Is that really A$$croft singing in F911?

[mrgorth]

It sounds professional. I mean, music and everything. That can't really be him can it?

[MrSlayer]

1. Yeah that's him.

You can see the full clip on CNN.com.

[movonne]

2. Yes!!!

[JHB]

3. It's him.

Maybe he can sing, but he sure can't WRITE music.

[malatesta1137]

7. if that's singing

we are doomed. He sounds horrible.

[wryter2000]

4. I'm pretty sure it is

I saw it on the internet agest ago. The guy can sing. I wish he were Singer General instead of Attorney General.

[NWHarkness]

5. He sang it on Letterman, too, didn't he?

I know Dave played the hell out of the clip

[Protected]

11. Yeah, Dave even sang it endlessly in 2002, I think.

Junk.

[gasperc]

6. yes, he does singing quartets with Trent Lott and orin Hatch

I found it agonizing and then when he switched to speaking it reminded me of a fucking Las Vegas lounge act

[Mari333]

8. Yes, he belongs to some barbershop quartet somewhere

But his songwriting leaves much to be desired..he wrote the lame song heard in the movie.......

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Yes.

Asscroft and some other repukes sing in a group. "The Singing Pukes" :evilgrin: They do have a group, I just don't know the name of it.

[cjbuchanan]

10. He was a member of the 'Singing Senators'

Him, Jim Jeffords, Larry Craig and Trent Lott use to sing together. Then Jeffords went and broke up the gang.

I know, Asscroft lost before Jeffords left, but it was fun to type that last sentence.

[PatGund]

12. Yep, that's him

Maybe come next Feburary when he's unemployed, he can get a gig as a lounge singer.

[amazona]

13. he wrote that song as well as singing it

He does have a nice voice, too bad he isn't on American Idol or something instead of being AG. I can't say I'm impressed with his song-writing talents, though, yikes.

[bagnana]

14. he warbles.

if his vibrato were any looser it would leave his body. He bites!

[indigo32]

16. Agreed

he is NOT a good singer, not to mention being insane.

[hatrack]

19. Shades of "MacArthur Park"

"Someone left the cake out in the RAA-IIIIIII=NNNNNNN!! . . .
And I'll never have that recipie AGAAAAAAAAAAA-IIIII-NNNN!!
Whoa-ho-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"

[Judi Lynn]

15. Makes your hair stand on end, in a bad way!

"Let the Eagle Soar!"
http://www.symbolman.com/corpabuse.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ashcroft Sings, Nation Cringes
More Proof Positive That The United States Attorney General
Is Quite Possibly Insane
http://www.unitedstatesgovernment.net/ashcroftinsane.htm

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Oh, God help me!
Jim Jeffords (he's gone from there, I hope!)
John Ashcroft,Larry Craig, Trent Lott

John Ashcroft Makes Justice Department Lawyers Sing Along
By Glenn Weiserhttp://www.celticguitarmusic.com/Mland_%20Ashcroft_sings.htm

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Here's ANOTHER Republican singing Senator group. The article claims they sing "satiric" material. I wonder if they have any songs dealing with torture?



http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/article.php/203.html

[Judi Lynn]

20. I can't take it any more!

With the imprint of Trent Lott as he struggles for just the right note fried into my eyeballs, I decided to take one more look in google, to see if I could uncover any actual songs. I don't think I can make it far enough to find out. I ran across this article:

The Oak Ridge Boys, Charley Pride and The Singing Senators entertain the Sunday afternoon crowd at the Charley Pride Theatre in Branson.


http://www.oakridgeboys.com/Pages/senators_branson.html

Trent Lott:

Here are 50 things you didn't know about Trent Lott.

1. Born Oct. 9, 1941, in Grenada County, Miss., to a laid-off hubcap factory worker and a piano teacher.

2. Trent is his middle name. His real first name is "Chester."

3. Boyhood nickname: "Gap," because, he later said, "I had a gap between my front teeth you could drive a Mack truck through." Braces cleaned up his smile in his 20s.

4. Dad was a heavy drinker who died in a car crash when he and the other driver were both DUI.

5. Third-grade crush: Betty Truelove.

6. Married his college sweetheart, Tricia Thompson. Has a son, Chet, and daughter, Tyler. Trish and Tyler once took heat from the folks back home in cotton-picking country for wearing polyester in a D.C. fashion show.

7. When Tyler got married, Lott was reported to have danced with every woman on the guest list. "I was kind of out of control," he later said.

8. His uncle was a local leader of the anti-integration White Citizens Council.

9. Token minority gesture: The council doesn't wear hoods.

10. Voted "neatest boy" in his high school class.

11. Practiced food segregation as a lad. "He didn't like his food to touch," says a high school classmate. "He would eat one item at a time, and then turn the plate."

12. Never drank alcohol.

13. Suffers from incessant bad breath, frequently pops mints.

14. Wears starched white shirts and silk ties.

15. Combs every strand of hair into place before leaving home.

16. And, no, despite appearances, it is NOT a toupee.

17.Keeps his socks sorted. "Doesn't everybody?" he wondered in an interview with NBC's Lisa Myers.

