Don’t Quit Your Day Job, “Sir” Paul
The very same day Michelle asked me if I’d be interested in guest blogging here I had just posted that I was going to take some time off – a blogging hiatus – at Babalú. The reasons for my need of a break are simple: stress and frustration. I haven’t been able to take in the day’s news lately and write without the finished product being a four letter word laced rant. But I accepted Michelle’s gracious offer not only because she is a dear friend and colleague, but because it’s an honor for me to speak to her fine audience.
I’m having trouble keeping the f-bombs at bay today, though. And what put me over the top was “Sir” Paul McCartney’s tasteless, classless jab at our former President. And, moreover, this administration’s acceptance of McCartney’s remarks through its reticence over same.
Our country is run today by a clique. A group of arrogant kids of limited ability who compensate for their limitations by criticizing and denigrating those who they don’t see as belonging to the “cool” people group.
I have had the honor and privilege of meeting President Bush on three separate occasions. And each occasion predicated on the former President’s work fighting against human rights violations around the world, in countries where a remark such as McCartney’s against that country’s leadership would be cause for much pain and punishment. Say what you will about our former President – there is room for criticism – but his work for human dignity and against tyrannies that usurp same is unmatched. (And, unlike our current POTUS, modest and without self-congratulatory hubris.)
So, in response to “Sir” Paul McCartney’s pathetically juvenile and crass “After the last eight years, it’s good to have a president that knows what a library is” remark, I say:
“Sir” Paul, you’re a wanker. You might “know’ what a library is, but I’ll wager a week’s pay that you haven’t stepped foot in one in quite a long while. Which is a shame, really, as there you would find many reference materials, like, say, a dictionary, where you could look up the word “integrity,” find out what it means, and then pass it along to your clueless clique members for their edification. Including your pal Obama, if you can pry him away from his public preening in the media spotlight.
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McCartney must have forgotten that Laura Bush was a librarian.
What a dolt. Can you imagine if Bush was hosting a party while the Gulf was being glazed in oil, what Sir Paul would have been saying?
McCartney is a has-been. An over-rated pot head.
As Laura Ingraham might say to you Paul…shut up and sing.
McCartney must have forgotten that Laura Bush was a librarian.
That implies that he ever knew this fact before opening his tofu-hole.
I think that assumes too much.
Sir Paul forgets that not everyone hates Bush and is enamored of Obama. I can’t figure out why artists feel they must roam off the range and make asinine comments that are going to offend a large majority of their audience. Paul McCartney is becoming the Jimmy Carter of aging artists and ruining any legacy he has left.
It was plain to see the arrogance of the Obamas before the election and they continually prove the point. Now that they don’t have to pay for high priced tickets for front row seats of their favorite actors and singers, they feel free to blow taxpayer dollars on lavish White House private performances on a steady basis. What disdain they show for everyday Americans. They need to go the way of King Louie and Marie Antoinette.
Hahahaha! “tofu” hole.
Im so shamelessly going to steal that one.
This is the best.
Thanks Val, for today’s facebook status.
After hearing snippets of Sir Paul’s Whitehouse performance, I think just “Shut Up” should do it. I’ve seen better performances from William Hung on American Idol.
paul stick to what you once did well, sing. as for trying to make yourself seem intellectually astute with stupid remarks about our previous president, you simply came across as intellectually challenged, boring and idiotic and quite small.
Wait.
Paul has a ‘day’ job?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060817/17bushbooks.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901896.html
Obama’s library is full of books. Some of them haven’t even been colored yet.
So, anyone know how many books Obama has read in his first year besides Rules for Radicals by Alinsky?
Just askin’
I couldn’t watch the entire video, but did anyone notice Jerry Seinfeld’s expression when Sir Wanker was dishing out his reposte? Pretty sure he was not amused… Jerry = patriot?
It’s kind of funny that an uneducated life long drug user would think to insult a former president who attended both Yale and Harvard in front of the current president, who is a former drug user and had worse grades than Bush.
Score!
