Frightening elderly thrash-rocker stalks nice Nevada congresslady

The 60 Plus Association, which is some thing for wingnut geezers (or should that be geezer wingnuts?), is running ads against several Democrats who voted for the House health care reform bill, including Nevada's very own Dina Titus.

The group is fronted by Pat Boone, who apparently is still alive. Boone was briefly famous in the middle of one of the centuries before this one for being a polite clean-cut singer of trite ditties who was wholly devoid of any musical taste or artistic sensibility. He later would deteriorate into a destructive lifestyle of booze, drugs and whores but, ironically, still no taste or sensibility. Or not? Not that familiar with his biography really.

Anyway, the 60 Plus Association has a poem which suggests the capacity for appreciating literature among senior citizens is comparable to an average 5 year-old's, so that's pretty condescending and offensive. But mostly I'm just seizing this opportunity to run that picture of Pat during his metal period.

Comments

[Happygirl]

Pathetic. Doesn't Boone have anything else to do, like release more dreadful albums?

[Nevada Ned]

Gleaner, I had Pat Boone and his music inflicted on me in the 1950's and 1960's. Naturally I hate him.

But now, a different perspective:
Is it an actual fact that Pat Boone
"deteriorated into a destructive lifestyle of booze, drugs, and whores", as you claim?

If true, that will cause me to reevaluate Pat Boone. And possibly rehabilitate him, at least in my eyes.

Well, he OD'd on religion, that IS an established fact.

[Michael Green]

Pat Boone's father-in-law was Red Foley, a tremendous singer, known mainly in country music, and a handy man with a bottle. So, it seems fair to me that if Pat Boone wants to question other people's morality, even if he behaved well, he should be attacked for marrying into a family with alcohol problems.

By the way, if this group's wish had been fulfilled and Bush had privatized Social Security, do they realize that the seniors they now claim to be protecting would now all be starving, and thus Bush's action would have been the equivalent of one of Sarah Palin's death panels?

[dave404]

Gleaner,

If one uses the 'poem' link they will be take to the "60 Plus" web site, which seem to have lived from 2000-2006 and then died as far as updating their website or activities! Look at that site, it stopped functioning years ago! Though in 2008 they received $1.8m and is run by James and Robert Martin [guidestar].

Also,
"However, a 2006 report in the AARP Bulletin called 60 Plus a front group for the pharmaceutical industry. 60 Plus, along with Senior Coalition and United Seniors Association, "claim to speak for millions of older Americans, although as recently as 2001 none of the three listed any revenue from membership dues on their tax returns." The article added: "virtually all of their largest contributions in recent years have come from the same source -- the nation's pharmaceutical industry.
60 Plus president Jim Martin claims to have given then-"Texas Gov. George W. Bush his first political job ..."
[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=60_Plus_Association]

Here is something you don't see every day, a non profit claiming $1,156,510 in 2008 (about 64% of their 2008 donations!!!!!) for "expenses-escrow parking" [I must send in a notice to IRS on this issue and raise the bullshit flag!!!!] And another expense of $69,533 for escrow!

Hey, Gleaner, I file IRS fraud forms on several organizations a year, and tomorrow, I'll be submitting a form on "60 Plus"!!

Thank you for inspiring me to research a group I had not known!

[The REAL GOP]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sHkOxT_E5M&feature=player_embedded

[atdleft]

So people still pay attention to a guy who got his career start by stealing other people's music and marketing it as his own in an era when "black music" was "taboo"?

[ColinFromLasVegas]

I'm with happygirl. I agree with her.

I kind of lean toward 1960s/1970s old classic rock and roll, miscellaneous jazz and serious blues music. I had one young kid ask me, "Why do you listen to dinosaur rock?" I replied seriously, "Because it's good stuff. Just call me Tyrannosaurus (four letter word expletive)ing Rex."

Pat Boone has NEVER been on my list of music to listen to. And if he is, then it is a very last priority.

So, why should I pay attention to any stupid political leaning (or anything) he says?

[Scorpiogal]

@ atdleft,
Tru dat! Slim Shady said it best:

"I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley
to do black music so selfishly
and used it to get myself wealthy..."

[Goldy]

Pat Boone. Now there is a name that prior to The Gleaner's article could certainly be used in Goldy's new game "Dead or Gay." Here are the rules: Below are names of famous people. Without using Al Gore's internet, see if you can tell who is dead, who is gay, or in the bonus round, who is both. You don't need famous people to play. Pull out your high school year book and play with an old friend or two...ready:

1. Johny Mathis
2. Kurt Vonnegut
3. Sidney Sheldon
4. Giorgio Armani
5. Morrisey
6. Richard Jeni
7. Merv Griffin
8. Pat Boone
9. insert funny local name here

[Erwynn]

Dont be a wisenheimer and put Mike Slanker as number 9. That isn't funny.

[Nevada Ned]

Pat Boone really is a political nut. Here's proof:

Well, we've known for some time that Pat Boone has gone wingnutty, but his latest column for the wingnutty WorldNetDaily is one of the most vile pieces of eliminationist rhetoric to come down the pike in awhile:

[Start of quote from Pat Boone]
"In time, it seems to happen to all older houses, no matter how well tended they may be."
"All manner of parasites, vermin, roaches, rats, worms and termites find their way into the building. Long before they're detected, they infiltrate the walls, the floors, the roofs – and then chew their way into the structure, the supporting beams and the very foundation of the house itself. Silently, surreptitiously, whole communities of invaders make places for themselves, hidden but thriving, totally unknown by the homeowner."
.....
"What can be done, when you learn that your house has already been invaded?"
"Well, the tried and true remedy is tenting."
"Experts come in, actually envelope the whole dwelling in a giant tent – and send a very powerful fumigant, lethal to the varmints and unwelcome creatures, into every nook and cranny of the house. Done thoroughly, every last destructive insect or rodent is sent to varmint hell – and in a day or two, the grand house is habitable again."
"I believe – figuratively, but in a very real way – we need to tent the White House!"
[End of Pat Boone quote]

For all the details, see...
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/pat-boone-wants-rid-white-house-its

[Rich]

What do you expect from the son of Bab?