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Let there be snark.

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Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

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Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

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I think I hate Justin Bieber more than I like Muslims

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If Justin Bieber is for religious tolerance, then I’m against it.

In news that is alternatively LOL and OMGWTF?, Justin Bieber has been thrust into the (apparently ongoing) debate about Park 51 aka Cordoba House aka The Muslin Mosk That Wants to Kill Your Family and Pets.

A bunch of fuckwits are still pissed off about the Cordoba House, which is being built in an old Burlington’s Coat Factory a few blocks away from Ground Zero and the World Trade Center Commemorative Strip Club. They are so pissed off that they are boycotting any companies that support the rights of motherfuckers to go pray in the middle of the day or learn how to swim, or learn how to make houses out of popsicle sticks near the “hollowed ground” that is Ground Zero.

Well, this may shock you folks, but I vote yes on Proposition Boycott. Yes, that’s right. I’m all for it! I know I’ve ranted and raved about how head ‘splodey these intolerant Islamophobic idiots make me, so I understand that my about-face on this issue may come as a surprise. But hear me out!

These former fuckwits, now champions of liberty, freedom, and All Things Palin (She’s not so bad when you think about it… I sort of like her now!) have proposed a boycott that I can fully get behind (even though it turns me against all my Muslim brothers and sisters): THEY ARE BOYCOTTING TEH BIEBER.

That’s right. These patriots, these king of kings have dragged Canada’s pop sensation minion from hell into the fray, and I, for one, support it.

From Salon.com:

Andy Sullivan, a construction worker and Brooklyn native, has been one of the loudest opponents of Park51, the planned mosque and community center near ground zero. Founder of the 9/11 Hard Hat Pledge — under which construction workers vow not to work at the mosque site — Sullivan has been a regular presence on television, known for wearing his signature American flag hard hat and talking tough about radical Muslims.

So it was quite a surprise this month to read that Sullivan has set his sights on a new target: Canadian teen pop superstar Justin Bieber.

Mosque foes recently started a boycott of Bieber after he made comments in support of the mosque project in an interview with Tiger Beat, a teen fan magazine, Sullivan told WYNC earlier this month. Now, his 8-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son have been banned from attending Bieber performances.

“I informed them, ‘Hey guys, guess what? Justin Bieber spoke out for the ground zero mosque,” Sullivan explained to Salon in an interview. “My little girl took down his poster and said she didn’t want to have nothing to do with him anymore. These are my kids. They’re living this thing.”

A Facebook page has been set up by an ally of Sullivan publicizing the boycott of Bieber and several other pro-mosque celebrities. It has attracted nearly 500 fans.

So kids, if you hate Muslims (asI know you, like, totally do because Muslims are, like, totally ew!) then you must tear down all your “Tigar Beat” posters and shred your Ok! Magazine photo-spreads.

Take those Justin Bieber CDs and summarily set them on fire!

Join the Facebook Group!

Scream from the mountain tops “YOU SUCK JUSTIN BEAVER! GO BACK TO CANADIA!”

PRIMARY KILL BOYCOTT HIM!

CUT HIS HAIR!!

Do it for America! (and for Canada, for they know not what horror they have wrought upon the world).

NO JUSTIN! MORE PEACE!!

::runs around in a circle, flailing wildly::

Except of course the little turd-muncher didn’t voice any support for the “mosque.” He probably doesn’t even now how to spell “mosk.” It’s all a big hoax:

Intrigued by the idea that Bieber would weigh in on one of the most polarizing political issues of the day, I began looking for his interview with Tiger Beat.

The magazine does cover Bieber obsessively (“Justin Bieber Dodges Dating Selena Gomez Question!” and “Did Justin Bieber Grow a Mustache?” are two recent features). But I couldn’t find any sign of an interview on Park51. There is, however, a post on the website CelebJihad.com purporting to describe a Tiger Beat interview. It reads in part:

In an interview with Tiger Beat, the pop sensation stressed that freedom of religion is what makes America great, and went on to say that those who oppose the Mosque are motivated by bigotry.

“Muslims should be allowed to build a mosque anywhere they want,” the singer said. “Coming from Canada, I’m not used to this level of intolerance, eh.”

