80's Punk Star Claims Santa Barbara Shooting Was Elaborate Hoax

[Initech]

Exene Cervenka, singer for ’80s punk icons X, just upset a whole mess of people this afternoon (May 28) with a series of tweets aimed at exposing last week’s Santa Barbara shooting as a hoax.

The 58-year-old frontwoman has added herself to the list of “truthers” who believe Elliot Rodger was just another bad actor in a long line of well-produced hoaxes, which include the Boston Marathon bombings and the attack on the World Trade Center.

Calling herself a “conspiracy therapist,” Cervenka digs into Elliot Rodger’s videos and various news reports in order to find incongruities.

Several videos added to her YouTube channel playlist today that back up the theory that Rodgers manifesto videos were filmed in a studio. “No one died and no one got hurt. The story is 100% fabricated from start to finish,” claims one YouTube truther.

Cervenka believes Rodger’s killing spree, along with the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, were designed to force stricter gun control laws — ultimately leaving citizens defenseless against the government.

http://radio.com/2014/05/28/80s-punk-star-exene-cervenka-claims-santa-barbara-shooting-was-a-hoax/

The bat shit is strong with this one!

[Starry Messenger]

1. Really disappointed in her.

wtf went wrong in her head.

[Cal Carpenter]

12. Really

What a shame.

[Starry Messenger]

18. I have that one, and all the other classics of theirs on vinyl

[Jamastiene]

34. VERY!

What a shame.

[Starry Messenger]

39. I think John Doe is pretty progressive

I don't know if he'll distance himself from her remarks. I hope that he does.

[Jamastiene]

41. I hope he does too.

I can't believe where her mind is on things.

[johnp3907]

49. There was a thread that started with. "John Doe."

I thought "Not him too!"

[Starry Messenger]

51. I googled him and it looks like he's safe.

Exene fell into Ron Paul nutterism, per her twitter, and moved to Texas to escape liberals and taxes. Fucking whatever.

John Doe moved to San Francisco and if not strictly a Dem, says he likes Occupy and dislikes Republicans tearing apart the social safety net, so I can still love him.

[johnp3907]

53. Sad.

And Billy Zoom is born again. I thought he would be the one I had trouble with.

[CBGLuthier]

2. What i wanna do is take these people and lock them in the coffins with some of the dead.

let them stick their fingers in the bullet holes and admire the dull lifeless expression on the faces of the "imaginary" victims. About 48 hours should straighten these tools out.

[Takket]

16. you took the words right out of my mouth.

[KamaAina]

3. I was briefly following her on Twitter.

Then the reich-wing anti-Obama nuttery started to become apparent. It was almost as much fun as my Facebook fling with Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady), who turned out to be a vicious Islamophobe. (And she's blonde, yet Faux has not snapped her up. )

[PasadenaTrudy]

23. I got into it with her on twitter

one time about chemtrails. Boy oh boy! Unfollow!

[johnp3907]

4. This aging punk rocker is heartbroken.

X is one of my favorite bands, and I've always loved Exene's lyrics. Please tell me she's just gone off her meds or something.

[BeyondGeography]

8. It is disappointing...Manzarek produced them, didn't he?

Keyboard asserts itself Doors-style at the end of this gem:

[johnp3907]

10. Yeah.

And his keys really added a lot to songs like that one and Nausea.

[HooptieWagon]

31. Yes, he did.

produced, managed, and played with them for a bit in their heyday.

[frylock]

48. grew up on the west coast punk scene..

Los Angeles is still one of my all-time fav albums. shocked and disappointed to learn she's a teabagger.

[geek tragedy]

5. irrelevant and insane is a sad place to find oneself nt

[AngryAmish]

6. This is astonishing

She could write "The Have Nots" and believe this crap. My soul just broke.

[BeyondGeography]

7. It's still a free enough country for people to make an ass of themselves in public

and have a fan club. Of course, all of that would disappear without the right to assemble a personal weapons arsenal. Or something.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Who?

I've never heard of either her or X before I read this. Maybe I'm just out of the 80s punk scene.

[tkmorris]

25. If you've never heard of X you never liked punk much

And that's fine. I myself am a little hazy on contemporary country pop radio stars. If one were the focus of a story such as this though it wouldn't mean much that I had never heard of them, and I am sure I would not make a point of mentioning it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. It's just an observation.

The 1980s punk scene may have been something of a niche market. And in any niche market, names that might be common place to hardcore followers might not be household names to the general public.

Now, had it been one of the surviving Ramones, that would be a different story.

[AngryAmish]

36. If there was an 80s punk band that came the closest to the mainstream it was X

Bigger than Black Flag, Naked Raygun, Fugazi et al. Ramones were bigger.

[jmowreader]

54. There is only one surviving Ramone

The one right-winger died in 2004.

