Meta-awesome.
If you haven’t heard, the Foo Fighters created a video caleld Hot Buns to promote their fall tour:
The Hot Buns video begins innocently enough. Four hillbilly-attired Foo Fighters are chowing down at a truck stop.
Then they head to the showers, soap up, shake their naked backsides and spoof a gay porn film to the strains of Queen’s Body Language.
The viral sensation, created to promote the rock band’s fall tour, drew immediate and widespread reaction from fans. And one response from an open foe. The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, notorious for picketing at military funerals, plans to descend upon the Foos’ second tour stop Friday night in Kansas City, Mo.
“I can’t wait,” says Dave Grohl, who hatched the idea for the video after a bus break years ago at a truck stop where drivers lined up for a turn at hot showers. “You know you’ve arrived when they start picketing your shows.”
Here’s the uncensored version (because if this blog is anything, it’s NSFW):
Writing on their website, WBC said the following:
“The entertainment industry is a microcosm of the people in this doomed nation: hard-hearted, hell-bound, and hedonistic,” leader Fred Phelps wrote on the church’s website. “These people have a platform and should be using it to encourage obedience to God; instead they teach every person who will listen all things contrary to him: fornication, adultery, idolatry, fags.”
What’s so wrong with fags and fornication? Who doesn’t love fags and fornication?! Is it the alliteration? Is that what bothers you jackasses?
Anyway, Fred Phelps and his merry band of assholes made good on their promise to protest the Foo Fighters show in Kansas City, but the Foo Fighters were ready for them:
As expected, the WBC showed up to protest the show yesterday (Sept. 16) afternoon. What they didn’t expect, however, was a truck-pulled float carrying all five members of Foo Fighters dressed in trucker outfits and wigs identical to those they donned in their recent ‘Hot Buns’ video. The band played the country parody song ‘Keep It Clean,’ heard in the video, skewering the protesters as they looked on with their picket signs in hand.
Advantage, Foo Fighters.
[cross-posted at Angry Black Lady Chronicles]
Insomniac
Nice buns, boys!!
YellowJournalism
Fool Fighters, more like it. Gotta love Dave Grohl.
I propose all future WBC counter-protests feature “Keep It Clean” along with trucker outfits.
Lysana
I love those guys even more right now.
hamletta
I love those guys.
geg6
The Foos are my absolute favorite band of the new century. Smart, funny, and fucking rockin’. Love that they gave ol’ Fred a tweak. Awesome.
PeakVT
Is it the alliteration? Is that what bothers you jackasses?
Fred Phelps must hate himself, then.
Odie Hugh Manatee
What’s wrong with fags and fornication? People are having fun and the gawd-botherers are upset when that happens. If those fuckers didn’t like fornicating then they would have died off long ago.
Too bad they don’t practice what they preach.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Hep me! Hep me! Teh angry BJ Mod Gawd done et me post! I iz being oppressed!
Thanks! :)
gil mann
It’s times like these you learn to forgive Dave Grohl for penning the line “it’s times like these you learn to live again.”
LT
Who’s reckonin’ Angry Gay Someone’s gonna come and talk about the use of the word “fags”? Anybody?
Odie Hugh Manatee
@LT:
You?
A Mom Anon
God what miserable people the Phelps are. I can’t imagine living life with absolutely zero sense of humor. I thought that video was silly and goofy,not dirty or porny.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@LT: Well, those cigarettes aren’t going to defend themselves, you know.
handy
@gil mann:
And that execrable follow-up “One of these things is not like the other”
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©
Don’t forget this one by Dave Grohl.
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Lojasmo
Love me some Dave grohl.
Just saw the NA premier of the Wasting Light tour in St. paul.
Rocking times.
karen marie
The only people of “this doomed nation” who are “hard hearted” are those who participate in the full-time hate parade, like Fred Phelps.
Phelps would do well to remember Luke 18:
Lit3Bolt
@karen marie:
Filthy Bible reader! You do not listen to our one true savior, Rush Limbaugh!
Corner Stone
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Homophobic bigot. You should be banned for this comment.
Yutsano
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): OMG. I LOLed, I did.
Geoff
@karen marie: WBC aren’t New Testament Christians. They’re Jesus bastardizing Old Testament “Christians”.
Angela
What I don’t get is… all the GOOD work Fred Phelps did in the civil rights movement back in the ’60s, working with blacks and for the fight for justice for black Americans. That he doesn’t see gays as deserving as similar *equal rights* and *equal opportunities* … the self loathing sure must run deep in that guy.
RalfW
It’s “fornication, adultery, idolatry, fagottry.”
I mean really, if you’re going to be homophobic jerkwads, at least have the decency to use grammar properly.
Nanciejane
I love me some Foo. Smoking Gun has the Foo Fighters concert “rider” contracts. They are hi-larious. You should check them out. These guys!
Brandt Hardin
What are Fred Phelps and the WBC afraid of anyhow? Rainbows? Unicorns? A flaming pink queer apocalypse? I attempted to address this with a portrait of the good reverend on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/03/fred-phelps-and-westboro-baptist-church.html Drop in and let me know what you think!