its a good job the Velvet Underground are so overrated innit

Well, this sucks, but then Neil Young fell for Reagan and actually campaigned for him when Reagan ran against Carter (despite being Canadian!), and the Ramones described themselves as right-wingers for years. Both came around eventually as the lyrics to "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" and "Keep On Rocking in the Free World" demonstrate. People get boondoggled and make dumb decisions, when you're famous it's just more embarrassing on a large scale.

and james brown supported nixon

Which guaranteed Tricky Dick the wife beating vote.

Not sure why this is suddenly news now - it was discussed on the Velvets forum when the video was released 18 months ago.

news travel slowly from the velvets forum of course

you should report more often!

fuckin lol

aaaghhhh

I thought that it was just Johnny who was right wing, and that Joey and him feuded over it constantly.

CUNT!

Yes not sure why this is suddenly big news.

I've heard that too, but I read an interview with Joey when "Bonzo Goes to Bittburg" came out (I think it was actually in the first issue of Spin, which had Sonic Youth on the cover if I'm remembering right, too) where he explained the song saying (paraphrased, not quoted), "I mean, we're right wingers, but that was just too much to excuse genocide".

After that they sure appeared to get increasingly involved in "liberal" causes.

*The Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker
has spoken for the first time since
local TV footage emerged online suggesting she was a supporter of the Tea Party movement
in the US.

The drummer was filmed at a rally staged by the anti-tax pressure group's supporters and even gave an
interview to a local TV station at the event this summer.

However, speaking to
Riverfronttimes.com, Tucker has denied she is right wing, and is merely voicing her opposition to
President Obama's administration as a dissatistified Democrat voter.

"Anyone who thinks I'm crazy about
Sarah Palin, Bush, etc has made quite the presumption," she declared. "I have voted
Democrat all my life, until I started listening to what Obama was promising and started wondering, 'How the hell will this Utopian dreamland be paid for?' For those who actually believe that their taxes won't go up in order to pay for all this insanity: good luck!"

She added that she did not necessarily hold "conservative views", but judged her politicial stance on an "issue by issue basis".

"I never paid attention to what the hell was going on. My always voting
Democrat was the result of that. My philosophy was and is all politicians are liars, bums and cheats," Tucker
explained. "I make decisions on an issue by issue basis. I'm far more of an independent than a conservative or liberal. I don't agree with all of either side, and I think anyone who claims to is either a fool or a damn liar."

The drummer said she was particularly upset by
Obama trying to pass the buck for America's economic problems.

"I disagree with an administration that for 20 months blames Bush," she explained. "If the President and his minions are so damn smart, why didn't they know the severity of the situation? The president has actually said - and I saw it on video - that they didn't know!"

Tucker admitted she had been surprised by the coverage that had been afforded her news interview, and the reactions to her views.

"I'm stunned that so many people who call themselves liberal yet are completely intolerant," she said. "I thought liberals loved everyone: the poor, the immigrant, the gays, the handicapped, the minorities, dogs, cats, all eye colours, all hair colours! Peace, love, bull! Curious they have no tolerance whatsoever for anyone who doesn't think exactly as they do. You disagree and you're immediately called a fool, a Nazi, a racist. That's pretty fucked up! I would never judge someone based on their political views. Their honesty, integrity, kindness to others, generosity? Yes. Politics? No!"

Tucker, who said she is no longer involved in music, has not heard from any of her one-time bandmates in The Velvet Underground since the incident, but declared: "Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not a fool, a racist, a Nazi. Anyone who knows me knows I'm afraid of flying, afraid of bugs, but not afraid to say what I think."

Liberals are cunts of the highest order. Hypocritical ones at that.