Pat Boone, no stranger to right-wing and fundamentalist Christian causes, has come out of the closet: he’s a birther–”not one of those politically correct failed to condemn a birther types, but a full bore “Photoshopped birth certificate, millions to hide his records” BIRTHER.
Various news sources have reported the story (which I wasn’t going to report thinking “well he would, wouldn’t he?” until it got so much coverage).
“I was in Kenya a year and a half ago and everybody said, ‘You know, he was born here,”’ Boone, a proud member of the Beverly Hills Tea Party told us last night.
Boone even had some new theories including that the “head of documents” for the State of Hawaii stated under oath that there was no long-form birth certificate on file (I presume he confused Tim Adams’s job in Hawaii).
Tea Party activist Boone, 77, made this declaration at a Tea Party meeting, recorded by The San Francisco Chronicle this past weekend.
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inresting that these Jesus lovers are so full of Hate.
Is it just me, or do I detect a rise in hysteria by the birthers lately?
They are reduced to slumming with tabloids and washed up old celebrities.
Has Pat Boone had a medical checkup lately, one thast would have looked for signs of alzheimers?
I almost recorded with Pat Boone once.
At the performance that was to serve as an ‘audition’ the piano was so out of tune that the choir director decided that it was a deliberate professional insult and walked out.
I don’t think Pat released his Christmas Album that year.
mr white bucks has been crooning birfer hate for years and has been with wnd since 2005:
“the mosque at 1600 pennsylvania avenue”
“mr obama, show us your birth certificate”
“the president without a country”
via wikipedia:
Pat Boone also was a Y2K survivalist.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-may-10-1999/boone-to-mankind
There has been an upsurge in Google Alerts lately.
Yeah, Pat Boone has been an open paranoid conspiracy nut, RW religious extremist and open bigot for a long, long time.
I don’t know if he was sane at one time in his youth, but he sure seems to have been a senile and fearful hate-worshipping old nutty fart for a few decades now.
Maybe Boone blames the liberal Hollywood elites for his stalled career? It must suck to have lived the last 50 years as a has-been.
Boone’s career proves evolution.
Sadly, celebrity is no proof against dementia. Often the opposite, in fact.
Well considering he made a living stealing songs from black people its no wonder now that they have rights and can have their own music out in the public domain Boone has less he can steal.
It’s just depressing to see these oldsters so terrified of “the brown people” and the reality of an ever-changing world that they will latch on to any fantasy, no matter how deranged and disgusting, to soldier on in a non-existent war their supposedly Christian souls desperately lust for.
“The Flanders’ house is so weird. It’s like our house, but everything has a weird Pat Boone-ish quality.”
And I would bet that Jesus and all of his disciples had brown skin considering they were Middle Eastern Jews.
The only thing about Pat Boone I find interesting is that his daughter showed that being a has-been can be a genetic condition.
I hope someday soon Miley Cyrus confirms that.
And no long form birth certificate.
I’d be willing to be Jesus had no birth documentation at all. A manger–yeah, right. Anyone ever hear a lamer cover story?
And just try to get a paternity test from the father. LOL.
To be fair, it would have been the A&R men at the record companies that ‘stole’ the songs. To my knowledge, Boone’s records were never described as anything less than cover versions of already existing songs. He was certainly not much of a song writer himself (very few artists were at the time). Elvis’ actually ‘stole’ more songs than Boone.
Please do not read this as a defense of Boone’s political stance or his ignorance. I’m just giving credit where credit is due.
You’re correct. Boone’s reputation for recording covers of songs written or recorded by black artists has been exaggerated a bit over the years. if you check out his discography, he recorded Fats Domino’s “Ain’t That a Shame” (also recorded by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Tanya Tucker, and The Four Seasons); Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” (also recorded by Elvis) and “Long Tall Sally” (also recorded by Elvis, Eddie Cochran, and The Beatles) and Ivory Joe Hunter’s “I Almost Lost My Mind” (recorded by at least twenty different white artists); and a few less well-known songs. He also had hits with decidedly non-black tunes such as “Love Letters in the Sand,” “Bernadine,” “April Love,” and “Moody River.”
I don’t believe that he ever wrote any of his own songs, although he did write lyrics to the theme from “Exodus.”
Who ever heard of a “natural born Saviour” requirement? *lol*
In fact, given all the “X is not really X” stories (as in “Obama is the son of Malcolm X” or “Paul McCartney is dead), I wonder why there isn’t a “church of the true Christ” that claims Jesus wasn’t really Jesus but an imposter who stole the limelight from the real son of God…
True but that certainly IS one job that actually HAS a “the right parents” requirement.
There is. The Mandaeans. They considered John the Baptist to be the Messiah and Jesus to be the anti-Christ!
do we have a love connection, chuck?
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/pat-boone-and-orly-taitz.jpg
OC Weekly has an article on Boone out yesterday titled:
Pat Boone Jumps Aboard Orly Taitz’s Birther Crazy Train
and check out this photo:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/pat-boone-and-orly-taitz.jpg
Orly Taitz is reporting on her meetings with congressional staff and legal counsel on the birtherreport web site. Already there is controversy (of course). The headlines say that she meet with members of Congress, she claims to have met with staff and a single poster to birtherreport says that she met with no one other than receptionists as she dropped off birther materials for them to read.
From a post at the Orly Taitz’s meetings thread at birtherreport.com
“A call was place to each office Orly Taitz had meetings to thank them for giving her time to present her evidence. The response that was received after thanking them for having a sit down with her was that no one in their offices met with her. She just dropped of materials and left.
But don’t take my word for it. Call for yourselves. They said they’d already had several phone calls from Orly’s supporters but that we were all given the wrong impression if Orly said that she actually had meetings with anyone other than the office receptionist to hand off her materials.
Remember that Deep Purple classic “Smoke on the Water”? I’d listened to it for years and could never understand the lyrics . . . until Pat Boone released his own version of the song on the album “In a Metal Mood” (1997). Check out Pat’s painfully articulate cover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QS9aU0ONgA&feature=related
Now that Pat’s gone birther, I expect “In a MENTAL Mood” to drop by Christmas. One can only guess at the songs . . . “The Wang-Dang Orly Taitzer Tango,” “Why Must I Be a Septuagenarian in Love,” “(Obama’s) The Great Pretender,” “I Orly Have Eyes for You,” “How Much is that B.C. in the Window?,” “That’s All Right Obama,” “Wake Up Little Orly,” “The Little White Cloud that Cried (because a black man was president).”
And finally; you know when you sing the lyrics to a song based on what you thought you heard, only to learn later what they really are? Here’s what I thought the lyrics to the opening verses of “Smoke on the Water” were:
We all came out to mountains,
On way to meet the shoreline.
To make records in a Motown,
We didn’t have much desire.
Frank tapped upon the mountains,
He had the best base in town
Til some sister in a fair gown
She burned the the place to the ground.
Boy that is some Mondegreen! You really weren’t paying attention, were you?