Bieber went on to say that Muslims are “super cool,” Christians are “lame-o-rama,” and that the mosque will help “start a dialogue” with all religions about which Justin Bieber song is the most awesome.

“I was like seven when September 11th went down, and frankly I’m surprised people are still going on about it. Move on, already!”

Celebjihad.com seems to specialize in softcore celebrity porn, but poke around a bit and you find this disclaimer:

CelebJihad.com is a satirical website containing published rumors, speculation, assumptions, opinions, fiction as well as factual information.

I was able to reach the proprietor of the site, who confirmed that the Bieber item is in fact a hoax. “[T]he fact that some people take it seriously is hilariously depressing,” he said in an e-mail.

Hilariously depressing, indeed. At least now I can go back to not hating Muslims.1



1 And, thankfully, I can go back to loathing Lady Von Wolf Huntress of Winkington.



UPDATE: A hearty thank you to freelancer for this awesomeness, which is heading straight for your eyeholes:
BieberMosk

[cross-posted here at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]


[Ahoy Balloon Juice mateys! I was gone for a while. But now I’m back. And that’s how that story goes. I hope everyone had a pleasant holidays. I hope your livers have regenerated enough to enable you to drink yourself into a stupor while you party like it’s 1999. Cheers and Happy New Year! -ABL]

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189Comments

  1. 1.

    Mark S.

    Bieber went on to say that Muslims are “super cool,” Christians are “lame-o-rama,” and that the mosque will help “start a dialogue” with all religions about which Justin Bieber song is the most awesome.

    That should have set off some snark-o-meters.

  2. 2.

    burnspbesq

    Justin Bieber is the price you pay for living in a free country.

    If you don’t like him, don’t listen. Just like Faux Nooz.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    Proving once again that ABL is much cooler, far more in-the-know, and waaaaaay younger than I am: Justin who?

  8. 8.

    cathyx

    When talking to my middle schooler about some boy at the school, I said the one with the Justin Beiber hair. She said they all have Justin Beiber hair. And after looking around, she was right.

  13. 13.

    Mike Kay (True Grit)

    In other news, the Jonas Brothers just fired a shot across Boehner’s bow, coming out against spray tans.

  14. 14.

    Xantar

    All you need to know about Justin Bieber:

    1. Conservatives should be embracing him wholeheartedly because I’m pretty sure he’s still a fetus.

    2. The chorus of one of his songs is the word “baby” repeated 30 times.

    This is, in fact, all I actually do know about Justin Bieber and it’s more than enough.

  18. 18.

    ricky

    @cathyx:
    When talking to my son about the old crone in the mall, I said the one who calls her child by her educational institution attendance. He said they teach grammar better than that. Like, after actually listening, I shut up.

  20. 20.

    sb

    I’ve got no problem with Justin Beiber, don’t feel like I have to apologize to any of the kewl kidz for not burning him in effigy and I truly hope his stance on the mosque is genuine, if for nothing else than to make his haters look like fools.

    /wipes nose, puts up fists, looks around, sees indifference, goes back to listening to “bay-bee, bay-bee, bay-bee, oh…”

  21. 21.

    Zam

    @Xantar: You should also know that until about a month ago I thought all his songs were some chick. We were at a bar and for some reason one of his songs comes on, my friends proceed to comment on how shitty his music is and I respond “I’ve never even heard one of his songs” to which they respond that this was him playing right now. I refused to believe them until I was able to look it up myself.

  22. 22.

    bobbo

    Speaking of fuckwits, the fuckwit e-mailer can’t even spell “tiger.” It’s in the name of the fucking magazine, for fuck’s sake!

  23. 23.

    c u n d gulag

    Welcome back, ABL! We (at least I) missed you!

    Look in the world of today’s conservatives, The old National Lampoon is the the inspiration for their view of reality, and The Onion is like their NY Times.

    Does anyone over there know about Google or Nexis/Lexis?
    Or do they take any graffiti written on the bathroom walls as gospel as long as it’s a conservative bar, and not one catering to Liberals and LGBT’s?
    Yup, it’s the former!

