Selling
Books to Deadheads
 There
was at least one successful road act that raked it in year
after year purely on the gate and ancillary financial support of its
worshippers. The Grateful Dead simply provided musical
background for events that were more about a floating crap game of
groupie gatherings than about traditional concert-going.
It didn't matter what the
band played, how they presented their material or even if the
music sounded as good as it did at some other venue. The Dead
was legendary for never doing the same concert twice and it was
always about their tie-dye wearing groupies. Bad reviews were
rarely a problem because drugs were always present in abundance and
a good time was usually had by all.
Jerry Garcia could have
easily gotten away with meaningless political punditry but he was
smart enough to stick to his guitar licks and the flash of an
occasional peace sign. "For me, the lame
part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The
real part was the spiritual part," Garcia once said.
Here's a gem of vague fluff from
another act with enough groupies to account for $2.5 million in book
royalties last year:
"We will come out on the other side stronger and a more
prosperous nation.
That I can guarantee you. I can't tell you how long it will
take, what obstacles we'll face along the way, but I promise you
this: There will be brighter days ahead."
The comments brought another roar of approval from about 1,000
people at a town hall forum in
Los Angeles,
where questions were more fawning than pressing. "I'm very glad and
thankful that you are our president," the first questioner began.
The second said, "thank God for you."
[from an AP report]
How long do you think it
will be before t-shirts with tie-dye images of the Presidential Seal
will be hawked along with autographed copies of Obama books by
groupies at town hall forums?
Of course, a lucrative
post-presidency book deal is already in the works so the groupies
will have stuff to collect even when a professional president
returns to the White House.
Throwing his famous PC
philosophy out the window, perhaps it was thinking about how he can
get away with saying anything to Jerry's Kids that inspired
the prez to admit to Jay Leno that he had bowled a 129 at the
"Special Olympics or something"?
Illegal
Speech: Bi-lingual Text Not Provided
"Who in this country
would not want to change a policy of kicking in doors in the middle
of the night and sending a parent away from their families?"
Nancy Pelosi
told a mostly Hispanic gathering of legal and [presumably]
undocumented workers at St. Anthony's Church in San Francisco.
"It must be stopped! What value system is that? I think it's
un-American. I think it's un-American."
No fear-mongering there,
Nancy.
The
Left Hand Doesn't Know What The Left Hand Is Doing
"My colleagues and I are
sending a letter to Mr. [AIG CEO Edward] Liddy informing him that he
can go right ahead and tell the employees that are scheduled to get
bonuses that they should voluntarily return them, because if they
don’t, we plan to virtually tax all of it. He should tell these
employees if they don’t give the money back, we’ll put in place a
new law that will allow us to tax these bonuses at a very high rate
so that it’s returned to its rightful owners, the taxpayers." -
Sen. Charles Schumer
Perhaps you should check
to see how many of your cronies were involved in perpetuating those
bonuses before you make heroic socialist speeches, Chuckie.
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