While performing at the inaugural ball honoring America’s military veterans, some wounded vets are reported to have walked out on funk Musician George Clinton over a perceived on stage insult to George W. Bush.
The Washington Times is reporting that during the Heroes Red, White and Blue Inaugural Ball a white towel with the word “[Expletive] GEORGE†spelled out on it was displayed by band members of George Clinton and the P. Funk All-Stars.
Some veterans felt the display was an insult to George W. Bush, and one band member quickly pulled the sign down when it was noticed that wounded vets were leaving in disgust. Band members denied that the sign was any reference to the President and said that it was supposed to be a sign to their own band leader, George Clinton.
Reynolds: Money shot quote
On the plus side, Larry King was there. So, that must have been a thrill for them.
Murtha wants Supermax for his constituents
Outrageous: Sarah Palin shopping again
Where is the rage? (7 times)
Where is the rage
You said you’d give to mesoon as you were free
will it ever be
Where is the rage?
You told me that you really hated him,
and you were gonna make him cry
witness the shredded constitution,
why did you have to lie?
Where is the rage,
you said was mine all mine, till the end of time
was it just a lie
where is the rage?
If you had had a sudden change of heart
I wish that you would tell me so
don’t leave me hangin on the promises
you’ve got to let me know
Oh how I wish I never trusted you
I guess it must have been my fate
to fall in love with someone else’s rage
and now I masturbate
(that’s all I can do)
yeah yeah yeah
Where is the rage? (vamp until end)
Comment by Carin on 1/22 @ 10:40 am #
Unity … hope … change … please folks, they’re not done venting about how fucking stupid George Bush was, but we ask that you look beyond this in the name of post-partisanship.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 1/22 @ 10:41 am #
Easy enough mistake to make. Imagine how many would have walked out if the sign had said “[Expletive] Clinton”.
Comment by Log Cabin on 1/22 @ 10:48 am #
I’m sure it was a joke on George Clinton. They would never be rude to George W. Bush!
Leftists are always so … classy.
Comment by AKA Pablo on 1/22 @ 10:52 am #
My President is white, bitches! Yep, I’m into Stanley’s side of the family.
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/22 @ 10:53 am #
Now if it had said “Buck Farack”…
Well that would have been a horse of a whole different, ahem, color…
I denounce myself in advance….
Comment by cranky-d on 1/22 @ 10:54 am #
Lefties have a tin ear for the political.
Obama will never have the respect of the military that Bush had. He knows it, and his followers know it.
Comment by cranky-d on 1/22 @ 10:56 am #
Not that the men and women who serve won’t be anything less than respectful to him, of course. They’re classy that way.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 10:56 am #
Was that the ball that Barack (PBUH) didn’t attend?
Comment by Bob Reed on 1/22 @ 10:58 am #
Shure they were referring to Gearge Clinton…
Just like Obama was merely scratching an itch when everyone thought he was surreptitiously flipping off Hillary…
Scratching an itch alright, a childish one at that…
All these folks think they’re being sooooooooo clever; and have afforded themselves plausible deniability. But everyone remembers this kind of sophmoric behavior from adolescence…
And they remember what kind of assholes engaged in that kind of behavior…
And all this episode, and the Jay-z and young Jeezy ones do is to reinforce the fact that mostly, those kind of assholes reside on the left, politically, and voted for Obama…
But then, who didn’t know that…
Comment by Mike James on 1/22 @ 11:02 am #
“Band members denied that the sign was any reference to the President and said that it was supposed to be a sign to their own band leader, George Clinton.”
A stupid, childish lie.
Comment by Techie on 1/22 @ 11:10 am #
So, they put up a sign telling them to fuck themselves?
Riiiiiight.
I’m really enjoying this post-partisan National Reconciliation.
Comment by cranky-d on 1/22 @ 11:13 am #
That’s where the people who did not vote for Obama are supposed to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 1/22 @ 11:15 am #
He IS a maggot brain, afterall. And yes, N. O’Brain, that was the ball that the CiC decided to skip. You know he just had to be at the BET ball. Post racial, indeed.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/22 @ 11:16 am #
Haven’t we been told that — in pretty much the same language — on this very site?
