Sir Paul McCartney Zings Bush

[babylonsister]

:rofl:

http://entertainment.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978275817

Paul McCartney Performs, Receives Gershwin Prize from Obama; Zings Bush (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
June 03, 2010 08:20 AM EDT


Paul McCartney sang "Michelle" to First Lady Michelle Obama last night during an all-star White House concert in which he received the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at the White House -- and zinged former President George W. Bush.

"Getting this prize would just be good enough, but getting it from this president …," McCartney said, after President Barack Obama gave him the award. "You have billions of us who are rooting for you, and we know you're going to come through."

Later, after the Obamas had left, McCartney grabbed the microphone again to thank the Library of Congress, which awards the prize. "After the last eight years, it's great to have a president who knows what a library is," he cracked.

The concert, taped for a July 28 airing on PBS, performed "Got to Get You Into My Life," "Eleanor Rigby," "Let It Be" and, with Stevie Wonder, "Ebony and Ivory." He closed the show with "Hey Jude," joined on stage by the Obamas and the evening's other performers.

Those performers included the Jonas Brothers (who performed "Drive My Car"), Elvis Costello ("Penny Lane"), Jack White ("Mother Nature's Son"), Emmylou Harris ("For No One"), Dave Grohl ("Band on the Run"), and Corinne Bailey Rae ("Blackbird").

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Can you "imagine" what JOHN LENNON would have said about Shrub if HE'D been invited

by Obama?

[babylonsister]

2. Sadly, I can only imagine. He'd have written a song, I suspect, and

not a very PC one!!

[karynnj]

13. Imagine if John Lennon were still living in NYC

In 1971 and 1972, Lennon had retrenched to some degree, disdaining the far left, anti-war activists, but still strongly opposing the war. He was at one anti-war event where John Kerry spoke. (A Yale room mate of Kerry's, Danny Barbiero worked on Lennon's Mind Games album. When Lennon was impressed by Kerry's testimony, this guy spoke of being a long time friend of his.) The pictures from that are cool.



Had he lived, I don't doubt that he would have continued to speak his mind. I wonder if he would have become a citizen of his adopted country. Either way, it is interesting to think what he would have done with his strong voice.

[politicasista]

17. Good pic. He too would have loved Obama

like Senator Kerry.

[saltpoint]

3. LOL. Good for Paul McCartney. "After the last eight years, it's great to

have a president who knows what a library is."

There it is.

I surely would love to have heard Emmylou Harris doing "For No One," and Corinne Bailey Rae's version of "Blackbird." Those are exquisite folks and exquisite songs.

[babylonsister]

4. PBS, July 28th-mark your

calendar!

:hi:, saltpoint! Top o' the morning to you!

[saltpoint]

5. I just wrote that date down, babylonsister, and thanks for the heads-up.

Good morning to ya right back!

:hi:

[Kolesar]

6. David Grohl: "There goes my hero"

President Obama comes to mind.

[saltpoint]

7. I like the vibe also of having famous musicians in the White House,

in and of itself I think it's a great idea. Musicians, painters, dancers, and so forth. It underlines their value to a culture.

Also here was a famous musician praising the parents of two girls. It sounds like there was a lot of great music and a lot of affirmation going on in that room.

Emmylou Harris covered a Beatles tune on both of those first two albums and found many treasures in them. Whoever invited her to this gig at the White House should get a raise.

[babylonsister]

9. And to the 'media', last night was a sin due to

what's happening in the gulf. I use 'media' with tongue in cheek; joey scab et al believe the WH should just shut down and go dredge the gulf instead of holding cultural events.

[saltpoint]

11. Yep. If the media are so "liberal" they sure seem dead-set on

embarrassing this president.

[Cha]

28. Oh yeah, and I made the comment yesterday

that..who could imagine back when we were gettting high to the Beatles(not you necessarily) that some day we'd all love the same Prez?!B-)

[saltpoint]

38. It's the destination of choice on the Yellow Submarine tour.

Hi, Cha.

So good for musicians to gather like that at the White House.

[Cha]

39. Hi saltpoint..yeah, musicians

that I love..I even liked the Jonas Bros.

[saltpoint]

40. It had to be a lift for everyone who heard such a diverse group of

musicians and I bet it lifted the musicians, too -- they were singing Beatles music at the White House presided over by Barack Obama.

Pretty good night all around, sounds like.

And an enormous change in tone from Dubya's arab-hating shindigs with Toby Keith and that bunch.

[raccoon]

8. I never before liked Paul as much as I do now! nt

[Tikki]

10. Same here...

GO PAUL!!


Tikki

[Kahuna]

12. Hi Yoooooo!

:patriot:

[Bravo Zulu]

14. bu$h is a loser!

[emulatorloo]

15. That's hilarious. Got to remember to Tivo this when it is on PBS.

Dave Grohl ("Band on the Run") -- YEAH!

[lunamagica]

16. I always loved Paul - He is my favorite Beatle ever- But now I love him even more! n/t

[karynnj]

18. My favorite too

[Mimosa]

19. McCartney: graceless and rude

No matter what one thinks of former President Bush, McCartney's comments were graceless and rude. I've long said it's Obama's 'friends' who will bring him down. I seriously doubt the President was laughing at McCartney's Bush bashing. I think too much of him. The crowd of spoiled rich musicians who did laugh aren't very bright.