The following quote has been restated many different ways by many different people, but this is the oldest version I know of:
McCartney demonstrated his vast ignorance with his comments which are demonstrably at odds with reality. As has already been pointed out, Laura Bush was a librarian (and an activist about libraries to boot), and Mr. Bush got excellent grades at Yale and Harvard. It seems that he is likely far more familiar with libraries than our current President.
I would be willing to wager that if former President Bush and current President Obama were to have some sort of “library race”, Obama would get beaten like a dog.
It’s obvious that Wanker Paul has never had a moment of critical thinking in his life. And his comment about Bush during his performance was clearly an attempt to kiss the butt of the O-bow-mao.
Barry Soetoro and his buddies have done more to lower the presidency than any other group in history. Barry Soetoro = HISTORIC EPIC FAIL
As I mentioned before, I USED to respect Paul McCartney. It is sad to see how far he has fallen. And he has alienated 60% of the American People with his stupid comments. Go home Paul. Find another one-legged wife and settle down into obscurity.
I was watching JS’s expression closely, ready to pounce, and was glad to call myself wrong.
On another note:
I think Paul was being disrespectful to BHO too (not that BHO would notice or care). By insulting a former president in the company of a current one shows no consideration for the American presidency.
Gladz,
I think out current POTUS has absolutely no respect for the office he holds.
I guess Obama has taken over the responsibilities of the Library of Congress also as he “doles” out the
“Library of Congress Gershwin Prizes for Popular Song”. My goodness, where does he get all of his energy?
Sir Paul. Who’d have thunk he’d be the Dopey Beatle? Makes Ringo look like a genius.
He’s free to his opinion here in the US ( thank God we still have that ) just as I am free to not buy his music.
Let ‘er rip Val. You are among those of like mind and disgust. “Wanker” was actually a bit kind IMHO.
I am fairly sure Obama has listened to the audio books of “Das Kapital” and “Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei” and apparently “Zur Judenfrage.”
I guess “Sir” Paul will ponder those titles on his next drug binge. But, I have not been able to confirm that Paul and Barry were actually seen rolling joints in the Oval Office after the concert…
The issue here was not whether she had one leg but that she was a gold digger and Wanker Paul was unable to see that before he had to shell out a lot of dough. Stupidity (or raging hormones) has consequences.
Never was into the insanely overrated and moral-free “Beatles”. Finally nice to see all my misery has been vindicated.
James Greenidge
Queens, NY
Welcome, Val. After your last visit as guest-host here, and learned of Babalu Blog. I now visit there! I enjoy your work, brother.
Excellent. He can take his magical mystery tour and shove it.
Val, one day I hope to shake your hand. Take a break when needed, but never stop getting the message out.
Find another one-legged wife and settle down into obscurity.
Yeah, I know. But I couldn’t resist making a very unkind, inappropriate remark…kinda like McCartney did in the WH. Not nice, I know, but I’m entitled to vent too.
Rock stars who are wildly successful like Beatles and Stones live their lives in a sort of permanent adolescence, never having to grow up. In fact it is unhip to become an adult. and their vast wealth insulates them from the harsher realities that most people have to grow up to face.
Then there are the “grown ups” who, lacking the pop stars’ fortune, pretend to be one regardless. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you…THE MODERN DEMOCRAT VOTER!!!!!
John knew… PAUL IS REALLY DEAD
Bush’s wife Laura is a librarian. She and her husband made a mini-cause of supporting literacy and public libraries, both when he was governor of Texas and when he was president.
The Bush administration oversaw creation of a federal grant program to train a new generation of librarians. It’s called the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, and it has awarded $130 million to date. During Bush’s presidency, federal funding for public libraries grew from $163.2 million per year to $212.2 million per year – a 30 percent increase.
once again, to the Lennon Playboy interview:
“…The days when those bands were just all men will be on the newsreels, you know. They will be showing pictures of the guy with lipstick wriggling his ass and the four guys with the evil black make-up on their eyes trying to look raunchy. That’s gonna be the joke in the future, not a couple singing together or living and working together. It’s all right when you’re 16, 17, 18 to have male companions and idols, OK? It’s tribal and it’s gang and it’s fine. But when it continues and you’re still doing it when you’re 40, that means you’re still 16 in the head.”
