US Band Bloodhound Gang Barred From Festival In Russia After Bass Player Shoves Russia Flag In Pants

[Purveyor]

MOSCOW (AP) -- The American rock group Bloodhound Gang was kicked out of a Russian music festival and pelted with eggs after it emerged that its bass player had shoved a Russian flag down his pants at a recent concert in Ukraine.

Videos posted online of Wednesday's concert in the Ukrainian city of Odessa show bass player Jared Hasselhoff pushing the Russian white, blue and red flag down the front of his pants and pulling it out the back. He then shouted to the audience: "Don't tell Putin," a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Maria Minina, a spokeswoman for the festival in southern Russia, said Saturday that the band's headlining performance the previous evening had been canceled because of the incident, which had outraged the Russian government.

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Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky tweeted Friday night that he had spoken with officials in the southern Krasnodar region, known as Kuban. "Bloodhound Gang is packing its bags," he said in the Twitter post. "These idiots will not perform in Kuban."

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[Igel]

1. Another American idjit.

He doesn't understand that he's a paid performer to entertain people. Ugly Americans aren't all that entertaining, unless their ugliness rises to the level of self-parody.

He can use any wealth or notoriety for social causes, but when push comes to shove he's paid to get up and amuse people. You piss on them and--unless they happen to enjoy it--you get your ass handed to you.

All the more so when he's a guest--a pompous, pretentious, self-important guest, but a guest nonetheless--visiting another country.

[NightWatcher]

3. They hired a moron and he acted moronic???

It's not like Yoyo Ma stopped his cello concert to light a fart.

[Auntie Bush]

2. He should be report this to Snowden...maybe he can help