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A little ditzy from the writer of Jack & Diane.
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A little ditzy from the writer of Jack & Diane.
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There are some aspects of the Constitution that are so vaugue as to invite wild speculation but free speech, not so much.
myrenovations on July 9, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Oh, he wrote that tribute to criminals? No wonder he’s a Dem.
jgapinoy on July 9, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Mellonhead sez “those sheeple won’t be compliant and collectivize themselves”.
Fletch54 on July 9, 2009 at 8:48 PM
His songs have no rhythm and I never listen to him anyway.
AbaddonsReign on July 9, 2009 at 8:48 PM
I agree, assholes like him should not have the right to speak.
TheSitRep on July 9, 2009 at 8:50 PM
I used to date his cousin years ago. His own family don’t like him much.
Guardian on July 9, 2009 at 8:50 PM
That saddens me: Mellencamp was the first concert I ever went to. But it’s clear from this quote, he doesn’t understand the power of the internet (and by extension, blogs) is the ability to bring together people of similar interest who otherwise would not have connected (mostly b/c of geographical distance). That, Mr. Mellencamp, is “assembly” at its 2009 finest.
LastRick on July 9, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Collective free speech where their are no individual free speakers? Well then what is the collective collecting?
Limerick on July 9, 2009 at 8:52 PM
And I should have credited in my previous post the book that really got me to understand that concept (internet as a modern assembly):
Army of Davids by Glenn Reynolds
LastRick on July 9, 2009 at 8:54 PM
This man is almost totally incoherent. How can the first amendment be about the “collective” and not the individual? Liberals really really don’t like “one” it’s all about groups.
Cindy Munford on July 9, 2009 at 8:54 PM
“Freedom of speech is really about assembly — for us to collectively have an idea. We want to get our point of view out so we can assemble and I can appoint you to be the spokesman. That’s freedom of speech — to be able to collectively speak for a sector of people.”
– John Cougar Melonhead
Wow! That is about as retarded as anything I’ve ever read. Melonhead is lucky that he’s too stupid to realize how stupid he is. Ignorance, in the degree that Melonhead has it, is truly bliss.
progressoverpeace on July 9, 2009 at 8:54 PM
it’s clear by his quote that he doesn’t understand the first amendment at all. the right to free speech is a right of the individual against oppression by the collective. it’s the right of personal expression, not the right to be represented by a “spokesman.”
vermillionsky on July 9, 2009 at 8:55 PM
An emotionally fragile liberal. Imagine that.
Patrick S on July 9, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Little pinko houses.
km on July 9, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Coulter is right. Liberalism is a disease.
There’s really no other way to explain how so many people can go collectively stupid.
katy on July 9, 2009 at 8:59 PM
John Clueless Mellencamp
Want to see a “meanie” John-boy? Tune in to Olberdouche. Every night for an hour straight he berates and ridicules anyone who opposes his point of view. Same for Chrissy and Maddow.
Quit crying, you big baby.
fogw on July 9, 2009 at 9:01 PM
I bet there is no free admittance to the free assembly where he has been chosen as the speaker through his music.
Cindy Munford on July 9, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Bravo. +1
LastRick on July 9, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Lefties always think democracy should never apply to those that disagree with them…hell, just today one of HA’s resident lefties made the point that we should all be sterilized and/or denied the right to vote.
AUINSC on July 9, 2009 at 9:01 PM
You know, its not that he said freedom of speech isnt freedom to be ignorant or mean (which it most certainly is, mind you)…its that he basically turned freedom of speech into the right to have someone else speak for you, or a whole group of “likeminded” people. Thats absolutely insane. Insane I tell you, insane. Yesterday, I was wondering why the hell I ever came to HotAir at all…today, I’m reminded of exactly why it is I spend time here.
ernesto on July 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Melonhead is going to be very surprised when he finds out that our Constitution is the basis for an individualistic society. All of the rights are directed at individuals and individuals, only. That’s what ticks the left off so much. Half of them think that we are Europe and that political parties are Constitutional entities. Our Founders are weeping at the morons who now infest this nation.
The amount of ignorance that so many Americans have about America is absolutely stunning. And it’s not as if the Constitution is a difficult document to read and understand.
progressoverpeace on July 9, 2009 at 9:04 PM
Yep. After your first sentence, I immediately thought of dcwvu’s comment about not being allowed to vote. Funny that the liberal boilerplate always comes down to the individual getting oppressed (either by his fellow citizen or government).
LastRick on July 9, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Wow, John Mellencamp is a lousy musician AND a complete idiot. Who knew?
