“Honesty” isn’t just the title of one of Billy Joel’s best songs — it’s also what he should’ve given his audience in his latest documentary instead of repeating the “very fine people on both sides” hoax.
I spent my Friday evening like any loyal Joel fan would: watching part two of his Billy Joel: And So It Goes documentary on HBO Max. It was just as good as part one until Joel decided to wade into politics.
Talking about President Donald Trump’s 2017 speech in which he condemned white nationalists following the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Joel said he just couldn’t “look away.”
“I had to do something. I was angry. Here they are marching through an American city saying, ‘Jews will not replace us.’ We fought a war to defeat these people! And then when Trump comes out and says, ‘There were very fine people on both sides,’ he should’ve come out and said, ‘Those are bad people.’”
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