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 1/22 @ 11:17 am #
“That’s where the people who did not vote for Obama are supposed to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.”
That’s kind of like the “diviseness” of the Bush presidency. “He didn’t agree with us, so he’s divisive!”. The children could use some disciplinin’.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 1/22 @ 11:19 am #
or “divisiveness”.
Comment by JD on 1/22 @ 11:26 am #
You divisive bastards are being divisive by pointing out the divisive statements made by the people that will bring us all together. Unity. Submit, bitches.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 1/22 @ 11:28 am #
Submit? Is this why the leftards lurvs them the Islamists, so much? Mutual goals?
Comment by cranky-d on 1/22 @ 11:28 am #
Apparently JD already got his unicorn.
Comment by JD on 1/22 @ 11:37 am #
Good Allah, what is wrong with you divisive bastards?!
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 11:38 am #
Iowahawk does it again!
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dburge/2009/01/22/the-idiossey/#more-27373
Book the First: A question for the Muse
Speak to me, O Muse, of this resourceful man
who strides so boldly upon the golden shrine of Potomac,
Between Ionic plywood columns, to the kleig light altar.
Fair Obamacles, favored of the gods, ascends to Olympus
Amidst lusty tributes and the strumming lyres of Media;
Their mounted skyboxes echo with the singing of his name
While Olbermos and Mattheus in their greasy togas wrassle
For first honor of basking in their hero’s reflected glory.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 1/22 @ 12:04 pm #
So, they put up a sign telling them to fuck themselves?
Yeah, at a veterans ball and waved it in the vets face just knowing the crowd would get the inside joke and still think it hilarious and appropriate. Riiiight.
So classy them dems.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 1/22 @ 12:11 pm #
Bah.
Comment by ducktrapper on 1/22 @ 12:28 pm #
I’m totally and completely surprised at this. Boorish behavior by P-Funk? Whodathunkit? Good music though.
Comment by geoffb on 1/22 @ 12:30 pm #
Iowahawk is going to burn through a ton of keyboards in the next 4 years.
Comment by baldilocks on 1/22 @ 12:44 pm #
:::sigh::: another set of musical heroes I have to repudiate. In their defense, if they couldn’t figure out that a bunch of vets wouldn’t care for that, their brains are too fried from drugs and/or they’re too stupid too bother with.
Comment by George Orwell on 1/22 @ 1:04 pm #
This is like a waiter bringing you dog food. When you object, he says “We’re so sorry! May we bring you an extra helping, on the house?”
Comment by Dan Collins on 1/22 @ 1:22 pm #
Juliette, is that your dad (Milton Ochieng) who’s going to be on NPR’s “On Point” (aka, Race in America) tomorrow?
Comment by Jeffersonian on 1/22 @ 1:24 pm #
The clones of Doctor Funkenstein need an electric spanking.
Comment by Carin on 1/22 @ 1:31 pm #
::sigh::: another set of musical heroes I have to repudiate. In their defense, if they couldn’t figure out that a bunch of vets wouldn’t care for that, their brains are too fried from drugs and/or they’re too stupid too bother with.
In their defense, EVERYONE they know hates Bush, so they just figured it was universal. Since practically no one from the left would have shown respect for Bush at a similar event, they assumed that those attending must have been Obamabots.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 1/22 @ 1:35 pm #
Washington DC is Chocolate City you know. It actually may have been about George Clinton, to be honest, the All-Stars are a strange band of cats. Still, bad timing and context, particularly as President Obama snubbed the wounded vets ball so he could make time to go to the MTV ball.
Comment by ushie on 1/22 @ 2:33 pm #
“The MTV ball.” Isn’t that the final sign of the apocalypse?
Comment by Dan Collins on 1/22 @ 2:38 pm #
Christopher, if that were so, why couldn’t they just have written “Fuck Clinton”?
Comment by 38+P on 1/22 @ 2:39 pm #
Regardless of the intended recipient, this is a shining example of the classless behavior typical of the left in this country. This was a presidential inaugural ball for heaven’s sake! It appears we can expect the coarsening of life in America to accelerate.
