Very Nice How They're Avoiding Mention Of How Meat Loaf Died

[SoCalDavidS]

The only place that did go there is TMZ, and they’re almost always correct.

He was VERY opposed to vaccine mandates, stating support for anti-vaxxers in Australia.

He supposedly died from Covid, very soon after contracting it.

Also an outspoken supporter of TFG.

Do The Math!

Far be it from them to make known the need to be vaccinated to save future deaths. They would rather protect his image, and save the realization his death was likely very preventable.

[WA-03 Democrat]

1. Meat Loaf was a Meat Head - there I said it

[BlackSkimmer]

2. Daily Mail has that report too. nt

[The King of Prussia]

51. Must be true then.

[BlackSkimmer]

60. Lol...I'm more likely to believe TMZ than the DM. nt

[DonCoquixote]

3. dammit

a greata rtist, but yet another herman cain darwin award.

[unblock]

4. TMZ is often correct, but they are trigger happy

They are quick to get the story out and they are pretty quick to pull it or correct if when it turns out wrong.

Which is fine if you know to take early reports with a grain of salt.

In this case though, I'd say Covid is a damn good guess....

[xmas74]

5. It's because it isn't officially confirmed yet

TMZ knows how to grease palms and get this information before most nowadays. It's their bread and butter.

Others will mention it as it's confirmed.

[gristy]

9. Correct

Need confirmation from a family member or a coroner's office.

[Rebl2]

16. Would not

trust a family member to tell the truth

[SoCalDavidS]

6. "If I Die, I Die"

Covid thanks you for playing.

[Walleye]

7. Another hero of the "antivaxer community". Who's next?

[CaptainTruth]

19. Ted Nugent? Please?

[Walleye]

20. 👍

[E. Normus]

25. yes please

The sub-human mongrel known as Ted Nugent should join the Herman Caine club right away!

[Jilly_in_VA]

27. +1000

[Paladin]

33. Absolutely. (nt)

[reACTIONary]

34. +10 nt

[Ferrets are Cool]

41. OMG, I would pay into a go fund me for this to happen.

[Raster]

45. Yes, please!!!

Unfortunately, #TeddyboyShittypants is probably a closet vaxxer and wears a mask when no one is looking.

[BComplex]

79. I could believe that in a heartbeat.

Sounds true to form.

[DBoon]

83. in that case we would not be losing a talented musician

[mn9driver]

8. Quite a few other outlets are beginning to report this.

Looks like it is true. Most of them are still saying it is “unclear” whether he was vaccinated, although he was a pretty outspoken anti-mask, anti- lockdown figure.

[MissMillie]

10. Ya know... it took a few days to get Betty White's cause of death

Your suspicions could be right--I'm not saying they're not.

[PatSeg]

11. That wouldn't surprise me at all

It is really hard to feel any sympathy for him. Hopefully, he didn't make anyone else sick.

[louslobbs]

12. "He would do anything for love

But he won’t do vax.”

[jovibennett]

21. HAHAHA- Great post!!

[Dr. Shepper]

46. Oh that's good!

[hamsterjill]

13. Meatloaf has been quite ill for some time.

He’s had several surgeries over the last couple of years for back problems, etc. It was almost like, to me, that there was a drastic change in his mentality. Could it have been a drug addiction from pain killers for the back issues that caused his change in mentality? Who knows.

I loved his music. I don’t support Trump and I think it’s important to be vaccinated. But I’m not going to villify the man in his death. He’s dead. That’s punishment enough. Whether or not he was vaxxed isn’t known. Like so many idiot politicians, he may have railed yet vaxxed himself. I don’t know. Surely his doctors would have strongly urged him to get vaccinated.

The articles say his family was at his side and that makes me wonder if it was COVID. Don’t know.

I think the media has moved beyond the mention of COVID when there are other health issues.

[Sympthsical]

35. His best friend died this past year

He referred to him in the past as his platonic life partner and said he wouldn't last long without him.

Plus, just in ill health in general for quite awhile.

[hamsterjill]

50. Yep

Meat and Steinman were quite the pair!

[modrepub]

14. Thou Shall Not Speak Ill of the Dead

That's the discretion I follow. Others are free to say what they want. And truth be told, I appreciate the information even if it's conjecture at this stage.

