Comic Timing
Founded in 1990 in response to a wave of attacks on freedom of speech and artistic expression...
Ah, good old Rock the Vote. Rallying Frank Zappa fans and hair metal devotees to battle busybody senator's wife Tipper Gore (and somehow, years later, campaign covertly for her husband), the "nonpartisan" group has evolved from defender of unstickered W.A.S.P. album covers to adovocacy of, well, everything Democratic.
Rock the Vote's mission, apparently, is to get young people involved in politics. With Parental Advisory stickers a given, though (I like the one on Aphex Twin's instrumental Windowlicker EP), the group has turned to issue-based mailings. Since the election, Rock the Vote has advocated for extending Election Day to a week, teamed with AARP to hawk "I Heart Social Security [Just the Way It Is and I Oppose Any Attempt at Reform]" T-shirts, and warned of the "nuclear option" against filibusters: You need to know about this. Nice timing, though -- just as the news sites were posting news of the Senate compromise, RTV was hitting the Send button. (Interestingly, RTV's online poll on the issue is running in favor of going nuclear, with most voting, "Senators were voted into office by their constituents, and filibusters are a violation of the democratic process preventing them from doing their jobs.") Apparently kids these days don't know what real rock and roll is all about: blocking judicial nominees.
Anyhoo, like all popular-arts-based groups that feel compelled to celebrate their own questionable relevance, the nonpartisan group is holding an awards ceremony, "honoring leaders who inspire a new generation (in a nonpartisan way, of course). Noted nonpartisan political think tank Black Eyed Peas will headline and perhaps perform their hit Down Syndrome awareness-builder "Let's Get Retarded," and Bill Clinton will be honored for inspiring a new generation (to consider the lyrics to the Meatmen's Blowjobs Ain't Cheatin.'). Also honored will be "maverick" (i.e. left-leaning) Senator John McCain.
Oh, did I mention tickets start at $250? Turns out politicians and washed-up rockers do share some common ground.
Ah, good old Rock the Vote. Rallying Frank Zappa fans and hair metal devotees to battle busybody senator's wife Tipper Gore (and somehow, years later, campaign covertly for her husband), the "nonpartisan" group has evolved from defender of unstickered W.A.S.P. album covers to adovocacy of, well, everything Democratic.
Rock the Vote's mission, apparently, is to get young people involved in politics. With Parental Advisory stickers a given, though (I like the one on Aphex Twin's instrumental Windowlicker EP), the group has turned to issue-based mailings. Since the election, Rock the Vote has advocated for extending Election Day to a week, teamed with AARP to hawk "I Heart Social Security [Just the Way It Is and I Oppose Any Attempt at Reform]" T-shirts, and warned of the "nuclear option" against filibusters: You need to know about this. Nice timing, though -- just as the news sites were posting news of the Senate compromise, RTV was hitting the Send button. (Interestingly, RTV's online poll on the issue is running in favor of going nuclear, with most voting, "Senators were voted into office by their constituents, and filibusters are a violation of the democratic process preventing them from doing their jobs.") Apparently kids these days don't know what real rock and roll is all about: blocking judicial nominees.
Anyhoo, like all popular-arts-based groups that feel compelled to celebrate their own questionable relevance, the nonpartisan group is holding an awards ceremony, "honoring leaders who inspire a new generation (in a nonpartisan way, of course). Noted nonpartisan political think tank Black Eyed Peas will headline and perhaps perform their hit Down Syndrome awareness-builder "Let's Get Retarded," and Bill Clinton will be honored for inspiring a new generation (to consider the lyrics to the Meatmen's Blowjobs Ain't Cheatin.'). Also honored will be "maverick" (i.e. left-leaning) Senator John McCain.
Oh, did I mention tickets start at $250? Turns out politicians and washed-up rockers do share some common ground.
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