Moe Tucker "teabagger?" WTF!

[Wilco75]

From Huffpo and various sources:It's safe to assume that most Velvet Underground fans never imagined that "All Tomorrow's Parties" would end up referring to Tea Party rallies in Georgia.

 

The legendary band's followers and admirers are buzzing about reports that drummer Maureen "Moe" Tucker showed up at a Tea Party rally earlier this year and expressed her anger that the government is leading the country to socialism.

 

A woman identified as Maureen Tucker was interviewed by news station WALB-TV at a rally in Tifton, Georgia last April, expressing her fury:

 

"I'm furious about the way we're being led towards socialism. I'm furious about the incredible waste of money when things that we really need and are important get dropped because there's no money left."

The Tea Party Patriots, one of the largest umbrella groups of Tea Party activists, has a page for Tucker on its website, in which she urges activists to write to "King Obama":

 

"DONT WAIT FOR A TEA PARTY - SEND HIM A LETTER/POSTCARD! YOU'LL FEEL BETTER!! KING OBAMA THE WHITE HOUSE WASH; DC 20500".

 

According to the Guardian, Tucker says she has also been protesting against cap and trade, the administration's proposal to stem global warming.

 

Tucker continues: "This 'administration' HAS TO GO! I have come to believe (not just wonder) that Obama's plan is to destroy America from within. It is the only reasonable explanation for his actions/inactions!"

 

Tucker, who has also performed with Half Japanese and released her own albums on small labels during the 1980s and 1990s, has lived in a small town in Georgia for several decades.

 

Reached at her home by The Huffington Post, Tucker confirmed her identity but she refused to discuss her appearance at the rally or her political views.

 

Reports of Tucker's Tea Party affiliation aroused mixed feelings from fans -- on Prefix magazine's story, comments ranged from plenty of support to some disappointment.

[jff]

I heard about this yesterday. This is a pretty huge letdown. I had read some interviews with her from several years ago, and she seemed much too intelligent and thoughtful to spew empty party line talking points. Maybe she's getting senile and has lost her critical thinking capabilities. Working at Wal Mart for a decade probably didn't help, either.

[Guest Speed Racer]

On the one hand, it certainly doesn't surprise me that she prefers a limited government and promotes fiscal...uninvolvement? from the federal government. On the other hand, I'm always surprised when an individual who is capable of forming complete sentences promotes their views with such pot-shot sensationalism as "KING OBAMA". Or, when such individuals prefer to type in all caps, WICH ALWAYS MAKES YOU LOOK WAY STUPIDIER THEN YOUR REALLY ARE.

[ih8music]

This hurts me about as much as when I found out about Ted Nugent's political views... that is, not much at all.

[PopTodd]

Yup.

Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEt-IaRbcVY

Wait until right near the end.

I love how nobody mentions anything about her, or who she is. Just another face in the crowd. But we know.

[Guest Jules]

Who?

[moxiebean]

I have no opinion, except it's fun to say "Moe Tucker Tea-Bagger" with a Nico accent.

[Sir Stewart]

The Moe Tucker Teabaggers

[Atticus]

This hurts me about as much as when I found out about Ted Nugent's political views... that is, none at all.

[Guest Jules]

I had read some interviews with her from several years ago, and she seemed much too intelligent and thoughtful to spew empty party line talking points. Maybe she's getting senile and has lost her critical thinking capabilities. Working at Wal Mart for a decade probably didn't help, either.

Are you implying that anyone who supports the Tea Party must be senile and has lost his/her critical thinking capabilities? Maybe she actually believes this.

[Guest Speed Racer]

I think that supporting a lot of the issues that the Tea Party endorses is just fine and I can see how they could make sense to a lot of people. Associating with, or calling yourself a member of, the Tea Party and engaging in a lot of the Party's activities and protests does, to me, seem like a sign that one has lost (or never had) his or her critical thinking abilities and/or is a sign of senility.

[Moss]

Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it's going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I've concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They're full of shit. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending — only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry's medals and Barack Obama's Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending — with the exception of the money spent on them. In fact, their lack of embarrassment when it comes to collecting government largesse is key to understanding what this movement is all about — and nowhere do we see that dynamic as clearly as here in Kentucky, where Rand Paul is barreling toward the Senate with the aid of conservative icons like Palin.

 

Matt Taibbi says it well.

[ikol]

She wouldn't be the first musician to espouse fringe political views and spout hackneyed slogans, but I guess doing so from the right makes her a rare bird.

[Sparky speaks]

Something to chew on...

 

5 Key Principles that Unite Populist Progressives and Tea-Party Libertarians

 

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2010/10/5-key-principles-that-unite-populist.html

[Guest Speed Racer]

She wouldn't be the first musician to espouse fringe political views and spout hackneyed slogans, but I guess doing so from the right makes her a rare bird.

 

I can only think of a handful of leftie musicians whose viewpoints qualify as "fringe," but I certainly think they're wacky too.

[jff]

Are you implying that anyone who supports the Tea Party must be senile and has lost his/her critical thinking capabilities? Maybe she actually believes this.

 

No, I'm not implying that. I'm saying that if all someone at a politcal rally can say is a load of empty talking points, they are not thinking critically. That goes for all sides of a political debate.

[PopTodd]

I attend a Unitarian Universalist church.

For those of you unfamiliar with the denomination, it is a humanist church. Our congregation, in particular, has a pastor that is hard left-leaning, and particularly humanist. He quotes Emerson and Thoreau more than any Bible, Torah, or Koran. In fact, his sermon last week was almost entirely based upon Walden.

Funny thing is, upon reading Thoreau's other influential writing -"Civil Disobedience" - you come to realize that he was a pretty hardcore Libertarian.

Ironic.

[ikol]

I can only think of a handful of leftie musicians whose viewpoints qualify as "fringe," but I certainly think they're wacky too.

 

Musicians are supposed to be wacky. Sane musicians sound like Nickelback, which is just crazy.

[jc4prez]

WOW.

 

Another moron who doesn't know what socialism is.

[mpolak21]

Does this mean Sister Ray will be the new anthem of the Tea Party?

[Oil Can Boyd]

Does this mean Sister Ray will be the new anthem of the Tea Party?

I was thinking either Foggy Notion or I'm Set Free (to find a new illusion) ...

[jff]

I'm waiting for the man.

 

The mailman, that is.

 

To deliver my social security check.

 

Fuck socialism.

[LouieB]

She is right about one thing....the government is spending money so that there won't be anything left. Unfortunately the spending on the war in Afganistan is the real culprit here (and Iraq as well) rather than the other issues that the Tea Partiers keep bringing up. What we have spent on these two insane wars could have funded everything socially we ever wanted to do for decades. If this is what she means, she is simply at the wrong demo.

 

LouieB

[Tweedling]

 

Fuck socialism.

I dunno, China is doing good.

[jc4prez]

The thing that pisses me off most about this whole tea party thing is that their are really good reasons to be angry at the Obama administration and these shenanigans detract from those reasons.

 

To be honest I find the whole thing to be a fake movement that has been blown up by the media, mainly to detract from anything changing.