Cylor on July 9, 2009 at 9:07 PM
When he added “cougar” to his name I knew he was a pussy & loser to boot. “Puss in Boots”
Americannodash on July 9, 2009 at 9:08 PM
It’s amazing how often I feel like people from another planet are visiting.
Cindy Munford on July 9, 2009 at 9:10 PM
The fruits of other peoples labor, i.e. your money. Of course they are doing it for the children.
DeathB4Tyranny on July 9, 2009 at 9:11 PM
This statement ranks right up there with Sheryl Crowe’s “use one square of toilet paper” on the stupid celebrity scale. These people have way too much time on their hands. Go on tour and trash a hotel room. Don’t engage in politics.
sherry on July 9, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Freedom of speech is the right to have your betters speak for you. And protect you. And give you a job. And take care of you.
Serfdom in its baldfaced reality.
John Mellencamp, you are a coward and a leader of lesser men.
spmat on July 9, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Shallow, callow and fallow.
profitsbeard on July 9, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Around here John has that “Better then you attitude”…his wife is so soft spoken and sweet, I feel for her, every time I see her she looks more miserable then the time before.
christene on July 9, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I wouldn’t mind if they were just visiting
progressoverpeace on July 9, 2009 at 9:28 PM
How a person in the expression business can miss the mark so widely is astonishing to me.
DrSteve on July 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM
That right there really pisses me off.
These smakTards are the first in line to belittle, besmirch and deride people that are ‘too stupid’ to do anything but military service. Although I’m pretty sure MellonHead has shown support for the military, crap like this shows his true colors.
He used to be cool when he was Cougar and sang ‘Hurts So Good’…
BigWyo on July 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM
I was reading comments on the BBC website saying that, to reduce the threat that is global warming, we should have a pandemic – like a deadly flu – that reduces the number of pesky humans on earth. All for the love of Gaia, you understand.
The Khmer Rouge, Mao, Stalin – they were all acting for the greater good. Incredibly, there’s no end to the supply of these psychotics and their brainless followers.
Django on July 9, 2009 at 9:30 PM
From the comments in the link:
John Menstrualcramp
What a major league asshole.
Monica on July 9, 2009 at 9:41 PM
It gets even more silly . I am still not ready to pitch my best of CD….not yet anyway.
CWforFreedom on July 9, 2009 at 9:41 PM
He was born with a small brain.
And he lives with a small brain.
Probably die with a small brain.
Ronnie on July 9, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Cindy Munford on July 9, 2009 at 9:01 PM
Good point. For liberals, it’s always about the money, even as they tell the rest of us not to live that way.
All we need to know about him is that he says he got creeped out when his audience chanted, “USA, USA” after 9-11.
That’s why I don’t give a dime to guys like him.
NebCon on July 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Now that’s funny.
fogw on July 9, 2009 at 9:45 PM
I think his “Little Pink Trousers” must be in a bunch.
DeathB4Tyranny on July 9, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Has-been singer said:
As someone else said – what a totally incoherent bumbling dufus.
He doesn’t even get that in Nazi Germany, they were mass murdering people. Just like has-been singer’s favorite politicians are in favor of regarding infants and old people.
Forget free speech – he is far more demented in his thinking in other areas.
yellow_railroad on July 9, 2009 at 9:46 PM
Yes, they did. As well as for Code Pink and various idiots to protest the war and belittle them. They fight for your right to do that, too. That’s how butt-kicking
our military is.
John the Libertarian on July 9, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Another trust fund socialist. Only dumber then most.
DeweyWins on July 9, 2009 at 9:52 PM
Hey! Mellancamp!
Go diddle yourself!
madmonkphotog on July 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Shut-up and sing, you a-hole!
Randy
williars on July 9, 2009 at 9:55 PM
America is such a mean country, isn’t it, little Johnny Cougar? Cougar. Cougar. Cougar. Cougar.
Sue me.
Buy Danish on July 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Um, yes Jonny boy, and they’re called soldiers, and yes they did fight and die so that you, Whoopi, and all you celebutards can make total asses of yourselves and unfortunately lower all standards of common courtesy and decency in this great country. You are allowed to behave badly in public for our children to see. Yes you are all free to do this and I personally am free to call you an A-hole or an immature socialist dick-head if I want, though not in front of my kids of course! I at least have the common sense and decency not to do that.!
These are part of our freedoms, if you don’t like it, move to another country or try behaving like a grown responsible adult.
4shoes on July 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Maybe Mellencamp can be Obama’s “Mean Czar”.
