanne & Johnny!

[madrchsod]

55. "....sooner or later god`s going to cut you down......."

the man in black has friends in high places.....

[beac]

56. Brava, brava, BRAVA Roseanne!!

:applause:

Almost makes me want to join Twitter just so I could "re-tweet" this!

:applause:

[political_Dem]

59. Thank you, Ms. Cash. You said what a lot people wanted to say to Boner.

K and R.

[indimuse]

60. la la la la laaaaaaaaaa!

knr!

[DissedByBush]

61. Rec - love anything Johnny Cash related n/t

[onager]

62. Now if stepdaughter Carlene Carter would weigh in...

In 1979, during a concert at New York's Bottom Line, she introduced a song about mate-swapping called Swap-Meat Rag, from her album "Two Sides to Every Woman," by stating:

"If this song don't put the cunt back in country, I don't know what will."

Johnny Cash and June Carter were in the audience, unknown to Carlene. The comment was quoted widely in the press, and Carter spent much of the next decade trying to live it down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlene_Carter

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

64. Al Gore

Who knew Johnny Cash described him as more liberal than he was. Roseanne's comments are right on.

[tilsammans]

66. Just became a follower on Twitter!

Your daddy would be so proud, Rosanne!

[Mister Ed]

68. Had the pleasure of meeting her once. A very admirable person. n/t

[moonbatmax]

69. Yeah, Boner, about that...

Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.

Turns out we lost Hope and Cash back during the Big Dubya's administration.

Back in 2003, in fact.

Just a few months after you guys lied us into Iraq,
first we lost Hope, and then we lost Cash.

Yeah, let's talk about that, why don't we?

History's a funny thing, sometimes, ain't it?

[StandingInLeftField]

71. Perfect

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

72. I know how she feels

Republicans have been using My Dad's name as a punchline for years. :(

[Shining Jack]

73. "asshat"

Really fitting.

[davidinalameda]

74. Johnny Cash was not a conservative

I read something that said right before he died, he was trying to figure out a way to express his opposition to either the Iraq War or the Afghan War

[NewYorkerfromMass]

75. I'd say his entire life

and music were a good enough expression themselves.