Pat Boone endorses Todd Akin

[pstokely]

Source: KSDK

St. Louis, MO (KSDK) - Mid-century pop singer and actor Pat Boone is voicing his support for Rep. Todd Akin for U.S. Senate.

In a brief statement released Friday morning, Boone says he's "strongly supportive" of Akin and that he'll "represent the true values of Missouri families."

Though not from Missouri, Boone routinely performs in Branson and across the state.

Pat Boone received the Conservative Political Action Conference lifetime achievement award in 2011.

Read more: http://www.ksdk.com/news/world/article/340638/18/Todd-Akin-picks-up-Pat-Boone-endorsement-

[Alameda]

1. Oh YUK, I never liked him anyway. He was an ass in the 50's and still is.

[olegramps]

69. I grew up in the 50's and everyone of my friends thought he was a puke.

Little goody two shoes with his white bucks was regarded with derision. He was the original nerd, candy ass kissing puke. We all laughed when his daughter came out with the award winning song in which the lyrics apparently endorsed premarital sex in which she sang "how can it be bad when it feels so good."

[classof56]

97. I saw Debbie on Pat Robertson's show around the time "You Light up My Life" was such a hit

She explained to the Rev. Pat that the song was about the Holy Spirit, which she was filled with, and the words "this can't be wrong when it seems so right" actually referred to the fact that when one has the Spirit within, even the wrong will be made right...or nothing is wrong 'cause it's right because the Spirit is indwelling...or...oh, hell, I can't really remember, but her point was, her hit tune was NOT about sex!! And the someone she was waiting to come along and sing her his song was--the Holy Spirit! I understand Debbie is somewhat estranged from her Dad these days, having to do with his politics, but don't quote me on that. Back in Pat's heyday, my devoted Christian mom let me, then about 15, buy a pair of white bucks 'cause that's what good clean-living Pat Boone wore. He was not viewed with derision among my Baptist buddies. Whatever...I did love my white bucks!

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

[eringer]

106. Debbie Boones "You Light Up My Life" was nothing more than a poor cover version of the original song

The song came from the movie of the same title back in 1977 and was performed brilliantly by an unknown artist (Kasey Cisyk). It was not a religious song at all. Debbie Boone hijacked it. She is stiil making money off it today with her "Lifestyle Lift" commercials. Hearing Boone sing it always makes me sick. If you want to hear the "real" song:

[classof56]

113. Thanks for the link and for introducing me to Kasey Cisyk.

Didn't realize Didi Conn had not actually sung it in the movie, but I do recall, walking out of the theater when it was over, thinking "Gosh, that was one dumb movie." Song was nice, though. Sorry Kasey didn't get the credit due her, and that she left us so soon. She was an amazing talent! Also did not know Joe Brooks wrote it. Debbie made it sound like it was her "tribute to the Holy Spirit" which would lead one to believe she wrote it. A couple of the Ten Commandments musta slipped her mind--the one about not stealing and the one about not bearing false witness. Any respect I ever had for her has now plummeted to zero.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

[CTyankee]

116. That face lift commercial plays a lot here and it makes me sick.

Debbie Boone is one big hypocrite. That song was "supposed" to be about Debbie's so called love of Jesus but lookey here now! It's all about getting "work" done on your sagging skin!

I'm SO not surprised...

[trailmonkee]

2. gross

[awoke_in_2003]

14. ready the vomit bucket...

[awoke_in_2003]

17. The biggest crime...

Is he covered "holy diver". Dio should have kicked his ass.

[Suji to Seoul]

34. this is as a bad as Celine Dion air guitaring her horrible cover of "Sweet Child of Mine"

on stage all those years ago. Ugh!!!

[awoke_in_2003]

37. The only thing I have liked that she has done...

was her cover of "All By Myself"

[Suji to Seoul]

46. the only thing about Celine Dion i like is when her songs are over and something good

comes on the radio.

[awoke_in_2003]

55. I am the worlds biggest Zeppelin fan...

and think Ronny James Dio was the greatest singer ever. But I love this song, and think Celine has the pipes to pull it off

http://m.

[SemperEadem]

68. the biggest abomination Celine ever did

was covering "Alone".
NO. ONE. sings that song like Ann Wilson.

Here is Heart:

[oberliner]

86. Awesome video

Silver lining on this post - got to hear/see that.

[Webster Green]

102. Heart are so awesome live.

They kick ass!

[oberliner]

105. They are touring right now

Considering going - but so expensive!

[SemperEadem]

110. Have you read their book? They're doing a book tour, too.

I read it in one night--it was that engrossing. Well written and chock full of great recounting of their adventures.

