04.18.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 5:20 pm by George Smith
Yesterday, a handful of neo-Nazis were in downtown LA trying to provoke a riot with the police and immigrants. It did not go well for them.
Wrote one friend who had to get through it:
There were unintentionally humorous elements. The cops in riot gear escorted the Nazis back to their cars after the demonstration, but instead of making a smooth getaway, one of their crappy cars wouldn’t start. So the Nazis were trying to use jumper cables and shield themselves as the counter-protesters rained rocks and bottles on them …
What did [Paul Fussell] call this? The bottom-out-of-sight class?
And today DD takes readers back to the local chapter of the white Christian identity movement in Allentown, Poker Face.
On tax day Poker Face issued a press release. And it mentioned me! Although it was primarily aimed at one of the group’s regular arch-enemies, the Anti-Defamation League.
Mr. Poker Face, Paul Topete, did a question and answer for the settling of various controversies swirling about his band.
Here’s one part of it:
Question: As you might know, the Anti-Defamation League wrote something on their website speaking out against your band. They refer to your band as anti-government and anti-immigrant, and they post stuff from your website and interviews you’ve done that they claim are anti-Semitic and Holocaust denials:
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/poker_face_anti_government.htm
RESPONSE – We weren’t aware of that until you pointed it out. Thank you. Actually we’re not all that concerned about the ADL/SPLC/AIPAC and their history of character assassinations. Heck, they even attacked Frank Zappa. It’s hard to take them
serious when they have ties to known terrorist groups like the JDL and JDO as well as many other illegal activities like spying on Americans in California etc.
And here is another:
As you’ve probably seen, there are other blogs that have been writing this stuff too:
[link to DD post]
Do you have any response to any of this?
RESPONSE – Never heard of him …
There is also a long non-explanation on Holocaust denial. (Readers can find it easily enough at the top of the band’s website.)
But the best part of the press release is this:
QUESTION – … and claiming that Israel was behind 9/11. Do you believe these things?
ANSWER – We do not believe that Israel was the sole perpetrator of 9-11
Is there a public relations damage control expert who can help these poor folk out? Probably not.
In any case, readers will remember the local newspaper did a lukewarm story on Poker Face, one which mentioned the band’s forum for Holocaust denial at the foot of the piece.
The salient paragraph was this:
But Poker Face also has raised eyebrows with a forum on its Web site that includes such topics as the authenticity of the Holocaust, Jewish control of the media and repatriating illegal immigrants.
At the time, DD was passed comment from the Call’s assigning features editor before the story was done but after the nature of Poker Face’s website was brought to her attention.
They’re worth noting:
“I did just go to the Web site to see what I could see and after 10 minutes, still did not find anything. I see there are thousands of posts on the forum – just don’t have time to sift through.”
Maybe that was true. Or maybe not. To steal a phrase, it’s an eyebrow raising statement.
And this is because it is difficult to log onto Poker Face’s web forum and not immediately stumble upon rants like these:
Your eyes are not failing, your mind not playing tricks. Yes, this is what it says:
“Elliot Spitzer was set up by the mossad with a JAP-Shiska … [he is] not a zionazi cock-sucking Israeli firster …”
“Write on Mr. Spitzer, your sage wisdom is needed now more than ever,” it concludes.
That’s some recommendation. If only we all had such friends.
Next …
Here Topete expresses his disappointment with famous Christian fundamentalist preachers because they blather on “teebee … about how we have to protect the atheistic JEW founded Israel.”
And …
“It just never stops with the International Jewry and its affront to freedom for all,” writes a seemingly angered Topete.
Kevin MacDonald was written about by the OC Weekly recently here.
An excerpt:
Over the years, the Long Beach State psychology professor has courted controversy for books and articles asserting Jews have kept their culture throughout the millennia as a strategy that lets them compete against and subvert Western civilization. His works have been denounced by his 49ers colleagues, civil-rights organizations—seemingly everyone except white supremacists, who revere him as their movement’s contemporary intellectual giant.
All along, MacDonald has insisted he isn’t an anti-Semite or a neo-Nazi and definitely not a racist—he’s just a hard-working academic whose work happens to have an exclusively skinhead following. “I don’t necessarily endorse all of the attitudes reflected in all of the articles,??? MacDonald wrote to the Southern Poverty Law Center in regards to a 2008 exposé in its Intelligence Report magazine showing the professor’s courting of the extreme right through submitting his work in their publications and accepting their grants.
But at [a summer 2009 meeting of the Institute for Historical Review, the country’s premier Holocaust-denying organization], MacDonald began shedding his regular-guy façade. And with his introductions to Freedom 14 and other local neo-Nazis at that conference, the professor began the first steps toward emerging as a full-fledged bigot.
Topete’s posts on Jews creep into almost every corner of the band’s forum. Here are a couple quick screen shots of various message threads. They speak eloquently for themselves.
Note helpful ‘Christian identity info’ stuck in the middle of the rubbish about the ‘lost tribes of Israel.’ That was considerate.
Update
The Call keeps tryin.’ Atta boys.
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04.16.10
Posted in Rock 'n' Roll, Sludge in the Seventies at 1:57 pm by George Smith
As promised, DD picked up a copy of the Legacy Columbia reissue of Iggy & the Stooges’ Raw Power.
The attraction was new live material from a 1973 show and a restoration/revitalization of the old David Bowie mix everyone respected. But which was shelved in favor of an inferior product a few years ago thanks to the overenthusiasms of Iggy Pop.
DD ripped “Search and Destroy” from the new and old editions for examination in an audio program.
Here’s a ‘small’ snapshot of new “Search & Destroy”:
Here’s a snapshot of ‘old’ “Search & Destroy,” from the old out-of-print CD, and the first edition of Raw Power for the digital age.
Visually, there’s not a lot of difference. The Legacy edition is fit to the digital dynamic range slightly better than the old version. This makes it noticeably louder when comparing the two back-to-back, but not radically so.
It’s not brickwalled which is the practice for almost all current pop and rock releases — done to make them smash out of everything, from earbuds to home speakers. A variation on that ruined the remaster Iggy Pop did for Raw Power.
However, DD’s guessing the new edition was expanded and hard limited very slightly. This is a procedure in which the original is goosed a bit to give it a tad more zing and run up against just enough digital walling to keep dynamic peaks in bounds, but not so much that it’s noticeably squared and sawn off.
This means conservative judgment was used and it sounds very good.
But if you have the original, you can still just resort to turning it up for the same effect. (I did.) The dynamics are still all there. But there was never a lot of fine detail in the original vinyl recording, so to have kept it true to that didn’t take much effort. (The effort was in resisting the urge to ruin it. That test was failed once.)
