Posted on 12/08/2012 1:42:53 AM PST by Olog-hai
James Taylor said he “really suffered” under eight years of “Cheney/Bush,” while speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Friday about election reform.
“It was sort of natural, being so politically active over the years, that I would get involved in the campaign of 2008,” Taylor said. “I really—I was hugely motivated also by eight years of Cheney/Bush, and I say it in that order on purpose.”
“Those were—it was a tough time for me,” he said. “I really suffered.” …
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Drop dead. Never liked his whiney music anyway.
One of my absolutely positively best scenes in that movie. Hands down.
you obviously have good taste.
If this is true, then Taylor should have been happier than a pig in **** for those eight years. Commie libs love to suffer and they get upset when EVERYBODY else isn’t suffering along with them. KMA Taylor.
WTF?
It's deceptively named Martha's Vineyard.
My guess is that you didn’t suffer as much as the wife you beat up all those many years ago, scumbag!
WHy is this fool still living in the US?? He belongs in Cuba or Venezuela where his type of people live, and take the adulterer Springsteen with you.
He would have really suffered more with Palin as President.
Such a pity.
Back to the booby hatch, James.
Taylor was one of a group of untalented performers, which included Cat Stevens, and Melanie Safka, who came along either at, or in the wake of, Woodstock, appearing in late 1969, or 1970, who portrayed themselves as 60’s folk singers. 1970 high school graduates bought it, because they fancied themselves as 1960’s people, even though the 1960’s were over.
I remember, after I quit college in 1970, I was driving a catering truck when “Fire and Rain” first was broadcast. I hated it from the first note, and I had been a fan of 1960’s folk and folkrock music.
Nostalgia seems to cloud judgement about how bad some performers and performances really were, but I haven’t fallen prey to that nostalgia. I am neither nostalgic for the 1960’s, or the 1970’s parody of the 1960’s.
My opinion of Taylor was, to my surprise, shared by a local DJ friend of mine, who I thought was always chasing trendy stuff. He said that, with the introduction of Taylor, folk music was dead. He said that in 1970 or 1971.
Taylor, it seems, is still portraying himself as a long-suffering folk singer in the Woody Guthrie tradition, and far too many mid-term baby boomers still buy it.
You wrote: “Back to the booby hatch, James.”
Yes. And that “booby hatch” is his Alma Mater, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where now the word “Freshman” is no longer used to describe first year students.
The late great US Senator from NC, Jesse Helms, once said that we needed to put a fence around Chapel Hill, NC to keep those in that bastion of liberalism contained. He was right.
Gross. He is so feminine....he makes my skin crawl.
If only his fellow travlers in HHS had known how badly he was suffering, he might have been euthanized.
“I really suffer every time I hear this twerp try to sing.”
So true. Cannot tolerate that whining, insipid noise he makes. As my uncle used to say, “He ought to cultivate that voice, or plow it under.”
like Willy Nelson I chose to listen to the songs by this clown that I like .
if it wasn’t for leftist musicians I would be stuck listening to cat scratch fever as my only musical diversion . and though I like uncle Ted’s politics . I don’t much like his music .
“the 1970’s parody of the 1960’s.”
+1
I was thinking of Taylor’s stay in a nut house.
When he emerged, he still had an insane look in his eyes...
Has been. Should get back on his meds.
Has been. Should get back on his meds.
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