John Mellencamp Tells Us That Freedom Of Speech Shouldn’t Apply To Mean Ol’ Bloggers

The Whistler  •  July 10, 2009

I’ll admit I used to like this guy.
But since 9-11 he’s shown that he’s just another spoiled entertainer who thinks he knows what’s best for us, right down to our First Amendment rights:

“I don’t think people fought and gave their lives so that some guy can sit in his bedroom and be mean. I don’t think that’s what freedom of speech is,” he continued. “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. But somehow it’s turned into ‘I can be an asshole whenever I feel like, say whatever I like, be disrespectful to people and not be courteous.’ It’s not good for our society. Not being courteous is not really freedom of speech. …

Let me address the three parts of his leftist rant that I’ve highlighted above.
First off, John boy, the closest you’ve ever come to a uniform is when you go to a McDonald’s. Don’t sit on your gilded stage and presume to lecture us about what far better men and women than you are or ever will be have died for.
Second – free speech is only for the collective and not the individual? That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard an American say. Let’s only practice free speech in crowds where we can all be heard – and monitored. Good, John. Halfwit.
Third, yeah, I can be an asshole whenever I want whether you like it or not. In fact, I hope you don’t like it. I have that right. Unlike you, however, I consciously avoid doing so, but in your case I’ll make an exception, you babbling, spoiled, liberal fool.
By the way, I linked Cuffy over at Perfunction because they do a great job of pointing out the hypocisy of this imbecile and slicing and dicing him. Click over and enjoy. Mellencamp says much more that’ll get your blood pressure up.
In the meantime, I have several Mellencamp CD’s that I have absolutely no further use for. They’ll make nice targets. Now, that’s entertainment.
First Amendment, meet Second Amendment.

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  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    They’ll make nice targets. Now, that’s entertainment.

    First Amendment, meet Second Amendment.

    May I suggest a nice semi-wadcutter for your repeated pleasure?

    They might even be suitable for framing afterwards?

  • SigFan

    Mellencamp (back when he was Cougar)was the warm-up act at a Doobie Brothers concert I was at WAY back. Nobody really knew who the greasy little punk was then, so he wasn’t getting a lot of crowd reaction. Pissed him off I guess and he started cussing the audience out for not getting into his music. I haven’t had much use for him since then. He has had a couple of catchy tunes over the years, but for the most part he faded to irrelevance years ago for me. When he makes a bonehead statement like this he goes way past irrelevance and into oblivion as far as I’m concerned.

  • sayanything-7715

    What a hypacrite! Writes a political song “What say you” and supports a clown that talks the way he advocates others should not do. “Al Franken”. I hope it “Hurts So Good”.

  • Houston

    Interesting.

    Seems like he is practicing his free speech the same way we are but it’s OK when HE does it, but not when WE do it?

    Logic FAIL!

  • Pilgrim

    Proof,

    May I suggest a nice semi-wadcutter for your repeated pleasure?

    Why waste the money with expensive rounds just to blow up junk, in this case the CD’s of another opinionated overpaid circus clown?

    I’ll just use the cheap target rounds for my .40 Glock. They’ll do the job nicely. I love the smell of the Second Amendment in the morning.

  • e4bannan

    “I don’t think people fought and gave their lives so that some guy can sit in his bedroom and be mean. I don’t think that’s what freedom of speech is,”

    ……………then……………..

    “I believe in freedom of speech but I also have the freedom to say, ‘You’re an idiot.

    Wait….what?

  • Lioncourt

    First off, John boy, the closest you’ve ever come to a uniform is when you go to a McDonald’s.

    Why do you hold him to a higher standard than many of your conservative colleagues.

  • Pilgrim

    Why do you hold him to a higher standard than many of your conservative colleagues.

    I don’t see where “my conservative colleagues” are wanting to curtail freedom of speech.

    Further, this little quote of his might interest you:

    “After every song in Boston, 20,000 people were going, ‘USA, USA.’ I thought, man. I almost asked them to stop, stop doing that. I don’t like it. I don’t like hearing that chant.”

    THAT’S why. Any other questions?

  • Lioncourt

    I don’t see where “my conservative colleagues” are wanting to curtail freedom of speech.

    What does his never serving in the military have anything to do with it?

  • http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

    When is he going to turn over all his money to the collective he espouses?

