Yoko begs for forgiveness in full-page Sunday Times ad
posted at 10:33 pm on November 25, 2006 by Allahpundit
For breaking up the world’s greatest band, inflicting decades of unlistenable “art” upon an unwilling populace, and being a shameless media whore?
No, actually, she wants forgiveness … for “us.”
Directing her words to “people who have lost loved ones without cause,” to “the soldiers of all countries and of all centuries,” to civilians who were injured or killed and to “people who have been abused or tortured,” Ono wrote “Know that your loss is our loss … Know that the burden is ours,” and asked “Forgive us.”
I don’t think by “us” she means America. She means some sort of cosmic Us, which implies a Them who’s been aggrieved by Us, but that doesn’t make much sense since we’re all part of Us, including Them. So how can they be aggrieved? Unless she’s saying they’re partly to blame for their own grievances.
Which I don’t think she is. Too bad, because it’s a pretty profound point.
What she’s really trying to say is it’s time to come together.
Blowback
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I’d forgive her if she’d shut up long enough.
Pablo on November 25, 2006 at 10:37 PM
I do think that when she says “us” she means Evil Fascist Amerikkka.
Lehuster on November 25, 2006 at 10:37 PM
Which is worse: her “singing” or that photo of her naked on the album cover?
Janos Hunyadi on November 25, 2006 at 10:37 PM
Look into the Glass Onion.
infidel4life on November 25, 2006 at 10:50 PM
Why is Jesus playing a guitar in that clip?
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So help me; if someone posts another Sims clip, I’m gonna strangle someone!
lorien1973 on November 25, 2006 at 11:00 PM
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If she feels so bad and wants to apologize, why doesn’t she do something productive besides wasting big $$$$ on a full page ad in a newspaper?
lorien1973 on November 25, 2006 at 11:04 PM
Imagine there’s no Yoko. It’s easy if you try.
thedecider on November 25, 2006 at 11:08 PM
…is it possible to be both irrelevant *AND* monumentally evil at the same time? Can you be *BOTH* a creative vacuum while at the same time being definite and constant source of pure bilge?
The myth that Lennon was a genius and that the Beatles were never-endingly relevant has saddled us with the Wicked Witch of Central Park West. Do people obsess about Andrews Sisters or Bennie Goodman? Do people light candles and sway for Charlie Parker or “Fats” Waller?
Louis Armstrong was a ground-breaker…let’s trot out one of his widows to torment us.
This will only die when this self-fascinated generation finally grows up. We live in hope.
Puritan1648 on November 25, 2006 at 11:20 PM
incoherent. babbling.
stevezilla on November 25, 2006 at 11:22 PM
…priceless….
*om*…*OM*…*OOOOOMMMMMMMM*…*OMMMMMM*…*OMMMMM*….
…no…still see her and Lennon from that album sleeve. I can sort of see what that Thai monk of a couple of threads ago had in mind….
*oooooOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMmmmmm*
Puritan1648 on November 25, 2006 at 11:26 PM
Well, I won’t forgive her for that myself–you’d be cured of this madness today if she’d just let them go on and degenerate into non-novelty, kind-of-tired status like everybody else. Everybody loves a James Dean.
Anwyn on November 25, 2006 at 11:26 PM
At least she hasn’t got that long to wait.
Laura on November 25, 2006 at 11:37 PM
She is going to start sounding like Mother Sheehan pretty soon. After all, Cindy was “thankful that the universe chose her to do what she does.”
Mallard T. Drake on November 25, 2006 at 11:51 PM
This hes nothing to do with Yoko, it’s just a good song.
Scot on November 25, 2006 at 11:56 PM
Never cared that much for the band, paid even less attention to her.McCartney was OK,but they made a mess of the Songwriter/Performer program, among other things.
bbz123 on November 26, 2006 at 12:01 AM
…something positive in a thread about Yoko…I didn’t think it possible, and you pulled it out…props….
OK…that was definitely Linda with Paul…I suspect that was Patti with Georoge…I have no idea which of Ringos wives that was…but John and Yoko in those capes. With that *OOOOOGLY*, mannish face, cape and that hair, she looks like a cross between a male gorilla and a stoned hobbit.
My apologies to gorillas and hobbits everywhere for the comparison…and, if you meet and have children, tell them to say “no” to drugs….
Puritan1648 on November 26, 2006 at 12:11 AM
I agree with Scot, I love the beatles and that’s a great song.
But WTF was up in the 70s? Why was looking like a bum popular?
lorien1973 on November 26, 2006 at 12:15 AM
Ah well, just another tinfoil mad hatter heard from…
NRA4Freedom on November 26, 2006 at 12:46 AM
Ahhh, ya. Whatever.
MalkinFan on November 26, 2006 at 2:06 AM
Paul wasn’t barefoot in that last shot. That kills the greatest conspiracy theory of all time.
Coyote D. on November 26, 2006 at 2:35 AM
You have got to be kidding me… I will never understand the attraction people have for the bugs and rush.
