Move over Chris Matthews, here comes Sir Paul McCartney.
Matthews has been unceremoniously knocked off the Fawning Obama Perch by a more high profile fawn.
Matthews only got a tingling down his leg from Barack Obama. McCartney, who predicts having a case of the nerves when he performs at the White House tonight, can’t get over performing “like three feet away” from the American president.
Not good enough for McCartney to be feted at the White House by fellow musicians, Faith Hill, the Jonas Brothers, Elvis Costello and Herbie Hancock, among others, McCartney gave a Tuesday presser, main message of which was for critics to “Lay Off “Great Guy” Obama!”
“I’m a big fan, he’s a great guy. So lay off him, he’s doing great.” (ABC News, June 2, 2010).
Before “The Won” lets the message go to his Messianic head, McCartney has followed one cult or another his entire life.
First came the Beatles’ adulation of the late Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the “Giggling Guru”, so named for his high-pitched laughter during television interviews.
About the levitating guru of Transcendental Meditation fame, McCartney once said: “We made a mistake. We thought there was more to him than there was. He’s human. We thought at first that he wasn’t.”
The same could be said about Guru Obama.
In later years, McCartney, like his friend Prince Charles, went organic and vegetarian and was once appalled when a buckshot-touting farmer in response to being reminded who McCartney was, blurted out: “I don’t give a damn who you are, get off my land.”
The ex-Beatle is the first non-American Gershwin Prize recipient, the Prize being named after the songwriting duo George and Ira Gershwin.
“It’s fantastic for me to be here because as a little kid I grew up listening to the music of the Gershwin Brothers and loved it and had no idea, of course, that one day I might be in such a place, getting an honor such as this,” McCartney said at yesterday’s press conference. “I wouldn’t have believed you if you had told me as a kid growing up in Liverpool that this would happen. So it’s very special for me.”
Believe it. If Barack Obama can win the Noble Peace Prize, anyone can take home The Prize.
Perhaps while he’s in DC, McCartney can live up to his lectures on environmentalism by advising Michelle Obama that she should lay off the human sludge as a fertilizer in her White House organic garden.
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Move over Chris Matthews, here comes Sir Paul McCartney.
Matthews has been unceremoniously knocked off the Fawning Obama Perch by a more high profile fawn.
Matthews only got a tingling down his leg from Barack Obama. McCartney, who predicts having a case of the nerves when he performs at the White House tonight, can’t get over performing “like three feet away” from the American president.
Not good enough for McCartney to be feted at the White House by fellow musicians, Faith Hill, the Jonas Brothers, Elvis Costello and Herbie Hancock, among others, McCartney gave a Tuesday presser, main message of which was for critics to “Lay Off “Great Guy” Obama!”
