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."
Talk about someone who does not understand Wall Street. A moron who has made a fortune only because of corporations and is too dumb to understand that.
I am sure that she then went on to explain what was happening on Wall st to us uneducated idiots!
Considering she has a BA in Music Composition, I’d suggest she should be more careful about who to call “uneducated.”
who is dumb?
Those who say you cannot spend money when you do not have it or those wo say keep printing money which we cannot afford to do and then spend it ?
MMMMMMMMMMM, Tough one that ARF.
you can’t spend money you do not have, silly Crow she is just too dumb to even understand she is dumb.
Well, I know at least one person who has attended four tea parties who has earned
Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics
Master’s Degree in Mathematics
Ph.D. in Astrophysics
And this person uses more than one sheet of toilet paper per “session.”
Or make you look gross and uneducated.
What a useful idiot.
What a DFC. Really, do these reporters have such a hard time finding people with the requisite knowledge to actually weigh in on any of these issues ?
Was this like a closing time selection ?
Sheryl Crowe and Katie Couric.
Tow meeting of the minds.
Put together and their I.Q. MIGHT reach 120.
I always figured that kind of stuff was only for the "little people" not the leaders of the movement LOL
She then enrolled at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition, Performance and Education. While in college, Crow sang in a local band, Cashmere. She was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta social sorority, Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity for Women, and the Omicron Delta Kappa Society.[4] Later, Crow was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Southeast Missouri State University, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.[5]
I think her Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition is as relevant as my Bachelor of Science in Child Development. I may even have a little more cred than she does concerning environmental issue as I actually sort my garbage instead of paying staff to do it. True she has an Honorary doctorate which I don't, but then again, it is only worth the paper it is written on.
Sheryl, us hayseeds have figured out that it takes more than one sheet of toilet paper per bathroom visit. Have you? BTW, please never visit Scranton. You look great in photos, but PHEW! LOL Bob
You look silly all on your own sweetie pie.
Mizz Crow, and you graduated from what college with a PhD in Finace, PoliSci, International Affairs, Science, any colllege degree? I didn’t think so. Shut Up Ditz!
You don’t have to be educated to know your freedoms are diminished. Cher-yl is just projecting. Maybe she’ll go back and get her GED sometime.
Maybe it’s not quoted in this article, but she MUST have pointed out that 99% of all violence at protests (G20..cough..cough) is leftist...
And that the Tea Party rallies that have been marred by violence have been Tea Party people being attacked by Organized Union Thugs...
Lets see here:
Sheryl Crow. Degree in Music from University of Missouri
Centurion 316. Bachelors, Masters, graduate Army War College, Assistant Professor, U.S. Military Academy. Faculty, Command and General Staff College.
Sheryl, you’ll need to stay after class my dear.
how’d that “ one sheet of toilet paper’ thing ever work out for you Sheryl ?
Any complaints from your boyfriends yet ?
Yeah...If you spotted them 50.
.....discredit me and make me look silly.......... To late Cheryl. You have already done that all by yourself.
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