[Webster Green]

112. I read an excerpt, and I plan to buy the book.

I saw them quite a few times in the '70s, and then again a couple of years ago. I took a couple of friends with me, and we were all completely blown away at how amazing their live show is. They really rock the house!

[SemperEadem]

114. Here they are recently

http://screen.yahoo.com/heart-59-crunch-30753891.html

[SemperEadem]

109. I was at this concert, too!

(The video shoot, not the audio/CD recordings) Did you go backstage and meet them afterwards? I did. It was fantastic. Got to meet Sue Ennis, too.

[left on green only]

52. Drat!!! I missed..........

....and it went all over my hush puppies.

[Kookaburra]

3. Pat Boone?

Hell, I thought he was dead.

[left on green only]

51. shhhhhhh! You'll spoil the secret.

[Martin Eden]

76. No.

Merely brain-dead.

[speedoo]

4. Pat the Tool Boone.

Fucking no talent white trash. Made a living by ripping off great rock and rollers like Little Richard and Fats Domino who happened to not be white.

Watch him "do" Tutti Frutti:

&feature=related

Disgusting.

[LTR]

33. Pat's a tool, but I don't hold his whitewashing of the hits against him

Remember, back then radio was very segregated. Black artists were pretty much heard only on black-oriented stations. Plus, hit rock n roll songs were much more regional then, and often found on smaller indie labels. Due to these factors, it was quite common for multiple versions of the same song to coexist at the same time. This was also done across formats. One particular label had both R&B and country divisions, and the raunchy R&B hit would also typically be recorded and released on the country side.

Pat Boone watering down the 50s hits was just the way things were back then. It could be argued that he actually served as a gateway to black music for suburban kids and their over-controlling parents. And Fats Domino was very thankful for the royalty payments that made him much wealthier than if he just did it on his own. Scary thought, but Pat Boone was a big factor in the early growth of rock n roll. Nonetheless, he's still a douchebag.

I wonder if, while singing Tutti Fruitti, he ever realized that the original Little Richard lyrics had very graphic descriptions of gay anal sex, prior to some major rewrites and editing prior to its single release.

[speedoo]

36. Yeah, I remember those early days of rock and roll very well.

And I won't argue with any of your comments. In fact I am ashamed to admit that my very first record purchase was a Pat Boone 45 cover of Little Richard. Long Tall Sally, I believe. But after hearing Little Richard himself, I never bought another Pat Boone record and I soon came to detest Boone after learning about who was really doing those songs the right way and how they were being ignored.

[olegramps]

70. Most of the Black recording artists' records were not even available in White neighborhood stores.

My buddies and I had to go to what was referred to then as "Colored Town" to purchase their records. When Elvis mimicked their style our parents thought that we were all going straight to hell without passing Goal.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. because they couldn't get Fats Domino

Boone, a known birther and Schiavo conspiracy theorist, should go a long way toward scaring off indies.

BTW, Boone made the bulk of his fortune a few years back, due to a landmark $100M deal with Lucifer to have his "No More Mr. Nice Guy" album picked as the exclusive soundtrack to be piped in as the souls of the damned burn for eternity:

[lob1]

56. I'd not heard Pat's version before. Really terrible. All the emotion of something dead.

[notadmblnd]

103. Lounge Lizard

A dead lounge lizard. That's the something dead.

[Surya Gayatri]

64. Bwaahaaaa! Probably the most air play this

masterpiece has ever gotten!

[Third Doctor]

81. They actually allowed this piece of obscenity to be released?

But they tried to ban 2 live Crew. There's just no justice in the world.

[oberliner]

85. The band sounds pretty good on that one

I remember him showing up at some awards show dressed this way promoting this album. Weird.

[jaysunb]

6. Once an asshole...

always an asshole...and I first called him one back in the 50's when he was making his career covering black folks music that radio stations refused to play.

ASSHOLE !

[Cha]

30. ...

I never knew he was an asshole back then in my sheltered little world but I'll drink to that!

[jonesgirl]

7. Sheeze they MUST be getting desperate.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

13. It aint over til he campaigns with Victoria Jackson

[pstokely]

15. Or Kirk Cameron

nt

[pstokely]

65. It will bring out the old white people vote

but he already had that

[Smilo]

8. Mid-century pop singer and actor Pat Boone

the question is which century?

[NYC_SKP]

9. I thought Pat Boone died of Scabies or the Clap or Herpes or Syphillus of the Heart and Brain.

I could be wrong, of course.

[scarletwoman]

10. Do you mean this Pat Boone?

[bahrbearian]

21. LOL , no I think its Bible Thumping Boone

[smirkymonkey]

90. That is just disgusting. Makes my skin crawl.

Ugh!

