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Originally posted by Munchkin03
I think he should be a man and come over here
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uh, i don't. i think the man did a horrendous act and last time i checked, we weren't questioning his manhood......we were protecting other 13 yr olds. since he's not a citizen of this country, we can ban him, thank GOD....unlike R. kelly who can apparently just go about his business (which is ridiculous, too, btw). but he is a really good example of this whole thing, i guess.......i was never a
huge fan of the dixie chicks.....a lot of their stuff was over-played here, so it got old in a hurry. i never owned any of their cds in the first place, so i would be banning something i never intended to buy--pointless. i don't agree with them politically at all, and i choose to not see them as much as possible, so i'm ok with cmt not playing their stuff or whatever it is they're doing. however, if they chose to play their videos, i'm not gonna get pissie with cmt, i'm just gonna change the channel. as far as r. kelly....i dig the ignition song, but if radios banned it or whatever, and i wanna hear it that bad, i can buy it/burn it. i haven't bought his cd, i won't buy it, but i did burn the song and i'm ok with it. same thing goes for DC fans!! i think these r kelly types and polanski people are sick.....but that doesn't mean i don't enjoy their work. poe was a crack-head, too, and he wrote some amazing stuff! judge not lest ye be jugded, folks..........that's how i feel about this whole situation now, i guess. i don't have to agree with anyone, i don't have buy their shit, but i can enjoy their artistry
if i want to. call it hypocritical, but i just think it all comes down with how much you are a)willing to put up from a public person in their private lives and b)how much you really like their work. if you liked the DC, but hated their statement, you are well within your own rights to not buy their music......if you were ok with their statement, cont buying and enjoying what you like. same for r kelly (the arguement can always be made that "i don't like so-and-so, i just like this song"--for example, i HATE britney spears, but i LOVE that "boys remix" song of her's)....i don't think ANYone is gonna agree with what he did, but if you just super-like his music, who's to say you're wrong for buying music you like. yes, you're supporting a "bad, bad man".....but we also just gave an oscar and a standing ovation to a man who got on a 13 yr old......they both broke the law in serious (!!) ways....how should one be celebrated and the other not?
i hope i'm not completely sounding random/contradicting....remember i am re-cooping from a serious night of drinking.......hopefully i make some sense. but i, for one, don't think ol' dude should "be a man and come over here"......he'd end up in prison within 2 minutes if he did, anyway. he's not being a coward by not showing his face here, munchkin...he's obeying his sentence.
and as for ppl not being "patriotic" until a national crisis....sometimes it takes something like 9/11 to make ppl sit up and realize what they have. i've always been a proud american, but no, i haven't always had a flag sticker on my car. you never know how ppl really are until you get them in a crisis....i'm glad to know america gets angry, gets proud, and gets to work.