  25. 25.

    New Yorker

    How soon before Andy Sullivan (no, not that one) gets a show on FOX News?

    Also, I’m interested in learning what Ke$ha and Katy Perry think of the mosque, because it’s of paramount importance.

  28. 28.

    maya

    Hoax, or no, this should generate greater sales of that newest of pre-teen sensations, Piper Palin. A rousing Jan Bradley cover, Mama Didn’t Lie, is first up on her debutant issue; Justin, who?

  30. 30.

    Southern Beale

    WTF? “tigar beat”? Really? Y’all can’t fucking spell TIGER?

    What is WITH these assholes and their inability to spell? I mean, honest to God, how hard is it to spell “tiger” anyway? IT’S FIVE FUCKING LETTERS LONG! Seriously, they have devolved into self-parody at this point. An embarrassment to America.

    If you can’t fucking spell “tiger” you are not entitled to an opinion on anything, ever. You are an uneducated, illiterate boob and I am allowed my elitist, Ivory Tower, liberal-arts educated, latte-drinking mockery of you all fucking day long.

    Now fuck off.

  33. 33.

    Southern Beale

    @burnspbesq:

    There’s one like that in every generation. Remember Rick Springfield?

    Yes and he’s playing Nashville’s Wildhorse Saloon next month. Y’all come I am pretty sure there are still some tickets left.

    I think he’ll play a medley of his hit.

    /snark

  35. 35.

    Omnes Omnibus

    I was at Summerfest in Milwaukee to see B.B. KIng the same day Bieber performed there. Lots of tweens with “Future Mrs. Bieber” shirts (home-made, of course). He may need to become a polygamist or practice serial monogamy as an extreme sport to accommodate all his brides-to-be. I have now exhausted my entire stock of Bieber-related knowledge.

  37. 37.

    Alex S.

    Today is one of those “I must have entered an alternate reality” days. Bieber and the mosque, O’Donnell and Biden, Michelle Bachmann and Gore Vidal…

  38. 38.

    gogol's wife

    @Cris:
    Yes, I mean I understand what burnspbesq is trying to say, but Rick Springfield could carry a tune better than this guy. And his hair was better.

  39. 39.

    New Yorker

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Who was the genius promoter who decided to put B.B. King on the same bill as Justin Bieber.

    Christ, I saw B.B. King in college before a good chunk of Bieber’s fans were born….

  44. 44.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Southern Beale:

    elitist, Ivory Tower, liberal-arts educated, latte-drinking

    Hi, neighbor!

    A Google image search, although it did provoke further shuddering, at least explained a good deal of the coiffure-related madness I witness in my son’s schoolyard. The whole lot of them could use a good bout of head lice followed by mass head-shaving.

    Also, get off my lawn, too.

  45. 45.

    Alwhite

    “Ward, Don’t you think you were a little hard on the Bieber?”

    June on “Leave It To Bieber” 1958

  46. 46.

    Rick Massimo

    I hope your livers have regenerated enough to enable you to drink yourself into a stupor while you party like it’s 1999. Cheers and Happy New Year!

    Glad you’re back, ABL! 1999 was one of the worst years of my life, so I’m gonna party like it’s right now.

  50. 50.

    ricky

    @New Yorker:

    Christ, I saw B.B. King in college before a good chunk of Bieber’s fans were born….

    If BB King ever was in college I doubt you had the guts to set foot on that campus and I am sure it was long before anyone responsible for spawning a Bieber fan was born.

  51. 51.

    j low

    @sb:

    I’ve got no problem with Justin Beiber, don’t feel like I have to apologize to any of the kewl kidz for not burning him in effigy and I truly hope his stance on the mosque is genuine, if for nothing else than to make his haters look like fools.

    You didn’t make it to the end of the post, did you.

  52. 52.

    Jules

    @Cris:

    Best.
    Song.
    Evah!

    I was a Freshmen in college the year that came out and I can remember getting ready on a Friday for a night of college debauchery to Jesse’s Girl on the cassette (8 track?) player.

    God, Springfield was hot.

