I think I hate Justin Bieber more than I like Muslims
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:
[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]
That should have set off some snark-o-meters.
December 30th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Proving once again that ABL is much cooler, far more in-the-know, and waaaaaay younger than I am: Justin who?
December 30th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
@Mark S.:
I’d have thought the “eh” would’ve, too. But when people really wanna believe something…
December 30th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: i don’t want to destroy your innocence, so i decline to answer your question.
@Mark S.: one would think!
December 30th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
Are you sure you can handle this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSnda5-o654
December 30th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I remain convinced all of the Jackson family are or be a hoax.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
@burnspbesq:
God, he’s worse than I imagined. I’d only seen still pictures and never heard him “sing.”
December 30th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
@burnspbesq: @cathyx: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!
OK, you did warn me. [shudder]
December 30th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
LOL! I just linked to your blog about this in the open thread below, ABL :)
December 30th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Hating on Bieber makes strange bedfellows.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:05 pm
In other news, the Jonas Brothers just fired a shot across Boehner’s bow, coming out against spray tans.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
@cathyx: Reminds me of the scene in Fast Times when Phoebe Cates points out all the Pat Benatar clones in the lunch room.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
@Mark S.:
i think that’s how conservatives think all the kewl kids talk. And I mean conservative kids too.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Angry Black Lady:
Do you think it’s gonna make him change?
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December 30th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
@Mark S.:
You’re adorable.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
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…”
December 30th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
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!
December 30th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
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!
December 30th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Here, let me clean your ears.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
@Mike Kay (True Grit):
Then they just picked one hell of a fight w/ Teh Booooooooohner too, huh?
Or as I like to call him, Le Grande Orange…
December 30th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
@gogol’s wife:
There’s one like that in every generation. Remember Rick Springfield?
Here’s the antidote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFqqgdhWEN8
December 30th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
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?
December 30th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
My teenage daughter is all about Justin Bieber, the boy and a cot.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
@Mike Kay (True Grit):
Thanks for that. Brain bleach, please.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
@DJShay: Mean conservative kids are not kewl.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
@burnspbesq:
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
December 30th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Fake bear, meet real bear.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Don’t you fucking talk shit about “Jesse’s Girl”
December 30th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
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…
December 30th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
@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….
December 30th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
@Cris: Ignore him and don’t talk to strangers.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
I’m torn.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
We could have solved all this with a bit more robust military circa 1812.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
speaking of hair cuts, Tom Brady has turned into a girl.
http://harlemworldblog.files.w.....y_hair.jpg
I’m surprised Giselle hasn’t divorced him.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
@Southern Beale:
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
“Ward, Don’t you think you were a little hard on the Bieber?”
June on “Leave It To Bieber” 1958
December 30th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
In case anyone needs a second dose of the antidote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3Sa4n0rS8
If there was a better record made in the 1980s, I’d like to know what it was.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
@DJShay: thanks DJ! and thanks for commenting over there too. :D
December 30th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
@Rick Massimo: thank you and i’m right there with ya, in re partying like it’s right now.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
@New Yorker:
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
@sb:
You didn’t make it to the end of the post, did you.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Prolly gonna be the death knell for Justin Bieber if angry middle-aged rightwing males stop buying his stuff.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
@New Yorker: Summerfest. It is an annual music festival on the lakefront in downtown Milwaukee. Multiple stages, multiple acts, multiple genres.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
@Alex S.:
At least Republicans are truly serious about cutting federal spending. The world is upside-down no longer.
http://www.redstate.com/russvo.....-spending/
December 30th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
@Southern Beale: I just spewed my iced tea!
Now, I’m off to feed the kat.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
@Mike Kay (True Grit): ha! nice.
@c u n d gulag: donkey shins!
December 30th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
@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.)
December 30th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
@burnspbesq:
Oops, at #59 I was responding to the first antidote you posted, not this one.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Acording to Tiger Beat’s website: Justin Clears Up The Rumors!
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December 30th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
@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”.)
December 30th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
@Cris:
I wish that I had Jessie’s girl, but I’d rather get some head.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
@Xantar:
Haven’t you ever listened to any of The Supremes old hits?
