Boehner versus the Beatle

[BurtWorm]

Hey, Paul. Don't apologize. You're right. Bush is a moron.


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/boehner_versus_the_beatle.html


Human Events' Connie Hair gets Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) to demand an apology from Paul McCartney, after the former member of Wings* accepted the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from President Obama and used the occasion to be thankful that America had a president "who knows what a library is."

Boehner:
Like millions of other Americans, I have always had a good impression of Paul McCartney and thought of him as a classy guy, but I was surprised and disappointed by the lack of grace and respect he displayed at the White House. I hope he'll apologize to the American people for his conduct which demeaned him, the White House and President Obama.

What are the odds on an apology? Slimmer, probably, than the odds of Drudge picking Hair's story up.

*and some other band, I think

[Tempest]

1. But calling Obama a "Hitler loving, Commie Pinko Marxist Anti-Christ" is fine

Or did I miss where Boner called for an apology to Obama?

[jillan]

4. +1

[saracat]

2. This whole story is stupid. There is a Crisis in the Gulf. Who cares what Paul said?

[spanone]

3. i believe that Sir Paul got it just right...

he may have been much too kind

[librechik]

5. When Bush apologizes for last week saying he would still torture, given the chance

then Paul can think about apologizing for calling Bush stupid. Until then, shut up, Boner.

[meegbear]

6. Rep. Boehner should start a boycott of his music ...

a few weeks and this McCarthy guy'll be begging for forgiveness.

[leftofcool]

14. LOL! Good one!

I think some people tried that in the late 60's It didn't work then either!

[emulatorloo]

17. "Good. They have to buy the records to burn them"

I beleive that's what Paul said at the time.

[leftofcool]

20. I think so or something like that.

[BurtWorm]

7. Steve Benen: The same day mcCartney joked about moron Bush, moron Bush bragged about torture.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_06/024111.php

...

The same day McCartney told a harmless joke about George W. Bush's limited intellect, George W. Bush boasted about having ordered torture as president, and insisted he wouldn't change a thing if he had it to do over again.

So, just so we're clear, a musician telling a Bush-is-dumb joke generates a fair amount of outrage in some conservative circles. A former president admitting to ordering torture -- bragging about utilizing a technique that the United States has long considered criminal, and has even prosecuted -- is completely fine.

One, in Boehner's mind, requires an apology; the other is a source of partisan pride.

There's something deeply wrong with this picture.

[spanone]

8. the split between parties used to be idealism, now it's moralism. the right's promotion of torture

is immoral.

[arcane1]

9. Perhaps Paul should've shouted "you lie" during the SOTU

I presume Boner would find no apology needed?

[BurtWorm]

10. ha ha!

:applause:

[dflprincess]

11. The Boner should explain why he's assuming McCartney meant Bush

No where did McCartney mention Bush's name. For all Boehner knows (and that's not much), Sir Paul may have been speaking about the president of some other country. :evilgrin:

[Dawson Leery]

12. No apology is coming.

If Paul were beholden to country 'music', then that is another story.

[rurallib]

13. Hey, Boner, it is amendment #1 freedom of speech. It means

we are free to call a moron a moron.

But let me step in for Sir Paul and say:
"I am extremely sorry that America had the most pathetic, amoral, ignorant bastard for president from 2001 to 2009."

[leftofcool]

15. Hey Boner! McCartney is twice the man you are and he isn't even the cool Beatle.

[emulatorloo]

16. Doesn't Boehner have a state to destroy?

um I mean "represent."

Seems like there are more important things he should be worrying his pretty orange head about.

[lunamagica]

18. Oompa Loompa, Paul is known all over the world

your're not even a blip in the world's radar, so, shut up

[ejpoeta]

19. he called bush a moron? well, bush IS a moron. move along. no news there.

boehner, looks like you need another layer of your totally unnatural looking coloring. better hurry before you can't get an appointment.

[Parche]

21. The Long and winding Republican road

to nowhere

[guitar man]

22. Fuck you Boehner, Paul is a Beatle

you're just a worm :grr: