Ex Velvet Underground member Moe Tucker is a conservative

[rdangelo]

Hooray for rock musicians growing up.

[Blogspierre]

That clip looks so blurry, I'm not sure how anyone could identify that as the VU's Moe.

[dermotoblong]

it looks like her politics was worse than her drumming.

[Malkmusianful]

@dermotoblong because we all know that her drumming ruined VU/Nico amirite

I dunno. I've heard worse drummers than Moe.

[dermotoblong]

how depressing. thats the death of rock and roll

[medea667]

I am disappointed.

[lamkoid]

Moe is so radical that she's got you pinhead doofus hipster's underwear all in a bunch. You cannot comprehend just how farout she is, fools.

[Dr0ctave]

Christ, a lot of Americans really don't seem to know what socialism is...

[321Green1Fork123]

jesus moe....

[TroutMaskReplicaa]

how age can stab.

[oldmanmorgan]

Gee, I wonder how the Velvet Revolution got its name.

[wolfwomon9]

I believe Moe forgot she once applied for welfare and wrote songs about eating lots of spam and living in section 8 housing.

[MydgetSubmarine]

Too much time spent living in Texas and watching Fox News, methinks.

[ihatemathematics]

This is nucking futs

[xpat73]

The only "socialism" I see is socialism for the rich and powerful banks and corporations who keep getting bailed out by the tapxyers and then paying themselves huge bonuses.

[frehley100]

Maureen Tucker is only famous because John Cale and Lou Reed took her talentless ass into the Velvet Underground. Now what has "Mo" done musically since the Velvets disbanded in the late 60s? Not a damned thing! Cale and Reed became even MORE famous. This teabaggin cunt never sold any records nor has she sold out any venues for as long as I've been alive! She couldn't sell out a table of 3 at a local restaurant! She's just another hillbilly who misses her "sense of entitlement"..that's all.

[youtubbs67]

@frehley100 I bet you're just saying that because she has a different political ideology than you. What if Lou Reed was at this rally? Would that fucking make him talentless?

[buntingfordboy]

Gosh, ya know, there could be more than one person called Maureen Tucker? Hell yeah..

[vtelibrl]

The drummer for the Velvets is a tea tard. This is a sad day.

[Hister333]

I'm insulted. She of ALL people would know love...And I love the way they showed the guy with the Anti-Wal-Mart pin earlier, knowing she works there.

[EmpZappa66]

I can understand her being mad at the way the country is right now, but how could someone like her who's so worldly throw herself in with a lot of illiterate, narrow minded hicks?

[jhillst]

I can understand Moe's concern about government spending, but anyone who thinks our country is "being led toward socialism" needs a SERIOUS reality check.

[MrGrieves1000]

haha they dont even mention she was the drummer to the velvets. just a random redneck at a tea party. what the hell mo? the fuckin tea party? andy worhol is turnin over in his tomb. how could you be involved with a buncha homophobic, bigoted, inbred rednecks like the tea party? oh yea and i gota question, if the tea party is so concerned about the debt, where were they when bush put 2 wars on credit? or is it that theyre just racist? that sounds right to me. i expected more outa u mo.

[PreCodeMovies]

@MrGrieves1000 Don't buy what you're being fed by the corporate neo-con mainstream media without doing some research on your own. Look into what the people at these rallies are REALLY concerned about. You'll soon find out it's all about maintaining individual freedom - which includes the right to spend the money you earn as you see fit to spend it. If we don't have liberty for the individual as our highest value, we have nothing. Refuse to be a member of the "serfdom."

[dirtynuke]

Jesus Tucker...your the greatest female drummer that ever lived in one of the greatest bands that ever walked the earth. You stood around playing for hordes of naked people doped up on speed for days on end...and now your doing this? What the Hell! For a minute I thought I was going crazy! You think these tea head morons know anything about the velvets and beauty, and art or anything like that? I mean for chrissake Moe Tucker! They hang teabags off their balding heads!

[joekiddone]

Ms. Tucker, in the interview, ran through the misconceptions people have about tea partiers. These stereotypes, she observed, are encouraged by Democrats to keep their base "on their side." But she is not a stereotype: I have voted Democrat all my life, until I started listening to what Obama was promising and started wondering how the hell will this utopian dream be paid for?"

~From Peggy Noonan

[joekiddone]

In the summer of 2009, Ms. Tucker went to a tea-party rally in southern Georgia. A chance man-on-the-street interview [at 0:23] became [this] YouTube sensation. No one on the left could believe this intelligent rally-goer was the former drummer of the 1960s breakthrough band; no one on the left understood that an artist could be a tea partier. Because that's so not cool, and the Velvet Underground was [and still is] cool.

~From Peggy Noonan

[joekiddone]

Maureen "Moe" Tucker, former drummer of the Velvet Underground, has done the best job ever of explaining where the tea party stands and why it stands there. She also suggests the breadth and variety of the movement. In an interview, Ms. Tucker said she'd never been particularly political but grew alarmed by the direction the country was taking.

~From Peggy Noonan

[daven58100]

@joekiddone She may have done a lot of drugs and stuff in the past, but she still has enough sense to realize what a scam all these social programs are, and how they're bank-rupting the nation. When this country goes bust, who'll pay for them?

[joekiddone]

@daven58100 I agree.

[Saakshe]

I am a libertarian and I think the tea parties are GREAT. The Republicans forgot who they were and became Big Government - Big Spenders - Big Failures.

Libertarian Motto: More Freedom - Less Government.

[EdinAmmar]

@Saakshe everyone supports more freedom but when you get less govt you get less regulation which leads to busniesses and corporations doing things that dont benfit the people and leads to enviromental damage, low wages, and a society that is either rich or poor. It was govt regulation that helps protect it's citizens from the abuse of corporations.

[jhillst]

@EdinAmmar Amen. Americans need to stop swallowing the "less government = more freedom" lie.

[bankyandbrodie]

tea partiers are neoconservatives. deal with it.

[bankyandbrodie]

@kingarthurup ummmm...... no. didn't vote. i'm one of those that burn cop cars in toronto. don't really care too much for any politicians.

[majajh]

Guess who paid for those cars you burned? Taxpayers!

[bankyandbrodie]

@redbeakman what is me? kinda incoherent. how about instead of spouting some shit you heard on glenn beck, you actually consider that greece, latin america, etc. have a strong history of supporting healthy radicalism. it doesn't seem to equate to obama not giving me healthcare. that's not socialism. read a book or something.. you probably like good music if you like moe tucker, so word up...

[kingarthurup]

@bankyandbrodie

wow... you are dumb

voted for obama hey?

[bankyandbrodie]

who cares what moe tucker thinks? i don't. made good art... like vincent gallo i dont give a fuck... even if she's a dumbass for thinking its socialism...

[redbeakman]

@bankyandbrodie It is you douche. You'll realize it when its too late and the nation is burning like France, Greece and soon the UK. All bastions of leftist idiocy.

[skawashers]

"All Tomorrow's tea  Parties"

[KingdomEnfilade]

shame on you moe! is this what happens when we get old? we support teabaggers?

[skawashers]

you've shocked me moe tucker

[SupperOfTheMightyOne]

LOLOLOL, they don't even know who she is!

[stefunny6]

waw