Fox (Doocy) preemptive strike against Mellencamp: ‘He’s way over there, really very liberal’

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Fox preemptive strike against Mellencamp: ‘He’s way over there’

http://rawstory.com/2010/02/fox-preemptive-strike-mellencamp/

By David Edwards
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 -- 10:27 am



The rocker behind Farm Aid is evidently too subversive for the gang at Fox and Friends. Although it's probably safe to assume that the Fox morning hosts don't know much about John Cougar Mellencamp, other than he sang about "Small Towns."

Democrats at Daily Kos and at other blogs have been pushing for the Indiana rocker to run for the Senate seat that the retiring Evan Bayh is relinquishing. One Facebook group, Draft John Mellencamp for Senate!, had almost 700 members at press time.

Wednesday morning, Fox News' Steve Doocy wanted his audience to know that Mellencamp "certainly is liberal."

"Really very liberal, according to one report I read this morning he has come out publicly: 'Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama not liberal enough for me, I want more,'" Doocy continued.

In April of 2008, after Mellencamp agreed to perform at campaign events for Clinton and Obama, his publicist, Bob Merlis, said, "Neither candidate is as liberal as he would prefer, but he's happy to contribute what he can."

[47of74]

1. Then he would be perfect

Especially since he would piss off FOX and Freaks as well as O'Really and Insanity too.

[liberalhistorian]

11. That may be true, and I generally like the guy,

but let's be honest here. He really has no chance whatsoever. And certainly not in Indiana. It's a pipe dream.

[Skidmore]

2. Doocy is waaaaay stupid.

To get the job he has, he must have really stunk as a comedian.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Oh, hell. Now I really want him to run.

[gratuitous]

4. John McCain is too liberal for these half-wits

I'd like to see what kind of an ad campaign the Republicans could run against the man who organized Farm Aid. Seen "regular person" Sarah Palin open her yapper recently on behalf of families losing their farms?

[Echo In Light]

5. From what I understand, yes, John is very liberal, and takes no shit

Jeebus that takes me back...he filled in for Cheap Trick back in the late 70s when they bailed on opening up for Kiss lol

[blondeatlast]

6. Does Doocy know that he just raised funds for Mellencamp?

The perils of unintended consequences--ya gotta love 'em!

[classysassy]

7. Ignore the hacks at fox

why torture yourself by watching those clowns,tune out the lying fox.?

[TCJ70]

8. It's amazing how far to the right the definition of "liberal" has moved according to FOX. n/t

[veganlush]

9. ..sounding better all the time..

..join the facebook group people, lets make a groundswell!

[monmouth]

10. There's going to be a "webblast" tonight at 7 pm on fb for JM. I

have no idea whether that's central or eastern time and I think it's on fb. I'll try and get more details but they only had 200 or so members this time yesterday. No word yet from Mellencamp as far as I know.

[tinrobot]

12. Then his songs are also liberal, right?

...and those songs resonate with the majority of people.

I think it's time to let people realize that most of them are, in fact, liberal.

[tanyev]

13. Why, he's practically a member of Al-Qaeda! Braawk!

I wonder if they get extra incentives in their paychecks every time they roll out a new talking point. Maybe a little package of crackers.

[Echo In Light]

17. lol

[progressoid]

14. 'Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama not liberal enough for me, I want more,'

:toast: :applause:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. Doozy looks like an Andy Williams listener

Idiot.

[Jennicut]

16. Oh, he is so scary! Actually, I bet he has quite an appeal to a lot of everyday people.

[indy legend]

18. I think Mellencamp could win here

I know people here are ass backward but they know name recognition. Most of the morons in this state don't have a clue on the issues. How else could you explain how these ass clowns in this state vote? I'd love to see Mellencamp run and win. It would be great to have a real progressive in that seat and I think you could count on half the uninformed buffoons in this state to vote for him because , hey I've heard of him. I'll vote for him. Most of these people have no clue about issues or they would have stopped voting against their own best interest years ago. All they know is R=Good,D=Bad, or hey I've heard that name before I'm a gonna cast my vote fer them, ya know, ya betcha.

[ddeclue]

20. Please be sure to get all your friends to sign up at the FB page:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=303715387841

[eppur_se_muova]

19. "The condemnation of some is as great a recommendation ..."

"... as the praise of others."

Dang, can't fine the source of that quote. :(

[Sebastian Doyle]

21. Who cares what Steve Douchey thinks?

I'll bet if Ted Nugent ever ran for office that fuckwit would volunteer to be his campaign manager.