Some notes on the bonus CD
The booklet shows a poster for the ‘Georgia Peaches’ Stooges show at Richards bar in Atlanta in 1973, near the end of the band’s run. It lists Hydra as the opening act.
Hydra was a typical southern rock band on the hard side of the genre. They were signed to Capricorn within a year.
Hydra made three albums, none of which are even remotely up to anything done by the Stooges.
At the time, they were probably deluded enough to think they were good in this context. If you listen to the recording, you’ll hear Iggy go off on some ‘little cracker boy.’ No southern rock bands delivered anywhere near the ferocity of the Stooges. There were disadvantages to growing up below the Mason-Dixon line.
At the beginning of the live material James Williamson’s guitar cuts in and out jaggedly, although he’s also in the room mix from stage volume blowing into the vocal mikes. But that’s really here nor there when it comes to Stooges live recordings. If you listen closely, at some point you’ll hear him kick in an octafuzz on one of his solos. If you’re good, you’ll hear that.
‘Georgia Peaches’ is the best live recording of Ron Asheton on bass. And there is lots of barroom piano from Scott Thurston which gives the band a somewhat different texture than on Raw Power.
For “Gimme Danger,” the piano goes away for a lot and Williamson’s guitar finally arrives in full glory. It is a great rendition. But “Search & Destroy” does not benefit from Scott Thurston’s rollicking piano.
Mix-wise Ron Asheton’s bass is in the same sonic range as Williamson’s rhythm, so they panned the latter to one side, Asheton to the other.
“I Need Somebody” is sinister, crunching and bluesy. And I won’t spoil the dirty poem that introduces it.
The crowd sounds about a dozen strong, including one girl totally infatuated with Iggy.
“Cock in My Pocket” delivers what you wanted. A good filthy song, now famous, one of the Stooges’ rampaging but more conventional numbers, worked off a classic rock n’ roll guitar figure.
“Doojiman,” a studio outtake from Raw Power is included. It features good jungle rhythms and chopping axe work by Williamson. Iggy’s vocal would have made people laugh had it been on the original album. Which was probably not the desired effect and why it was omitted.
Come to think of it, Columbia was probably appalled by “Doojiman.” As if they weren’t already unenthusiastic enough about the Stooges in ’73.
If one wonders why a fair-to-great live recording of the Stooges never aired, Iggy’s stage delivery quickly sets the listener right. It would have been unthinkable for any label to submit it to FM.
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04.15.10
Posted in Rock 'n' Roll at 12:05 pm by George Smith
Crazy mean Ted Nugent was at Northern Michigan University recently. To talk to students.
It’s amusing on many levels, since Ted’s a gold-plated fool and schools are theoretically supposed to be devoted to broadening one’s horizons, rather than narrowing them to a Nugent-y crabbishness. On the other hand, a Nugent lecture could be considered mind-expanding if you actually are someone who has managed not to be exposed to enough examples of the everyday contemptible.
This was in Marquette, paradoxically the center of Bart Stupak’s district.
The Motor City Madman once had political aspirations. However, his antipathy toward unions, the auto industry and minorities — he uses the codewords ‘entitlement bloodsuckers’ — guarantee he’s unelectable in any of Michigan’s more populated areas.
Which makes Stupak’s district perfect for Ted.
The Democrat is retiring, run out for making himself the asshole of the health care reform fight. Second, since Marquette is about the size of Pottsville in Schuylkill County, PA — which is demographically similar, that means the voters — other than students, are just mostly white, old and Fox News addicts.
Anyway, here are a few laughers from an interview with Ted in the NMU student newspaper:
Nugent: I am getting used to some pathetic Americans acting like wannabe Euro sheep, going out of their way to intentionally misrepresent truth, logic and the American Way. I think they are funny, funny people, and I thank them for identifying me as the obvious good guy. God bless them all.
Student interviewer: How would you define “Hate speech???? Do you think that you have ever engaged in it?
Nugent: I would hope sensible people would know hate anything when they see or hear it. The evil, inbred rhetoric of the soulless KKK would be hate speech, I hope, to everyone. I have never engaged in anything remotely related to such intellectual vacuity. On the contrary, I have fought hard against it. [What a scrupulously honest and self-examing fellow is Mr. Suck-On-My-Machine Gun. — DD]
Student interviewer: One of the reasons the alternative presentation has been organized is that many don’t think your statements encourage positive discussion pertaining to issues such as gun control and freedom of speech. What do you have to say about this?
Nugent: I shall elaborate the transparency of such asinine allegations and those that foolishly allege them on April 13. Bring your friends. This is gonna be fun.
If you’ve seen Ted on Fox News, you would bet his student appearance was unspectacular. Nugent can be counted on to be a paradigm of repetition, never departing from his standard political pitch as the white he-man battling Fedzilla, fighting for your freedom, like everyone else in the GOP.
According to the North Wind newspaper, students organized alternatives to Nugent-furnished boredoms:
For those who didn’t want to see Nugent, the Sticks and Stones event, hosted by various groups across campus, featured speakers about different forms of hate speech.
While Ted may think he doesn’t do hate speech, the distinction’s a fine one. And he’s on the wrong side of it, easy. For his better or worse, that’s how decent people think of him these days no matter how much Ted smiles, chuckles and breaks his arm patting himself on the back for allegedly being a jolly good fellow.
And this is from DD, someone who paid cash money for Nugent’s last two records.
Ted, in fact, isn’t very courageous at all. He jabbers about truth and speaking his mind but only does it in print or in interview.
His great gift of expression is through guitar. But you will never see Ted compose an album of songs based on what he really thinks.
Ted Nugent is chicken — buck, buck, squawwwwk — because he knows what would happen if he chanced it.
Never fear, DD knows Nugent’s music well enough to take a stab at what a new album should really look like.
Track listing:
1. Death to Tyrants (You Know Who)
2. Get Off My Land
3. Hey Fatty! (Get Sick & Die)
4. Parasite
5. Rich Kings & Poor Scum
6. Quarantine (Sodomites)
7. Union Huntin’
8. (Hands Off My Pile) Bloodsucker
9. The Great White Man-alo
10. Raghead Punks
11. Mr. Massey, Good Friends & a Bottle of Whine
12. HateSpeechin’
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04.13.10
Posted in Rock 'n' Roll, Sludge in the Seventies at 9:12 am by George Smith
Today marks the ‘release’ of Columbia’s Legacy edition of Raw Power by Iggy & the Stooges.