  • Pilgrim

    Lioncourt:

    Perhaps it’s just that I’m prone to being critical of spoiled limosine liberals who want to dictate to the lower forms of life (that would be you and me in their eyes) how we should speak, think, act, eat, and live.

    Call it “being human”. I don’t like bullies. Never have, never will. And when some entertainer presumes to tell me that I shouldn’t be able to speak freely (he’ll “appoint” someone to speak for me) I’ll be glad to point out his hypocrisy.

    I’m just one of those mean ol’ bloggers, I guess.

  • Lioncourt

    Perhaps it’s just that I’m prone to being critical of spoiled limosine liberals who want to dictate to the lower forms of life (that would be you and me in their eyes) how we should speak, think, act, eat, and live.

    Yet you love the rich people who send the poor people off to war.

    I don’t see where “my conservative colleagues” are wanting to curtail freedom of speech.

    Start a flag burning amendment and see how many of your conservative colleagues want to limit freedom of speech.

  • Pilgrim

    Yet you love the rich people who send the poor people off to war.

    Where did you get that?

    I was one of those “poor people” sent off by the “rich people”. Know what? I wasn’t drafted. I joined. So do all those “poor people” today.

    You logic is flawed. Just more pointless floundering and groping on the part of another leftie.

  • Fatalerror94

    “Collective Rights” is an attempt by liberals to deny us are freedoms and God given rights.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    “I don’t think people fought and gave their lives so that some guy can sit in his bedroom and be mean. I don’t think that’s what freedom of speech is,” he continued. “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. But somehow it’s turned into ‘I can be an asshole whenever I feel like, say whatever I like, be disrespectful to people and not be courteous.’ It’s not good for our society. Not being courteous is not really freedom of speech. …

    Maybe the moron should have been more concerned when the left was ripping GWB to pieces every step of the way. Now that their annointed one is getting pounded they want to call no joy.

  • Pilgrim

    By the way, isn’t Mellonhead looking a little rough in that pic?

    Apparently being opinionated and rich doesn’t stop time, the great equalizer.

  • John Cockers

    Too bad that you feel you can never listen to Mellencamp again because he has a different viewpoint that you. Very immature reaction. An artist says something you don’t agree with and your response is to rid yourself of all of that artist’s CDs. Sad.

  • Pilgrim

    An artist says something you don’t agree with and your response is to rid yourself of all of that artist’s CDs. Sad.

    Yeah. Ain’t that somethin’? Damn shame, isn’t it?

  • Pilgrim

    I’ll repeat his quote from earlier:

    “After every song in Boston, 20,000 people were going, ‘USA, USA.’ I thought, man. I almost asked them to stop, stop doing that. I don’t like it. I don’t like hearing that chant.”

    Yeah, well, I don’t like hearing the voice of someone who became very wealthy from the people he disdains.

    I don’t turn away from entertainers because of their political views as a rule. I like Streisand’s voice, hate her politics. (Go ahead Proof and Whistler, fire away over that one. Heh.) I hate Alex Baldwin’s politics but, damn, he’s fun to watch.

    This is an exception to the rule. Mellencamp is not only a loudmouth, he’s anti-American to boot. Those are words right out of that empty head.

    So, no, I don’t want to hear his stuff. Judge all you want. I’ll try not to lose sleep over it.

  • Onslaught

    Smellinchump may just be trying to gin up some interest in a come back tour.

    Go Michael… err, john.

  • docdave

    Just another so-called celebrity that doesn’t know shit.

  • J.L.

    “Yet you love the rich people who send the poor people off to war.” Uh, those “poor people” joined on their own. You know, the no draft kinda thing? Not that a Lib would ever know about such a hard to find fact.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    So yet another entertainer is arrogantly dismissive and contemptuous of his/her/its audience, looking down on them with disregard and disdain.

    In other news, the sky is blue and John Mellencamp still looks like a refuge from menwholooklikeoldlesbians.blogspot.com.

  • Jamie

    Wow, the writer of this acticle needs anger management class. Just another example of how cruel we are to each other. No wonder the US is sliding down hill fast. People enjoy tearing others down. Successful people that were not born rich inspire me. Oh, yeah, before you get rid of your JM CD’s, I would like to have them. John is a great song writer and doesn’t need your endorsement anyway.

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