Very interesting.
Red State reported this past June that …
The son of the famed Beatles member John Lennon has publicly made it clear that political correctness has destroyed the left he once knew and respected.
Sean Ono-Lennon took to Twitter on Friday and tweeted out a message that stirred controversy within the left.
“When I was young the most interesting people were left-wing intellectuals. Believe it or not,” tweeted Lennon.
One person identifying themselves as a leftist intellectual attempted to argue that they still are the most interesting people he could meet, but Lennon flatly shot that idea down and dropped a major bomb.
“No we’ve become the church lady as person below says. It’s embarrassing. We’re offended by comedy and science. It’s pathetic,” tweeted Lennon.
And here’s a 2011 article from the LA Times blog, in which his former assistant claimed that John Lennon was a closet Republican.
Fred Seaman, who was Lennon’s personal assistant from 1979 until the singer’s assassination in 1980, claims the former Beatle and anti-war activist favored Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter and would have voted for the Gipper if he could have.
“John, basically, made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan because he was really sour on Jimmy Carter,” Seaman told Seth Swirsky, who is making a film about the Fab Four.
Seaman said the guitarist “met Reagan back, I think, in the ’70s at some sporting event.”
“Reagan was the guy who had ordered the National Guard, I believe, to go after the young [peace] demonstrators in Berkeley, so I think that John maybe forgot about that,” Seaman told Swirsky in excerpts published in the Toronto Sun. “He did express support for Reagan, which shocked me.”
Seems like an exaggeration, but you never know (and never will, now). Fun to think about, though. As Lennon said in one of his last interviews,
“I dabbled in politics in the late 1960s and 1970s, more out of guilt than anything. Guilt for being rich and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something, or get punched in the face to prove I’m one of the people. I was doing it against my instincts.”
“When you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out” “I did the slow version and I wanted it out as a single: as a statement of The Beatles’ position on Vietnam and The Beatles’ position on revolution. For years, on The Beatles’ tours, Brian Epstein had stopped us from saying anything about Vietnam or the war.” – John Lennon.
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Interesting.
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John Lennon was a conservative when he was alive. He capitalized on the pocketbooks and emotions of the naive by using the narrative of liberalism and socialism to make money.
Yoko continued to do the same thing after his death.
Shrewd, calculated, callous, people.
Sean Lennon is only here because John after being given the choice of having Sean killed in utero told Yoko he thought that his career aka income, would not be hindered by a baby.
Imagine no possessions sang the selfish mean spirited millionaire who had an over abundance of possessions and the dutiful knuckleheads swooned.
“I am the marketer…Goo goo g’joob”
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After Yoko Ono I never like John. And, everything I read about him makes me like him even less. And, I think she is despicable.
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Agree with you 100% although I only heard of John after he abandoned his wife and child for Yoko after Paul shut the door in Yoko’s face. John was Yoko’s second choice.
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