Undated and remarkable, Raw Power marked one of the more memorable instances of my mother shrieking at me over rock ‘n’ roll in the bedroom. Mixed by David Bowie, it came out of the cheap stereo shrill, glassy and dangerous. No other band had a guitar sound like the Stooges on Raw Power. Credit it to James Williamson, who piped his axe into a Vox AC-30 .
The only photos on the album were of Williamson in front of Marshall stacks — which still throws everyone off because it’s difficult to get into the area of Raw Power tone with that rig.
Never duplicated by any other hard rock band, it’s a benchmark, belonging exclusively to the Raw Power-era Stooges.
Iggy Pop’s remaster of the album sits in my stacks. He screwed it up terribly, rendering it unlistenable if you loved the original. Done only for the sake of correcting what he idiosyncratically thought was David Bowie’s bad mix. The original CD issue was then allowed to go out of print in the US. It suffered only from not having the volume it could have had for the digital format — something that afflicted every CD from that time when passed through an analog-analog-to-digital conversion. It was a ‘fault’ remedied simply by turning up the volume on the stereo even louder. Louder, got that?
Ten years ago I wrote a long piece on Rhino Handmade’s Stooges Funhouse box for the Village Voice.
Funhouse is the record for you today if you like repetition.
In terms of career, Raw Power was the top of the mountain. What made Iggy Pop, and what still does, is “Search & Destroy,” a number that’s the apotheosis of deadly hard rock.
Here’s a reprint of the old Voice piece, originally entitled “Net-surfin’ Cheetahs with Hearts Full of Outtakes.”
My first reaction when I heard about Rhino Handmade’s seven-CD box set of the Stooges’ Complete Funhouse Sessions was that it had to be a product dreamed up by lunatics for lunatics. Take after take after mind-rotting take (19 in all!) of “Loose,” among other eternal Iggy relics, available only to a subset of obsessed Netizens with their browsers set to secure encrypted transmission and $120 in the electronic billfold.
But after more examination, it appeared such a well-developed travesty, I had to laugh in appreciation! After all, this is the same Iggy Pop who says in the liner notes to the remastered Raw Power—in the part entitled “Stooges in the Funhouse”—that his band’s real 1970 audience was “high-school drop-outs, troubled drug kids.” A “constituency” —such an elegant weasel word for “penniless losers”—Elektra Records couldn’t and didn’t want to market to.
Yep, there’s an annoying poetry in the high-grade-steel fact that the Stooges could travel in the space of three decades from music for bottom-out-of-sighters —motorcycle gangsters, their floozies, and lovers of skank weed and roller derby, an audience of such presumed shallow pocket that advertisers ignored them — to an item at the pinnacle of weird-computer-snob-driven e-commerce: a domain reserved for those who dump hundreds of dollars a week on the Internet, and a creature never imagined on the broken-glass-littered stages of Michigan or in the dark of Don Galluci’s California studio.
Part of the credit, I reckon, must go to Rock Critic Received Wisdoms 101. It’s gotten so it is almost impossible to turn around without reading how some band of people not alive in 1970 have made a record that sounds like the Stooges. If it sounds like bad altie hard rock that you should buy anyway because bad altie hard rock is better than whoever is the current favorite critics’ scapegoat, it will be claimed to sound like the Stooges. And if it doesn’t sound like anything, if it is so glum and nondescript that all that can be determined from it is that people are playing guitars, beating a drum, and shouting loudly, it will be said — by some fanzine editor or David Fricke, somewhere, indeed, many times — to sound like the Stooges.
Pure gold: This is the kind of indirect, relentless hagiography that no amount of cash money can buy. And since it appears, to me, anyway, to have been going on more or less for at least a decade, it has generated a kind of kook Stooges fetish, one visible symptom of which is the Funhouse Sessions.
Stooges kooks, presumably those at which this box set is aimed, seem to have some parallel characteristics with the woozy fans of Star Trek,who can often be found at conventions paying stupid sums of money for trash: crumpled scripts or prosaic items supposedly clutched at one time or another by their heroes.
The Stooges lasted three albums, the third of which was almost accidental. The original Trek lasted three seasons, the third of which occurred only after fans conducted a campaign to admonish the network for canceling it after two. Most of the Stooges went nowhere after the end, until VH-1 dug a couple of them up as elder statesmen last year. Most of the original Trek actors went nowhere until conventioneering and movies rescued them a couple decades later. Bill Shatner wore a Nazi uniform in “Patterns of Force”; Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton wore a Nazi uniform. Shatner made TJ Hooker; Iggy, at times, seems to have made as many unlistenable albums as there are unwatchable episodes of TJ Hooker. Trek was kept alive by a media mania that gathered steam in fringe sci-fi magazines, where Gene Roddenberry was given God-like status. From the standpoint of rock journalism, Stooge devotion is functionally indistinguishable.
It only stands to reason, then, that Stooges worship will mirror some of the weirder excrescences seen in the Star Trek universe. To wit:
Like the production of Star Trek genre science fiction novels in which the same Trek plots are recycled again and again, with only the book covers, names of characters, times, and places subject to change, the endless recycling of wretched Stooges demo tapes released as historical CDs will continue and perhaps even accelerate. Some possible titles: Iggy’s Piles Opened Up and Bled for You, Pumping for Jim,and The Ignoble Prizes: Achtung mit Asheton,the latter of which Iggy could claim is a tape of the concert at The Joint in the Woods, where he goaded Ron Asheton into dressing in full SS regalia and introduced the show in Deutsch. (See Iggy’s bio I Need More for the provenance.)
Star Trek has “KS” literature — samizdat fiction about forbidden love between Kirk and Spock. Stooges worship will spawn “Jim Bowie” Net fiction, centering on imagined romantic relationships between Iggy and David Bowie.
Inevitably, Stooges conventions will appear. Horrified by his experience with dotcom stalker nerds who bought The Complete Funhouse Sessionsat an early assembly, Jim Osterberg will write another book, published only in Europe, entitled I Am Not Iggy. As the conventions gather interest, old Stooges, A&R types, engineers, and hangers-on associated with the Stooges will realize there is money to be made in speaking at such affairs. James Williamson will be the first to capitalize, giving a $5000 lecture about how his hand was broken in a fight with a roadie for Alice Cooper and what it meant for his professional career. Scott Thurston will speak about how he’s tired of being ragged on by nincompoop Tom Petty fans for being an ex-Stooge. Eventually, Iggy will recant his previous book, and receive a handsome publishing contract for two more: tentatively entitled Stooges Memories and I AM Still Iggy.