[shenmue]

11. That's awful

[mikeysnot]

13. Wow, lost all respect for her...

never to be recovered.

Might just remove my Knitters and X mp3's off my ipod even.

[bigtree]

20. John Doe is X as far as I'm concerned (he divorced her in '85)

. . . I like his pairing with Kathleen Edwards better than this woman's contributions.

[mikeysnot]

33. I like JD solo shit...

Saw X redo the Los Angeles album live, they rocked, would not have gone had I heard this shit from her mouth.

[Hugin]

14. Never heard of her...

I'd like to keep it that way.

[Skidmore]

15. Who???

Never heawrd of her or the group.

[sakabatou]

55. Me neither

[m-lekktor]

17. this was a hot topic of discussion on CBGBs facebook page last night.

outside the diehard cult of personality fans who defend her no matter what the consensus is that she is now nuts! i believe she came out as a sandy hook truther as well awhile back but not %100 certain of that. i read things here and there, forget details and don't have any links handy.

[Champion Jack]

19. X is going to do an acoustic tour this summer

I wonder how this will go over...

[PasadenaTrudy]

22. One of the best bands of that era...

I saw them many times. She does have MS now. I wonder if it fucked up her head? Not really, but I do wonder what the hell happened.

[IDemo]

24. 20-Teens electronics tech puzzled by relevance of 80's punk star

[zonkers]

29. 80 yr old jitterbugger also puzzled by relevance.

[whistler162]

57. 50- Computer Geek puzzled by revelance of 80's punk star

Only recognized the band when John Doe the actor was referenced.

[Tikki]

26. Exene..she has been slowly drifting this way for a while.

Read her biog and you will find her state of mind today even more sad.


Tikki

[drm604]

27. Never heard of her.

[HooptieWagon]

30. X was a really strong band.

For a while they were managed/produced by Ray Manzarek, formerly of The Doors. Excene has been becoming more weird over time.

[FSogol]

37. Great band, but sad to hear of her stupidity.

And for the baby boomers who never listened to anything, but tired old classic rock:

[treestar]

45. cool

that second one doesn't sound punkish.

[FSogol]

46. They were post-punk. Post-punk bands like them, the Replacements, and Husker Du toured around

a lot and influenced most of the alternative scene that exists today.

They had a big following despite getting almost no play on the radio.

[951-Riverside]

40. "She started to hate every Nigger and Jew... Every Mexican that gave her lotta shit..."

With lyrics like these I am not surprised she would think the UCSB shooting was a hoax.

She had to leave
Los Angeles
All her toys go 'round in black and her boys had too
She started to hate every nigger and Jew
Every Mexican that gave her lotta shit
Every homosexual and the idle rich
Idle rich
She had to get out
Get out

She gets confused
Flying over the dateline
Her hands turn red
Cause the days change at night
Change in an instant
The days change at night
Change in an instant

She had to leave
Los Angeles
She found it hard to say goodbye to her own best friend
She bought a glock on Hollywood Boulevard the day she left
It felt sad

She had to get out
Get out

And that X sure looks like a burning cross

[treestar]

42. I remember hearing that

never understood the words after the first line.

[malaise]

32. So they said was Sandy Hook

Whateverthefuggingfuckever!

[Blue_Tires]

44. Even before then...That crowd is fuckin' nuts

When Obama first came to office, the mass shootings (i.e., Pittsburgh in '09) were "his fault" because patriotic Americans were paranoid that Obama was going to personally go door-to-door and confiscate everything...


Later, I first heard that "Obama masterminded a mass shooting" conspiracy after Gabby Giffords...The loons didn't deny the shooting took place; only that Obama 'brainwashed' the shooter...

But Sandy Hook was beyond the pale...And the true conspiracy believers seem to increase with every incident...

[malaise]

47. They are sick

very sick

[Union Scribe]

35. So do these morons think no one has ever

legitimately and really killed a bunch of people without it being a government plot? I can usually at least get where most CTers are coming from even though I don't agree with them, but this and the Sandy Hook "truthers" I'm just left befuddled by.

[FSogol]

38. How does someone go from complaining about Ronald Reagan to believing crap like this?

Hope Exene gets some help.


See post 37 if you've never listened to X.

[Tom Ripley]

43. I knew that Billy Zoom was a crypto-Nazi, but I'm really surprised and disappointed by this

[Warren DeMontague]

50. FREE FOOD FOR THE POOR!

Sorry, I just love this scene, and, it's John Doe.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

52. She also blames porn at one point too.

So it didn't happen, but....porn, ammiright?

[sagat]

56. Y'all are just trying to shut down the discussion.

Do you believe everything the government tells you?

What's wrong with asking questions?

[951-Riverside]

58. Her ex-husband Viggo Mortensen is a big time conspiracy nutbag too

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[BootinUp]

59. Yes, the grieving relatives are just really good actors, (headslap!)