Stevie Wonder not signed, sealed and delivered

On Wednesday an interesting story ran on one of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy sites: Singer Stevie Wonder would perform at a Los Angeles fundraiser for the Israeli Defense Force.

Today, no he won’t.

“Wonder's representatives will claim that he did not know the nature of the group, the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, and that he believes such a performance would be incongruent with his status as a UN ‘Messenger of Peace,’ according to a source who has read email exchanges between Wonder's representatives and organizers of the event.”

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/stevie-wonder-to-pull-out-of-idf-fundraiser-1.481333?localLinksEnabled=false

(Friends of the Israeli Defense Force. Wonder didn’t know what that meant. Friends. Israel. Defense Force.)

“Wonder had come under intense social media pressure to pull out of the event. An online petition calling on him to cancel his performance had garnered more than 3,600 signatures.

“The petition was launched more than a day ago on the change.org website.”

To quote the great Ray Stevens: There is none so blind as he who will not see.

Linked from www.hotair.com

Don't these people have anything better to do?

Well ... No.

‘Springsteen favored to write new US anthem: poll’

“Twenty-two percent of Americans think veteran rocker Bruce Springsteen should compose a new US national anthem to replace ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ suggests an online poll released Monday.

“That's more than the 19 percent who think country legend Dolly Parton is up to the task, or the 18 percent who favor soulman Stevie Wonder, according to the poll for the CBS current affairs show ‘60 Minutes’ and Vanity Fair magazine.

“Eleven percent named venerable singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, 10 percent favor movie soundtrack composer John Williams, eight percent voted for rapper Jay-Z and five percent named pop diva Madonna.

“Pollsters telephoned a random sample of 1,026 adults nationwide between April 27 and 30 for the poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

“Based on a poem by Francis Scott Key describing the British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland during the War of 1812, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ has been the official US national anthem since 1931.

http://news.yahoo.com/springsteen-favored-write-us-anthem-poll-215026210.html


(Let’s recap: 22 percent is more than 19 percent, more than18 percent, more than 11 percent, more than 10 percent, more than 8 percent and more than 5 percent.

(Let’s recap, Part 2: “Twenty-two percent of Americans think …” No, 22 percent of 1,026 adults said in a poll … My guess is, the “think” part played no role in the poll.

(Let’s recap, Part 3: Responses indicate the thought level of the 1,026.)