Posted on 06/14/2014 6:38:59 AM PDT by rktman
Sir Elton John has never claimed to be the outstanding political commentator of our time. Yet on June 17, 2010, during his concert performance in the Ramat Gan Tel Aviv stadium, he rebuked the hypocrisy, sanctimoniousness and bigotry of the boycotters of the State of Israel with his remark that “we don’t cherry-pick our conscience.” Elton John has refused to bow to pressure from anti-Israeli activists.
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My opinion of the stock of the Stones and of Elton John has just gone through the roof. God bless ‘em.
I echo your sentiments on all counts. For your reference, Elton John played for Rush Limbaugh’s most recent wedding reception. And, of course, he was roundly criticized for it, not surprisingly, by the very same tolerant gay mafia crowd who would destroy a baker for refusing services to a same-sex wedding.
And Elton obviously knew playing at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding would upset many in the gay community....so I do give him some kudos for that.
Jagger also admired Maggie Thatcher.
Mick Jagger went to the London School of Economics... he is not stupid.
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