Courtesy of The Hill:Breitbart senior editor defends Roy Moore by citing Ringo Starr's hit cover of the song "You're Sixteen You're Beautiful (And You're Mine)." (via CNN) https://t.co/dCEx3eu8sM— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 27, 2017
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Monday clashed with a Breitbart editor who used a Ringo Starr song to defend Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore’s alleged sexual misconduct toward teenaged women.
“You know, in 1973, Ringo Starr hit No. 1 on the billboard charts with the song ‘You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine,’” Breitbart editor Joel Pollack said during an appearance on CNN’s “New Day.”
“And it was a remake of an earlier song. He was 30-something at the time, singing about a 16-year-old. You want to take away Ringo Starr’s achievement?”
“You can’t be serious,” Cuomo said in response. “You think that Ringo Starr’s song is supposed to be a nod towards allowing 30-year-old men to prey on teenagers?” Cuomo asked Pollack.
“You don’t believe that, Joel. You’re a parent. You don’t believe that.”
So that's a thing that actually happened.
Based on that I have to assume they also took this Judy Collins song literally.
Gosh why is he defending Moore,when Moore said it never happened?
ReplyDeleteThey are really getting desperate
,how much lower are they going to go?
I don't think there is a low for them. As long as he's gonna vote for a tax cut
DeleteWhy is CNN giving air time to a fake news outlet?
ReplyDeleteBenny Mardones did "Into the Night" about seducidating a 16 year old girl and he got pilloried for it by critics.
ReplyDelete"Seducidating"??????
DeleteSeducidating--when you tell the girl you're taking her to dinner, but secretly have other plans....
DeleteIs that the song and music that predators and rapist listen to while raping women men and children?
ReplyDeleteIf women were armed and had stand your ground in the cases of sexual harassment and assault and had the right to shoot their abuser in the crotch, two days after it went into effect the NRA would be in favor of gun control.
ReplyDeletewe don't? i'm so disappointed. i thought that creep at the library was mine.
Deleteseriously? a song? an old song? that makes trying to rape a girl OK? did Ringo have sex with a 16 year to learn how to sing this song? anything, anything but admitt you are wrong. say anything, blame the victims, but never, never say "i did it-i'm sorry". repubs.
ReplyDeleteAlso, wasn't Ringo like 20 when he wrote that song? A 20-year-old and a 16-year-old is far less creepy than a 32-year-old and a 16-year-old.
DeleteI don't think Ringo was ever ban from the mall,YMCA or dance recitals either.
DeleteCNN should not give air time to Brietbart. Ridiculous defense of Moore. He’s a nasty perv and I hope he is defeated. . Playing devils advocate here, but what about Rock stars and their sexual exploits? We know there are eager groupies clamoring to have sex with them, and many are/have been underage. We all know it happens. Songs and movies have glorified it. We just think it’s all part of sex, drugs, rock and roll. I wonder why the victims of this abuse haven’t come forward yet?
ReplyDeleteCNN’s Don Lemon Unloads On Trump Over Racist Insults In Epic New Takedown
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“I think I might have more Indian blood than a lot of the so-called Indians that are trying to open up the reservations,” Trump said during a 1993 radio interview with shock jock Don Imus.
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DeleteAlec Baldwin Becomes ‘Professor Of Trumpology’ In Iowa Trump Roast
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I-O-W-A “Jefferson-Jackson”
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billy b tweet> "I was never pissed at Trump for hitting on my wife. Honestly… my friends thought it was a riot at the time. Everybody flirts… I got no problem with that.
DeleteI resent the hypocrisy of Trump pointing the finger at Al Franken while 16 women have accused HIM of sexual assault."<DUDE!
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/billy-baldwin-resents-the-hypocrisy-of-trump/
Ringo Starr's version of the 1960 song came out in 1973, the year the very popular coming-of-age movie American Graffiti came out. The movie also had the original version of the song performed by Johnny Burnette in its soundtrack.
ReplyDeleteIt was simply a popular song to sing that year and not meant as an invitation for 30-year-old men to date 16-year-old girls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_Sixteen
Sammy Hagar is the reason I can't drive 55.
ReplyDeletei can't either. Treebeard walks in front of me.
DeleteThe National Enquirer Sought Time Magazine—and May Still Get It
ReplyDeleteThanks to the Koch brothers, America’s most venerable newsweekly could end up in the hands of a pro-Trump propagandist.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-national-enquirer-sought-time-magazineand-may-still-get-it
Why Are Conservative Donors Funding James O’Keefe in the First Place?
