[lbo-talk] A More Informal Poll, And Far Creepier

[mike larkin]

"There had been glimmers earlier. At a MoveOn.org
event a week before the convention opened, a
star-studded affair in an old Manhattan theater,
Natalie Merchant had prefaced a song by noting that
her antiwar and progressive views were not popular out
there in America, sounding almost as if she were Pete
Seeger in 1953.

A week earlier, Michelle Shocked (an altogether edgier
number than Ms. Merchant) said roughly the same thing
during a coffeehouse performance on the East End of
Long Island: she often “got into trouble” when she
reminded her audience that we were “about to pound the
s**t out of a town in Iraq.” (This was when the
Marines were in Najaf.) Not a poll, to be sure, but
perhaps more valuable, this was testimony by
well-traveled performers who are highly sensitive to
their audiences. When some
“take-the-war-to-the-terrorists” guy felt like
shouting for Michelle or Natalie to take her politics
and shove it, he felt no peer pressure constraining
him from doing so. It wasn’t the 1960s."

http://www.amconmag.com/2004_09_13/feature.html

		
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