Comment by baldilocks on 1/22 @ 2:39 pm #
Dan,
Nah, my dad’s name is Philip. ‘Ochieng’ is the Luo version of ‘Smith.’
Comment by Dan Collins on 1/22 @ 2:40 pm #
Oh. I should remember, now: lover of horses.
Comment by Dan Collins on 1/22 @ 2:40 pm #
(That’s my middle name)
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 1/22 @ 2:52 pm #
Christopher, if that were so, why couldn’t they just have written “Fuck Clinton�
Well you have to figure they are so aware of the left and President Clinton they’d know that could be taken wrong, but you have to realize, these guys are really weird. One of the guys wears a wedding dress on stage, they are some strange, stoned dudes. They also could have thought about the double meaning and had a defense ready too. No telling what people are thinking, but any way you look at it, that’s in bad taste and bad timing.
Comment by Jenn on 1/22 @ 3:03 pm #
Typical Moonbats. And their excuse is about as pathetic as it gets.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/22 @ 5:38 pm #
George Clinton has always been a shit-stirrer, so I could buy that it was a double entendre. Not for a minute do I believe that they were blind to the Bush angle.
Especially not in a world where describing a budget as “niggardly” gets you branded as a racist.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/22 @ 5:48 pm #
meya:
I am sure Mr. Bush was more than happy to leave and actually get a good night’s sleep.
President Obama has my sympathies, he will age beyond his years in that job. The Buck Stops There, he is now The Decider. Of the post WWII presidents, I think that only Eisenhower had a realistic idea of what he was in for.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 1/22 @ 5:54 pm #
I am aware that most here know this, but HST’s famous ‘Buck’ meant passing responsibility and a decision further up the chain. It didn’t, couldn’t, go higher than the Oval Office. GWB understood that in a simple phrase – “I’m the decider.”
President Obama is the decider now.
Comment by kelly on 1/22 @ 5:58 pm #
He doesn’t have my sympathies.
He bullshitted his way into the job and now he gets to figure out how unqualified he was in the first place. Not that he or his slobbering sycophants will ever admit it.
God help us all.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/22 @ 6:17 pm #
ahem, that’s 16 years.
Comment by Carin on 1/22 @ 6:47 pm #
Meya’s using new math, Maggie. You’re supposed to simply congratulate her for using the correct process, and hitting close to the right number.
Comment by maggie katzen on 1/22 @ 6:49 pm #
oh, ha ha, I thought it was “Humorless Scold” day. my bad.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 1/22 @ 6:51 pm #
Meya is here?
Comment by Carin on 1/22 @ 6:54 pm #
Being a humorless scold is a “feature” of meya’s personality.
Comment by Carin on 1/22 @ 6:54 pm #
She should hang out at Unbearable Bob’s … she would fit right in.
Comment by Dan Collins on 1/22 @ 6:55 pm #
Link, Carin?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 1/22 @ 6:56 pm #
I’d just like to state for the record that Robert Reich is a malignant dwarf.
Comment by Carin on 1/22 @ 6:56 pm #
When does Happy get back?
Comment by Carin on 1/22 @ 6:58 pm #
Have at Dan. Pablo and Darth visited the other day. I get a sorta kick out of bob, but his commenters can be insufferable.
Comment by Carin on 1/22 @ 7:00 pm #
Dang, my link disappeared. Trying again.
Comment by irongrampa on 1/22 @ 7:17 pm #
just as well he didn’t go there.
Stupid ass doesn’t rate cleaning the boots of any of those people.
Comment by MarkD on 1/22 @ 7:46 pm #
Robert Reich is an insult to malignant dwarfs.
Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 1/23 @ 3:06 am #
Assclown, shutting down Gitmo doesn’t bother me at all.
It bothers me more that people don’t fucking understand why the Geneva Conventions came about and why they are structured the way they are. If you *did* understand those things, then you’d realize that treating non-signatories and/or violators of the GC in the exact same way as you would signatories that follow them is foolish beyond words. Unless, of course, you really do want to have even more non-signatories and/or violators of the GC.