[Puzzler]

11. Akin's a "Can-do sorta guy", eh Pat?

Just like you said Roger Smith was.

You disgust me.

[Raster]

12. Yawn. Who cares?

[Historic NY]

16. Oh dear dick in box endorses dick.

[MFM008]

27. omg

i saw that picture. BartCop had it on his site. I couldnt believe he would reall stick his **** in a box. I thought it was a mushroom....

[MgtPA]

18. Really?? I thought Pat Boone died about 20 years ago.

[Cha]

31. He doesn't run in our circles but pops out

every now and then to endorse an idiot teabagger.

[onehandle]

19. Good 'nuff for me. Who's running against him? Satan? I endorse.

FUCK IDIOT CRAPHOLES FROM 1864!

[LibGranny]

20. I always called him "BaBoon" and I

think it suits him! (although I think baboons are probably smarter)!

[Capt.Rocky300]

22. I met Pat Boone many, many years ago.....

...It was through a Boy Scout function. He was polite, charming, even friendly to a small group of us 13-14 year olds and talked with each of us as individuals. Of course, this was before he and the Scouts went over the their respective cliffs. Personally, I still think he had a nice voice in the 50's and am very disappointed he went off the deep end.

[Archae]

23. Boone is a regular writer at WND, NewMax and other far-right web sites.

And the stuff he writes there is off-the-deep-end-right-wing drivel.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2010/patboone.html

[mountain grammy]

24. Oh yeah, that'll sway a lot of people!

[Canuckistanian]

25. "Mid-century pop singer"

Hahahahaha

Not even THIS century!

Hell of an endorsement, Toddie!

[pangaia]

26. Ok, I must admit the truth..

When I was growing up in Teaneck, NJ in the 1950's, one summer I had 2 jobs--One was playing a jazz gig 6 nights a week at the Seaway Idlewild Motel near "Idlewild Airport-- now JFK. The other was working for a landscaping company, 6 days a week.. mostly mowing lawns. I MOWED PAT BOONE'S LAWN EVERY WEEK eeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii !!!!

Forgive me, please. Don't excommunicate me from DU.. :&gt ))

[longship]

28. Todd Akins endorses Pat Boone's toupé.

With his comb-over, how could he not?

[Cha]

29. I feel it's my responsibility to always jump on a

Pat Boone thread to declare what an unrepentent Idiot he is.

Of course, he endorsed the misogynist, lying, asshole, Todd Akin. Of course he did.

[newspeak]

74. yeah, I'm still laughing about those good old "family values"

Of course, it's even funnier when limpballs mentions "family values." what's the marriage count for limpballs. It must be the "gay marriage agenda" that's destroyed his marriages, right?

these guys are just creepy. If I wanted to live in their misogynist, intolerant, robber baron dark ages, I'd vote for them. where the plebes, especially women, know their place.

[SoapBox]

32. Come on Pat, sing your theme song..

"Loony Tuney"

[davidpdx]

35. So Boone agrees with Akin. I bet he'd feel differently if his daughter was raped.

What an ass!

[PD Turk]

38. And another name goes on my list

Im keeping an "Akin's Rape Gang" list. Not that it's all that likely, but none of the people on the list are allowed within 500 feet of my wife and daughter, they're not to be trusted

[chollybocker]

57. "Akin's Rape Gang."

Good stuff, Papa Turk. And may your list go viral.

(Also, great name for a band.)

[lastlib]

39. "Turds of a feather smell shitty together."

To me, that's a ringing endorsement of Claire.

[Mira]

40. He lost me with "Having my baby...."

the most sickening song I ever heard.
Not that he ever had me, anyway.....
Oh, wait, I edit because that was Paul Anka. Sorry about that. Failing memory.....

[Auntie Bush]

41. Pat Boone is and always has been about as far right wing as anyone can get.

The man and is beliefs makes me sick.

[graywarrior]

42. !

[young_at_heart]

43. ANYONE who endorses this idiot is unAmerican!

Since when does Todd "represent the true values" of a sane person?

[Zambero]

44. Musical Parasite

Pat Boone advanced his career in the 50's by doing insipid cover versions of R&B songs, for which the original artists and songwriters received no compensation. It should come as no surprise that his take on economic justice has not progressed at all since that time, given Akin's unwavering opposition to equal pay for equal work.

[valerief]

45. What can you expect from that Republican clown?

[CreekDog]

49. thank goodness adblocker works on that crap

[Vidar]

47. Losers of the World Unite.

[CreekDog]

48. Well every day Akin makes a gaffe, Pat likes him more

finally couldn't resist after the last mistake.