Not one of their songs has ever made any sense to me other than double talk gibberish, but people will fall all over themselves to proclaim that the beatles/rush is the sh*t…
I will give them credit that what they played, THEY PLAYED, and not some beat box backgrounds like 99% of the crap that is coming out today, but what they were singing about… crapola…
And before you dismiss me out of hand, I’ve heard every tune either group has made when it FIRST hit the radio airwaves, and have held the same opinion for over 30 years…
MOMinuteman on November 26, 2006 at 3:41 AM
Here and Here
Have at it :)
Gwillie on November 26, 2006 at 4:06 AM
John went through some crazy phases, but I want to believe there was a closet conservative hidden in there somewhere (listen to Goodnight, Revolution, Grow Old With Me). In his last months he even spoke out against “isms” (refering to whatever “social protest” movement was going on at the time, I can’t remember which). He was searching, and smart – while Yoko was always a hopeless Ur-moonbat nut, and the huge, obnoxious albatross around his artist-neck. I can’t imagine what Paul really feels about her.
Halley on November 26, 2006 at 5:07 AM
She can go to hell.
georgej on November 26, 2006 at 5:33 AM
“Us” is shorthand for all the people involved in disseminating her “music.”
Jim Treacher on November 26, 2006 at 7:19 AM
Sorry guys but, I was never very fascinated by the Beatles, who I think, along with Elvis, were and are vastly overrated. No-talent, Orangutan girl Yoko, obviously a very big legend in her own mind, should turn her unique singing? talents to some useful purpose and work as a banshee at some obscure Irish castle. Seems to me she runs with the same Eurotrash crowd that saw such remarkable genius in old “soup can” Warhol.
Sam on November 26, 2006 at 7:51 AM
Another dip s*** exastentialist asshat. I saw that late last night before you posted here Alla and I said the same thing:”us?”. All the problems in the world stem from the base root of sin. Most of the big ones are members in the UN of dick-tatorial countries that demonically kill their people.
Look at what these crazed Arabs are doing to one another in Iraq and Afganistan. And your post on the Suicide Granny just about encapsulates the whole friggin problem: Its a culture of death and destrution and the mulocracies are the winners in creating the havoc they do. Oh, that we would just wipe them out like we did in WWII. I mean what do we have to decipher out of “Death To America?” Duh.
Yoko and her ilk would be speaking out of the other sides of their hypocrtical mouths if they were under Sharia. Just like all the other Limosine Libs. Asshats.
auspatriotman on November 26, 2006 at 10:06 AM
“…the Watusi…..the Twist………..ElDorado?”
Yokos’ logic comes off like a really old bad website with infinite annoying pop-ups.
Coronagold on November 26, 2006 at 10:29 AM
Hmmm, prolific songwriters who performed in perfect two and three part harmony and changed the face of music overnight, and forever. Their music and lyrics constantly evolved, reflecting the tumultuous times we lived in.
Beats the crap out of half-naked bitches girating around their man while he speaks in repetitive rhymes of his sexual prowess and selfish desires.
Guess you had to be there to truly appreciate the music revolution of the late 60′s and early 70′s.
fogw on November 26, 2006 at 10:30 AM
Frank Zappa’s Playground Psychotics CD is a live album from the early 70s. On it there is a song titled “An Eternity With Yoko Ono.” John and Yoko made a guest appearance at a 1971 show at the Fillmore. “An Eternity With Yoko Ono” is a long jam during which Yoko was tied up in a sack. I don’t know if she was
wailingsinging during all this or not. If I was at the show, that would have been time for the beer run.Mallard T. Drake on November 26, 2006 at 11:14 AM
“Take this, brother, may it serve you well.”
After nearly 40 years, “Revolution #9″ still spooks me. It reminds me of an unending nightmare. And Yoko’s voice and handiwork is prominent throughout the whole thing.
I skip right over it whenever it is in my CD player. And I have never imported it into iTunes. I’d hate to have it come up during a song shuffle.
Gottafang on November 26, 2006 at 11:29 AM
will “coming together” involved listening to her horrid music?
Metro on November 26, 2006 at 11:35 AM
She needs to go on a USO tour to Al-Quada, Hamas, Hizballah, Syria, and Iran and sing SING SING to their jihadist leaders to “Give Peace a Chance”.
I’m sick of her preaching to us.
Preach to them Yoko, Preach to the Islam Jihadists or shut the hell up.
(I think even John woulda dumped her by now and been all for kicking some Islamic Jihadist ass)
flagwaver on November 26, 2006 at 11:56 AM
“pretty profound point”???
I suppose so if one enjoys being lost in the logical equivalent of a house of mirrors.
Should we pour a cup of cocoa, grab a cheap lighter and join you in the mosh pit Kumbaya Korus?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that …
prairiemain on November 26, 2006 at 3:23 PM
Maybe that “Us” was similar to “We”, like, dude, you know, – The “Royal We” ??
Dan866 on November 26, 2006 at 4:16 PM
Whirled peas is a tough sale, Yoko OhNo.
What has she ever done besides snag an already rich, famous and married John Lennon?
doingwhatican on November 26, 2006 at 5:38 PM
….uuugh…somebody hold my hair……
seejanemom on November 26, 2006 at 7:35 PM
Us and Them? Isn’t that Pink Floyd?
I’ve been dying to post this somewhere and a post about Yoko Oh No is about as good a place as any.
Remember: In the end the love you take is equal to the Love you make…
Joe on November 27, 2006 at 1:03 PM