  53. 53.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Prolly gonna be the death knell for Justin Bieber if angry middle-aged rightwing males stop buying his stuff.

  55. 55.

    Sputnik

    That Facebook page is hilarious. It has been almost completely hijacked by Cordoba House proponents and the few posts actually by Andy Sullivan are absolutely ridiculous.

    It almost makes me wonder if the FB page is a satire itself and Andy Sullivan is actually a brilliant performance artist.

  59. 59.

    gogol's wife

    @burnspbesq:

    But Marvin and Tammi are dead and Justin is alive and on top of the world, so this just makes me sad. (Not that I’m wishing any harm to Justin.)

  61. 61.

    Alwhite

    @Cris:

    FYI – it is Jessie’s Girl – seems he originally had some other name in there but it didn’t fit well & while casting around for a better name saw some football wienie who’s last name was Jessie so that was the way he spelled it.

    Don’t ask me how I know this, I’ll start crying again and won’t be able to stop.

  63. 63.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    @Southern Beale: WTF? “tigar beat”? Really? Y’all can’t fucking spell TIGER?

    I thought that was pretty choice too.

    Plus they spelled “mosk” wrong.

    (sure, it really is “mosque”, but not if you’re against Cordoba House. Sort of like how if you’re flaming someone for their spelling and sentence structure, you have to spell it “grammer”.)

  65. 65.

    gbear

    @Xantar:

    The chorus of one of his songs is the word “baby” repeated 30 times.

    Haven’t you ever listened to any of The Supremes old hits?

  67. 67.

    Mike Kay (True Grit)

    Of course, the world is breathlessly waiting for Ricky Martin’s decision/statement on the Cuba boycott.

  70. 70.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @gbear:

    Haven’t you ever listened to any of The Supremes old hits?

    Holy shit, they were complaining about Justin Bieber too?

  72. 72.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    @gbear: Haven’t you ever listened to any of The Supremes old hits?

    Ha! Beat me to that one.

    Anybody who has a problem with inane repetition shouldn’t be listening to pop, I reckon.

    “I said over and over and over again, this dance is gonna be a drag.
    I said over and over and over again, this dance is gonna be a drag.
    I said over and over and over again, this dance is gonna be a drag.”

  77. 77.

    Sputnik

    Andy Sullivan better watch out. In a fight between him and Bieber’s fans, my money is on the fans. Those girls don’t mess around.

  78. 78.

    LikeableInMyOwnWay

    Just another example of runaway negative pragmatism.

    “We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.” — Feynman

    Please pass the jug.

  79. 79.

    Comrade Mary

    AM I IN MODERATION BECAUSE I POSTED A LINK TO AMBIENT BIEBER ABOVE? I PROTEST! I PROTEST MOST STRONGLY!

  82. 82.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Nicole: Mrs. Fuckhead is a Springfield fan. She saw him in concert twice last year. She dragged me along to the first and turns out he is actually quite the serious guitarist and musician and entertainer.

    I remember him borrowing someone’s cellphone, making a call on it, chatting with the callee and then playing the guitar with the cellphone. Then he jumped off the stage and waded through the crowd performing. I don’t remember anything after this because I fainted dead away.

  83. 83.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    I used to tear pictures of Alyssa Milano out of Tiger Beat in the mid-eighties. I sure hope she remains mum on the issue.

  85. 85.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Southern Beale: Amen. Amen. That was pretty much my reaction, too. And, Tiger Beat is still around? Man. That’s just sad.

    I gotta say, though, by the end of reading Andy Sullivan (and damn you all for making the joke before I could) and his bullshit, I was ready to buy all of Bieber’s music myself just out of spite to Sullivan.

  86. 86.

    Comrade Mary

    Aha! And FYWP. I can’t use the word “am-bee-yent” because it’s too close to a drug name.

    Fine. Eno-esque Bieber, I am compelled to post. I am even avoiding THAT WORD in the URL with a different link.

  89. 89.

    New Yorker

    @ricky:

    ???

    I think you read that the wrong way. B.B. King set foot on my college (don’t worry, it was integrated by then) and played a show for us about a decade ago.

