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romantico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 11:59 AM
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Boycott Bruce Sprinsteen ad to air
Edited on Tue Aug-17-04 12:00 PM by romantico
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LuminousX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:01 PM
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1. Let them waste their money
It won't change anyone's opinion.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:01 PM
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2. You know, I never replaced my vinyl "Born to Run" with a CD....
time to go SHOPPING!
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:21 PM
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11. Yeah -- there are a LOT of Boss albums I need -- now's the time
I'm thinking. Go, BRUUUUUUUUCE!!
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 03:38 PM
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21. Check out the thrift shops for old albums
I've seen lots of vinyl at them. Some great oddball ones, too, to use for crafting. But I've seem Bruce albums many times.
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:05 PM
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3. and again I'm gonna say
does anyone remember the people who boycotted the Beatles after their bigger than Jesus comment? Remember how successful that was? I mean that really sunk their career...John, Paul, George and Ringo, who?

Silly people!
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Bill McBlueState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:05 PM
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4. they're so desperate!
Pathetic moves like this ad make me think a major change is coming. Perhaps these are the last-ditch attempts of an ideology that knows it's going to lose big in November.
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shaolinmonkey Donating Member (812 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:05 PM
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5. Boy, GOP music libraries must be really awful...
I mean really, how many decent right-wing artists are there? Is it all Toby Keith and Ted Nugent? Is it all gospel? Seriously, the music issue alone is enough to keep any normal person out of the GOP. Let alone the horrible policy platform.

When I think of GOP music, I think of that horrible opera-style singing that was in all the old Disney movies. You know, the chorus of wailing banshees staring down their noses at you from the choir seats...c'mon...who's with me?
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:24 PM
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14. Toby Keith is a registered Democrat
I can't defend SOME of his lyrics, but I was very happy to hear that (the registered Dem part) because I can't help it (and I tried until I learned he is a Dem), I'm a fan. I think he's an extremely talented songwriter, and I love his voice as well.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:37 PM
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18. You are soooooooooooo correct!
Edited on Tue Aug-17-04 12:38 PM by displacedtexan
Lawrence Welk, Ray Conniff, Montovani, The Serendipity Singers, Up The With People...
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 03:56 PM
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25. Opera singers... wailing banshees? I can tell you that most of the opera
singers I know are liberal. Just like most artists. I think it would be more appropriate to call it Ashcroft-style singing, if it's the kind I'm thinking you mean. (...and the Disney style is more broadway-style than opera... just sayin')
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SoFlaJet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:10 PM
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6. good
more tix for us baby-Bruce ain't losing a wink over these idiots,and when I see him in a few monthsa I will hug him for all of us here on DU
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:15 PM
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7. You know Bruce???
if so that is so cool...I've been living in NJ my whole life any you would think that I would run into him just one time! Even my mom got to meet him, she snuck into the Stone Pony about 20 or so years ago when he was doing a sound check, and they didn't kick her out because she was cute and persuasive!
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SoFlaJet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:24 PM
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13. he eats at a place I play
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:27 PM
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15. awesome!
n/t
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:17 PM
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8. DJs on a local radio station were making fun of it this morning.
Saying what an idiotic place (NJ) it is to try a boycott of Springsteen. And this was an Infinity broadcasting station...
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:18 PM
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9. Send Marilyn O'Grady your receipts when you buy the DVDs and CDs.
And urge her to place them in the bodily orifice of her own choosing.

Anyone got an address on this nut?
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kerry-is-my-prez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:19 PM
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10. Damn - another CD I have to buy.
I've had to spend a lot of money on things I wouldn't normally buy in the last few years: The Dixie Chicks, Martha Stewart, Linda Rondstadt.

On the bright side: at least I don't have to buy Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson crap. That would REALLY suck.
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AgadorSparticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 04:58 PM
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29. so my tween niece says to me.....
"yea, i like britney spears okay. but her voice is bad." BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:22 PM
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12. It's their loss
If they choose to deprive themselves of the pleasure of listening to the Boss, it's their loss.

It's a pity we can't lure them into boycotting tv, newspapers, radio, food, breathing air, drinking water, etc. They're stupid and obsessed enough that we might be able to trick them into it.
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Classical_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:28 PM
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16. This is like boycotting the flag, mother and apple pie to most rock fans
Edited on Tue Aug-17-04 12:28 PM by Classical_Liberal
not to mention the people of New Jersey.
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kerry-is-my-prez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:31 PM
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17. This will only call more attention to Bruce supporting Kerry.
Most people don't even know about it - I suspect. I think this will backfire.
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 12:39 PM
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19. That is usually correct
When "NYPD Blue" first announced that there was going to be partial nudity from the characters, there was a guy named Wildmon who was calling for a boycott FOR A SHOW THAT HADN'T EVEN AIRED YET! That didn't work out too well. A lot of people tuned it in just because of bthe extra attention Wildmon gave it. If I worked for that show, or anything else the Righties want to boycott, I'd give them a hearty thank you. Like Franken did. Boy their ignorance never fails to amaze me. And to quote a line from Bruce Springsteen, "Have a Party in the Pink Cadillac".
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 03:36 PM
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20. Boycott the Boss? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Good luck, Marilyn!
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RichardRay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 03:44 PM
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22. My favorite Springsteen song
has always been Human Touch. If I wanted to go buy 2 or 3 new CD's so I'd have something to send this lady, which ones would Springsteen fans suggest?

Richard Ray - Jackson Hole, WY
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 03:59 PM
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27. "The Rising" would be fitting.
There's several songs about 911 on that CD. She should crawl back under the rock she crawled out from under. NJ lost a LARGE number of people in 911 and Bush USED the disaster to attack Iraq. Bruce knew people who were killed. :(
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 03:48 PM
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23. The repukes are getting desperate!
Boycotting Bruce Springsteen???? Goof grief! I hope she's spending a whole bunch of $$$$ on the ad. Waste, waste, waste those repuke dollars.

Does Springsteen have any NEW CD out right now? If not, I'll buy an old one that I don't have.

Will the repukes ever learn? Whenever they do this to one of our supporters, their sales go UP!!! They aren't very bright, are they?
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ClassWarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 03:52 PM
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24. COOL! More publicity for the tour!!
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 03:58 PM
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26. Hard to believe that ANY broadcaster would air an ad advocating a boycott
of ANY commercial enterprise, which Bruce Springsteen and his record company and his production employees all fall into that category.

Has this EVER been allowed?
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-04 04:27 PM
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28. Rhandi Rhodes is talking about this...right NOW!
How funny!
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