[Jilly_in_VA]

15. I follow Maude's words

as spoken by the great Beatrice Arthur: ""You shouldn't speak anything but good of the dead. He's dead. Good." Well, not quite that, but he was in a high-risk category and unvaxxed. Therefore...he got the bulldozer that was headed straight for him. Sorry not sorry.

[llashram]

17. +

for me, not sorry...Ignorance does as ignorance is

[empedocles]

22. Might wake up a few ignorant types

[llashram]

30. true, we can only hope

[Walleye]

23. Bette Davis on the death of Joan Crawford. Dry wit, black humor

[Patterson]

42. I think that's an old old joke. I first heard it from Moms Mabley.

[modrepub]

58. If You Don't Have Anything Good To Say...

[aeromanKC]

26. To be fair, Herman Cain Awards are for the Dead

And I have ZERO Thoughts and Prayers for Herman Cain Award recipients.

[Initech]

47. Me either.

In addition to posting anti-vaccine memes, many of them post extremely racist and hateful shit on their Facebook pages. Wouldn't be surprised in the least if Meat Loaf had a lot of those same feelings.

[IronLionZion]

18. A lot of families choose to hide unvaccinated COVID deaths

because it's stupid and embarrassing for them. Oh well. One less TFG supporter

[KS Toronado]

36. Yep, had a unvaccinated magaloon cousin die from covid

her magaloon siblings said not covid at her funeral, they forgot the obit stated it was.

[YoshidaYui]

24. I hate to say it but I don't have any

sympathy left for THOSE who refuse to take the shot. They made their choice and unfortunately death made the choice for them.

[MurrayDelph]

28. The only person I feel sorry for is his daughter Amanda

whose birthday it is today.

[YoshidaYui]

61. wow....

my birthday today too!

[panader0]

63. Happy Birthday! Stay young.

[Traildogbob]

29. I noticed that

He was not a healthy person. But he was on page with Nugent politically. Was never a fan, amazing vocal range but just not to my liking. Fucked around and found out. Just a shame.

[brooklynite]

31. Who is "they"?

I suspect most media aren't giving it a news angle because an 80s era singer is more entertainment.

[reACTIONary]

38. +100 nt ...

Who is this malevolent "they" whose motives we think we know so well?

[ecstatic]

32. RIP. I was introduced to him through The Apprentice.

Unfortunately, I used to watch the show, but with scenes like this, can you blame me? lol

[gldstwmn]

48. That incident made me think he might be on the spectrum.

It also illustrated why his nickname was Meat. Thank goodness for Mark McGrath.

[ARPad95]

77. Meat Loaf explains his side of the blowup starting at the 34 minute mark of this

Last edited Sun Feb 6, 2022, 12:13 PM - Edit history (2)

episode of Dan Rather's "The Big Interview" in 2016:

He seemed pretty normal to me, even self-deprecating, during the interview.

He was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a heart condition, in 2003 after collapsing on stage (it happened more than once after that):

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/wolff-parkinson-white-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20354626

He never appeared to be physically fit or truly healthy even when he lost weight. I think he'd be a fool not to be vaccinated if he didn't have a medical condition contraindicating it.

[OhioBlue]

81. thank you for sharing this.

I hadn't seen it before. I enjoyed watching the interview. His music was so much of my teens and 20s. Just the first few notes of one of his songs can make me smile and remember....

[ARPad95]

84. You're welcome! I enjoyed his music, too. Graduated high school in the late 1970s and he was like

nobody else when he came on the scene. It's good he gave credit to John Belushi and Gilda Radner for his appearance on SNL that launched his BOOH album into the stratosphere.

[argyl]

37. Never heard the attraction of Bat Out Of Hell.

It's immense popularity really surprised me. I had a hard time listening to a single song.

If Covid killed him, I hope he didn't seriously infect anyone else and he gets a few anti vaxxers to roll up their sleeves.

[LymphocyteLover]

40. yes, that was one of the most unlistenable popular albums for me

never saw the appeal

[ProfessorGAC]

54. Many Of The Songs Are...

...very overproduced to the point that production doesn't match the song.
Then, that Dashboard tune is just boring, despite it's great success.
BTW: The husband of my wife's good friend was high school friends with Karla DeVito who was the video for that song and did it on tour with Meatloaf for years. She did not sing the original version. That was Ellen Foley.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

55. Music reveals so much about the creator.

Reading how Mr Loaf didn't want to be controlled. What if he had ovaries and became pregnant via rape?