  93. 93.

    cyntax

    …while you party like it’s 1999.

    I do love your optimism, but partying like I’m ten years younger could be a pretty steep order. I will try to force my curmudgeonly self to party like I’m three years younger though and maybe I’ll make it to midnight.

  94. 94.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    ABL, hey that’s all kewl ‘n stuff, but you are missing out on the crucial issue of the day: what is Justin Bieber’s position on snow removal in New Jersey? Inquiring unionthugized sanitation workers want to know.

  96. 96.

    LikeableInMyOwnWay

    @Comrade Mary:

    Yes, thanks to a filter that is wired to decide, if it sees the word “sociaIism” from a poster who has been here using the same email address for about six years and made umpteen thousand approved (passed moderation) posts, that he might all of a sudden be trying to start a spam operation to sell an ED drug and must be stopped by quarantining his post.

    I really would like the fellow who wrote that piece of software shit to come and visit with us.

    And “sociaIism” works because the sixth letter is spoofed using a capital i and not an l.

  98. 98.

    burnspbesq

    @Andy K:

    I’ll give you the MC5, but you still have to atone for Grand Funk Railroad and every Bob Seger record after “Live Bullet.”

  99. 99.

    Xenocrates

    “I informed them, ‘Hey guys, guess what? Justin Bieber spoke out for the ground zero mosque,” Sullivan explained to Salon in an interview. “My little girl took down his poster and said she didn’t want to have nothing to do with him anymore. These are my kids. They’re living this thing.”

    Does this not put Mr. Sullivan in the running for “Parent of the Year”? I mean, really, one has to teach one’s children bigotry and hatred when they are still young, after all. Just disgusting…but then, I am no longer horrified by ANY of the shit erupting from the Know-Nothing Party. Too stupid to breathe, and not ashamed to brag about it.

  100. 100.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @burnspbesq:

    you still have to atone for Grand Funk Railroad and every Bob Seger record. after “Live Bullet.”

    Fixt. Otherwise, oll korrect.

  101. 101.

    Comrade Mary

    @MattR:

    Baby don’t you drive around with Dr. Bernice
    She’s not a lady doctor at all
    She’s got hands like a man, with hair on the back
    She’ll crush you in her embrace

  102. 102.

    Sputnik

    Please, please, please make “what would Justin Bieber do?” and/or “But what does Justin Bieber think?” be a tag. PLEASE. I’ve been very good.

  104. 104.

    Tom Hilton

    Which should conservatives be more embarrassed* about: that they fell for the hoax, or that they pay any attention at all to Justin Bieber?

    *That is, in an alternative universe in which conservatives are capable of embarrassment.

  105. 105.

    The Bobs

    @Xenocrates:

    “My little girl took down his poster and said she didn’t want to have nothing to do with him anymore. These are my kids. They’re living this thing.”

    Maybe Mr. Sullivan’s daughter should spend some time with immigrants so that she can learn to speak English properly.

  106. 106.

    Citizen Alan

    @Cris:

    Okay, I know how to imbed a link to a youtube page, but how the hell do you set it up to start at a particular point in the video?!?

  107. 107.

    xjmueller

    @New Yorker:
    Shoot, I saw BB King in 1970, before a good chunk of BJ readers were born. I don’t think BB and Justin were on the same bill – just appearing on the same day. However, it being Summerfest, one never can be sure. (hmmmm, would I have gone to that show way back when if it was a double bill with Bobbie Sherman???)

  108. 108.

    Citizen Alan

    @Cris:

    Personally, I became a big fan of Rick Springfield’s singing … right after he started acting and I realized I didn’t know how good I’d had it.

  111. 111.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    @Xenocrates:

    No worries. She’ll end up out of wedlock preggers with an ethnically Arabian babydaddy. Both sets of parents will be mortified, just for different reasons. But it will work out, when both sets of parents start to realize this may be their only shot for grandchildren.

  116. 116.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Don’t forget Davy Jones! Isn’t there a non-threatening pop star for twelve year olds every generation?

  117. 117.

    burnspbesq

    @artem1s:

    That’s right up there. I’m a huge Talking Heads fan. Saw them for the first time before ’77 came out. Instantly hooked.

