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funny of the major media outlets failed to mention the concert...
#1. The Decemberists were added on last minute.
#2. Do you honestly think that 75,000 people showed up to see a local indie-rock band? That's positively absurd. Even if you give them credit for 25,000 people, which by the way is patently ridiculous, that's still a massive, massive crowd.
funny of the major media outlets failed to mention the concert...
yea that is interesting, haha
it was all over the oregonlive.com article i posted above:
Obama was the biggest star at Sunday's gathering -though a popular Portland band, The Decemberists, provided the warm-up act. With blue skies and temperatures in the 80s, thousands waited in lines that snaked through downtown Portland streets.
Wonkette's story on this, highlighting how asinine this argument is:
Massive Oregon Crowd Came To See The Decemberists, Not Barack Obama! [he cheats with his rock bands]
When Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of 75,000 or so this past weekend, the Liberal Media failed to report one crucial detail: legendary rock band the Decemberists played that same event before Obama took the stump, so clearly everybody turned out for them. After all, we're talking about the Coldplay of the antiquity-goth set! Barack Obama is riding the wave of an accordion-folk craze that's the biggest American epidemic since the Spanish flu of 1918, and in November the Decemberists will be elected president and then it will be TOO LATE.
Wonkette is filthy, hilarious, liberal news. YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH! Click to read Wonkette, by Rebecca Schoenkopf, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
and some choice comments:
That band named themselves after an uprising (something we know is unamerican). Why won't Barry reject and denounce them?
And does that crowd look like hipsters? Old white guy with the mutton chops? Mr. Binoculars? Right -- case closed.
Clearly, Obama's VP pick needs to be Paul Westerberg. He can deliver Minnesota!
I don't know about you guys, but when I go to see a band play, I usually stand around in a sea of tens of thousands of people afterward just for the fun of it, too. Why won't Barry admit he had nothing to do with the turnout?
Okay, I know our Wonkette is being sarcastic, but it looks like the Newsbusters writer actually uses the phrase "rock star" unironically to describe the Decemberists. Huh?
Has anyone pointed out that anytime you go anywhere in Portland you end up running into one of the Decemberists? I saw Colin Meloy at a local grocery store a couple weeks ago, and then I almost ran Chris Funk over in my bike last month. Portlanders aren't exactly starving for opportunities to see these guys.
honestly, i've never heard of that band. although i know everybody wasn't there to see obama, i can hardly see a crowd of 75,000 showing up for a not-well-known band with anti-american babble. although i loved and still love rage against the machine music. still, the first i even heard of the band being in the act wasn't until today.
Should I fuck you at that not until the ass, inject then tremendously hard bumschen and to the termination in the eyes yes?
honestly, i've never heard of that band. although i know everybody wasn't there to see obama, i can hardly see a crowd of 75,000 showing up for a not-well-known band with anti-american babble. although i loved and still love rage against the machine music. still, the first i even heard of the band being in the act wasn't until today.
Most people haven't, which is probably a large part of the reason their appearance wasn't deemed noteworthy. Amongst those of you that are outraged that the media didn't report on the fact that the Decemberists played, can I get a show of hands of the non-Oregon people who had ever even heard of them?
I have heard of the Decemberists, and actually have a few of their tracks from itunes. They're not a 75k draw band tho.
well, I've actually heard of them, too -- through their thing on Colbert -- but I guarantee you that the people that first began pitching a fit about this have not and think this is pretty much the same as the Stones showing up or something. The notion that these guys pulled 75K people that then just decided to stick around for Obama is lunacy. I don't know how the far-right pundits do it with a straight face anymore.
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