In 2050, a rock documentary will be made for the independent-film circuit. Entitled Jesus Loves the Stooges, it will be a history of the band framed around the recent discovery in a desert shack in Arizona of about 12 unlabeled tapes of undocumented Stooges rehearsal material of good quality. The documentary will show various rock critics, archivists, academicians, and label execs arguing acrimoniously about the nature of the tapes and expounding theories about how the sessions could have escaped scrutiny for so long. Carbon dating will indicate the tapes were created in the ’70s. At the end of the film, the tapes will turn out to be the work of Josefus, an obscure Stooges-like Texas band that never made it out of Houston in 1970 — part of an elaborate hoax conceived by a sophisticated con man who accepted a $300,000 check from a record company for them, and subsequently fled the country.
An anonymous seller on a Net auction site will receive a $40,000 bid for the reputed SS colonel’s uniform worn by Ron Asheton at The Joint in the Woods. Three weeks later, another anonymous seller will post a message saying the first uniform was a fake, and that he has the real one. . . .
As for Stooges bootlegs, my titles had a better sense of humor:
More Power, You Don’t Want My Name … You Want My Action, Heavy Liquid, Live in Detroit, Telluric Chaos, etc.
Zzzzzz.
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04.08.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 9:38 am by George Smith
Today the Allentown Morning Call newspaper got around to writing up a story on Poker Face and the Hutaree.
And the reason this happened was because of posts on DD blog over the past week or so. (See here and here and here.)
But the Morning Call still doesn’t quite put its finger on the matter. To see why, we go to the last quotes in the piece, where reporter John J. Moser questions Poker Face’s Paul Topete about his website.
But Poker Face also has raised eyebrows with a forum on its Web site that includes such topics as the authenticity of the Holocaust, Jewish control of the media and repatriating illegal immigrants.
”We most certainly do not deny the Holocaust,” Topete said. ”To suggest that is absurd. The reason this section of our forum exists is because people have been imprisoned for questioning details regarding this horrific slaughter of mankind.”
That story is here.
In the parlance, this is called being deceptive. Alert readers will notice the awkward mental slip-up in the phrase ‘slaughter of mankind,’ since the Holocaust, to most sane people, specifically means Nazi Germany’s extermination campaign against the Jews. But we’ll get back to the hows and whys of deceptive practice in a minute.
Now, to the newspaper’s role in informing society.
A better story might have actually stated the title or words Poker Face uses to describe the Holocaust. That would be ‘Holohaux,’ ‘Holohoax’ or other variations on the same.
The ‘Holohoax’ is explained by a Holocaust denier site here.
Sample quote:
The Zionist Mafia’s conspiracy theory, of a secret plot involving “gas chambers” to murder six million Jews and five million undesirables and turn them into soap and lampshades, has proved immensely lucrative for them, but is now collapsing before their eyes
World Zionism’s problem is that none of their claims of “gas chambers” and an “extermination program” can hold up unless one postulates wholesale revision of the laws of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, logic, and / or psychology.
The Web has many such sites. Another typical example is here. It described Fred Leuchter, the weird man who insisted the gas chambers were not gas chambers. The arthouse documentary, Mr. Death, was based upon his self-destructive pursuit of this belief.
Now, back to Poker Face.
When Topete speaks of questioning the details of the Holocaust and people who have been imprisoned for such, he is speaking of specific individuals listed in his site’s chats. One of them is Ernst Zundel, an infamous Holocaust denier.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Zundel in this manner:
German-born Ernst Zundel came to prominence in the world of Holocaust denial, or what he prefers to call historical “revisionism,” in the 1980s, when his Samisdat Publishing company began distributing propaganda like a “Did 6 Million Really Die?” pamphlet and Zundel’s own book, The Hitler We Loved and Why. By then a non-citizen resident of Canada (he moved there in 1958), Zundel’s repeated attempts at gaining citizenship in Canada were denied as he was decried by both the Canadian and German governments for his incitement of racial hatred. After several Canadian court battles over the contents of the material he distributed, he was deported in 2005 back to Germany, where he was later tried and convicted for Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred.
On the Poker Face website, one permanent post reads:
The total absurdity in the first place for Ernst being locked up for anytime is crazy.
Its like telling JEWS that my feelings are hurt and they must go to jail becvause they dont believe in Christ, In His Resurrection, and His granting of eternal life to us. But no JEW goes to jail for believing or Not.
So why should ANYONE else goto jail because they choose not to believe in the fantasy fairy tale called the holohaux? Look into CD Jackson + Syke Troops and Buchenwald, and understand from the very BEGINNING THE HOLOHAUX WAS A CREATED FABRICATION by Jews for the sole purpose of giving Israel legitimacy. period.
Did some Jews die in work camps. Yes, so did many other peopls and races. But they were work camps. Not extermination centers.
Sorry Jews, your leaders have LIED to you, and preach to you your DEATH CULTURE you live in day in and day out.
A snapshot DD took of it is here. (For the original, click here.)
Here is more of Poker Face’s rationale:
So, typically, if by observation of Poker Face’s website, when its leader says he has forums which talk about people questioning the details of the Holocaust, in practice this just means stories about Holocaust deniers, all of whom are given supportive treatment. Accompanied by vitriolic denunciations of ‘jews’ and ‘zionazis’.
Naturally, free speech makes this perfectly OK in the US of A. However, what others think of it and how it illumines your character are other matters entirely.
Here, for example, is another post on how ‘Holocaust Hoaxer’ Simon Wiesenthal has been exposed for his ‘lies.’
Or, there’s this fascinating view — also in a prominently placed post on the Poker Face website — of what the Theresienstadt concentration camp really was:
From a Fan … and I’d like to draw my Czech friends and relatives to the word I put in red, Theresienstadt. I had sent an email some time ago about Theresienstadt and got some flack about it from the delusional crybabies who were drilled by the Communists to believe in
the Hoax. Theresienstadt was an old German fortress that was converted into a village for elderly Jews who were too feeble to be sent to work camps. I can no longer find the original info I sent and the links I quickly gleaned to add to this email were all genocide propaganda sites. Jewish “scholars” have plagiarized each other put up thousands of almost identical sites. There is now an Arbeit Macht Frei on its gate, though I highly doubt it was there during the war as Theresienstadt was not a work camp.
The ‘genocide propaganda site’ and ‘communist delusional crybabies’ at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC describe it this way:
Despite all the efforts of the Council of Jewish Elders and the camp-ghetto inhabitants to make the best of an atrocious situation, living conditions in the ghetto with respect to food supply, medicine, maintenance of residential structures, provision of basic services, and overpopulation in a limited space caused a death rate in the camp-ghetto comparable to that in Reich concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald. In 1942, the death rate within the ghetto accelerated so dramatically that the Germans built — to the south of the ghetto — a crematorium capable of handling almost 200 bodies a day.
