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The devil and Miss Jones
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"I think 9/11 gave this generation an identity, and its identity is potentially fascist. My skin crawls when I think of the first week after 9/11. I was looking out of the window and there were people marching down the street carrying flags. It reminded me of spontaneous, angry Nazis and I thought, 'Oh, man, we are in a lot of trouble'. There's a whole bunch of people who have flags hanging from their cars and who are mistaking fascism for patriotism."
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"I would have probably made peace with the idea of this rightwing Republican presidency if at any point after we were bombed - because we were devastated, we were terrified and broken-hearted - if he had said, 'I'm so pissed off, I'm gonna go and blow up the whole freaking Middle East. I hate 'em and I'm blowing 'em up', we would have gone, 'OK, right on', but he didn't. He said, 'We're looking for Bin Laden and we're bringing democracy'. Every single aspect of his response has been evil, thus making us into the evil thing we didn't know we were. Ffffhgggmm."
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Would she be willing to take Bush out for the benefit of democracy? "If I say that, I might get arrested when I go back. And I have to go home." She's thinking it out carefully. "I guess the question is, would I kill anyone? And the answer is, no. But would I feel sorry if someone killed him? No, I wouldn't. It would depend on who killed him, I guess."
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Guardian.co.uk
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HER new album, "The Evening of My Best Day," sounds at first like classic Rickie Lee Jones. But beneath the breezy, swinging sound lies political rage that bubbles up in the song "Ugly Man." The tune is about President Bush, who, she says, "grew up like his father - ugly inside."
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SMH.com.au
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Post: The album's lead song, "Ugly Man," could be interpreted as political.
Jones: "For me, it's definitely about the Bushes."
Post: What don't you like about them?
Jones: "They have no redeeming qualities. They're despicable."
Post: Why?
Jones: "The wealth that they grew up with - not to say this kind of wealth is always evil - but it separates them from the rest of us. They live lives where they create laws they don't have to live by. The Bushes have a very smug arrogance. To me, that's intolerable as they swim in oil money without regard to the environment and the land that the rest of us live in."
Post: Is it greed that offends you?
Jones: "They see Iraq and Iran as a way to make money. They're seeing how the military can serve them to make them money. They see democracy as something that can make them money. This, I truly believe. They seem to be corrupt every step of the way. I think the damage they have done and intend to do is profound, not only to the rest of the world, but to our democracy."
Jones: "For me, it's definitely about the Bushes."
Post: What don't you like about them?
Jones: "They have no redeeming qualities. They're despicable."
Post: Why?
Jones: "The wealth that they grew up with - not to say this kind of wealth is always evil - but it separates them from the rest of us. They live lives where they create laws they don't have to live by. The Bushes have a very smug arrogance. To me, that's intolerable as they swim in oil money without regard to the environment and the land that the rest of us live in."
Post: Is it greed that offends you?
Jones: "They see Iraq and Iran as a way to make money. They're seeing how the military can serve them to make them money. They see democracy as something that can make them money. This, I truly believe. They seem to be corrupt every step of the way. I think the damage they have done and intend to do is profound, not only to the rest of the world, but to our democracy."
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InterventionMag.com
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This post has been edited by Wilrulz: 03 March 2005 - 08:04 PM
