Ed Kelley’s “Flaming Lips” Supports the Hammer & Sickle
From Examiner.com:
By Dr. Goose:
If you are a political junkie, you have to love the Flaming Lips controversy, but you got to love the moonbat reactions even more.
You know the short story: rockers The Flaming Lips go to the Capitol. One member shows up wearing a commie t-shirt and House members protest by voting down a resolution proclaiming one of their songs the official rock and roll tune. Governor Henry, whose only sighting until recently had been on milk cartons, trumps the House and signs an executive order fixing the slight. All Hades breaks loose.
Now like most Oklahomans with lives, I hadn’t paid much attention to this tempest. Then I heard about the video daily newspaper editor/anchor(??) Ed Kelley made which ripped the House for its actions. I watched it and I agree: Ed Kelley is out of his gourd.
Let’s get one thing straight: it’s clear the sour-looking Kelley is not exactly a happy camper. It’s said he doesn’t have much stroke at the paper anymore (as if anybody cares) and he’s stuck making awful videos nobody watches. He wears bad looking suits (I’m sure they’re haute couture, but they’re just too progressive for us hicks to understand), has a haircut only Rod Blagojevich could appreciate with the looks and delivery of a mortician doing screen tests for pre-planned funeral commercials. Read more…
Related:
OkDemocrats “The crowd at the signing of the Executive Order to honor The Flaming Lips, true ambassadors of Oklahoma.”
mtdewlvr74 “who is the flaming lips never heard of them must not be county 
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DBGardenhire “News9’s live feed of Lips’ signing is loading awfully slow.”
As I see it, the big problem for the Lips is their name – that’s what turned so many conservative legislators against them.
Flaming.
The gay connotation was just too much for the strictly trained conservatives to deal with.
Perhaps the band could change the “Flaming” part to something else.
As for Ed Kelley – He’s a non-entity saying words with no meaning.
Comment by stephen — April 29, 2009 @ 5:04 am
I agree with Ed Kelley’s video. But it’s beside the point. Any publication with a speck of journalistic merit would have argued against the validity of his video, not just chastising Kelley as a person. How juvenile! It makes your shots at Kelley look weak.
Comment by Thomas — April 29, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
Is it really necessary to tear down Ed Kelley’s physical appearance, even if you disagree with him? Why not argue with him on the merits, instead of immature shots at his haircut and manner of speech?
This is stooping to Keith Olbermann tactics, it’s precisely the kind of nonsense unhinged leftists engaged in the past eight years, and it just makes you look bad.
Comment by Arenap — April 29, 2009 @ 6:04 pm
Luckily nobody has ever been killed in the name of religion, Western imperialism, democracy, or in furthering the interests of these United States of America, or your argument about “they killed people therefore their philosophy is bad” as applied to Communism wouldn’t hold much water.
Oh wait, those things have been responsible for more deaths than Communism and the Nazis combined. Good thing they were in the name of all the things you agree with, though, right?
Comment by Kevin — May 2, 2009 @ 10:57 pm
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