This just in: Blackie Lawless is nuts. At least, that’s my opinion after reading an interview in Classic Rock Magazine. In the interview he goes on to say that not only is he no fan of any politician (especially the Bush’s), but he then compared President Obama to Hitler:
“I was very, very critical of Obama during the campaign. I wrote a long letter and I sent it out to all the press the night before the election. I pulled no punches with this guy because I had really done quite a bit of research on him while the election was going on. He’s one of these old-time 60s radicals from way back. He thinks he’s going to change the world and he’s hell-bent on doing that. When he stood there the night of the nomination and he said that he intended on “fundamentally changing” America — a chill ran down my back. Thousands of people were just standing there, wildly applauding, and it reminded me of Hitler standing on the steps of the Reichstag. I thought, “These people don’t understand what this man is talking about, what his true intentions are, and how he is going to go about doing this.” This man, like I said, is straight out of the ’60s school of radicalism where he thinks he’s going to be Robin Hood and rob from the rich to give to the poor. I subscribe to the theory: if you work, you eat. And if you don’t, you don’t. It’s really no more complicated than that. Do we want to be compassionate? Yes. Do we want to help each other as best we can? Yes. But that doesn’t mean that I bust my hump to create something and somebody comes along and decides that I can’t keep that anymore. That’s not what either one of our countries was really built on.”
A) Um, Blackie… people were wildly applauding because of the excitement of Obama’s campaign; not only his stature but the amazing historical significance of an African American becoming President for the first time.
B) “He’s one of these old-time 60s radicals from way back.” Wow, what an inaccurate statement. Does Blackie know that Obama was born in 1961? If he was an old-time radical, he was pretty fucking young at the time.
C) “If you work, you eat. And if you don’t, you don’t.” How very moral of you, Blackie. Tell that, for instance, to a child born with a life-threatening disease. If you were truly patriotic, you would care about your own people and not just yourself.
D) “I was very, very critical of Obama during the campaign. I wrote a long letter and I sent it out to all the press the night before the election. I pulled no punches with this guy because I had really done quite a bit of research on him while the election was going on.” Who are you? George Will? Every one has a right to voice their opinion but you are not exactly a renown political analyst. And, btw, guys like George Will do not get their facts from the internet. The internet is loaded with falsehoods like Obama being “one of these old-time 60s radicals from way back.”
E) One last thing: “Busting your hump” is not singing for a successful rock and roll band. It’s not exactly physical labor. Try working as a construction worker to earn a living. You should be grateful of the good success W.A.S.P. has brought you. You probably live a life better than most.
Blackie should eventually form a band with Ted Nugent. The Nuge can hunt and kill animals en masse, and then Blackie can have plenty of raw meat to throw out into the audience. It would be a marriage made in — a deranged — heaven.
In the meantime, don’t be surprised if you go to a Town Hall meeting to debate health-care and you find Lawless with one of those home-made picket signs depicting Obama with a toothbrush mustache.
