Sitting down with Howard Stern on Monday, the 85-year-old singer dodged questions about his sex life and prior drug use. He did so with a laugh, but matters about the U.S. military and 9/11 were fair game, and on these topics the Grammy winner held little back.
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I think he sounds like a jerk!
my mother and I on a bus trip to NYC came upon Mr. Bennett sketching in Central Park......I think she was the only one old enough to recognize him and she nearly wet her pants. He was a very gracious man and took us to lunch and very chit chatty down to earth talking to her about music and art and food and I was flabbergasted......they shared an era before he was a star and she an old housewife
from an age when America proffered the realization of dreams however grand or humble and both equally valued
not like today with the cults of celebrity and even worse blind worship of mediated politicians with books and pop culture sound bite persona's shallow promises that appeal to the public's basest fears
Nice, Yea Old Folks remember right from wrong, just takes them a little while to shake off the 50 years of propaganda.
He should have just answered the questions about sex and drugs. It's a topic he may have some knowledge of if he can remember that far back. And they're topics some may actually be interested in hearing from him about.
He's a has-been entertainer for God's sakes! Who cares what he or any other senile old fart thinks about foreign policy?!?! ...or domestic policy, for that matter. Does the fact that he "became a pacifist" when he saw a dead German mean he would not have killed a German who was trying to kill him? Seriously doubt it. If all young American men of his time had waited to be drafted and had become pacifists at their first sight of a dead enemy soldier, we'd all be speaking either German or Japanese. Yes, war is horrible, but sometimes the alternatives are worse.
His assertion that W. would tell him that he (W) "made a mistake" by going into Iraq is just ludicrous!
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