December 30th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
@Cris:
I’ll see your Jesse’s Girl and raise you this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
December 30th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Of course, the world is breathlessly waiting for Ricky Martin’s decision/statement on the Cuba boycott.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
@JGabriel: Gahhh! Is this the new rick-roll?
December 30th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
@burnspbesq: Pure.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
@gbear:
Holy shit, they were complaining about Justin Bieber too?
December 30th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
@Southern Beale: In all fairness, he did also have “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” as JSF pointed out. But the point is probably moot.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
@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.”
December 30th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
@madeinamerica:
Of course not! It’s quality journalism where Mr. Bieber comments on the rumors.
What else could one want, given the context of the original post?
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December 30th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
@JGabriel:
Rum. Lots of rum.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Hey kids, it’s the DeFranco Family!
ETA: Be prepared for young Tony’s move at about the 2:15 mark.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
I am compelled to post ambient Bieber again. It is really quite lovely.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
AM I IN MODERATION BECAUSE I POSTED A LINK TO AMBIENT BIEBER ABOVE? I PROTEST! I PROTEST MOST STRONGLY!
December 30th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
@Omnes Omnibus:
Ugh. If I want a dose of disposable 80s synth-pop, I’ll go for some Scritti Politti if it’s all the same to you.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
@burnspbesq:
this.IMHO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUjjFETMTxE
December 30th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
I wonder how Miley Cyrus feels about the START treaty.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
@burnspbesq: How about this then?
December 30th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
FYI, after his tv career dried up, David Cassidy moved to Germany and joined up with the Bader-Meinhof gang.
Just sayin’...
December 30th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
If this doesn’t get you up and dancing, call the coroner, because you are surely dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qLr3pl_UmU
December 30th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
@Omnes Omnibus:
Bay Area punks are poseurs. Huntington Beach is the true home of punk in America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ
December 30th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
OT, Murkowski has been certified.
Bye, Miller.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
@burnspbesq:
Fuck that shit. Punk Rock is the baby of the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti-Detroit triangle.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
@burnspbesq: What the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a whole in my head.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
@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.”
December 30th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
@burnspbesq:
Fixt. Otherwise, oll korrect.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
@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
December 30th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
@gbear:
Sure. Even saw Mary Wilson in concert once.
But let me just say that while your point is well taken, the Supremes would repeat phrases and never made up a whole chorus of just repeating a single word incessantly.
Only Hugh Laurie can get away with that.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
@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?!?
December 30th, 2010 at 5:11 pm
@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???)
December 30th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
@ricky:
Hell, I saw B.B. King when he played at Ole Miss in 1987 my freshman year.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
@MattR:
I got yer folksingers right here. Father and son, to boot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3DS6xglAfQ
December 30th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
@MattR: Nice choice. Havent’ heard any Cracker in a while.
Maybe we could use some Camper Van Beethoven.
.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
@Southern Beale:
It’s the pirate spelling, ye scurvy swab.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
@AdamK (#41):
Rip ?! You hang out around here ?! wow…
December 30th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Fuck Justin Beiber. ABL is back and she is in fine form!
December 30th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Don’t forget Davy Jones! Isn’t there a non-threatening pop star for twelve year olds every generation?
December 30th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
burnspbesq:
Well then, this is for you.
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December 30th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
@MattR:
Nah, way too obvious. Everyone knows that song.
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December 30th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
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Nothin’ wrong with Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man.
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December 30th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Fake bear, meet real bear.
We’ve just entered the Web 3.0 era – the post-Just Some Fuckhead’s Awesomest Comment EVAR Era.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
@JGabriel:
Cool. I recognize Adrian Belew, but is that Bernie Worrell on second bass?
December 30th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Justin Bieber is a cartoon character, and relatively non-threatening, but the popularity of Taylor Swift is evidence that our civilization is collapsing.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
@JGabriel: Nah, way too obvious. Everyone knows that song.
Awesome.
I’d recommend some Eye of Fatima (Pt. 1), personally. Though probably my favorite CVB is “Where the Hell is Bill”, Eye of Fatima is a bit more listenable.
December 30th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
@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
December 30th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
burnspbesq@89-Long live the Golden Bear.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
God, I’m still trying to recover from the ‘Hansons.’