Here is another screed which touches upon one of Poker Face’s favorite topics — how neo-Nazis aren’t always protected by rights to free speech in Europe, to the band’s great dismay:
The hollercaustics are crying for blood now over a musician who spreads the truth about their money making scam. It will be awhile before Poker Face tours Europe.
Europe is the laughing stock of the world, where they pontific how free they are, becayuse they will print cartoons that defame Mohammed. Not that I give a crap about Mohamed, but tit for tat I say. These same freedom screeing bastards WOULD NEVER PRINT A TRUTHFUL HOAX-A-SHOAH cartoon. The editors know they would get their ass canned immediately.
Freedom of thought, and speech goes out the window, when it comes to the mythology of the cult of holohauxianity.
People of the world. Wake the fuck up. As long as one brother is in jail for his thoughts or speech, while committing no crime against person or property, THEN WE ARE ALL IN FUCKING TROUBLE, because it will come to your country soon enough.
Talk about a Orwellian society. Blaspheme Christ, or Dont believe in Christ, collect 200$ and go ahead… Point out one of a million lies about the holohaux, and JAIL is there waiting for you. When did someones hurt feelings trump REAL Law.
Indeed, one could spend the entire day sifting Poker Face’s website for ‘information’ on the ‘myths’ of the gas chambers and 9/11, that Benjamin Netanyahu ‘planned 9/11,’ and so forth.
So when John. J. Moser writes that “Poker Face also has raised eyebrows” it’s a bit of an understatement.
Many many reasonable people, upon viewing the material outlined here, would find Poker Face’s political views astonishingly offensive, ragingly anti-Semitic and screwed-up to the max.
To call it eyebrow raising doesn’t quite do it justice.
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04.07.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 4:21 pm by George Smith
Ted Nugent once was a great rock musician.
Now he’s just astonishingly crazy and mean, inflammatory for the sake of cruelty and outrage.
This fits his role as one of the new mega-mouthpieces of the crazy and mean Republican Party. If one takes Nugent’s writings and regular public utterances even half seriously, he is by any reasonable definition an incomprehensible fellow lacking even small vestiges of good will and grace.
It’s entertaining then to review Ted Nugent’s role as MC at ‘Coalstock’ last Labor Day, a political rally held by Don Blankenship, CEO of the now nationally known, and not in a good way, Massey Energy coal company.
While being paid by Blankenship, you’ll notice Nugent couldn’t help but make a favorite joke about ‘dead tyrants,’ tyrant now being one of the favored words for referencing Barack Obama — used by the Tea Party, the GOP and American extremist groups.
Coalstock, which you probably never heard much about, was not a success. For reasons perfectly obvious.
From various newspapers:
First on the stage was pro-gun provocateur, musician Ted Nugent.
“I love America, but mostly I love defiance,??? he said. “I like when the punks from England overtax us and we throw the tea in the bay. Isn’t that kind of a cute move?”
“But I particularly like it when the British came to get our guns so we went to Concord bridge and shot them,” he added.
“I like dead tyrants. Isn’t that your favorite type of tyrant, a dead tyrant?” Nugent said.
Nugent went on to defend someone he called his “blood brother,??? Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. He also defended mountaintop removal mining. — here
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[The rally] wasn’t sponsored by some unions. Instead it was hosted by Massey Coal’s Don Blankenship, the coal industry’s most gleefully Dickensian figure, a man who treated his own maid in conditions “reminiscent of slavery,” according to a West Virginia high court judge in a 2008 ruling. Blankenship spent $1 million on the event. It featured Sean Hannity, Ted Nugent and Hank Williams Jr., son of the great Hank Williams, but alas, not a musical genius and instead a reactionary boobhead. — from the Guardian
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Coal magnate Don Blankenship, who made his name as a union buster, hosted a Labor Day shindig on a reclaimed mine site in West Virginia. This is part of what he said:
“In Washington, they sometimes say that those of us in Appalachia need help because we’re not very smart. Well, we’re smart enough to know that only God can change the earth’s temperature not Al Gore.”
This is a fascinating observation from a leader of an industry that has forever changed the landscape of Kentucky and West Virginia.
The strip-mining of coal has leveled some of the world’s oldest mountains and richest forests, poisoned water and destroyed hundreds of miles of mountain streams and the life to which they give rise.
If anyone has demonstrated humankind’s ability to change the environment on a massive scale, it’s Blankenship and the coal industry.
Blankenship is CEO of a large coal company, Massey Energy, so his myopic rant was an act of supreme self interest. He railed against “cap-and-trade” legislation, pending in the Senate, that would reduce heat-trapping gases by making it more expensive to burn coal and other fossil fuels. His message understandably falls on receptive ears in places where the only decent-paying jobs are in mining (even if they require going into one of Blankenship’s notoriously unsafe mines).
… Blankenship reportedly spent $1 million to attract an estimated 75,000 people to hear him, along with performances by Hank Williams Jr. and Fox News’ Sean Hannity, emceed by Ted Nugent.
Dropping $1 million to manipulate public opinion is small potatoes for Blankenship, though. He spent $3.1 million to elect a West Virginia Supreme Court Justice who protected him from a costly civil suit only to be foiled by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In another case, involving Blankenship’s former maid’s successful attempt to collect unemployment, another West Virginia justice said Blankenship’s treatment of the woman was “reminiscent of slavery.”
Blankenship can command a huge audience, level mountains and buy elected officials (though not respect). — from the Lexington Herald Leader in Kentucky
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Tens of thousands of people throughout West Virginia and several other states traveled to the town near the Logan-Mingo County border Sept. 7 for the Friends of America Rally, according to media reports.
The rally, which was marketed to people as a way to show support for American workers and jobs, featured musicians Ted Nugent, Hank Williams Jr., John Rich and Fox News personality Sean Hannity.
“Today was a good day for American workers past, present and future,” said Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, who organized the rally. “This historic event brought tens of thousands of people together to show their support for the men and women whose hard work built this country and we were proud to welcome them.”
Blankenship told those gathered at the rally that the gathering was about “our government and what it is doing to American labor.”
“It is also about what our government is allowing others to do to American labor. Our government, environmental extremists, American corporations, and politicians on the right and the left are all endangering American labor. They are making American labor the real endangered species as they tell us that their goal is to save the planet,” he said
He went on, speaking against the proposed cap and trade legislation in Congress.
“We don’t need a government that wants to shut down our coal mines. We don’t want a government that wants to increase our power bills. We don’t want a government that loans our tax money to our overseas competitors and that refuses to loan money to our employers. We don’t want a government that is run by people who believe they can change the earth’s temperature when they can’t balance a budget.”