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Schiller testified under oath that a man in this room (but not Emin) offered to purchase prostitutes for Trump for the night this photo was taken (11/9/13). The only person who fits the description Schiller gave is this man, Artem Klyushin—whose pal runs Moscow's largest brothel.
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"Many tales about hags do not describe them well enough to distinguish between an old woman who knows magic or a supernatural being."
ReplyDelete“There are two sides to this coin. We have to own up to the fact that women, since time immemorial, have gone out of their way to make themselves attractive,” said the 92-year-old. “And unfortunately it has backfired on us—and this is where we are today.”“We must sometimes take blame, women. I really do think that. Although it's AWFUL to say we can't make ourselves look as attractive as possible without being knocked {UP&}down and raped.”“Should women be prepared for this? No, they shouldn’t have to be. There’s no excuse for that. And I think it will stop now—it will have to. I think a lot of men must be very worried at this point,”
"A spokesperson for the charity Rape Crisis England & Wales also called Lansbury’s comments “unhelpful” to rape survivors.
“It is a deeply unhelpful myth that rape and other forms of sexual violence are caused or ‘provoked’ by women’s sexuality or ‘attractiveness,’” a spokesperson for the charity told the Telegraph."
"“Rape is an act of sexual violence, power and control that has little to nothing to do with sexual desire. It is as insulting to men as it is to anyone to suggest they’re unable to take responsibility for their own behaviours and that the way a woman presents herself can cause them to lose control or force them to sexually harass or assault her.
“There is no excuse or mitigation for sexual violence and there is no circumstance in which it’s even partially the victim’s or survivor’s fault. Until we accept and acknowledge that, it will be very difficult for us as a society to reduce or prevent rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment or sexual abuse.”"
"Should women be prepared for this?" ABSOFUCKINGLUTLY
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/angela-lansbury-women-must-sometimes-take-blame/
I've been saying for a while now that before this is over we'll understand that Erik Prince had a bigger role to play in the Russia scandal than we now believe. He was an important "shadow adviser" to Trump, is full-on evil, and no one's talking about him as much as they should.
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Flight records obtained by @theintercept suggest Trump envoy & Blackwater founder Erik Prince met with CEO of the $10 billion Russian Direct Investment Fund in Seychelles
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https://theintercept.com/2017/11/28/blackwaters-erik-prince-met-with-ceo-of-russian-direct-investment-fund/
Delete" Erik Prince, the founder of BLACKWATER {$WAMPMON$TER$} and head of Frontier Services Group> presented him$elf as an unofficial envoy of Trump, took place “around January 11” and was brokered by Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, to establish a backchannel between the president-elect and Putin."Alexander Mashkevich, a Kazakh businessman linked to a shady Trump investment vehicle known as Bayrock, also arrived to meet with Zayed, who was “holding court” at his mansion on the island, a source familiar with the meetings said. Abdulrahman Khalid bin Mahfouz, a Saudi billionaire whose grandfather founded the first Saudi private bank and whose father allegedly helped Al Qaeda, was also present. The meetings came several weeks after Zayed flew to New York to meet with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, and Michael Flynn"
"Ahmed Afif, a prominent member of Parliament in the Seychelles, said it was likely the visitors did not have their passports stamped by immigration. “They just fly into the airport and then get in their black cars and drive away,” said Afif, adding that VIPs who go to the island for work often use their own security services."
In February, Sen. EliZabeth Warren FLAGged the Davos meeting for potential sanctions violations in correspondence with Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin."
In the 5 months after Trump secretly signed a letter-of-intent for Trump Tower Moscow with Putin's developer Aras Agalarov—November 2013 to March 2014—the Trumps couldn't get enough of the Agalarovs.
ReplyDeleteMust be why, by January 2014, Agalarov friend Alferova knew Trump was running.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/935377964824449024
This just shows you how culturally illiterate Right Wingers are.
ReplyDeleteEveryone who knows anything knows the real perv songs are by Gary Puckett!
bwahahaha!
DeleteDesperate to try to pin something on Ringo. How ridiculous. Republicans are all insane. Past time to throw the bums out.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG0vH4WYChQ
ReplyDelete"Amazing Grace"
was written by a former slave trader John Newton..
Once sailing a ship full of slaves from Africa his ship was hit by a fierce storm... Newton feared for his life and got down on his knees and begged the good Lord to spare his life..He promised the Lord that if he would only spare his life he would change his ways a stop trading slaves..
The storm calmed down and Newton wrote the song Amazing Grace, full of sorrow and love and hope that he would be forgiving of his sins.
One of the most powerful songs ever written and this is one of the most beautiful versions ever recorded."
Judy Collins
Meanwhile, Kris Kobach is taking heat for moonlighting for Breitbart.
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