You should speak out. Bruce should shut up and sing.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I can see a parallel here between me trying to moderate this group
to this Bruce discussion
> as it relates to what you call "microphone abuse"
> I knew that when I posted what I said below it would make me look
like a hypocrite.
> When you go see a Bruce show, you aren't going to hear him
pontificate for 3 hours about
> politics. He may sprinkle his show with some of it, but you also
get classic songs and lot's
> of great live rock and roll. Same with his recordings. It's not
all politics.
> Don't you think many of us here in America are upset with what's
going on in our country?
> To not speak out is just being wimpy and equates to hiding your
head in the sand.
>
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
<justifiedright@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Also, if somebody said to you "Hey Tommy - SHUT UP AND
PRACTICE
> > >LAW!!" I'd defend
> > > you also. We all have the right to voice our opinions.
> > > It's just like the way people used to get angry about Howard
Stern.
> > >You have a
> > > choice...listen, or tune away.
> >
> > The difference is that Bruce and others like him
commit "microphone
> > abuse."
> >
> > There are people on this board that study and follow politics
more
> > closely than he does. The problems is we can't gather a wide
audience.
> >
> > Bruce gets a wide audience for a different reason - music. Then
he
> > abuses that by talking politics, not music. He has nothing more
> > important to say than anyone else, but abuses his postion to get
his
> > thoughts stated widely.
> >
> > He's also a hypocrite. He was very critical of radio station
owners
> > who boycotted Dixie Chicks. Don't radio station owners have
free
> > speech rights? You can always change the station, right?
> >
> > Don't
> >
>
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