Little time for the libertarian with the sense of entitlement.

Bon Voyage Meat!

[LymphocyteLover]

39. Thank you. My recollection is he was a rightwing douche and I never cared for his music either

[BlackSkimmer]

43. I don't think there's any conspiracy to hide it.

The reputable news organizations will wait for verification.

[BradBo]

49. He was right wing garbage. This planets a better place without him.

[hamsterjill]

69. I'm sorry but yours is just a shitty post in my view.

You didn’t like him? No problem. Hell, I disagree with his political views, etc. But every person who dies leaves behind collateral damage in people who cared about them.

I just think posts such as yours make “us” seem like “them”. Why is it necessary to get so ugly about him?

[nolabear]

78. Amen.

[OhioBlue]

82. exactly.

[NoMoreRepugs]

52. Protect his image? He'd probably want them to alter his image. He was an ugly dude.

[rzemanfl]

56. So what is it about people who were in

Rocky Horror?

[xmas74]

62. Rocky Horror is Tim Curry

Meat was just a bit player. Tin Curry tore up and owned every inch of it.

[rzemanfl]

66. Sarandon didn't have a bit part

she's pretty nutz.

[xmas74]

68. But she didn't "make" that movie.

She could be replaced. Tim Curry is irreplaceable in RHPS.

[panader0]

64. I must be one of the few people that has never seen Rocky Horror.

[rzemanfl]

67. I'll take your word for it. n/t

[Retrograde]

70. I saw it when it first came out

in a nearly-empty theater, mainly because I had seen Tim Curry in Travesties on Broadway. The movie was initially a flop: it took a while for it to get popular. I turned down a chance to see the Broadway production because I had a limited amount of time in NYC, there was something else I wanted to see at the time. By the time I got back it had closed.

Never went to one of the Rocky Horror "events".

[argyl]

71. Rocky Horror was quite the cult classic for years.

There was a lot of audience participation in it and all. I went with a girl I was quite fond of, and vice versa.

She'd begged me to go with her for awhile. I preferred sawdust covered hippie bars for Saturdays with her and from what I'd heard of Rocky Horror it had no attraction for me.

We were at a double screen movie house in Highland Park, a very wealthy suburb of Dallas( a mere two screens; imagine that) and the other being played was a Lynyrd Skynyrd movie and after about 45 minutes I quietly slipped into the Skynyrd show. Told her I'd see her after the shows.

She was a real sweetie. I think she knew my chances of actually liking it were nil. We dated a while longer than that and kind of lost track. It was for the best. I was way too wild for her. And she came from a pretty high toned background and was very lovely.

Back then having long, pretty hair, being thin as a rail, and having a guitar you could actually play went a long way.

[LeftInTX]

72. It's goes like this:

It's late Saturday night.
You're already out on the town.
Someone says, "What should we do next?"
There's a theater showing Rocky Horror Picture Show...
OK.."Let's go"

I think it takes all five of the above for it to happen...

[SallyHemmings]

74. Me either

It was popular when I was in college. They had a showing every Wednesday at a local theater.

[WillUSAF]

57. TMZ quoted

"Id rather die than be controlled"....well guess what? You got your wish. One less anti-vaxxer spreading their stupidity...

[PatrickforB]

59. Paradise by the Dashboard Light and Bat Out of Hell

were a part of the soundtrack of my youth.

Meatloaf clearly made a mistake in judgement not getting vaxxed, but he's had health and emotional problems for years.

I will say about him what I say for all who die: May he rest in peace and be surrounded by the perpetual light of Divine love and learning. He has moved on.

[Spider Jerusalem]

65. Yet another patriot claims his Herman Cain Memorial Freedom Award (n/t)

[Hassler]

73. Did Meatball have a GoFundMe page?

[48656c6c6f20]

75. Like a bat out of Wuhan he's gone, gone, gone.

Enjoying death by the anti-vaxx dashboard light.

[drmeow]

76. NY Post says

he was sick with COVID before he died.

[BobTheSubgenius]

80. The Magat angle was not exactly played up in the news.

For my part, indifference is about all I can manage.