Blankenship said the rally was about more than just protecting jobs.
“It’s not only American labor that’s at risk. It’s America itself,” he told the crowds. “Let’s all work hard and be friends of America. Let’s send the message to Washington that enough is enough.” — the State Journal of West Virginia
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From the stage, people heard dull lectures from Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship about his corporate philosophy. Ted Nugent, the right wing’s berserker, gave a speech in which he declared, “I say, start up the bulldozers and get me some more coal, Massey.??? Why would anyone want to dedicate their Labor Day to listening to these kinds of public relations messages from corporate management? — here
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A group including mine operators Massey Energy and International Coal Group say country singer Hank Williams Jr. and rock musician Ted Nugent are going to take part in a free Labor Day concert in southern West Virginia.
Organizers say the Sept. 7 concert will be part of what they’re calling the Friends of America rally.
The lineup also includes radio personality Sean Hannity.
Ruth Lemmon, president of the West Virginia Automobile & Truck Dealers Association, says the rally is being held to let the nation’s leaders know that organizers support American jobs. — from the Associated Press
But that was about being a toady to Don Blankenship and Massey Energy. Idly, one wonders how big the check was for that role.
However, what’s bugging Ted now, specifically?
More than fifty percent of the country. You and me, probably, if he knew who we were, us blood-sucking parasites.
Last week — on Ted Nugent
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Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 8:24 am by George Smith
Allentown rock band Poker Face’s Paul Topete has been nothing if not voluble about his beliefs. Today, thank to the Internet, they are easy to see.
However, our friends at the Morning Call newspaper are having a little trouble. They need our help to see such things. The layoffs by Tribune have cut deeply, impacting oversight. They have reduced manpower, which in turn cuts into the time needed to do more thorough work. Plus, it’s only human nature to resist the idea that you have somehow been remiss in overlooking the fact that Poker Face — one of your “Bands of the Week,” is really weird in its belief that Jews are a satanic cult. Among other things.
From an interview here, DD has extracted some of Paul Topete’s greatest ‘hits’:
The FBIs bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 thru their informant Edam Salem, was just a continuation of the Satanic Elite’s program to undermine America’s freedom, and subject the rest of the world to whims of a global parasitic order based on neo-paganism and greed, with a little bit of perverted sex thrown in for good measure …
And the always popular ‘9/11 was an inside job’ trope:
Over the course of the day we could show movies like ‘AMERICA – FREDOM TO FASCISM’ by Aaron Russo, 911Mysteries.com – Controlled Demolitions of the Towers, or many others that we have seen, that the rest of America needs to see.
On the Catholic church:
As for the Catholic church … Well since Christ’s death, Ha-Satan has been attacking it at its roots. Today we have at least 40,000 Christian who are actually in a cult. The Catholic Church has always been the biggest impediment to Satan’s plan of destroying this 2nd earth age as he did the first. In my opinion, there are millions of good, God loving people in and involved with the church. But I also believe that Satan finally took over the hierarchy of the church in 1963 with the election of Paul the 6th to the POPE’s throne. I think that the same year a satanic mass took place in Rome as well as The Citadel in South Carolina.
Other groups like the Jew-Suits (JESUITS) were created by zealots for the papacy (are more often times Crypto-Jews), and are manned by Atheist-Judeos like Adam Weishaupt. He was a founder of one of the most recent incantations of the Illuminati May 1st, 1776.
On Jews:
What is a Turkish Mongol – Yiddish speaking race of Ashekenazi/Khazars who have little to no SHEMite blood in them doing in Palestine to begin with? This was the frothy dream of zionazis like Theodor Herzl, Rothschild and Balfour, along with the creation of the United Nations. Why are these Jews in name only, even there to begin with? This cause was helped along by Zio-enabler Hitler with unifications like The HAAVRA Agreement. This agreement, in 1933 moved 500,000 German-Jews with all of their wealth, possessions and companies into Palestine thru 1938. Funny how this major topic is NEVER discussed in history! The problem for the zionazis of the day was.. it wasn’t enough of European-Jewery that moved to Palestine, so plan 2 came into play. Getting them out of their comfort zone by moving them out of Germany, first East, and then South into countries like Cypress and Greece, before shooting into Palestine.
Hitler creeps into the conversation:
In 1931 Hitler sent the Jew, Rosenberg to England to meet with the Pro-Fascist group The CLIVEDEN group, so that when Rosenberg came back to Germany, the coffers of the bankers and industrialists started to overflow the NSDAP – What became Hitler’s Nazi party. Whether Hitler was a real player, or a just water boy for the elite is still to be decided.
The interviewer, adding helpfully: “As for Hitler, I think he was a Zionist stooge, but a very well placed stooge …”
On the true perpetrators of the Oklahoma City bombing:
That the Varsity A team of the suits pulled off what the JV B team of blue jeans led by boy [Clinton]couldn’t pull off. Varsity A team got the 15 + years in the making; THE PATRIOT ACTS I & II with all of its subsequent departments of tyranny in tow. Klinton the Klown barely pulled off the OKC bombing debacle, who had a little help on the ground by his traitorous pals in the [Southern Poverty Law Center].
More stuff on the jews:
The root cause today in the middle east is the transplantation of the non-semetic Ashekenazi-Khazarian jews in name only who invaded Palestine in the early 1900s. This was planned by late 19th century World Jewry. Whose use of a pseudo political/spiritual created movement of Zionism, got these Yiddish speaking jews in name only to set up shop in Palestine so Rothschild and his agents could create an area of the world that would forever have political and religious tensions that will never be solved by man. And if the day should come in our lifetime that one man makes it happen, know the very last days of this earth age are here and rejoice. This man will be the flesh carrier of Satans spirit that will be thrown down upon the earth in a lightening bolt. He will proclaim himself Christ. Looks like Christ but will speak like the dragon. The instead of Christ comes first. If you can still pinch yourself and still feel it, the real deal aint here yet.
The Paul Topete recommended book list:
THE SECRET EMPIRE I&II by Cushman Cunningham
-The Sabbatian Jews, The judeoMasonRosicrucians and the World Gay mafia are the unholy trinity killing the earth today…
Judaisms Strange Gods by Michael A. Hoffman II
-you will understand why their god is not our GOD. The Talmud and the satanic Kabballah were not a part of the majority of Israelite tribes beliefs. This strange leaven of evil came back with the Babylonian-Judaised members of the tribe of Judah. Yesteryear Phareesism is todays Judaism. Jesus Christ railed against these Pharisees calling them sons of the devil John8:34-44
Here’s an idea for a story!