I will be a fan of much of McCartney’s work, but he has fallen nearly to the level of Russel Brand with his comments about President Bush. The ongoing portrayal of President Bush as a dunce and a cowboy by foreign twits who are guests in our country is nearly as aggravating as the applause they receive from Americans when they do so.
If an American went to England and made insulting remarks about Red Ken (I presume that hand tool is far enough Left that Brand and McCartney would approve) or some other socialist former prime minister, no doubt they would think the American was rude and an example of the notorious “ugly American”.
Rude fellows, both of them, and if they leave and never again darken American soil with their shadows that would be just fine with me. If they would take the idiots who applaud their insults with them, so much the better.
A current POTUS, sitting in the Library of Congress, listening to a foreigner insult the POTUS who just left office, and laughing, applauding, or whatever…is so classless and tacky that is defies explanation. Once again, the Chicago mafia standards are there for all the world to see. Grow up, mr. obama. This country is burning while you play.
McCartney was a Beetle or Beatle. How big is the brain of such a creature? Worse it is a creature that has lived in a stew of drugs and alcohol for virtually all of its life. It is amazing that it can still speak.
novaculus–simply put, McCartney is trying very hard to be as relevant as Brand. Which is very sad; not to mention, a low bar.
Go here to leave comments on McCartney’s youtube web site. http://www.youtube.com/user/paulmccartney?blend=1&ob=4
There is a link where you can send a message personally. http://www.youtube.com/inbox?to_users=PAULMCCARTNEY&action_compose=1
We need to start a boycott McCartney concert movement until he issues an apology to Bush.
Here is the comment I left the wanker’s youtube site;
“That was a dirty, cheap shot you took at former president George Bush in the White House – very disrespectful of you! Remember you are an INVITED guest in the most important house in America – you are a British citizen – how DARE YOU INSULT one of our elected leaders!
You’ve pissed off a lot of Yanks. You had better make an apology pronto and not just to the American people but to Bush.”
Nothing a big can of Raid wouldn’t cure! RAID!!!
One wonders what turn modern history would have taken had they named the group “The Cockroaches”.
Bush was not our greatest president. But at least we didn’t have to endure Gordon Brown…
What say you on that matter, “Sir” Paul…
Shut up Jimmy…
(his given name is actually James Paul McCartney)
and btw, i’ll betcha Lennon would have shown lots more class…
“But if ya go carryin pictures of Chairman Mao, doncha know that you can count me out..”
and all that jazz…
Gordon Brown would’ve had to endure us, you RACIST
Like I care what the Brits or any other foreigners think about us. What an ill-mannered jerk.
Just as Obama gave Gordon Brown DVDs that wouldn’t play on the players in the UK, he should have given Paul McCartney a Platinum Edition set of classical rock music on 8 track tapes to honor him.
I thought the word Sir in England, even the honorary type, signified a gentleman with impeccable character. Guess the title has been diluted and gone the way of the British Empire.
Aaaaauuuuuuuurgh! Someone beat me to the “Paul is dead” comment.
That would explain a lot about Sir Paul the English k-nighut!
Sir Paul really should lose his knighthood over such unchivalrous conduct. The Cad!
One more reason why George was my favorite Beatle.
He lost me with the Hari Chrishna thing. Oh, my Lord.
Paul ‘Dixie Chicks’ McCartney
kurthanson #40
To expound on your thoughts – temporary/current occupants never own the White House – the people of the United States of America do. To insult one of it’s former occupants is an insult to our country and it’s citizens – whether we be Dems or Repubs. Both should be outraged.
I won’t tolerate listening to this moran, even in an elevator…which is the only place left where you would. Ageing rock stars need to check their self-importance at the door of the White House.
Didn’t we have a revolution so we wouldn’t have to be bothered with those boorish royals. Yeah, I think so. Don’t give a damn what ANYBODY from Europe thinks about us Yanks–as the Aussies like to say, “go screw the pooch, buddy.”
OT: Go back in the Archives and read Val Prieto’s commentary, “Let Me Be Buried on this Spot” Has to be one of the most beautifully written pieces I’ve ever seen on Michelle’s site. Thank you, Val!!
