In the Bullpen has video of singer John Mellencamp being interviewed by Charlie Rose about Mellencamp’s views on war. In the midst of the interview, Mellencamp revealed that he disagreed with the decision to go to war in Afghanistan after 9/11. Melle….

Those that know him from back in Indiana have always known that his two top traits are ignorance and arrogance. He was a wanna-be biker, and now he is a wanna-be thinker. Please don’t blame the Indiana Public School System…..Johnny’s ignorance is not demonstrative of Indiana residents.

Perhaps little Johnny should go to Phoenix to sing….on his first concert there, an audience member chucked a whiskey bottle at Cougar and hit him smack on his mellon-camp. That didn’t even seem to knock any sense into his thick, empty skull……

“Here’s a little ditty,
’bout John Cougar’s head,
got hit by a whiskey bottle,
and it bled”

see, anybody can write that crap…….

I wonder if Johns family was in the Towers. would he still want to talk. Hmmmm

Can this POS not remember the feeling he had on 9/11? Or did he not have the same feeling as us. That “it’s time for justice” feeling.

I hope O’Reilly or someone picks this up, because Chevy needs to be pushed to drop this a-hole from their commercials.

Time to boycott his sponsor Chevy.

I don’t talk about politics b/c I’m just an entertainer. I don’t know enough about politics to talk about it.

That was refreshing.

Mellencamp has made a series of comments since right after 9/11, that were anti-American and pan-Islamist, so this is nothing new from him. Read more absurd post-9/11 (as in, right after 9/11) comments by him, in “Rock Stars, Shut Up!“

You’re kidding right? Who better to ask about the direction of U.S. foreign policy than entertainers? They are all-knowing.

Yes, I’m joking.

This bozo thinks that a lone gunman killing JFK is farfetched and can’t imagine that Usama Bin Laden, Zawahiri and the rest don’t really have America’s best interest at heart. They commit terror because they are misunderstood.

Maybe we should just drop all of those JCM cds, cassettes and albums that no one here is listening to on the terrorists and they will listen and see the light.

In that pop rock world where everything comes together in 2:58 minutes there must be some universal truth that will put an end to the madness.

Who needs history books when you’ve got John Cougar Mellencamp accessing the situation.

You ask ‘What is the problem?’ The problem is WE MUSLIMS are DIVINELY APPOINTED as YOUR SUPERIORS, but YOU don’t want us to DOMINATE YOU!

YOU have NO RIGHTS except what WE deign to give you in your status as ankle-grabbing beeyotch bendover dhimmis, fit only for slavery at our beck and call!

That is the problem, Couger! To quote Hamas/Fatah: “We are not fighting you to GET anything from you. We are fighting to KILL YOU.”

The ‘problem’, Couger, is some of your friends and acquaintances of the American persuasion ARE NOT jumping to their Muslim-designated roles as LICKSPITTLES fast enough! They are still protecting themselves when we rape and kill them! They are still pretending that they have God-given RIGHTS, Couger!

This is blasphemy! YOU are blasphemy! THAT is the PROBLEM, Singer-Lips!”

John Cougar Melloncamp sucks… Never liked his music, and I will never like the man. Go to hell John!

In fact, the U.S. did “know” exactly where OBL was at one point and did drop a bomb right on his head. Only problem: It wasn’t OBL at all; it was someone else entirely, but he looked very tall and since OBL is the only very tall man in that part of the world, the pilots were ordered to drop a bomb on his head. It’s especially unfortunate since in dropping a bomb on the head of OBL who turned out not to be OBL, the pilots killed and wounded a bunch of innocent civilians in that village.

And then there were all the times that the U.S. thought it knew exactly where Saddam Hussein was and dropped bombs directly on his head, too. Every single time, it turned out Saddam Hussein was not there and not even anywhere near where the bombs fell. People did get killed, but it wasn’t Hussein. In the end, when he WAS caught, it was good old-fashioned legwork that got him, not a bomb dropped from 20,000 feet in the air.

