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Slipknot Lead Singer finds Trump offensive.
Rolling Stone ^ | 3/4/2016

Posted on 03/04/2016 4:37:35 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor said last December that Donald Trump running for president was the worst thing he'd seen in pop culture in 2015. Now he tells Rolling Stone he's seen enough of the GOP candidate riling up "base, ugly bigotry and racism" that he's reached a breaking point.

"The thing that bothered me was that people were taking Trump seriously," Taylor says Wednesday, during an interview about his new Beats 1 radio show on which freedom of speech was recently a talking point. "I'm not going to let that [racism] stand. I may have bullshitted myself into thinking we were a little further ahead when it comes to race, but what we're seeing right now is a lot of the far right fringe coming out of the woodwork and wearing their hatred right on their sleeves. That cannot be what our legacy is. Too many people died during the Civil War, during the Civil Rights Movement. We should not be asking, 'Jesus Christ, what decade is this? How is this OK?'"

(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...


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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

I still think that’s an urban legend. The Kingsmen’s version of Louie Louie was pretty undiscernable, but it was a cover of a Richard Berry song from a few years before, and in that version, you could tell exactly what the lyrics were.


21 posted on 03/04/2016 5:14:32 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

From FBI.gov:

In 1963, a rock group named the Kingsmen recorded the song “Louie, Louie.” The popularity of the song and difficulty in discerning the lyrics led some people to suspect the song was obscene. The FBI was asked to investigate whether or not those involved with the song violated laws against the interstate transportation of obscene material. The limited investigation lasted from February to May 1964 and discovered no evidence of obscenity.


22 posted on 03/04/2016 5:18:16 PM PST by KyCats
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Never heard of him or them. So, do not care.


23 posted on 03/04/2016 5:25:24 PM PST by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Wow, that really makes a difference to me. Anyway, I thought half of Slipknot was dead.


24 posted on 03/04/2016 5:25:31 PM PST by Tax-chick (I'm going to be an optimist about this.)
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To: 2banana

Oh man, if he ever found all that out, he go emo!


25 posted on 03/04/2016 5:27:48 PM PST by Free in Texas (Member of the Bitter Clingers Association.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Dear Slipknot Lead Singer,

Consider this a "trigger warning" for your special snowflake a$$ for the next 9 years. Get over it, princess.

WtP.

26 posted on 03/04/2016 5:28:24 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Trump/Cruz 2016 or the other way around.)
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To: Boogieman

Listen to Clarence Carter do the original version of “Truckin’”. Makes Kendricks’ version seem like a children’s bedtime story.

Heard him do it at a concert with B.B. King and Bobby “Blue” Bland at DAR Hall in DC in the 1990’s.

THE HOUSE WAS A ROCKIN’!


27 posted on 03/04/2016 5:30:07 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Free in Texas

Should be “he’d go emo”. Doh!


28 posted on 03/04/2016 5:30:30 PM PST by Free in Texas (Member of the Bitter Clingers Association.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
"The thing that bothered me was that people were taking Trump seriously," Taylor says

Speaking in the past tense is stupid when everything is in the present.

29 posted on 03/04/2016 5:39:15 PM PST by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

One is more often known by one’s enemies than his friends


30 posted on 03/04/2016 5:47:00 PM PST by BereanBrain
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Its “mind over matter”.. I don’t mind because Slipknot doesn’t matter!


31 posted on 03/04/2016 5:47:46 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

I’ve got another knot I’d like to show slipsnot.


32 posted on 03/04/2016 5:47:58 PM PST by ImNotLying (The Constitution is an instrument for the people to restrain the government...Patrick Henry)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Which one’s knot slipped?


33 posted on 03/04/2016 5:49:57 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

All of them


34 posted on 03/04/2016 6:33:04 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
in case i don't know??? how bout i don't care! you ARE kidding, right??? feh...
35 posted on 03/04/2016 9:21:20 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: zek157

Undercurrant that destroys the youth much like heroin


36 posted on 03/05/2016 3:42:41 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

How can pop culture artists define offensive? That is kinda funny.


37 posted on 03/05/2016 4:30:21 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Thank goodness


38 posted on 03/05/2016 5:05:54 AM PST by kanawa (....It's the seriousness of the accusation)
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