Posted on 06/28/2010 1:48:33 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Sheryl Crow: Tea Partiers are too ‘Uneducated’ to ‘Understand What’s Happening on Wall Street’ By Alana Goodman Created 06/28/2010 - 16:39 Pop-star and courageous anti-toilet-paper crusader [0] Sheryl Crow apparently has a new political concern: Tea Partiers.
The country crooner told CBS journalist Katie Couric that Tea Party members are uneducated, angry and potentially dangerous in an interview [1] with Glamour magazine this June.
After Crow complained in the interview that Americans have become too blasé about politics, and that nobody has taken to the streets to cause "a riot or a revolution," Couric correctly pointed to the Tea Party as an example of modern day activism.
"What do you think of the Tea Party movement? Because that is the specific sort of group of people who would say we're out there, we're getting involved in the process...," asked Couric.
"I appreciate the fact that those people are out there and that they are fired up," responded Crow, before adding that Tea Partiers "haven't educated themselves...they're just pissed off."
"My main concern is that [the Tea Party is] really fear-based," said Crow, a cancer survivor and environmental activist. "What's coming out of the Tea Party most often, especially if you go onto YouTube, and you see some of the interviews with these people who really don't even know what the issues are, they're just swept up in the fear of it and the anger of it."
"They're not sure what they're angry at," Crow continued. "[T]hey don't understand what's happening on Wall Street."
The singer also worried that the "uneducated" and "angry" Tea Partiers could even become dangerous. "[K]nowledge is power, and anything less than that when it comes to anger can be dangerous," said Crow.
But before she snubbed the education level of Tea Partiers again, maybe Crow should have checked out this New York Times poll [2], which found Tea Party members to be "more educated than the general public."
The Grammy-award winning songstress could also serve to learn a thing or two from the Tea Partiers - in the past she's come under fire for her own bone-headed remarks. In 2007, Crow was mocked across the political spectrum for suggesting in a Huffington Post column [3] that people should use "only one square [of toilet paper] per restroom visit" in order to conserve trees.
Other ideas in Crow's 2007 column included using a reusable "dining sleeve" instead of a dinner napkin, and a creating a "greenest lifestyle" contest for aspiring musicians.
Crow later backed away [3] from her statements, claiming they were merely brilliant satire written in order to bring attention to the dire threat of climate change.
Later in her June Glamour magazine interview with Couric, Crow slammed Karl Rove and other conservatives for harping on her toilet paper idea. She claimed this was done "[j]ust to discredit me and to make me look silly."
She just needs a good bidet to loosen up her butt cheeks.
Wish I knew how to post on facebook, I’d ask her why she thinks I’m uneducated and pissed off!
That would get a discussion started she’d wish would stop.
everyone democrat I ever met says that the democrats are the party of the poor, and republicans are the party of the rich.
In my world poor = dumb and rich = smart.
So I am shocked that they must believe that poor = smart and rich = dumb... otherwise the democrats can be the party of the poor.
First off, Sheryl Crow is not country!! And Sheryl, I do know why i’m pissed off. Its not Wall Street, ITS WASHINGTON!!!!
I love it!
LLS
No, just do my research before I open my mouth, unlike Ms. Crow.
“Just shut up” would be good advice for Sheryl. What’s her IQ, 80?
“Sheryl, are you still practicing what you preach? Be honest, are you using only one square of TP per visit?”
LOL - I’d say not, judging by how full of $hit she is!!
“and to think she is from the good state of Missouri, her family must be sick.”
OBG - as a proud native of the Show Me State myself, I didn’t know that. Someone needs to show HER a thing or two.
"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. "They were totally opposed to it," Born says. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?"
Dang.
I guess my MBA was a waste.
Is this the same ditz that wants us to wipe our mouths on our sleeves?
It's more than four letters, but I'm thinking "Crusty Butt".
Not to mention, too uneducated to wipe our butts with a single sheet of toilet paper.
Dumb bitch. Really dumb...
Sheryl Crow is a former school teacher. Perhaps the ping list would find this interesting.
Thanks - great post.
I doubt that she even took Econ 101 & 102.
Ha. Sheryl Crow, what a joke. I wonder if Al Gore hit that?
Just asking.
“Sheryl Crowe says...”
This, from the same dipshit that advised people to use ONE square of toilet paper...
Ever notice that whenever a Lib opens its mouth, nothing but bullsh*it comes out???
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