One could explore the relationship between white christian identity militias across the country, their rebound after the Clinton years due to the current polarized political climate and election of Obama as president, their warped beliefs and why they cling to them, and how the Internet now allows them to quickly communicate and share with each other — from the Lehigh Valley to the locales of the Hutaree and coast to coast — a capability which did not exist during the time of Tim McVeigh.
Who, incidentally, Poker Face thinks was a patsy, an equally fascinating question to ask them about.
Now I should think that’s a job any reporter would love to sink his or her teeth into.
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04.06.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 8:53 am by George Smith
Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.
When the local rural neo-Nazis lurking in the woodpile make it into the newspaper as “Band of the Week,” you know the firings have gone too far.
”I am looking forward to becoming even more closely involved with The Morning Call and in the Lehigh Valley community,” [new publisher Tim Ryan] said in a written statement, news of which was published at the Call here in a story about the firing of the old publisher last week.
”With the strong management team in place here at The Morning Call, I am confident that we will continue to provide readers with compelling local content in whatever form they want and advertisers with effective solutions for growing their businesses.”
Unintentionally humorous, that.
Tribune company was bought by Chicago mogul Sam Zell a few years ago. Zell considered himself a business captain among captains. But reality did not cooperate and under Zell, Tribune was forced to file for bankruptcy.
The only constant at Zell newspapers pre- and post-bankruptcy, which includes the Morning Call and the Los Angeles Times, has been regular mass firings.
Dismiss enough people and those left can’t provide much of a product, no matter press release insistence to the contrary.
So the free-lance workers, editors and reporters miss the obvious, like the white Christian identity militia nature of the Allentown hard rock band, Poker Face.
In the Call’s publicity bit:
How band came together: Band came together because of the message/mission that we are on to expose the tyranny and rights violations out of our nation’s Capitol.
“Our audience [is] 7 years old to 70,” the band tells the newspaper. “If you love freedom and liberty, then you will love what we are about.”
And Poker Face’s “biggest gig?”
Playing at the Knob Creek, Ky., machine gun shoots. Tens of thousands show up for this awesome freedom loving event.
Well, certainly nothing says you’re a bunch of tyranny-fighting freedom-loving protest rockers more vigorously than rants like this one on your band website:
From last week — on this matter.
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04.02.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll, Why the World Doesn't Need US at 8:07 am by George Smith
American extremism is impossible to satirize. It’s a reality cartoon from which there is no escape. And one standard example is rocker Ted Nugent.
The zinc-plated proof of it is that he was too-too-too-much for even his conservative hometown newspaper, the Waco Tribune, which 86’d him as a columnist last year.
“No more namecalling,” said the newspaper.
Asking Ted Nugent to not namecall is like telling Fido that from now on he will have to defecate in the toilet like the rest of the family.
Anyhoo, for yesterday, colleague Chuck was commissioned to do a short piece for the Rhapsody on-line music site. It was an April Fool’s announcement that Nugent had just announced a run for the presidency:
Angry times call for angry measures, so rock ‘n’ roll’s Angriest Old White Man of all — Ted Nugent — is the first candidate to officially declare presidential ambitions for 2012. “The Nuge,” as his bow-hunting buddies call him, will run on a hybrid True Republican/Tea Party/Michigan Militia ticket, he announced Thursday morning at O-Dark-Thirty while clad in full camouflage gear and straddling a great white buffalo on his homestead not far from the ATF-seized former Branch Dividian compound in Waco, Tex . . . With the Atrocious Theodocious at the helm, the G.O.P. arsenal can now train its full stormtroopin’ firepower on Obamacare Maoists, animal-rights numbnuts, states’ rights deniers, illegal invaders, global-warming charlatans, paycheck-blowtorching Fedzillas, bailout-happy congressional cockroaches overloading America’s credit cards like drunken sailors in a Planet of the Apes whorehouse, sperm-whale-shaped children fed on junk food, smokers who expect the healthy to fix their self-poisoned lungs, human leeches claiming poverty [etc] …
He even got the foaming, shouted into a tape recorder run-on style of Nugent’s columns at Human Events pretty close.
Of course, if you watch Glenn Beck for even fifteen minutes you know everyday is an April Fool. You can’t make up more ridiculous stuff and pass it than he does on a daily basis. And since his large audience believes every word, one sees the problem. There’s no longer any real distinction between telling them a story on April Fool’s day as opposed to any other day of the year.
All these people can’t be nuts. But there is something else that has taken root in them over the last decade of polarization and however one tries to describe it — it points only to an increasingly bleak future. (See Digby today.)
So DD thought it unsurprising when the majority of Rhapsody readers who chose to comment did not actually get the Ted Nugent thing was part of the April Fool’s party. Even when other commenters tried to tell them so. They believed it because they wanted to, it seemed entirely consistent with news they get from their regular sources.
Be sure to read the entire thing here. I’ve posted only two of its ‘better,’ or more discouraging — if you will, bits:
You go for it Ted, We as True-Blooded Americans need someone like you as a FrontMan to start kicking some A– so we and the younger generations to come can enjoy a lifestyle as the Constitution was written. I have no doubt the end is near if we don’t remove these “Fedzillas”. I will support you 100% in any way I can.
I’m 100% disabled, but I make my own way; I don’t give em nuthin and I don’t want nuthin! I’m with ya all the way “Lock n Load”
Woodman
I had planned on voting for Palin, but If Ted runs, he’s got my vote! I’ve never been a big fan of his music, but I agree with his line of thinking!
I’ve got a strange hunch that Obama will not complete his 4 years in office as president.
From the end of 2008 here:
I used to catch my dad reading trash like Mandingo and “Masters of Falconhurst” in the early Seventies, books he’d hide away in a closet whenever the neighbors were about to come by. Although something like [Nugent’s political manifesto] “Ted, White and Blue” is non-fiction, it’s a book of quality in the same way that Fifties-made fiction for white men about sex between plantation owners and slaves, fisticuffs and torture made for books of quality.
Approximating $25/hardback, Regnery … made about $600,000 gross on “Ted, White & Blue.”
Sales of 24,000 would have merited Nugent being summarily dropped by a major label in the Seventies.
Another publication for right-wing nutjobs feigning sanity, the City Journal, featured an article by a conservative book reviewer who admitted to some heartburn over the success of “Ted, White and Blue.”
“William Regnery once told his publisher son, ‘If you ever begin to make any money in that business you are going into, you can be pretty sure that you are publishing the wrong kind of books,” writes the reviewer.
“Regnery is now highly profitable, and the elder Regnery’s words loom over such titles as Chuck Norris’s Black Belt Patriotism and Ted Nugent’s Ted, White, and Blue.”
