Make War, Not Death Taxes
WorldNetDaily's lead story for today:
Rock legend shreds Cindy Sheehan 'peaceniks': --WND Exclusive--
Any guesses as to whom this "rock legend" might be?
Oh, you're never going to get it, so I'm going to tell you: it's Pat Boone. You know, the 1050's 1950's teen idol who sang such hits as "Love Letters in the Sand" and "April Love" -- songs that don't exactly rock. However, he did come out with a rock album later in his career, but you wouldn't think WorldNetDaily would want to remind him of it.
Here's what his VH1 Biography had to say about his rocking:
While his recording career continued to taper off, he did issue "Let Me Live," which became an anthem for the anti-choice movement. By and large, Boone spent much of the 1980s and 1990s out of the secular media spotlight, but in 1997 he made a splash with the LP No More Mr. Nice Guy, a tongue-in-cheek collection of covers of heavy metal tunes like "Smoke on the Water" and "Stairway to Heaven." Much of the singer's Christian contingent failed to get the joke, however, and after Boone appeared at the American Music Awards clad in black leather and sporting temporary tattoos, he was dismissed from his Trinity Broadcasting Network program Gospel America.
Anyway, here's some of Pat's Cindy shredding, which occcured when he appeared on Joe Farah's radio show:
Music and acting legend Pat Boone is blasting the peace message of Cindy Sheehan and other anti-war activists, claiming their rhetoric is making the U.S. more vulnerable to future terrorist attacks.
"This lady and the groups that have been demonstrating in front of the president's ranch in Crawford and following him around are the very same people that were the dropout, turn-on, anti-war peace activists back [in the Vietnam War era]," Boone said.
Yeah, they're all dirty, promiscuous, drug-addled hippies who undoubtedly spit on returning Vietnam vets back in the 70s. And "Hanoi Cindy Sheehan," who would have been about 10 in the Summer of Love, was was the worst of them all:
The face behind Bush vigil:
Before the war in Iraq, Cindy Sheehan was no rebel. The mother of four was a youth minister at St. Mary's Catholic Church, in quiet, conservative Vacaville.
But when Sheehan's son Casey, 24, was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, her world lurched out of orbit. In the sleepless days and nights that followed, Sheehan tapped into the anti-war movement on the Internet, looking for answers.
Anyway, back to Pat:
"They still have this crazy notion that by just being peaceful and maybe toking up or something like that – it's like an ostrich with its head in the sand – maybe the danger and the bad guys will go away and leave you alone, which is not gonna happen."
Yes, Cindy is known for advocating peace through toking up.
Now at age 71, Boone has become politically active with a group called the "60 Plus Association," a non-partisan seniors advocacy group which supports an abolition of the death tax.
"Taking people's hard-earned savings from them when they have the poor judgment to die," lamented Boone, "the government steps in and takes half of everything they had already paid tax on and saved."
The government takes half of every estate. Interesting. And it takes this money from dead people, who really need those savings to pay their way to the after life -- I can see why Pat is so upset about this tax.
Anyway, in honor of Pat, here are two of Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Moments in Television
Rank 97 Dragnet: "The LSD Story"
Jan. 11, 1968
The generation gap never seemed wider than in this episode of NBC's cop show, in which serious-as-a-heart-attack LAPD sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb) busts hippies hopped up on acid. "You're pretty high and far-out, aren't you?" Friday derides Blue Boy, a pusher with a painted face. Written and directed by Webb, the episode reflects the last stand of WWII-era morals against the Vietnam counterculture. "Jack hated anything that culture represented," recalls Heather Menzies Urich, who played a young user. And that's just the facts, ma'am.
Rank 20 Walter Cronkite Denounces the Vietnam War
Feb. 27, 1968
In a special CBS news report, the venerated newsman, who had just toured the front lines, pronounced: "It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate...with each escalation the world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster." By lending his voice to the increasingly mainstream opposition to the war, Cronkite's quasi-editorial carried huge symbolic significance. Says Stanley Karnow, author of "Vietnam: A Television History," President Lyndon Johnson responded, "Walter's double-crossed me, and he's changed public opinion." Adds Karnow: "That is the power of television."
And here's Pat.
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