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Eminem issues call to arms for the MTV generation (New post-election version)

by Open-Publishing - Friday 29 October 2004
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by Dan Glaister

Eminem has become the latest music star to weigh in on this year’s presidential
election. In a video for his new single, Mosh, the singer takes George Bush to
task for raising taxes and waging the war in Iraq.

"Strap him with AK-47, let him go/Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that
way," a cartoon version of the rapper sings of the president, as he mobilises
a mob of young voters.

The video is Eminem’s most directly political work. It comes as other stars, from Bruce Springsteen to Leonardo DiCaprio, take to the stump - almost exclusively for Mr Kerry.

The video was first aired on MTV on Wednesday and immediately went to the top of the channel’s "hot video" charts.

In it, the rapper leads a crowd of hooded people, including a mother with an eviction notice and a soldier given orders to return to Iraq, in a march to storm a government building. Once inside, the mob remove their hoods and stand in an orderly queue to vote.

Eminem, now wearing a smart suit and red tie, declaims in a style reminiscent of Martin Luther King:

"In these closing statements, if they should argue, let us beg to differ, as we set aside our differences, and assemble our own army, to disarm this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president, for the present."

The video was made by the Guerrilla News Network, a small independent company that has produced other music videos as well as a documentary about the dangers of depleted uranium in Iraq after the US-led invasion.

"We’re responsible for this monster, this coward, that we have empowered," Eminem sings over a monotonous, stirring beat. "How could we allow something like this, without pumping our fist?/Now this is our final hour."

The climax to the video comes as the crowd faces riot police. As images of Mr Bush and Osama bin Laden flicker on a giant screen, the rapper sings: "No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil/No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain’t loyal/If we don’t serve our own country we’re patronising a hero/Look in his eyes, it’s all lies, the stars and stripes/They’ve been swiped, washed out and wiped, And replaced with his own face."

The video ends with a black screen and the words "Vote November 2".

– http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/...

Forum posts

  • wow, cool! Dig this video!

    • Yeah, like, it’s so cool to sit here and cook up back to back comments that go making Eminem look bad and talk trash about him, troll psyops, and transparent. Everyone that speaks up against the Bushwacker deserves our respect, and Kerry lost because the electronic machines raped the vote and faked him in as the Dem candidate in the primaries and then ate more votes in the general to fake Bushwack in, and the whole bunch up there is in a big happy circle yanker, dancing to the bankers’ tune so the corps can make stealyourchildren$$ on their population control wars for toil. Didn’t you see them patting each other on the back in the debates? They probably had a big champagne poppin’ party together laughing all the way to the foreign-owned banks at us as they all make deathillion$ while we look all dupid, er, duped marching off to wack civilians and arms and legs in Iraq. Yep, I can seek the Bushkerrys all having a big dance, Laura and Teresa swapping meatloaf recipes, five pounds of ground Sunni and four ounces of Heinz ketchup gets you the latest Halliburton culinary delight. Please pass the next hijacked airliner remote and see what city is on the Presidential playstation this post-selection season to distract the masses - except it’s not going to work because eyes are now very open and we know what the score is now.

  • For a little more realistic view of what Eminem is about (the usual ABB nonsense), see http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/wheeler10282004/.

    Go, Ralph!

  • please, eminem is cashing in...if he had the guts, he would join the truth movement. Like the other 100 entertainers, scholars, authors, musicians, politicians(nader, cobb, badnarik) etc. + 40 family members of victims from 9/11.

    This is a spit in the face to them. Poser.

    http://www.911truth.org

    • What is he trying to pose as?

    • I THINK EMIENM was very gutsy he has alot more guts then bush will ever have. NOT ONLY TO MAKE FUN OF THE PRESINDENT BUT TO SPEAK THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT BUSH. well if bush is such a good leader then why isnt he over in iraq fighting beside all the brave men AND women dying to defend oue country! you people say that hes a great leader what has he done thats soo great about him. sending your loved one to thier deaths.. anouncing that his dog is dead.. not only starting it but pay LITERALLY BILLIONS OF OUR NATIONS MONEY on this stupid war!? please tell what is soo great about bush being a soo called great leader. yall must be brain washed or out of ya minds to have voted for bush!! BUSH IS THE ONLY POSER i ever saw! emienm is out there doing somthing not making fake wannabe speEhes abuot someting he doesnt know about i cant say the same about bush. THE COWARD POSER WANNBE lEADER!!