CWforFreedom on July 9, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Well I was born with a small mind
And I live with a small mind
Prob’ly die with a small mind
Oh, those small…..brain cells of these
JetBoy on July 9, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Thanks for the link, Ed.
I just updated the post with some contemporary newspaper accounts of Mellencamp’s
Nazi rallyconcert in Boston on Sept. 13, 2001.Suffice to say, he really seemed to be eating up the jingoistic adoration of his brownshirted fans, lingering onstage during the “USA! USA!” chants.
Cuffy Meigs on July 9, 2009 at 10:12 PM
That is funny. Ideas are to be collective? What is this, the Borg? Just like a leftist to think that freedom of speech is about the freedom of a “collective” to speak, not for the individual.
Resistance is futile.
keep the change on July 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM
He’s a hypocrite.
I saw him do an interview where he slammed Bush and Cheney – because they were so mean and violent to the poor people in the wonderful middle east. Then he lamented the fact that if he found out that he had only a finite amount of time left on the earth – he’d have to take a trip and beat the hell out of “someone” with his baseball bat.
Of course – that “someone” was Bush and Cheney – he didn’t mention them by name but it was clear who he was talking about. So … uhm – yeah – basket case – because what he said was VERY mean – in fact, threatening.
HondaV65 on July 9, 2009 at 10:55 PM
How I love this thread. “Let Freedom reign!” –George W. Bush
inviolet on July 9, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Isn’t his little diddy about Jack and Diane homophobic?
SouthernGent on July 9, 2009 at 11:14 PM
Freedom is the ability to tell people what they didn’t want to hear. — George Orwell
snaggletoothie on July 9, 2009 at 11:22 PM
It’s actually even worse.
What an unbelievable phony, this self-styled rebel and “badass”, whose chosen vocation (since the days of Elvis) has always been about shooting off your mouth, making trouble, shocking people and offending their “tender sensibilites”. And being proud of it.
Now he now has the temerity to criticize those who are doing the same thing, offending his “tender sensibilites” by choosing not to worship at the altar of his god Obama.
Oh, those people are saying stuff I don’t like. They’re so meeeean. They can’t do that.
John “Fascist” Mellencamp
Oh jeez Johnny, are people being mean? What a wuss.
Unbelievable. What an unbelievable hypocrite and jackass. He always was a phony, self-consciously “rebellious”, creep, anyway. And his over-comercialized music always sucked too.
I used to get a kick out of when he would show up on TV and act “tough” and regale everyone with tales of his “badass” youth. In reality, your average Girl Scout probably could have kicked his ass all over Indiana.
And after this comment he’s totally deserving of censure and boycott. But probably no one buys his crappy music anymore, anyway.
Wonder if anyone on the left, will have the honesty to make note of this little Fascist’s statement and criticize it. I would hope so, but I’m probably being naive.
The fear must be permeating the left even worse than I thought, for someone like Mellencamp (or whatever he calls himself these days) to make such an idiotic and outlandish statement.
Dreadnought on July 9, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Whatever happened to, “I don’t like what you say but I will defend your right to say it.”?
- The Cat
MirCat on July 9, 2009 at 11:24 PM
John Who?
pfft.
tickleddragon on July 9, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Then move to Venezuela dipshit.
infidel4life on July 9, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Hey now…we never say “little diddy”…
JetBoy on July 9, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Yeah, that sounds like Mellencamp. Big talk. I doubt the little wuss could beat the hell out of anyone-even with a baseball bat.
Dreadnought on July 9, 2009 at 11:41 PM
The lights are on but nobody’s home.
infidel4life on July 9, 2009 at 11:43 PM
That sums it up perfectly.
mizflame98 on July 9, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Truly scary. If and when the Constitution is twisted beyond recognition (or dispensed with altogether) by our Progressive courts, these people will either think it’s for the best, or not notice at all.
infidel4life on July 9, 2009 at 11:50 PM
I think we should limit Mellencamp’s freedom of speech. Not only are his songs mediocre, but his blog entries are idiotic. Also, his paintings are atrocious. He definitely has issues.
mizflame98 on July 9, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ. The only trick is understanding which is which.
The first is the result of the hard, calculating attempt to discriminate between alternatives. The second is simply the path of least resistance: following the instinctive urge to agree with the herd — what in humans manifests as a desperate need to find a perceived consensus and ostracize anyone who disputes it.
