Posted on 08/11/2005 4:21:40 AM PDT by jimbo123
President Bush's controversial nominee for ambassador to the Netherlands, Ameriquest Capital founder Roland Arnall, might be regretting his company's high-profile sponsorship of the Rolling Stones' U.S. concert tour.
Arnall's mortgage company is spending millions of dollars to tout the Stones tour and Ameriquest's sweepstakes for travel, lodging and concert seats - never mind that Mick Jagger is releasing a tune apparently attacking Arnall's patrons in the Bush administration.
The lyrics of "Sweet Neo Con" include such broadsides as: "Democracy's our style/ Unless you are against us/ Then it's prison without trial./ But one thing that is certain/ Life is good at Halliburton."
The billionaire mortgage mogul - a former bigtime Democratic donor who, with wife Dawn, changed parties and has raised and given more than $12 million to Bush - is already coping with enough trouble. He's facing Senate scrutiny over Ameriquest's allegedly deceptive sales tactics to low-income, credit-risky customers, and trying to settle lawsuits in 30 states for more than $300 million.
A Democratic Senate aide gloated yesterday: "The same day the White House announced billionaire Arnall's nomination, his company announced it would set aside millions to settle with 30 states for predatory lending. Either this was the Bernie Kerik vetting team or Bush's 'ownership society' run amok. Either way, it shows how this President will do anything to put his corrupt friends in high places."
The aide added: "The one redeeming factor in this whole mess is that Arnall will be paying for 10 lucky winners to hear Jagger sing 'Sweet Neo Con' in person."
"FREEP HEAT" will take their lib arses down!
LLS
No doubt Mic Jagger wrote this diddy while lounging at his mountainside retreat in Jamaica.
Publicity gimmick to gin up free advertising and interest in their "lets rake a little more while we can still move" tour. Otherwise it is a non-event garnering only senior center excitement and AARP enthusiasm.
If Mick is so into current events, perhaps he should consider writing a little tune about the group that's presently setting off bombs in London.
Nevermind...that would take a little courage.
Mick was knighted at one point. I wonder if Her Majesty is regretting it now.
I certainly do.
Mick, if you're reading this - you disappoint me. The left wingers who gobble this kind of crap up are not opposing the establishment; they ARE the establishment. You sold out your libertarian principles.
Regards, Ivan
"Mick, if you're reading this - you disappoint me."
You're not alone. He's a disappointment to plenty of us, too.
I would be surprised if they do the song. Jagger is already backpedaling, claiming the song is not directly aimed at GWB (although of course it is). It amazes me how people like Jagger and Springsteen think that suddenly their politcal opinions need to be expressed, and that whatever those opinons may be, this won't automatically turn off thousands of fans who don't share their views. How do they get it into their heads that this is a career enhancer?
I think the tour should be named 'The Steel Wheelchair' tour.
I guess the Stones forgot about Halliburton employees lost in Iraq. Nice sensitivity.
Moss is definitely gaining ground… fast.
They won't be booed if they do it live because nobody will hear it. As soon as it starts, the entire crowd will run to the bathrooms or the concession stands, just like they will every time the Stones play any song written after 1981.
No they won't - between the liberals who will swarm to the concerts, and those too stoned too care, there won't be an outcry of any sort.
I just wich the Stones would roll off the planet...
do you actually believe that? i would be very surprised.
Let's stop calling him "Mick" and start calling him "Gramps" Jagger. This is like having the '60's generation sitting awestruck while Rudy Valee musics their rebellion and protest. It's absurdist theatre. I wish I could Photoshop well enough to do a picture of Toby Keith putting a boot in Gampa Mick's a$$. (Paste a pair of those stupid lame lips on Jagger's face too.)
Did I hear correctly that the NFL is going to use this Jagger rant disguised as a song for a weekly theme song? If this is true, I have yet another reason not to watch any NFL this fall. Local games only--go Sooners!
"They won't be booed if they do it live because nobody will hear it. As soon as it starts, the entire crowd will run to the bathrooms or the concession stands, just like they will every time the Stones play any song written after 1981."
LOL. So true.
No, not this song. But they do have a season-long tie-in with the Stones and the NFL that the NFL is getting a lot of heat over right now.
SD
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Could it be he's doing another CS Blues to dump the sponsor???
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