  • I agree with Eminem on dis video cuz it’s ture what bush has dun to us.

    • And what about the previous video where he has little girls dancing around like video clip whores.Did he use his own daughter.

    • This is not about his personal life here budy. If he sends a message that is anti-bush which equals peace then power to his lyrics!

    • well even if he did that would be her choice to be in her dads video. besides what eminem does in his videos IS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY i dont know why people take everything he does so frikin literally. but if u take it litterally then i guess your dont have a sense of humor. what has your idol ever done that better than eminems humorous stuff? if you dont like eminem.. then i guess u you dont have a sense of humor.

    • HE SENDS THIS MESSAGE TO SELL RECORDS.THERE ARE RAPPERS OUT THERE THAT TELL THE TRUTH ALL THE TIME AND THE DONT HAVE TO SAY FUCK EVERY SECOND WORD TO DO IT.EMINEM IS A DISGRACE TO THE RAP INDUSTRY.CANT YOU SEE THAT BY "SPEAKING THE TRUTH" IN SUCH AN AGGRESSIVE WAY HE IS ACTUALLY HELPING BUSH.BUSH SUPPORTERS CAN LOOK AT ALL YOU PEOPLE THAT PROBABLY DONT EVEN LISTEN TO RAP USUALLY AND SAY "SEE WHAT A BUNCH OF UNEMPLOYED LIBERAL DEGENERATES".THE BEASTIE BOYS,WHO ARE ACTUALLY FROM NEW YORK,HAVE SOME VERY GOOD ANTI-BUSH SONGS ON THEIR NEW ALBUM,YET NO-ONE IS HAILING THEM.EMINEM DID NOT GO TO NUMBER ONE COZ HE IS ANTI-BUSH,IF HE EVEN IS,HE WENT TO NUMBER ONE BECAUSE OF ALL THE TEENAGE GIRLS THAT BUY EVERY RECORD HE EVER BRINGS OUT.AS A DEDICATED MEMBER OF THE HIPHOP CULTURE I APPEAL TO YOU ALL TO STOP BEING SUCKED IN BY EMINEM AND LISTEN TO SOME GOOD RAPPERS EG:GIFT OF THE GAB,BLACKALICIOUS,LYRICS BORN,JEHST ETC.THESE RAPPERS SPEAK OUT ALL THE TIME,NOT JUST WHEN IT IS GOING TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY.

    • NO I DONT HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR WHEN IT COMES TO PORTRAYING CHILDREN AS SEXUAL OBJECTS AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU.I AM A DEDICATED MEMBER OF THE HIPHOP CULTURE AND I CAN TELL YOU,MOST HIPHOP FANS THINK EMINEM IS A DISGRACE.THERE ARE SO MANY RAPPERS OUT THERE THAT SPEAK OUT ALL THE TIME,THATS WHY THEIR NOT TOP 40.

  • i agree with eminem about his music video and about what bush has been doing . because if bush doesnt like that ppl are making fun of him then he shouldnt be doing the stuff hes doing right now like the having a war.

    • Eminems an idiot. And I know that I’m right because he promises something he can’t deliver. A lot of young adults may have registered but they didn’t vote. That’s why Kerry lost.

    • Kerry lost because he never really wanted to win... why else would he leave $51 million in the bank? what possible reason could he have for not spending this money to win? And now he’s not using it to pay for the recounts- why?

      Fighting for us my ass, kerry was a setup all the way, to let bush win... but bush was too f**king stupid in the debates... it would’ve if he wasn’t such a moron- hahahahaha. take that you stinkin freepers- you are going down!

      the fraud is exposed, no terror attack is going to help you now because everyone is on to you

      Question for you is: bail now, or go down with the ship?

    • well maybe it was the the freakin republican wanting him to win since they chose him they must want to have a war goin on if they voted for the old redneck bush.

  • I AM GRATEFUL TO EMINEM FOR BEING GUTSY, AND DOING WHAT HE DID. BUSH, I CAN’T BELIEVE HE WON, ITS AWFUL. ALL WE CAN DO IS PRAY TO OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN NOW. THIS IS A TWISTED WORLD. ITS HARD TO TRUST ANYONE, BUT WHEN YOU CAN’T HAVE A LITTLE TRUST IN YOUR OWN PRESIDENT OR SECURITY, THE FUTURE IS PAINTED WITH NOTHING MORE THAN DEVISTATION, FEAR, WAR, MOST OF ALL MY BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN SUFFERING MORE THAN THIS LIFE ALREADY HAS DUE TO GEORGE BUSH! AND I REALLY BELIEVE THAT, HE WILL BRING US DOWN AND HE WOULDN’T CARE. EM I FEEL THE SAME WAY YOU DO, THANK YOU FOR SAYING AND BEING HEARD OF WHAT WE ONLY WISH WE COULD TELL THE WORLD.