18. Slips into cotton pajamas immediately after returning home from work.

19.Favorite phrase: "Straight ahead."

20. Is Trent Lott Satan?

Visitors to a Web site

(mongo.virtualave.net)

devoted to that question voted 3-to-1 that he is, in fact, Beelzebub.

21. Token minority gesture: D.C. sedan of choice is a Cadillac.

22. Attended all-white Pascagoula High. Sang in the boys' quartet, elected class president.

23. Attended all-white University of Mississippi in the early '60s, where he opposed integration by student James Meredith. "Yes," he told Time in 1997, "you could say that I favored segregation then."

24. As president of the school's all-white Sigma Nu chapter, he voted against integration of his fraternity.

25. Earned bachelor's degree in public administration and law degree from Mississippi.

26.Token minority gesture: Credited with keeping his fraternity brothers out of the 1962 anti-black Ole Miss riot that ended in two deaths and 150 arrests.

27.Played tuba in high school.

28. As head cheerleader at Ole Miss, he carried the Confederate battle flag onto the field during football games.

29. Formed an all-white quartet at Mississippi called The Chancellors.

30. At-ease, humorous public speaker. Once took a swipe at Al Gore's claim that he invented the Internet by retorting that his own well-known "passion for order" led him to invent the paper clip.

31. As a member of the all-white Singing Senators (with Larry Craig, Idaho; James Jeffords, Vermont; and John Ashcroft, now attorney general), he appears on "Let Freedom Sing!" CD. The CD was produced by one of Lott's former college buddies who was a former singer on the "Lawrence Welk Show."

32.Token minority gesture: The group frequently sang "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

33.Built political contacts in law school while running Ole Miss alumni office.

34. One year out of school, he abandoned his law practice and began political career as aide to U.S. Rep. William Colmer, a Mississippi Democrat known as an ardent segregationist.

35. Elected to House in 1972 as a Republican on Richard Nixon's coattails. Later became first Southern Republican whip.

36. Elected to Senate in 1988, became GOP whip in 1994 - the first Republican ever elected whip in both houses.

37. Was Senate majority leader for five years, till his singing partner, James Jeffords, defected to the Democratic party in 2001.

38. Wrote legislation declaring Jefferson Davis' Senate desk the permanent seat of the senior senator from Mississippi.

39.Token minority gesture: Hired black people to work for his Senate office staff, contending, "My actions in trying to directly help individuals" means more than his votes as a congressman.

40. Loves pork-barrel spending in his state. When Mississippi dropped to No. 6 in per capita federal spending earlier this year (from No. 3), Lott bemoaned the decline, but said the state's ranking is "still very respectable. Of course, the definition of wasteful 'pork' is always in the eye of the beholder. In my eye, if it's south of Memphis, it sure isn't pork."

41. As youngest member of the House Judiciary Committee, he voted against impeachment of Richard Nixon in 1974. Twenty-five years later, he voted for the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

42. Credited with undermining Sen. John McCain's 2000 presidential bid.

43.Torpedoed anti-tobacco bill of 1999.

44. Though he represents the 50th poorest state in the union, he is known as one of Washington's biggest opponents of efforts to raise the minimum wage.

45. Picked an early fight with Sen. Hillary Clinton, but backed off when she showed her spine.

46. Once declared he feels closer to Jefferson Davis "than any other man in America."

47. In mid-'90s, organized the Dark Ages Weekend, a mid-winter outing for ultra right-wingers at Miami's posh Doral Golf Resort and Spa in Miami.

48. Was among the Republicans who walked out of Sen. Paul Wellstone's memorial service at the University of Minnesota.

49.In 1981, helped Jackson, Miss., annex white suburbs to dilute political strength of black voters.

50. Token minority gesture: Introduced Senate resolution condemning arson of black churches.
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/4760117.htm?1c&ERIGHTS=7300388209449805916philly:&KRD_RM=7nwosnnutnrupurrwnnnnnnnnn
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[Misunderestimator]

17. It's him, and he sounds like shit...

Like an arrogant bastard who was told one day, LONG ago in his youth, that maybe he had a voice... and he held on to that little dream until he finally had an audience, then he ripped out one of vilest, classless, formless pieces of schlock with one of the nastiest, trying to be legit voices imaginable. Ick, ick, ick, ick, ick. Singer... no... charlatan... yes.

[agates]

18. Singing voice a gift from God

He probably believes his great (ahem) singing voice is a gift from God to be used to spread the word. Common fundie belief...

[GiovanniC]

21. I Hope God Saved the Receipt

n/t

[Bluebear]

22. RATE his singing here at miserablemelodies.com

http://www.miserablemelodies.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/miserabl/listall.cgi?arg=Artist

His vibrato fluctuates to three different zip codes. Horrible. I rated it "auditory torture".