What better way for the Stones to kick off their U.S. tour than with a shiny, new Bush-bashing song?
Drudge reports:
"You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/ You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think your are full of sh*t!... How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con."
Ready to drop in the coming weeks, a new Bush-bashing tune from the ROLLING STONES: "Sweet Neo Con."
"It is direct," Mick Jagger says with a laugh to fresh editions of NEWSWEEK.
"Keith [Richards] said, 'It's not really metaphorical.' I think he's a bit worried because he lives in the U.S." Jagger explains. "But I don't."
The full lyric also mocks National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.
News about the song surfaced a few weeks ago with many expecting that it would not make the finally cut on the new CD, A BIGGER BANG.
Jagger once vowed not to comment on the political process in the United States.
"I feel very much at home in America. I've spent half my adult life here. I have many personal feelings. But I'm from the school that considers it impolite to comment on other people's elections. Now if I had the vote - and I should have, as I pay so much in taxes - I would have a lot to say."
Are the Stones trying to be relevant to a younger demographic?
Do Jagger and Richards hope to deflect all the jokes about their geriatric status with this edgy anti-Bush rip?
I think it's a calculated move. They want to draw attention to the new CD. The Stones weren't born yesterday---obviously. After forty years in the public eye, they know how to play the publicity game.
The gray-haired hippies in the liberal media are sure to lap this one up.
I think Mick would be wise to just shut up and sing his good stuff, before his aging lungs give out.
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