    • BUSH IS THE DEVIL

    • What eminem did was gutsy? Okay, now I’m really laughing. What did eminem do that was gutys? Sing? Produce a music video? People really are so enthralled by entertainers that they don’t even realize what they do matters very little in the real world.

    • i know eminem makes more sense his his videos than bush ever does in his dumb breaking news. yeah thats right about bush but as long as all the republicans who voted bush i bet they just want their loved ones to go to war. i dont know why anyone would say ues to war if they said yes to bush then they must be saying yes about the wars to then. if eminem did run for president and he won he would be 10 times a better president then bush could ever be!

    • BUSH IS SATAN HIMSELF!! HERE TO SEND US TO OUR DEATHS IN IRAQ!!

    • Please don’t worry about why he did it. That’s just a divide and conqueror mentality. We must all unite. Focus on the bigger picture. You young people need to expose your parents to these websites and wake them up! Their is going to be a draft in 2005! They are already calling men and women back to the service who have been out for years. YOU ARE NEXT! Stop arguing with each and become leaders. You have know idea how important each of you are. Also start exposing their next choice as a slavemaster Schwarzenegger in’08. Some of you may think he’s cool but, he’s not. This man is far more dangerous than Bush. He has openly stated in public that he wants to be a dictator and he comes from a family that were Nazi party members and members of the Nazi SS. Bush,Kerry and Schwarzenegger are all members of the Fourth Reich or The New World Order. The Skull and Bones society that Bush and Kerry are lifetime members of is the very secret society that Hitler belonged to. The real name is the Order Of Death. This group is connected to the world controlling secret society known as The Illmuninati. They print our money, own our banks and run our world. They want to de-populate the planet by 80% and turn the rest into mind-controlled slaves. I am much older than most of you I’m 49, and I have met and have been threatened by these people in various parts the earth in my travels for trying to expose them. They want to turn the USA,Canada and Mexico into a borderless region. You think you can’t find a job now? Wait till tens of millions storm across the southern border and will work for nothing just to eat! But, that’s not all, they want them to openly rebel and start a civilwar to take the southwest back to Mexico. By 2008, we will be into full blown civilwar unless we stop them now. The falling dollar is all part of it, don’t believe Bush or anyone who says "It’s a good thing" we are all about to pay much more for what we buy. People, we are in big, big trouble.

    • Yeah, like, it’s so cool to sit here and cook up back to back comments that go making Eminem look bad and talk trash about him, troll psyops, and transparent. Everyone that speaks up against the Bushwacker deserves our respect, and Kerry lost because the electronic machines raped the vote and faked him in as the Dem candidate in the primaries and then ate more votes in the general to fake Bushwack in, and the whole bunch up there is in a big happy circle yanker, dancing to the bankers’ tune so the corps can make stealyourchildren$$ on their population control wars for toil. Didn’t you see them patting each other on the back in the debates? They probably had a big champagne poppin’ party together laughing all the way to the foreign-owned banks at us as they all make deathillion$ while we look all dupid, er, duped marching off to wack civilians and arms and legs in Iraq. Yep, I can seek the Bushkerrys all having a big dance, Laura and Teresa swapping meatloaf recipes, five pounds of ground Sunni and four ounces of Heinz ketchup gets you the latest Halliburton culinary delight. Please pass the next hijacked airliner remote and see what city is on the Presidential playstation this post-selection season to distract the masses - except it’s not going to work because eyes are now very open and we know what the score is now.

    • dude no there isnt goin to be a draft in 2005 if there was im not gonna do it id rather go to jail at least im home in my one country. were i want to be. im not gonna die in some other foreighn country. why isnt bush over ther fighting then if there gonna be a draft why not send his alcoholic daughters over there if theye so special to him. if they can get in trouble and be alcoholics then they sure can go to war with all the thousands of family members who arent even bad as them. HAHA LOL LOL !!

  • Eminem is so cool!!! I can’t wait to get anotherone of his CDs!!!!!!!!!

    • I hate it when people call him an idiot!!!!!!!!!!! People that say bad things about him are just jellous because they don’t have as much talent as Eminem does!!!!!!!!