A bomb is kind of a blunt weapon to use when you’re trying to kill one person, isn’t it? Unless, that is, you really don’t care about all the incidental human life that is destroyed, because if it’s not American life, it doesn’t count.

And what is this talk of knowing OBL’s location when he wasn’t there ending up in killing innocent lives? When was this? That happened with Zawahiri in Damadola, but not OBL. Zawahiri skipped out on his dinner plans, but we got five of his goons including the man believed to be the AQ chemical expert. I’d call that a good catch where, unfortunately, innocents died in the strike. Now if Pakistan had acted in the Waziristan region or the U.S. decided to violate Pakistani sovereignty, those might have been avoided. But the killing of either Zawahiri or OBL would have ended up saving the lives of innocents. On the other hand, Zarqawi sure was killed by a “blunt weapon.”

Lastly, please don’t put words into my mouth as you insinuated in your last sentence.

** sarc off**

Mellencamp says “no” we should “talk to the Muslims.”

If Muslims (or Islam) are not responsible for OBL’s terrorism what can possibly be achieved by talking to them about it?

You can’t have it both ways Mellencamp.

If you have just been attacked by a brutal, ruthless, genocidal maniac who killed 3000 of your brothers and sisters, negotiating is suicide.

God forbid Iran gets the atomic bomb. God forbid they manage to get one into the United States. God forbid they detonate that bomb in New York City, because if they do, ten million people are going to die.

But if they do, God forbid we ever fight back, right John? Because as long as Mellenbrain’s life isn’t in immediate danger, then there’s no reason to fight, right? Like he said, he’s in favor of *self* defense. All of those people who lost their life on 9/11, well, they ain’t worth going to war over.

I think John should get his butt over to Iraq pronto, and ‘negotiate’ with some IED’s. I’m sure they’ll listen.

They were right!

Incredibly stupid? I’ll tell whats incredibly stupid, thats everyone having the same opinion. What a bunch of losers.

I’ll bugger off now, dinner time.

Asta la pasta

All the people who say this was about controlling oil don’t understand… oil is fungible. It doesn’t matter where it comes from. If anything, all the complaining Europeans are the ones benefitting from free flowing oil, as they get a far higher percentage from the middle east than we do. The recent deal by Hugo ‘Mini Fidel’ Chavez to sell 1 millions of barrels of oil to China, that should concern us. If that much oil is diverted to China and not available for the US, we may well see our oil prices rise considerably.

I have an idea, why don’t we drill for our own oil on our own land. Exploring for oil where you only have caribou or bears is far preferable to dealing with South American Communists and Islamists.

What next? Talk to murderers and pedophiles? Ask them to promise to stop what they are doing? Shake hands and hug when they promise?

In the Bullpen » Mellencamp: U.S. Should not Respond to 9/11 or Pearl Harbor
I think Chevy should go back to Bob Seger for their next ad campaign.
(* “shut up and sing”)
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john mellencamp for president !!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHA…LMAO…let me guess, Tokyo-Rosie for VP….ROFLMAO…ok, ok, now that I’ve picked myself up off the floor and wiped the tears of laughter from my face and have caught my breath let me say Kent may be on to something here; First of all who’s to say that John and Rosie are not qualified to run this country, after all, John-Mental-Head is a ROCK STAR, nuff said, that should be qualification enough, who cares he knows absolutely nothing about history!

Also, now that we all know Tokyo-”first time in history fire has melted steel”-Rosie is an engineering, metallurgy, and fire sciences expert she too is more than qualified to be VP!

I grew up about 20 minutes from John’s hometown of Seymour Indiana. I’ve actually met one of John’s high school teachers. According to this guy, lil Johnny was a smart mouthed punk, and they never really thought he would amount to anything.

They were right!

