President Bush Bans Britney Spears

WBEX am 1490, OH ^ | 8/31/04

[newgeezer]

... George W. Bush has nixed plans for Republican supporter Britney Spears to perform at the party's New York convention this week - fearing she's too raunchy. ...

[newgeezer]

Found at news.google.com (I couldn't get the source site to load).

[No Blue States]

Im cool with this, we can and should do better imo.

[Always Right]

The picture from the story:

[Old Sarge]

No Pop Tarts.

Wise move.

[b4its2late]

Imagine if Slick Willy had the chance...

[newgeezer]

Ah, it finally loaded. Here's the story...

Embattled President George W. Bush has nixed plans for Republican supporter Britney Spears to perform at the party's New York convention this week - fearing she's too raunchy.

The unwitting star of Michael Moore's controversial documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, was initially keen to allow the Me Against The Music singer to join the bill but changed his mind at the last minute after the news was leaked to furious party hardliners.

According to insiders, Bush was already trying to placate the descenters who were angered by the decision to invite Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to speak at the crucial conference ahead of November's Presidential elections.

One Republican source whispers, "We are a serious political party and really don't need the likes of Britney to promote us.

"Besides which, with the headlines she's been recently attracting we think she'd do more harm than good to the Bush cause.

"We don't get what Britney has to offer our cause."

[sharktrager]

Embattled President George W. Bush has nixed plans for Republican supporter Britney Spears to perform at the party's New York convention this week - fearing she's too raunchy.

The unwitting star of Michael Moore's controversial documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, was initially keen to allow the Me Against The Music singer to join the bill but changed his mind at the last minute after the news was leaked to furious party hardliners.

According to insiders, Bush was already trying to placate the descenters who were angered by the decision to invite Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to speak at the crucial conference ahead of November's Presidential elections.

One Republican source whispers, "We are a serious political party and really don't need the likes of Britney to promote us.

"Besides which, with the headlines she's been recently attracting we think she'd do more harm than good to the Bush cause.

"We don't get what Britney has to offer our cause."

[RockinRight]

I seriously doubt she would have worn that.

He should have let her on. She may have gathered some 18-25 support for Dubya.

[MamaLucci]

Embattled?

[mgc1122]

A wise move ...

[ken5050]

The last tattoo she got on her neck, in Hebrew..was misspelled..

[killjoy]

Yummy!

[rhombus]

Embattled President George W. Bush has nixed plans for Republican supporter Britney Spears to perform at the party's New York convention this week - fearing she's too raunchy.

Maybe yes, maybe no. This is the kind of story that EMBATTLED "progressives" (aka liberals, aka democrats) revel in.

[Publius]

Had Brittany performed, the male delegates would have applauded harder.

[Semper Paratus]

She may have gathered some 18-25 support for Dubya.

More like 9-13.

[foreverfree]

bump

[tutstar]

amen!

[Steely Tom]

Embattled President George W. Bush...

Embattled?

When things get really tough for the libs, they can always ease the pain by falling back on their great talent for fantasy.

(steely)

[Lurking2Long]

YUCKY!

[Calvin Coolidge]

These days, I don't think she has any fans left over the age of 13.

[killjoy]

The last tattoo she got on her neck, in Hebrew..was misspelled..

I can't even begin to count the number of tattoos I have seen of Chinese characters where the characters are written wrong, upside down, or backwards. Hardly anything unique.

[newgeezer]

"Embattled President... unwitting star of Michael Moore's controversial documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11 ..."

No bias here. </sarcasm>

trying to placate the descenters

LOL. Freudian slip? (Until recently, spelling didn't matter in radio.)

[VadeRetro]

placate the descenters

"Descenters?" Pretty bad, what gets out these days.

[jim macomber]

"...descenters..."??

Hey, good name for the protesters in NY, don't you think?

[aft_lizard]

I am sorry, although its alright for Bush and the RNC to not allow Britney to perform. The language used in this article by the republicans are rather too harsh. "Need the likes of Britney" whats that supposed to mean?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

... and, once again: the GOP manages to further cement its self-limiting, self-destructive image as the party of priggish, hidebound reactionaries... precisely at the point where it's struggling to maintain a wafer-thin lead over its opponent going into '04, and the most important presidential election of our lifetimes.

[::Insert Exasperated Eye-Roll Here::]

[chalkman]

...nad driven away the older people.

[RockinRight]

They could vote in Illinois.

[newgeezer]

That's why I always reload before finally clicking "Post" ;O).

[hobbes1]

Well, picture it this way.


She comes out, breaks into Oops, I did it again, screams...


"I LOVE BUSH"

and Madonna comes running out to kiss her on the mouth....



At least we'd be getting the Stern audience.

[no dems]

Embattled President George W. Bush... "Embattled" President George W. Bush? Embattled? Have they seen the latest polls? We're winning bucko.

[unsycophant]

Bush was already trying to placate the descenters

Do they mean 'dissenters'?

[My2Cents]

I didn't know she was originally under consideration. That Bush would get so directly involved in such a programming decision, or that whether Britney Spears were to appear at the GOP convention would be a decision that would perculate up to the President of the United States, sounds suspicious to me.

Unless Bob Dole invited her.

[aft_lizard]

Well this one conservative Republican who isnt happy about this. "big tent party" my a**, christian "forgiveness" doesnt exist.

[flashbunny]

(bill mode on)

"Brittney, we can't have you at the convention, but I'll tell you what - you can do a special, live performance just for me at my hotel room. You'll be doing a great service for your country."

(bill mode off)

[no dems]

...we can and should do better... For sure. Too bad Tony Bennett is a Dim-o-rat. (Chuckle)

[cyncooper]

"Embattled"

LOL

They're trying to make an exercise in good taste sound like the desperate move of a drowning man.

Good grief

The media/dem implosion is mighty entertaining.

LOL

[12.7mm]

Shes republican? Nice - not to mention a total knock out. Like all republican women.

[cyncooper]

It means the media is creatively writing and "reporting" these days.

[sharktrager]

Possibly, but they wouldn't have been able to give a stading ovation.

[Numbers Guy]

These days, I don't think she has any fans left over the age of 13.

She has two target audiences: Girls under 14, and men over 30.

[aft_lizard]

Not anymore, if I was her I would come out lambasting republicans for the language used against her and not being very open to her.

[Coop]

Girls under 14, and men over 30.

I'm in the latter category, but I'm pretty sure she'd have gotten my attention ten or even twenty years ago!

[Tree of Liberty]

Forgiveness is a two-way street. It has to be sought before it can be given.

[sharktrager]

Ah yes, the kaballah follower who forgot that Judaism forbids tattoos.

[rj45mis]

Dream on. Sorry to be such a killjoy :-(

[12.7mm]

sometimes republicans need to STFU

[Chantal]

Britney Spears doesn't belong at a Republican Convention she is more for the MTV crowd. Her, Janet Jackson & Madonna are horses of different colors and should stick to what they know best which is entertaining the juveniles & teenagers.

Note: Let's not involve President Bush with it, he has nothing to say to who's going to be there or not.

[Tree of Liberty]

Nice - not to mention a total knock out

Oh?