The great thing about the US general election is that everyone has an opinion – it doesn’t matter how fat, bald, gay, shortsighted, badly-dressed, gap-toothed or non-American they are.
Elton John is all of these things, so his say is much louder than someone who is only one or two of those things. And Elton John, he say “Hillary Clinton.”
Elton John has played his New York fundraiser concert for Hillary Clinton, and raised about $2.5 million for her campaign in the process. And then he opened his mouth and said that everyone who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton can go to hell. Which, yes, technically does include Elton John, but he was already going to hell anyway so it doesn’t matter. You can’t write a song like I Am Your Robot and expect to get away with it.
There have been so many celebrity endorsements of the various candidates running for president this year that it’s left us a bit giddy. And celebrity endorsements are just so pointlessly woolly anyway that they’re hardly worth making.
Really, does anyone care who Heidi Montag supports or what Jack Nicholson thinks? And, really, will an endorsement by Sarah Jessica Parker’s five-year-old son influence voters one way or another? Actually, OK, yes, Sarah Jessica Parker’s five-year-old son probably will influence a lot of voters. You can’t argue with political aptitude like that.
The latest celebrity hoping to tell the public what to think is Elton John. That’s quite a comfortable role for Elton John to take, because he’s always telling us what to think, whether it’s that the internet is stupid or that young people dress badly or that an Elton John-branded scented candle is actually an essential purchase.
And now Elton John is telling people to vote for Hillary Clinton. Elton’s much-anticipated Clinton fundraiser took place last night, and was a rip-roaring success in every conceivable way. Except, you know, the bit where Elton John told everyone to go to hell. Reuters reports:
At the fund-raiser which Clinton’s campaign manager said raised $2.5 million, John said there was no one more qualified to lead the United States into the next era. “Having said that, I never cease to be amazed at the misogynistic attitude of some people in this country. And I say to hell with them. The reason I’m here tonight is to play music, but more importantly as someone who comes from abroad, and is in America quite a lot of the time (and) is extremely interested in the political process because it effects the whole world.”
And Elton John is completely right. Not about the going to hell thing – we’re sure there’s an equally severe punishment for people who don’t vote for Hillary Clinton, like being forced to watch Hillary Clinton’s Sopranos parody again and again. Plus maybe people just want to vote for someone whose chances of securing the Democratic candidacy are a bit less statistically near-impossible.
But, anyway, Elton John was right about the result of the US election having an effect on the whole world.
In fact, the world changes a little bit every time that any country changes governments. So hopefully Elton John will be ready to fight the good fight when the Republic of Palau has its presidential election on November 4. Nothing hypes up them Palauians more than a quick burst of I Think I’m Going To Kill Myself, you know.
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Clinton supporter Elton John laments U.S. misogyny – Reuters
euclid says
Phew! For a second there, I thought I read
“Elton John-scented candles”. After the convulsions stopped
I reread it and was immensely relieved.
Just imagine the smell…..
Sandy says
I wish Sir (Dame is more like it) Elton would go to hell…
gir says
Dame? Did he have a sex change?
OHHHHHHHH because he’s GAAAYYYYYYY
I get it now. Thanks for stopping by Sandy, I hope you fucking die and all your kids get aids and your dog shits on the carpet and your husband cheats on you with your sister and gives your sister AIDS (which is what you died from) and then he gives it to your mom who gives it to your dad and basically what I’m saying here is I hate your fucking GUTS over the internet.
Hillary says
So Elton John can come to American and criticize and insult our country, but Jeremiah Wright, a US citizen, is not allowed to plead with his very OWN country to change it’s ways. No wonder he needed to preach that sermon.
Debbie says
Elton John is under the misguided impression that the general public appreciates hearing his opinions. We paid over $250/seat to see him in Vegas (Red Piano) and were HUGELY disappointed that we paid to have to listen to and see his opinions expressed in the staging, all of which overshadowed his music. His Red Piano show was AWFUL.
Why is it that some performers think that their talent for singing, comedy, whatever, parlays into an appreciation by the general public to hear their opinions? If Elton wants to express his opinions, he should bill it as an “opinion-expressing show”, not a concert. Had I known that’s what it was going to be, I wouldn’t have bought the tickets and would not have been so incredibly disappointed.
Superpower says
Ever notice how the filthy rich know what’s best for the masses?
Stabby McGee says
Elton John is rubbish in pretty much every way possible, and has been for at least 25 years.
BillMurray says
Elton, as if you are qualified to preach the world! As a person of confused gender yourself, of course, you will use gender to make the point. You two standing together cut a very comical sight indeed.
BillMurray says
The things Elton and Hillary share in common – cross-gender, duck waddles, has -been, old, enormous egos, etc, etc.
gir says
Guys, I don’t think that’s the real Bill Murray. Bill Murray is funny.
flierpa says
confused gender? wow, how easy it was to connect gayness with being confused gender-wise. i think i will have to refer to gir’s post above about hating guts over the internets.
nothing like a bout of homophobia to wake me up before i go-go.
ijuts.
flierpa says
i also thought it said elton john scented-candles. i had a moment of severe nausea there.
Sandy says
@gir
My my, what a powerful vocabulary you have… I guessed my comment rubbed (get it??) you the wrong way, eh? I’d guess you are quite familiar with the perverted acts and/or consequences you have wished upon me. FOAD, loser.
flierpa says
@ sandy, if this is your heartfelt opinion on life, the universe and everything, please go crawl under a rock and die painfully.
munch says
Reuters doesn’t know the difference between ‘effect’ and ‘affect’.
Just thought I’d point it out. For the greater good of humanity.
gir says
“I guessed my comment rubbed (get it??) you the wrong way, eh?”
No? I don’t get it. Rubbed? That’s not funny.
See here’s the thing: I don’t give a shit about your idiotic comments or your primitive ideology or even your bad breath. What really (unironically) gets me all hot ‘n’ bothered about you and your ilk is your self-satisfied delusion of your own moral superiority.
Even your follow-up is smugly condescending, despite the fact that you have displayed all the wit of a particularly dirty toenail clipping. Although it was a clever device to use an acronym, implying that you are far too busy to type out four monosyllabic words. My bet is your next John showed up without an appointment and you had to finish up quick. That fiver could just as easily go down the street, eh?