[Rhodes22-list] Stan reporting on Elton

[Kroposki]

Stan:
     For us non insiders, who is Jefferson?  And does Elton know how to
use a computer?  It would be nice to get such a comment from a media
garu.
      

-----Original Message-----
From: rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org
[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of General Boats
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 12:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Anyone else see this? Is this a true
storyorurban legend??

Steve A and Wally,

Elton knows Charlie and says that sounds like it could be him - at any
rate
Jefferson says you guys got it right.

stan/gbi

Steve Alm wrote:

> Let me get this straight. Here's a celebrity up on his soapbox
bitching
> about celebrities who are up on their soapbox?  He calls them pampered
and
> overpaid?  Charlie, baby, YOU'RE A MILLIONAIRE!!  How many deli trays
and
> cases of champagne were on YOUR contract rider tonight?  What
five-star
> hotel are YOU staying at?  What the Hell would you know about an
overworked,
> OTR truck driver?  Unless maybe he's working for you, hauling your
shit
> around the country day and night.  Gimme a break!  You wouldn't know
the
> real world if it bit you in the ass. You live in the dream world of
> Nashville glitz and privileged celebrityhood. How seriously am I
supposed to
> take some rich, redneck fiddler who still thinks the South's Gonna Do
It
> Again?  Do what, Charlie?  Have another civil war?  Overturn the
> Emancipation Proclamation?  You'd like that, wouldn't you?  I can see
you're
> a real patriot.(?)  You've got your cowboy hat on a little too tight
there,
> buckaroo.  And why is it that you wear it so low that nobody can ever
see
> your eyes?  Hiding something?  We played "The Devil Went Down To
Georgia"
> tonight.  Tomorrow night, I'm boycotting you, you hypocrite!!!
> Yeee frickin' haw!
>
> Slim Chance and the Gamblers
>
> P.S. Barbara Streisand DOES make more sense than Michael Jackson--she
just
> does--it ain't hard!  Get over it!
>
> On 3/13/03 9:45 PM, "Alex Bell" <alexbell@coastalnet.com> wrote:
>
> >    When Charlie Daniels gets on his soapbox, a lot of patriotism can
> > come out of him:
> >
> >
> >      An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch
> >
> >
> >     Ok let's just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid,
> > unrealistic
> >     children had your way and the U.S.A. didn't go into Iraq.
> >
> >     Let's say that you really get your way and we destroy all our
> > nuclear
> >     weapons and stick daisies in our gun barrels and sit around with
> > some white
> >     wine and cheese and pat ourselves on the back, so proud of what
> > we've done
> >     for world peace.
> >
> >      Let's say that we cut the military budget to just enough to
keep
> > the
> >     National Guard on hand to help out with floods and fires.
> >
> >     Let's say that we close down our military bases all over the
world
> > and bring
> >     the troops home, increase our foreign aid and drop all the trade
> > sanctions
> >     against everybody.
> >
> >     I suppose that in your fantasy world this would create a utopian
> > world where
> >     everybody would live in peace. After all, the great monster, the
> > United
> >     States of America, the cause of all the world's trouble would
have
> > disbanded
> >     its horrible military and certainly all the other countries of
the
> > world
> >     would follow suit.
> >
> >     After all, they only arm themselves to defend their countries
from
> > the mean
> >     old U.S.A.
> >
> >
> >     Why you bunch of pitiful, hypocritical, idiotic, spoiled
> > mugwumps.  Get your
> >     head out of the sand and smell the Trade Towers burning. Do you
> > think that a
> >     trip to Iraq by Sean Penn did anything but encourage a wanton
> > murderer to
> >     think that the people of the U.S.A. didn't have the nerve or the
> > guts to
> >     fight him?
> >
> >     Barbra Streisand's fanatical and hateful rantings about George
> > Bush makes
> >     about as much sense as Michael Jackson hanging a baby over a
> > railing.
> >
> >
> >     You people need to get out of Hollywood once in a while and get
> > out into the
> >     real world. You'd be surprised at the hostility you would find
out
> > here.
> >     Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long distance
> > truck driver
> >     that you don't think Saddam Hussein is doing anything wrong.
> >
> >     Tell a farmer with a couple of sons in the military that you
think
> > the
> >     United States has no right to defend itself.
> >
> >     Go down to Baxley, Georgia and hold an anti-war rally and see
what
> > the folks
> >     down there think about you.
> >
> >     You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste
of
> > protoplasm
> >     I've ever had the displeasure to hear about.
> >
> >     Sean Penn, you're a traitor to the United States of America. You
> > gave aid
> >     and comfort to the enemy. How many American lives will your
> > little, "fact
> >     finding trip" to Iraq cost? You encouraged Saddam to think that
we
> > didn't
> >     have the stomach for war.
> >
> >     You people protect one of the most evil men on the face of this
> > earth and
> >     won't lift a finger to save the life of an unborn baby. Freedom
of
> > choice
> >     you say?
> >
> >     Well I'm going to exercise some freedom of choice of my own. If
I
> > see any of
> >     your names on a marquee, I'm going to boycott the movie. I will
> > completely
> >     stop going to movies if I have to. In most cases it certainly
> > wouldn't be
> >     much of a loss.
> >
> >     You scoff at our military whose boots you're not even worthy to
> > shine. They
> >     go to battle and risk their lives so ingrates like you can live
in
> > luxury.
> >     The day of reckoning is coming when you will be faced with the
> > undeniable
> >     truth that the war against Saddam Hussein is the war on
terrorism.
> >
> >     America is in imminent danger. You're either for her or against
> > her. There
> >     is no middle ground.
> >
> >     I think we all know where you stand.
> >
> >
> >
> >     What do you think?
> >
> >
> >
> >     God Bless America!
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