  118. 118.

    MattR

    @JGabriel: I was poking around Cracker’s wikipedia page and saw that their initial contribution to Enconium (A Led Zeppelin tribute album) was “When the Levee Breaks” but it was rejected as being “too weird”. Been searching the web trying to find it, but no luck. Someone, somewhere has to have a copy of it floating around.

    PS. I just assumed that “Take the Skinheads Bowling” was gonna be one of your CVB links.

  120. 120.

    JGabriel

    @MattR:

    I just assumed that “Take the Skinheads Bowling” was gonna be one of your CVB links.

    Nah, way too obvious. Everyone knows that song.

    .

  122. 122.

    de stijl

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Andy Sullivan, a construction worker and Brooklyn native

    Fake bear, meet real bear.

    We’ve just entered the Web 3.0 era – the post-Just Some Fuckhead’s Awesomest Comment EVAR Era.

  124. 124.

    burnspbesq

    Justin Bieber is a cartoon character, and relatively non-threatening, but the popularity of Taylor Swift is evidence that our civilization is collapsing.

  125. 125.

    MattR

    @JGabriel: Good point.

    I’ve recently been digging the moe. cover of Miley Cyrus’s “We Got the Party”. For some reason there is video of every song from the Halloween show where they played it, except this one. So all I can do is link to a page that has audio of the entire song. There is a music player inthe top right where you can choose song #6.

  127. 127.

    Ed Drone

    @burnspbesq:

    Well, as a folksinger, folklorist, bureaucrat, and general crank (working from old fart to curmudgeon), I have to tell you that Richard Thompson ain’t folk. Good, yes, but not folk.

    Ed

  129. 129.

    Cris

    @Citizen Alan: It’s a wonderful piece of magic that I believe I learned from cleek. You take your youtube link, then you add &t=0m00s to the end of it, replacing the numbers with the minutes and seconds of the spot where you want to start.

    So that James Brown link was
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAJHHQO5czw&t=0m49s
    causing it to start at the 49 second mark.

    By the way, best use of “Jessie’s Girl” ever was the coke-buying scene in Boogie Nights. The camera parks on a nervous Dirk Diggler’s face for fifty excruciating seconds — intense, brilliant.

  131. 131.

    Jager

    The Justin Bieber hate is everywhere! Pull up something like Caravan by Van Morrison on You Tube and in the comments you’ll find somebody saying “Suck on this Bieber fans”

  132. 132.

    JPL

    Out of curiosity I went to youtube and listened to Justin Bieber. I’m still alive but have lost a few more brain cells.

  134. 134.

    Morbo

    There was a time when I thought maybe the Bieb had some talent and I was just being an old. Then I saw him on the Graham Norton Show, and he was so painfully vacuous. He didn’t even perform for all the screaming British tweens. I felt sorry for the other guests.

  135. 135.

    stuckinred

    During a quiet moment in between songs an audience member shouts loudly: “Judas!” Dylan replies: “I don’t believe you, you’re a liar” before telling his band to “Play it fucking loud!” as they launch into “Like a Rolling Stone”.[

    Folk or rock? I report you decide.

  141. 141.

    debbie

    Conservatives have lost all sense, just like a rabid dog. Aren’t these clowns worried about making themselves even bigger fools than they already are? After they went nuts over what turned out to be an article from The Onion, you’d think they’d be a bit more cautious.

  146. 146.

    eemom

    @Cris:

    Don’t you fucking talk shit about “Jesse’s Girl”

    Atta boy, ya beat me to it.

    “Ya know I feel so dirty when they start talkin cute
    Wanna tell her that I love her but the point is prob’ly moot…..”

    Those are LYRICS.

    Also, he had a very clever little ditty about people mixing him up with Bruce Springsteen.

  150. 150.

    MattR

    @stuckinred: Damn. And that’s what happens when I assume. I don’t know if my mom fully appreciates how good she had it. In addition to being at the 65 Newport Folk Festival, she went to high school with Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive and Neil Young went to a high school nearby. (AEI scholar Norm Ornstein also went to high school in the area but he was a few years younger)

  151. 151.