December 30th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
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”
December 30th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Out of curiosity I went to youtube and listened to Justin Bieber. I’m still alive but have lost a few more brain cells.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
@Ed Drone: Richard and Linda
Go Leave, @ “A Celebration of Kate McGarrigle”, 12.06.2010
Labels are meaningless.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Folk or rock? I report you decide.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
@Omnes Omnibus: and a shotgun.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
@stuckinred: I am pretty sure my mom left the festival before Dylan played since she had primarily gone to see Joan Baez.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
@Mike Kay (True Grit): she thinks they are, like, totally the most delicious little treaties in all the land. she prefers the chocolate treaties.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: i don’t think he’s into cocaine yet. lindsay lohan is on it, though.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
@Old Dan and Little Ann: I like the username. My favorite boy and his dog(s) book.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
@MattR: That was quote was actually from the 66 Manchester concert but I envy your mom either way.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
@Angry Black Lady: On it?
How terribly gauche!
December 30th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
@Sputnik: there’s a WWJBD tag, but it is for Jenna Bush. I second your emotion.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
@stuckinred: lilo is the very definition of terribly gauche, dontcha think?
December 30th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
@Cris:
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
@demkat620: aw shucks. ::kicks rocks::
December 30th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
@Angry Black Lady: I wouldn’t know her if she were sitting on the couch next to me. This other twerp either.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Meawhile, the Cuze KSU game in Yankee Stadium is a barn-burner!
December 30th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
@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)
December 30th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
@Angry Black Lady:
You rock, what can I say? As for me, it’s been a slow work day, as you can probably tell.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
@MattR: I’m sure you are both aware of the Steel Wool, No Sugar Tonight caper?
December 30th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
@MattR: That was a chicken shit call but I’ve seen worse (AJ Green against LSU) last year)
December 30th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
when is football gonna be over?
December 30th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
@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?
December 30th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
@eemom: February dear.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
@danimal:
A-motherstabbin-men.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
@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:
December 30th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
@stuckinred: Don’t remember that one.
@Evolved Deep Southerner: It took me a while to get the joke. (Hint: His actual name is irrelevant)
December 30th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
@Ruckus: Ash Sole? I’m lost here.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Sorry.
This cat hates Justin Bieber too, what a good cat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MEj4h3sni8
December 30th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
@Andy K:
I work with Benny De Franco at his day job (as do quite a few lurkers here, methinks). He’s a very nice guy.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
@Mnemosyne: Huh?
December 30th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
If Carolina can shut out the Vols maybe we won’t have to hear that fucking Rocky Top!
December 30th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Do we have reading failure or are you trying to figure out my real name?
December 30th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
@stuckinred:
Which part are you confused about?
December 30th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
@Mnemosyne: “Quite a few lurkers here”?
December 30th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
@MattR:
So then, your Mom probably rocked out to these guys in Winnipeg….
The Jury! An ancient friend of mine wrote the lyrics and played guitar…pretty damn punk sounding for the early 60’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbD8X0cCEe8
(BTW, Bachman loved ‘em)
December 30th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
@Ruckus: Reading failure, I reckon. Let me revisit this thread when I’m sober. If I remember.
December 30th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
@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.
December 30th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
@Jager: I’ll ask next time I talk to her.
@stuckinred: Mom recommended it to me after she watched it. I bought the DVD after I watched it. Good stuff
December 30th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
@Mnemosyne: Gotcha.
Have ya’ll seen Festival Express about the great Canadian rock tour?
December 30th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
@MattR: Best footage of Janis ever, made me tear up big time.
December 30th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
@Ruckus: @Ruckus:
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
@stuckinred: After seeing how they partied on the train I am amazed that any of them survived through the 70’s.
December 30th, 2010 at 7:22 pm
I’m having urges to link another Cowsills tune. Must be strong.
December 30th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
@Evolved Deep Southerner:
Next year?
December 30th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Forget the Biebs and just do the Strand.
December 30th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
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December 30th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Look, honestly, ABL, I don’t get your appeal as a writer.
December 30th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Just imagine if you could harness all that Beiber fan power for good causes.
December 30th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
@burnspbesq:
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
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.
December 30th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
@AAA Bonds: Look, honestly, I don’t give a rat’s ass. Cheers.
December 31st, 2010 at 1:36 am
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