"NOTE TO GOP: LET IT BE" It's big news what Paul McCartney

said about bush but does everyone know what bush said earlier the same day?

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.."But the right seems surprisingly worked up about this. Not only did National Review run a couple of angry items, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), the man who intends to be Speaker of the House this time next year, went so far as to issue a public statement, calling on Paul McCartney to "apologize to the American people for his conduct."

Seriously.

There are a few competing angles to this, but I'd like to emphasize just one. The same day McCartney told a harmless joke about George W. Bush's limited intellect, George W. Bush boasted about having ordered torture as president, and insisted he wouldn't change a thing if he had it to do over again.***

So, just so we're clear, a musician telling a Bush-is-dumb joke generates a fair amount of outrage in some conservative circles. A former president admitting to ordering torture -- bragging about utilizing a technique that the United States has long considered criminal, and has even prosecuted -- is completely fine.

One, in Boehner's mind, requires an apology; the other is a source of partisan pride.

There's something deeply wrong with this picture.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_06/024111.php#1780436

***Paul was being kind.

Something is totally wrong with that picture. I don't get it, and I don't know how they do it, but they keep doing it.

was recently broadcast on PBS and this bears repeating.

Loved Elvis Costello, Jack White, Stevie Wonder! Oh man... can you imagine? You're on stage singing Paul's songs in front of Paul and the POTUS and his family!?!??! No pressure!!! LOL!!!

I cried too..it was so beautiful!~ Corrine Bailey Rae & Herbie Hancock doing Black Bird ..Paul & Stevie "Ebony & Ivory"..:cry: :)

Just reading your post about it!

I've always had a special place in my heart for Stevie.