Ted Nugent — from the archives.
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04.01.10
Posted in Extremism, Rock 'n' Roll at 10:04 am by George Smith
Updated
Although the Allentown Morning Call seems not to have yet noticed that local rock band Poker Face was on Hutaree iPods, the rival Easton newspaper, the Express-Times — did. However, even in this, the more interesting stuff on the band — quoted below — was overlooked.
Said the Easton newspaper here:
A group of Christian militants arrested last week for plotting to murder police officers might have been listening to music from the Lehigh Valley while they prepared.
One of the songs by Poker Face, an Allentown-based rock band, has been featured in a militia training video used by Hutaree, the Michigan-based Christian militia group.
Nine members of Hutaree were arrested last weekend for plotting to shoot a police officer then plant homemade bombs at his police funeral and kill even more officers.
Poker Face, a staple of the Lehigh Valley music scene for two decades, dubs itself a “protest rock” band whose mission is “to expose the lies and scandals coming out of the Union’s Capitol,” according to its Web site.
Paul Topete, singer and guitarist for the four-man band, said he has had no interaction with Hutaree or any knowledge about the group’s activities beyond the use of the song.
However, Topete defended militias in general and told the Detroit Free Press the charges against Hutaree “sound like they’re trumped up.”
[Other Poker Face lyrics include] “Rise up! Rise up! Militias throughout the world / It’s time to end The Order’s globalist plans. / The Revolution is the only solution / When good government has gone bad.”
The Detroit Free Press has been covering the Hutaree and a story yesterday had this to say in reference to the Lehigh Valley band:
One of the [Hutaree’s] Facebook friends is Paul Topete, singer of the band Pokerface, from Allentown, Pa. Topete said Tuesday that he has had a few interactions with Hutaree because militia members play his band’s music for training videos.
“These are defensive training videos,” Topete said, describing his music as revolutionary protest rock. “Militias are defensive. We love our country, and we love our constitution, and we are not the ones trying to subvert our country.
Yep, it’s something of an honorific when your protest band calling for removal of “Obamas commie-fascist nation” has its music adapted for white Christian identity militia training videos.
The next comments — bluntly self-impeaching as they are — come from a long interview with Poker Face’s Paul Topete here.
Freedom Fighters will mainly come from the liberty-loving common man, whose ideology can be reduced to Life, Liberty and Property or simpler terms … Freedom vs Tyranny, and no taxation without representation. People from other groups will enjoin the fight, but it will be of convenience, and jumping on a bandwagon. Remember, all –isms of the last 500 years came from and grew out of the Sabbatean-Jewish mindset. Bolshevism, Communism, Socialism, Feminism, Jacobism, Neo-Conism . . . It is these satanic Jews, and the Rosicrucian Goyim henchmen that need to be erased from our planet. They are the cancer that is destroying humanity. All for the sake of greed and power. They want what little you and I have, while we want NOTHING of them or their ill-gotten fortunes. We believe in live, let live, while they practice: just who will get to live in the future.
The satanic Jews as a cancer destroying humanity slip of the tongue certainly stands to win a lot of friends for the band once it gets into even wider circulation.
But there’s more, lots more:
American Patriot talk radio has done a lot for us. Especially after we were attacked by a racist organization called OPP who are funded and directed by everyone’s favorite traitors, the [Anti-Defamation League] & the [Southern Poverty Law Center]. Both organizations should be investigated, tried and imprisoned for their roles in the 1995 Domestic
Terrorism bombing of the Federal Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Instead the false flag patsy Tim McVeigh, took the Lee Harvey Oswald FALL for it.
And a couple years ago, a Poker Face gig was cancelled at Rutgers University, for now obvious reasons.
Topete explains his view of it:
The event at Rutgers University was cancelled on us. We where suppose to have played for the New Jersey State Libertarians. Instead this story about our gig getting canceled by these twats’ efforts reached an international audience and gained Poker Face an even greater listening audience then [sic] before … Thanks to Darnell … We were labelled haters, racists, supremacists, anti-semites for just saying and posting the truth about the holoco$t, the domination of the African slave trade into the New World by Jewish merchants, Israel and NeoCons behind 9/11 events, Globalist forces shoving the North American Union and the Illegal alien Invasion down our throats etc … go to our politically incorrect forum board for yourselves …
Poker Face’s homepage links directly to the “Barnes Review,” an agency devoted to Holocaust denial. It is semi-well known for infamously asserting Hitler was an overlooked candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.
And as if that is not enough, there is Poker Face’s link to an Internet radio broadcast called Pastor Dan, in which long anti-Semitic white Christian identity sermons are served up for consumption. (On their website it’s called ‘Yaweh by Design’.)
In November, the Morning Call newspaper wrote about Poker Face’s new record. The paper somehow managed to miss all of this, accidentally making a good argument that Tribune Company’s firing of everyone it can in editorial for the sake of the bottom line doesn’t make a better product. It’s apparent stripping editorial of experience and talent does not make the place a richer source of accuracy and helpful consumer news.
The Call’s unintentionally hilarious review is here.
Yesterday, DD wrote of it here.
Said the Morning Call of Poker Face:
There is a goofy brilliance on “Peace or War: Songs for the Revolution,??? and I mean that as a compliment. In a time when so many bands sound alike, these guys are following their own road.
Knock, knock — features editor Jodi Duckett! Anyone home?
Commented another website in 2008, on Poker Face’s rocking out for presidential candidate Ron Paul:
In the stuffy world of politics, the Ron Paul campaign has earned the reputation of being something like a raucous, freedom-loving party. A raucous, freedom-loving party with lots of paranoid bigots. So it would probably be more surprising if the band reportedly headlining RonPaulapalooza didn’t have a few teeny-tiny problems with the Jews, who they feel are trying to destroy everybody. The band Poker Face enjoys churning out a hard-chargin’ “freedom rock” that they developed under the influence of Boston, the Beatles, and Frank Zappa, as well as a firm conviction that the Holocaust did not happen and that the Jews are in fact the lead agents of a “Satanic World Order.”
The original announcement at Ron Paul Warroom.
Amusingly understated Morning Call newspaper music blog headline. Ongoing discussion title on Poker Face website: “The Holohaux & the neo-religious CULT of Holohauxianity ~ Witnesses to the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz – there are none.”
Anyway, this friends-of-the-Hutaree thing could be inspiration for more Poker Face material. Now the FBI probably really is watching them.
Poker Face — Morning Call ‘Band of the Week’.
The Morning Call finally gets around to covering Poker Face but still can’t quite puts its finger on all the vexing details.
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