Comment by Snowed under in Indiana — Thursday, February 15, 2007 @ 7:06 am CST

Obviously this must have been his history teacher, maybe if he kept his smart-A** mouth shut he may have more knowledge about Pearl Harbor….? Obviously John-Mellon-Head has LITTLE-MAN Syndrome!

What the hell is he smoking .. has he read any history books on Fanatical Islam … there is no negotiation … read up idot .. when them come knocking on your door see if you can talk to them. They only care about their own fanatical laws that is totaly contrary to pacifism. Dumb A……S…

Absolutely true, in fact one of my favorite analogies I use to describe how utterly futile it is to negotiate or appease the Islamo-fascists is the Terminator Analogy:

“The Terminator (in our case Islamo-fascists) cannot be reasoned with, they cannot be negotiated with, they feel no pity or remorse, and they won’t stop until we’re all DEAD!!”

It’s obvious to me that John “I gotta one-inch-tool” Mental-Cramp isn’t the only one that is ignorant to history. There are many in the same “Mental-Camp” as John that subscribe to the Chamberlain “Lets give appeasement a chance” club! I say this because if they did know their history they would have no doubt how futile it is to negotiate with or appease an enemy that does not share the same values as you do, an enemy that has a very specific agenda based on a fanatic religious ideology (kinda like the Imperialist Shinto ideology of the Japanese pre WWII) that precludes their ability for rational thought and trumps our ability to negotiate with them!

I can picture John-Moron-Camp sitting beside the campfire in a cave with these nut jobs, whipping out his MP-3 player and playing some of his music and trying to “negotiate” and “talk” to AQ and OBL, he wouldn’t survive through the first song before they burn him and his music at the stake! Yet this mental giant has the nerve to spit on us and the nation that allowed him the freedom to make music, perform music, and get filthy rich off doing it…this is the ultimate in hypocrisy and is akin to him dropping trowe and SH**ING on us!

I wonder if John is enjoyihg the money from General Motors ,singing about our country, when GM is taking thousands of jobs out of this country!

Comment by mike cassenti — Friday, February 23, 2007 @ 3:02 pm CST

A perfect example of his hypocrisy, I’d like to mention one of his songs (it used to be one of my favorites of his) “Scarecrow.” In the song he laments on how unfair it is that big business and the banks were foreclosing on all the little farmers in his home town, yet he provides the music for GM’s commercials, a company that has cut thousands of blue-collar jobs and outsourced thousands more! Good to see he doesn’t let money get in the way of his integrity and convictions…

I find his thoughtless answers to be more offensive than my satirically given name for him, “John Cougar Concentration Camp”.

Comment by Yiddish Steel — Wednesday, February 14, 2007 @ 1:08 pm CST

Another good point, most likely he will be one of the many pacifists ending up in an Islamo concentration camp and it will be left to those of us that resisted and fought back to liberate them once WWIII is over, only this time we should hold Nuremberg (sp) type trials for those who assisted our enemy by dividing our nation with all their bash America rhetoric, knowingly or not!

Regardless if these people know it or not they are aiding the enemy in dividing our nation by espousing their “imperialist America” “9-11 was a government conspiracy” “no war for oil” (add nausea) vitriolic propaganda at a critical time when we should be uniting, and in my opinion is nothing less than treason and they should be tried for it when this is all over and done, if nothing else as a lesson to future generations to not allow their own warped and egotistical agenda to place their nation at risk!

Some quotes here, and although some of the author’s names slip my mind (Old-Timers) their words have never more true or important than today:

“All that is needed for evil to triumph is for a few good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke

“Where they burn books, soon they burn bodies.”

“Appeasement is merely fear disguised as peace.”

And um, you guys? Some of you had some great comments/retorts, but what is with the name calling?? We are all adults here, no?

I just find it awful childish for you to try to make your (intelligent) point while resorting to name calling. It takes away from what you are trying to say. At least that is how it comes across to me. Just my .02 for what its worth.