In other words, liberals are people who have given up the hard and always imperfect work of trying to BE right, and replaced it with the easy and infallible techniques which guarantee they will always FEEL right
People tend to focus on the eventual devastation always caused by collectivism: poverty, concentration camps, etc… But that’s just the tip of the iceburg. Liberalism begins and ends with urge for COLLECTIVE THOUGHT. All of those other things come about as the inevitable result of that.
logis on July 9, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Smellencamp is a disgrace to music and to America.
rickskin on July 10, 2009 at 12:02 AM
I’m so proud to say that I have always, ALWAYS, hated this guy and his music.
connertown on July 10, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Tell it to KOS Johnny.
Geronimo on July 10, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Aaaargh… now I’ve got that stupid song of his going round and round in my head!
Fortunata on July 10, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Good God. I’ve literally seen eight-year-olds with more artistic talent.
You and me both.
Cylor on July 10, 2009 at 2:40 AM
Wow, another liberal attacking society’s most vulnerable minority – the individual. What is it that liberals have against minorities?
The philosophical confusion of leftists starts in their teen years. On the one hand they’re desperately trying to assert their individualism and talking about how they’re never going to be part of any “machine” (I am a name, not a number!) and on the other hand they’re rabbiting on about collective consciousnesses and how we must all rise up as one tribe. Then they get a little older and become outright collectivists (socialism, communism etc), while still paying the most hypocritical lip service to “individualism.”
It’s like make your freaking minds up douchebags.
In reality, the individualism is just a front. Liberals don’t want to be individuals, they’re terrified of thinking or acting alone. They’re petrified of independence and self sufficiency. Deep down they think of themselves as ants in an anthill.
Sharke on July 10, 2009 at 3:04 AM
I say free speech shouldn’t apply to has-been singers!
Arrest him!
Oh,,oh wait,, I’m not in power yet. Oh well.
JellyToast on July 10, 2009 at 7:22 AM
As always, liberals define hate speech as being anything that they disagree with.
Speakers that they agree with, no matter how noxious their language, are never guilty of hate.
Just speaking truth to power.
MarkTheGreat on July 10, 2009 at 8:05 AM
When I hear (or read) comments like this from artists that America has showered with riches for what honestly amounts to mediocre talent I think perhaps it’s not so bad that I never had the success that they did. Because I would truly hate to be viewed as the peer of douche bags like Mellonhead or Sprunkstunk.
doriangrey on July 10, 2009 at 8:32 AM
That’s the problem with liberal thought. When I was younger, liberal meant that you were thoughtful. Today, it means you’re confused by your thought process. Mellencamp has confused himself to death.
I don’t recall ever reading meaner or more vile comments than from Huffpo, Kos and the like. Nor have I ever witnessed more despicable, vicious attacks on an individual than from the MSM, Olbermann, late night comics who all wanted to savagely eat the flesh off Sarah Palin & family.
Michael Jackson’s glossed over memorial service was a reminder to which there should be little doubt … all liberals are deranged.
kregg on July 10, 2009 at 8:38 AM
John Mellen Cougarcamp can’t even decide on his own name. I think he’s trying to re-invent himself, like most artists do when they’ve run out of gas. I think “Sharke’s” 3:04 am post above, pretty much nails it. Well put.
ronnyraygun on July 10, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Actually they think of themselves as RULERS of the ants in the anthill. They have no intention of THEMSELVES being subject to anything that they wish to impose on us.
Ask Obama why he puts his daughters in private school but denies other black Americans in DC the same choice?
And John Mellonhead would certainly cry foul if his own anti-conservative, anti American rhetoric were censored…
wildcat84 on July 10, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Mellencamp may be a great recording artist, who’s written some inspired work that could have a broader philosophical appeal. But as one also born-and-bred in the Midwest, I can tell you his claims as a hardscrabble voice of the American heartland is a bunch of nonsense. Let’s get past how he appears in the truck commercials. There are a few pockets of bohemianism amidst the provincial life of Indiana, and Mellencamp’s college town of Bloomington is one of them.
Putting a guy in worn out jeans and a tee-shirt doesn’t make them a spokesman for the peasant class. You can do as much with a cardboard cutout.
manwithblackhat on July 10, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Conservatives dream about doing things, which is why so many of them end up in business, the military, woodsy things, etc.
Liberals dream about telling other people what to do, which is why they end up disproportionately in government, journalism, and academia.
Elitist liberals like Melonhead are also insulated from the consequences of their ideas by armies of sycophants, and the fact that they almost never talk to anyone but like-minded journalists, so they don’t quite realize how idiotic they are.
Merovign on July 10, 2009 at 9:13 PM