[Vestigial_Sister]

50. who...

the fuck cares?

[pepperbear]

53. that's what we call in the industry....

A "Well, DUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH!" moment.

I couldn't imagine anything else from Pat Boone.

[pepperbear]

54. "Mid century pop singer" LOL!

[chollybocker]

59. That made me LOL, too.

Might as well say, "A man with over fifty years of irrelevance...."

[pepperbear]

61. I know, right?

[chollybocker]

62. "Bakin' for Akin, daddy-O!"

[montana_hazeleyes]

63. Seeing it put that way

made me feel really , really old. I was growing up then. lol

Pat ought to look into his own life and actions before talking about "family values" . From some things I 've read, he's being quite hypocritical.

[Warpy]

101. Yeah, that hurt bad enough to leave a mark

[Hulk]

58. No surprise here.

He's just a fox-stooge anyway. I would be surprised if he DIDN'T back Akin!

[catbyte]

60. Makes sense. They have the same haircut

[Surya Gayatri]

66. Oh, noes! McCaskill might as well pack up and go home now.

Faced with such a ringing Akin endorsement from this cultural icon and Christian paragon, Claire's campaign is dead in the water.

There's no way back, once Pat "The Hip One" Boon has pronounced his choice.

[SemperEadem]

67. and old and in the way irrelevant relic

what the fuck would he ever know about the values of Missouri families if he's never, ever lived there or paid property taxes there? Shut the fuck up old man. Just because you perform in the basin of has-beens doesn't mean you know shit about MO families. You just take their money with your dog and pony show.

and with being the father of 4 daughters, the fact that he endorses this cretin is just amazing. Or maybe it's not. Maybe he thinks that none of his daughters would be illegitimately raped--that happens to other people.

[AlbertCat]

71. Pat Boone endorses Todd Akin

A remake of "Journey to the Centre of the Earth"?

[tanyev]

72. Quelle surprise.

[Warren Stupidity]

73. obvious zombie is obvious

[ladjf]

75. This shows that Boone has neither intelligence nor class. nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

77. Who the fuck is Pat Boone?

And even more importantly, who the fuck cares?

[oberliner]

84. Are you serious?

Wow.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

87. I'm a young guy ...never heard of him.

From the looks if it, that's a good thing.

[oberliner]

96. I understand

Just made me feel old!

[jmowreader]

115. Sixty years ago Pat Boone served a purpose

Mister Teabag started out by singing rock & roll songs written by black musicians. Because Pat is whiter than white it was "safe" to sell those records to white kids.

Now he sings at the Moon River Theater in Branson and writes columns for WorldNutDaily.

[Xipe Totec]

78. Oh, noes! Now we're done for. nt

[Walk away]

79. He lived on my block in Teaneck when I was a kid. Every Halloween...

he would turn off his front lights and never answer the bell. Everybody on the street thought he was an asshole. Leslie Gore and her family lived around the corner and they used to throw a big open house for all the Trick or Treaters. Even as a child I hated Pat Boon! He didn't fit in a Liberal town.

[Kalidurga]

80. I woulda egged his house...

Not alone of course.

[Walk away]

99. If only we could go back in time! nt

[name not needed]

82. He's still alive?

[GulleyJimson]

83. Book writer too

[ArnoldLayne]

88. And to think Pink Floyd's first appearance

ever on American Television in 1967 was on The Pat Boone Show. What a shame wonder what Debbie thinks of this endorsement.

[truthisfreedom]

89. Good. They deserve each other.

Not gonna win... 51% of the population is still female.

[Fuddnik]

91. Washed up endorses Washed out.

Ain't he like, dead yet?

[elbloggoZY27]

92. Really

I could care less about Pat Boone. He can believe what he wants.

[pstokely]

98. If we shouldn't care about what A-list celebs think, why should we care about below D-list celebs?

nt

[Kalidurga]

100. D list?

I am not sure he is still in the alphabet.

[JPK]

93. I think he and ......

I think he and Hank Williams Jr. should get together and do a washed up duet of really smarmy 50's pop fusion with pop country crap. I think it would sell tens.

[Vinca]

95. I'd be more likely to vote for one of those bathtubs Boone hawks.

[Arugula Latte]

104. Oh, Boone's still alive? That's too bad.

[eringer]

107. Pat Boone and Speedy Gonzalez -- Linked forever in DISGRACE

[eringer]

108. Maybe Akin can use this shot of his racist buddy in his campaign ads

[eringer]

111. This is the guy that said they should "tent" the white house when Obama became president

Check out the worst person in the world segment featuring Pat Boone on this site:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pat-boone-wants-rid-white-house-its