In accordance with the raincoaster blog’s policy of culture jamming, petard-hoisting those who don’t stand by their own words, and doing whatever the hell we want, we are happy to repost here Thom Yorke’s anti-Tony Blair rant, which was posted on Radiohead’s blog and almost immediately taken down.
We are all about being on the record here. So, for the record, we stole this report from Sploid!
“I’ve had enough of this,” the songwriter wrote on Radiohead‘s blog. “Our government’s sitting on the fence with the U.S. while World War 3 appears to be breaking out in Lebanon and Northern Israel. We must throw Tony Blair out of office NOW. He does not represent the views of British people. He does not represent the views of his foreign office and officials.”
Yorke added that Blair “cares far too much about his relationship with Bush and Murdoch.”
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“This man is not fit to be our prime minister,” Yorke concluded. “It’s a nice sunny day. Come on, let’s do it. You know it makes sense. A vote of no confidence. Or something. Anything.”But the call to action mysteriously vanished from Radiohead.com on Thursday. Nobody in the band will explain what happened to the message, so Radiohead fans and the music press are left to wonder if certain sinister forces are at work.
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Uh–this sounds a bit overwrought and emotional. I prefer logic, myself. Let’s consider this from a purely logical standpoint, then.
In mathematics, an expression is true if it is true for all cases when you substitute for x, y, and z. Once you have a true expression, you may proceed with the logical operation. From this perspective:
If you live in the UK, substitute:
x = Tony Blair
y = British
z = prime minister
In Canada:
x = Steve Harper
y = Canada
z = prime minister
In the US:
x = ***
y = American
z = president
What is the logical operation we should all now perform?
Conclusion left as an exercise for the student.
Integration, baby. In the blogosphere, we need to combine; it’s like when the transformers all get together into one mega-transformers, right? Like, how invincible would the Thunderbirds have been if they coulda done that, eh? Answer me that!
You’re just trying to distract me from my Dennis Miller counter-rant and drag my attention back to Saturday morning TV. Found that Max video yet?
I found a Max video:
He may not be 2000 years old, but he’s pretty cool.
Dig that ancient tin can, eh?
Whoops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2icWcvRTvRo
Dennis Miller? Weird. I was at a party with Dennis Miller last week; fringe benefit of hanging around more of my rich, glamorous friends. All I got from you guys was beer and hot tubs…although now that he’s become a slavering Republican, I’ll take the beer and hot tubs, come to think of it. You can party with the Neocon instead.
Max Headroom was the first cool-at-the-time television show that is still cool today. It may be the only one.
Coke is as lame now as it was then, though.
Ah–so you’d be that person they keep describing as “the Pepsi generation” then?
I was Switzerland in the Cola wars myself. My parents always bought the supermarket brand, or “The Pop Shoppe”–man that was good stuff!
Hey! It still is!
And I still enjoy Doctor Who, even the sexed-up new version. I never really watched Headroom, as I think they debuted him on one of the vast number of channels we didn’t get on basic cable.
This‘ll convert ya.
Oh–and I partied with the Neo-con last week at the company pic-nic. Tailgunner Joe McCarthy used to come over to my boss’ dad’s house for barbeque and presumably to check for commies under his cradle.
No time to watch. Gotta go pick up the SO. Don’t blog on anything until I get back, okay? This conversation-by-comment stuff is vaguely cool.
You almost always get to think up that witty remark you normally think up as you’re driving home in humiliated silence–not me, of course, but some do.
McCarthy’s been dead for awhile, so who was that you were partying with, exactly? Perhaps you should check for ID next time.
Why doesn’t anyone read my words? First I have some dude over on my homespace telling me I’m a Jew-hater, then Raincoaster misses the meaning of my comment:
Tailgunner Joe McCarthy used to venture over to the home of my boss’ parents when my boss was himself a wee lad (which by observational evidence was some time ago).
I was partying with my boss, and I don’t need to see his ID.
Hope that clears that up.
And does the video link above mean you’re going to bleach your hair and drop babies too?
Wow, is Conservatism that contagious? An infection one generation ago still festers and seethes in the carcass of your poor boss…how awful.
I already bleach my hair but I think the baby thing is not gonna happen, particularly with a K-Fed type.
Dood, you’re totally missing the INNNNNNERESTING part of the blog. Tomlinson VS MI6 has just gone nuclear. Not sure if this is good or bad.