    MattR

    @stuckinred: Was just texting with a friend who is a Syracuse alum and is at the game. I told him that setting for that FG would come back to haunt them. Though they may get let off the hook by that penalty after the latest K State TD.

  153. 153.

    Ruckus

    @Southern Beale:
    My first name has 3 letters. My last has 4. So to show you that people are really spelling challenged I’ll let you know that some people spell my name ass hole. They may make it one word but still there are no duplicate letters in my name or asshole. But people still get it wrong. For some reason not as often as they used to but still.

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    MattR

    @stuckinred: I guess technically it was a penalty, but that is not a call you make. Especially at that point. I know I saw the SMU QB throw a salute after he threw a TD pass against Army earlier today and I am pretty sure there was no flag for that.

    @stuckinred: Heh. Did not know that. I guess I need to ask one of my cousins. His father in law has written books on Winnipeg musicians so he probably knows the whole story.

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    stuckinred

    @MattR: The great irony in the call against AJ (the officials later apologized to Georgia for the call) is that the fucking “call attention to himself rule” was introduced by none other than Vince Dooley. Do you remember the one they called on the Vandy running back against Florida a couple of years back?

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    muddy

    @Morbo: I had the displeasure of seeing that show too. All the other guests were great. The brat is horrible. I did like when Graham Norton asked if his mother traveled with him, and he said yes. He related that his mom told him he was on his cellphone too much and he figured he’d just blow her off, but when he went to get back on she had canceled his plan. I like this story if it is true.

    This cat hates Justin Bieber too, what a good cat:

  173. 173.

    Mnemosyne

    @stuckinred:

    I know some people from my division who also work with Benny post here occasionally (though not like I do) and some of them lurk. But it’s a big division at a Giant Evil Corporation in Southern California, so it’s not really a surprise that people would read this site.

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    cckids

    @Ruckus: @Ruckus:

    My first name has 3 letters. My last has 4. So to show you that people are really spelling challenged

    Ya, I share a last name with one of our last 3 presidents, and I’m constantly asked how to spell it. Even while he was in office. And, if you remember, none of our last few prez’s have had remotely difficult names. Sad, it is.

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    Lysana

    I realize this may be too pedantic for a post like this, but seriously, comparing Rick Springfield and Justin Bieber is such rampant bullshit it blows my mind.

    Setting aside matters like whether you can stand his singing voice or how deep his lyrics are, Rick Springfield actually learned how to play a musical instrument and sang live without tricks or enhancements. Justin Bieber studied singing by listening to people sweetened with digital tweaks like AutoTune and is himself tweaked to a fare-thee-well on his albums. What they do with him in concerts, I can only imagine. Also, Springfield got his fame via flogging his records and touring the shithole circuit. Bieber used his prepubescent good looks and YouTube to land a record deal that Springfield would’ve given his eyeteeth for back in the day.

    Justin Bieber is proof that marketing is all you need now. There were acts that were pure marketing for the history of rock music. For a closer analogy to the Biebster, you want the Archies. Studio band attached to a comic book. Pure fluff. One or two hits. Bubblegum pop aimed square at the tween and teen market with enough sexual innuendo to keep the adults from completely blowing a head gasket.

    But unlike Justin Bieber, the Archies would never have been even nominated for a major music award. Because they were fake and everyone knew it. Now we get sold glitter and are told it’s diamond dust.

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    Andy K

    @burnspbesq:

    I’ll give you the MC5, but you still have to atone for Grand Funk Railroad and every Bob Seger record after “Live Bullet.”

    Many hours later, he replied: The Stooges, man!

    And SoCal can never, ever live down Mike Love.

    ETA: GFR was from Saginaw- way outside the triangle.

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    de stijl

    Why is it that every year that there is a new teen / tween star everyone older than that teen / tween star thinks that this particular teenage dream fill-in-the-blank is the END OF MUSIC AS WE KNOW IT?

    There is a new Justin Bieber every fucking year, and every year youngsters will go bonkers a JB type and almost all of those brain-dead unsophisticated folks will move on to different and probably better music as they mature.

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