He makes crappy techno music.
Heard of "We Are All Made of Stars"?
Posted on 02/09/2004 1:33:06 AM PST by kattracks
One of Sen. John Kerry's celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet. "No one's talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day," Moby tells us. "It's a lot easier than you think and it doesn't cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes."Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web.
"You target his natural constituencies," says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard. "For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you're an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.
"Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, 'What's all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?'"
Moby didn't claim that he believed the abortion story.
Last month, Bush did propose reforms to immigration policy. But he insisted, "I oppose amnesty, placing undocumented workers on the automatic path to citizenship [because it] perpetuates illegal immigration."
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson likened Moby's proposal to "dirty campaign tactics we're already seeing from John Kerry."
"His campaign was willing to use these kinds of voter suppression tactics against members of his own party in Iowa and New Hampshire," Iverson says. "John Kerry is a hypocrite. He pledged to run a clean campaign. Then he uses the lowest form of gutter politics to impugn his opponents, Democratic and Republican. It's unfortunate but this is probably just the beginning of the kind of tactics we're going to be seeing from John Kerry in the months to come."
Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said, "I doubt that Moby was suggesting anybody suppress the vote. We did not use any dirty tactics against any candidate.
"When it comes to dirty tricks the Republic party wrote the book. We've already seen Republican attacks and we haven't even won the nomination yet. The Republican Party is clearly afraid of John Kerry."
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With Ben Widdicombe and Suzanne Rozdeba
Originally published on February 8, 2004
He makes crappy techno music.
Heard of "We Are All Made of Stars"?
Moby Sells Out By Tim Grierson (excerpt from opening and closing paragraphs of lengthy editorial about Moby)
All 18 songs from Play have been licensed for a film or a TV show or a commercial or a trailer, an unprecedented feat. The record will go platinum soon — a happy exception to the rule that really exciting, unconventional music won’t be able to reach the mainstream.But instead of taking satisfaction in this fact, I can only see what looms over the horizon when band promoters take their own lessons from Play’s success. Moby might have deservedly crossed over, but we the listeners will be the ones who get screwed over in the process.
Not long ago, legitimate rock ‘n’ rollers would consider under no circumstances selling their songs to advertisers. Only hacks did that — musicians with no integrity. [snip]
Maybe songs just aren’t important anymore. They’re simply shallow, dumb, mindless drivel, and they’re not worth caring about or even respecting. There’s nothing artistic about them. Anybody can do it. A song is just a tool to get you to spend money — it manipulates your emotions for somebody else’s purposes.
That’s funny, because I thought Moby was trying to do more than that with Play....
Title: Taking down FR
FR is about to become no fun for anyone there.
They're not going to feel sure anymore whether the person they are talking to and agreeing with or the person they are arguing against is real, or a dual stringing them along.
There's going to be entire threads of duals arguing back and forth. Everything said a Sheeper agrees with may just be a set up.
We've been setting up duals and sleepers for the past three years now. Some are pretty quiet. Some are pretty high profile. And we register new ones every day.
Pretty soon, the Sheepers there are going to realize that it's no fun talking to anyone else on TOS, because you may just be wasting your time talking to a dual. Who knows - some may actually have to go outside and talk to real people in real life. (For the male Sheepers, those people with the bumps on the front are called women.)
To the extent it hasn't already from other factors *cough* Old Ironsides RimJob nutting out in a Bolshevik frenzy *cough* the membership there is going to dwindle.
What's really funny is that the hardcore conservatives who comprise my little troll invasion crew have been supplemented by some of the few brighter minds at DU who hate TOS for other reasons. When it's revealed how many high profile posters at TOS are actually the kind of liberals most of us wouldn't wipe our boots off on, the scat is really going to hit the prop.
TOS jumped the shark in 2000. We're just here to administer the coup de grace.
Time for a little free market of ideas chaos, Jimmy Boy. You better bring your A game. Cause this is a band of wise-ass hackers, ugly-ass crackers, psychotic and deeply disturbed trolls, and not just a few immature kids who have been pecking at computers since before they got out of diapers.
See you on the boards. But you probably won't see me. :^)
Hail Discordia,
Eris
(aka 223 other active TOS screennames)
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(For the male Sheepers, those people with the bumps on the front are called women.)
In case Eris ever does read this, the "people" with four legs and covered in wool aren't women, although I imagine he's not too dissappointed.
Moby suggests that it's possible to seed doubt among Bush's far-right supporters on the Web.
I wonder what his screen name here is?
I guess if the George W. Bush campaign answers Kerry's charges "AWOL" accusations with these facts it will be labeled an attempt to "smear" Kerry.
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