Bush was indeed an avid reader although he wasn't a great speaker. Laura Bush was a librarian. Literacy was her particular project as First Lady and she used her influence to get legislation passed to provide generous grants for librarians studies:

http://www.imls.gov/applicants/grants/21centurylibrarian.shtm

[AtomicKitten]

20. Your defense of GWBush is precious. nt

[Mimosa]

24. I'm from Louisana, don't pull that on me. *rolling eyes*

I bet you're not.


The stupidity of some of the President's 'supporters' is alienating the American people at large. You'll see in November, maybe.

[AtomicKitten]

32. "Bush was indeed an avid reader." + "I doubt McCartney is a deep thinker or much of a reader."

Comedy gold!

[nyc 4 Biden]

37. "You'll see in November..."

i don't mind Paul being rude. Bush drove this country into a ditch for pete's sake. i think we need to be more rude about it. and maybe some rw beatles fans will here this and see the wrong in their beliefs.

[DevonRex]

21. Well bless your heart. nt

[Aramchek]

22. ahahahahahahaha!!! your reaction makes me appreciate Sir Paul even more

Bush is a dullard.
Everyone knows it.
And there's not a damn thing wrong with pointing it out, again and again.

I guess Bush was an avid reader of everything except Presidential briefings, huh?

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. It just goes to show what we will jump on and cheer over here at DU.

McCartney's comments were not only graceless and rude, but absolutely without merit or any grounding in reality. However, they were Anti-W so no matter the substance, we here at DU think McCartney deserves the Nobel Prize for observation.

Forget that W has been married to a librarian for going on 33 years.

[Aramchek]

25. McCartney is just expressing the World's relief that we replaced a complete moron with a genius

[cherokeeprogressive]

27. I am in no way a Bush defender, and am fucking glad to the bottom of my heart that he's gone.

But to cheer a comment that has absolutely no grounding in reality just because it dovetails with the way I feel about the man isn't my style.

Do you really, in your heart of hearts, think that George Bush doesn't know what a library is?

If Sir Paul had made his remark a little more relevent, I would get behind it 100%. As stands, I'll ridicule it for its lack of grounding in reality, and for its lack of decorum.

[lunamagica]

36. It was a JOKE. Funny or not, is not meant to be taken literally n/t

[Cha]

29. Thank you, Aramchek. We can do without the net

nanny.

[Mimosa]

26. Prepare to be bashed, cherokeeprogressive...

I'm also part Native American from both maternal and paternal sides. I think it helps me see the bigger picture, think more holistically.

I doubt McCartney is a deep thinker or much of a reader.

BTW, I've always been a major lover of Ira and George Gershwin, although I love Cole Porter best.;)

[cherokeeprogressive]

30. Hey I've been bashed by the best of 'em. Sometimes I've earned it, sometimes not.

More often than not, when I'm bashed it's because I spoke (posted) without thinking it all the way through. Just like Sir Paul did in the White House the other night.

It's all good. A couple of Christmas' ago, I accidentally answered a poll question wrong, and was banned for it even though answers to poll questions should be private. The celebration thread after I was banned was positively endearing. I plead my case to Skinner though, and was reinstated in a few days.

I love this place without question. Sometimes though it's more comical than serious.

[Mimosa]

31. Somebody can be banned for 'wrong answers' to POLL questions? Are you kidding?

I didn't know any mods were looking at who answers what how. LOL At the board I co-admin there's no way to know how anybody in particular replies. Just numbers.

[cherokeeprogressive]

33. I haven't seen it lately, but you may have noticed that in the responses to some polls

there are calls for the mods to investigate who voted how.

The poll I voted in was very soon after Prop H8te passed here in CA. I don't remember how it was worded, but the question was something like "Do you support gay marriage", and I accidentally voted no. I have a gay teenage daughter and lots of people know that here because I'm very often posting about how proud of her I am. So, I think you know how I meant to vote on that issue.

Someone got angry at the no vote when it showed up and demanded that the mods find out who did it. I was away for Christmas and went to log on at my parents house only to find out I had been banned. Five or six back and forths between Skinner and I and I got my posting privileges back. I chalked it up to the lightning fast way DU'ers jump on issues whether they are right or wrong. No matter. Here I am!

[Cleobulus]

42. Your tombstoning may have been a mistake, but DUer's reactions were reasonable...

no one knew it was you until afterward, and they did NOT know it was a mistake, being against Marriage Equality is a bannable offense on this board. You cannot expect the Admins, Mods, or fellow DUers to read your mind on your "true" intentions.

Oh, and Bush is a fucking Moron.

[fatbuckel]

35. Spell TOOL.

[saltpoint]

41. George Bush was a goddamned idiot.

He claimed to spend his MANY vacations reading, and his handlers put out the notion that he was one heady guy. But there is no evidence that he read a damn thing, or if he did, that it took.

He was as anti-intellectual as it comes in the United States, and that's saying something.

I'm all for Laura boosting literacy and libraries but don't confuse her public profile with her husband's demonstrable stupidity.

[supernova]

34. This is funny

:rofl:

And no, it's not rude.

If you want to talk about manners, PM is the honoree; it's his evening, he can do what he likes.

And pointing out that * isn't that smart (at least publicly) isn't really a slight against Laura. It's a slight against *.