Remember Yorktown? Keep those @#$%^&* Brits out of our country! The firebugs burned the White House. I spray for beetles-their larvae, grubs, eat my roses–keep them out!
(Milky spore kills grubs–I am sending two bottles to Liverpool as I type)
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Let your sidearm be like Master Card:
Don’t Leave home without it.
Though he is an accomplished singer, Paul still sings for his supper. That does not make him an expert on politics, especially USA politics. Why are folks even noting what he said?
uhhh, who is this guy?
I gather he is some sort of “Rock” star… (I stopped listening to “Rock” after Elvis, who i couldn’t stand, but my late wife loved…).
From what I’ve seen, they are all talentless tasteless clods who seem to lack opposable thumbs and the inclination to use them.
As with any 2yr old mind, these people thrive on any attention, even negative attention.
THAT is why I don’t even want to look up who this “Sir” Paul is. Ignore him, it will eat him alive.
*As John once said, “The Walrus was Paul”; More like a little pinch trailing the south end of a north bound walrus!
*My I-pod is full of these guys, and they keep stepping in it, Springsteen, Jagger, Costello, etc.; Just ply your trade and keep the cat deep down in that bag, puuulease!
This from a man who married a wack job within months of his wife’s death of breast cancer and didn’t even have the intelligence to require a prenup! She took him to the cleaners and anyone that stupid deserves it.
As was said this morning on Fox business… we should refer to Paul from now on as “Heather Mills ex-husband”>
Mccartney is classless.
I have one beatles CD – a gift. It gets played once a year by passengers in my car.
It goes in the trash today, never to be seen or heard again.
Why do all these leftist snobs think award ceremonies are an open platform to spew ignorant hate??
No class, no proper upbringing.
I expect to hear boorish remarks from geriatric has-been rock stars. What I find more unsettling are the inappropriate words of praise our genuflector-in-chief lavished on McCartney: “Tonight, it is my distinct pleasure to present America’s highest award for popular music on behalf of a grateful nation — grateful that a young Englishman shared his dreams with us — Sir Paul McCartney.”
Isn’t “On behalf of a grateful nation” a little over the top for an entertainer who never made any sacrifices for our country that I’m aware of? I thought we reserved words such as that for more solemn occasions, like when the VFW honor guard presented the flag from my Dad’s casket.
What was Obamas reaction to that tasteless, ignorant comment? Did he laugh, nod his head in agreement, or shake his head emphatically that showed his disagrrement and displeasure with Paul making such a comment?
Bush was a very gracious President. He and Laura would not have approved of such a comment.
I suspect Barack and Michelle have no such class but I didn’t see or hear anything about their reaction. If they were asked by the media, I wonder if he would say that was inappropriate and set Paul straight on how he should act in the future.
Paul is just so Yesterday.
Oh, I would expect about as many as he has written by himself. Unless you count books with lots of pictures.
One word answer to “sir” paul: bootleg.
Never pay another effin’ penny for his music. Never pay another penny for his concerts. Duplicate, share, copy… not another red cent. Spread the joy, far and wide, but don’t let this bloke get another American penny for his efforts.
Heh…for examples of Wanker McCartney’s talent and intelligence see “Paul McCartney and Wings” and his ill-conceived marriage to Mills. I remember once hearing a recording of a “Wings” song where someone had singled out Linda’s “vocals.” The tone-deaf screeching was unbearably bad. And, the songs the band did were unbearably bad, too. “Someone’s knockin’ at the door, somebody’s ringin’ the bell.” Uh…what? Obviously, John Lennon was the one with most of the talent in the Beatles.
Attention hippies, Bush is no longer POTUS. Hasn’t been for over a year. Get over it.
Many of the 1960s Hippies have made graceful transition to cultured society.
I guess, McCartney missed that train, and still remains a Hippie.
The Britts are famous for being very proper and prim with their manners.
Did McCartney leave home without them when he came here to accept his award?
From “60 Minutes II” 10/24/01
It’s sad how much he’s changed in 9 years.
Here’s a link.
Val, you are great! I will join spacey in having the best quote for my fb stauts today.