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	<title>Comments on: PEARL JAM FRONTMAN EDDIE VEDDER TALKS POLITICS</title>
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		<title>By: Shawn</title>
		<link>http://grungereport.net/2009/08/31/pearl-jam-frontman-eddie-vedder-talks-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-10595</link>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why should anyone listen to this guy, as he makes promises and then weasels out ...He was supposed to leave the country when Bush got elected. After the election he backed out...coward and lying hypocrite.
 
Don&#039;t listen to someone who doesn&#039;t have the balls to live by his convictions...this guy&#039;s full of hot air.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why should anyone listen to this guy, as he makes promises and then weasels out &#8230;He was supposed to leave the country when Bush got elected. After the election he backed out&#8230;coward and lying hypocrite.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t listen to someone who doesn&#8217;t have the balls to live by his convictions&#8230;this guy&#8217;s full of hot air.</p>
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		<title>By: HeixShubSix</title>
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		<dc:creator>HeixShubSix</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Money is so intangible, its almost like a promise and a piece of paper.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Money is so intangible, its almost like a promise and a piece of paper.</p>
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		<title>By: Ray</title>
		<link>http://grungereport.net/2009/08/31/pearl-jam-frontman-eddie-vedder-talks-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-1517</link>
		<dc:creator>Ray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are right brett, somehow I think that eddie would take back his total  praise of obama if he had the chance, he is NOT a god, what the hell has he done lately anyway that has given &quot;hope&quot; to the people anyway?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are right brett, somehow I think that eddie would take back his total  praise of obama if he had the chance, he is NOT a god, what the hell has he done lately anyway that has given &#8220;hope&#8221; to the people anyway?</p>
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		<title>By: pearl</title>
		<link>http://grungereport.net/2009/08/31/pearl-jam-frontman-eddie-vedder-talks-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-1510</link>
		<dc:creator>pearl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pearl Jam is one of my favorite groups ! I really like the Pearl jam song, Black . Black is also a favorite of mine. I found this really good video of black , check it out here 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an3WCm0svCs

stephen</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pearl Jam is one of my favorite groups ! I really like the Pearl jam song, Black . Black is also a favorite of mine. I found this really good video of black , check it out here<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an3WCm0svCs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an3WCm0svCs</a></p>
<p>stephen</p>
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		<title>By: DuckMan</title>
		<link>http://grungereport.net/2009/08/31/pearl-jam-frontman-eddie-vedder-talks-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-550</link>
		<dc:creator>DuckMan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>great band..and eddie vedder can believe what ever he wants oh well...i agree with some not all..he&#039;s a bit too left for me..but better than being conservative like a mr ted nugent</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>great band..and eddie vedder can believe what ever he wants oh well&#8230;i agree with some not all..he&#8217;s a bit too left for me..but better than being conservative like a mr ted nugent</p>
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		<title>By: Scott</title>
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		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with Eddie. I live in Alabama and people are just ignorant about Obama.  They kept their kids out of school because they thought they were going to brain wash them and all he did was tell them that they needed to actually try in school and it was their responsibility to actually try.  In Alabama in Montgomery county they have a 51% drop out rate which is mostly black kids so yeah I think it&#039;s good when a black man tells kids that they need to stay in school and get an education.  And yet guys like Glen Beck were on TV crying like an insane person about the president talking to the children of America.  I just want to stop and scream what the hell happen to the Republican party.  The party used to be the party of the business man and intelligence now they just flock to the uneducated idiots like Beck and Sean Hannity who feed their paranoia.  And then you get liberal guys like Bill Maher who come off as pretentious as hell and go off about how evil it is because you eat a cheese burger.  The United States desperately needs a third party.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with Eddie. I live in Alabama and people are just ignorant about Obama.  They kept their kids out of school because they thought they were going to brain wash them and all he did was tell them that they needed to actually try in school and it was their responsibility to actually try.  In Alabama in Montgomery county they have a 51% drop out rate which is mostly black kids so yeah I think it&#8217;s good when a black man tells kids that they need to stay in school and get an education.  And yet guys like Glen Beck were on TV crying like an insane person about the president talking to the children of America.  I just want to stop and scream what the hell happen to the Republican party.  The party used to be the party of the business man and intelligence now they just flock to the uneducated idiots like Beck and Sean Hannity who feed their paranoia.  And then you get liberal guys like Bill Maher who come off as pretentious as hell and go off about how evil it is because you eat a cheese burger.  The United States desperately needs a third party.</p>
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		<title>By: Evan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Evan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder if he woulda dissed Johnny Ramone for being a republican</description>
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		<title>By: Matthew</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s all good bro. I hear you = ) And your apology was very professional, so you earned another smiley face = )</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s all good bro. I hear you = ) And your apology was very professional, so you earned another smiley face = )</p>
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		<title>By: Brett</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Like I said, I apologize for what I said, I should have thought before I wrote.  You know when you are sometimes in a bad mood and take it out on something else?  It happens, and I&#039;m sorry. There wonâ€™t be any political things on here anymore, unless Eddie decides to run for the Senate or something.  I&#039;m a HUGE fan of Eddie/Pearl Jam.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like I said, I apologize for what I said, I should have thought before I wrote.  You know when you are sometimes in a bad mood and take it out on something else?  It happens, and I&#8217;m sorry. There wonâ€™t be any political things on here anymore, unless Eddie decides to run for the Senate or something.  I&#8217;m a HUGE fan of Eddie/Pearl Jam.</p>
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		<title>By: Matthew</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your article did nothing to help your point Brett, and ended up coming off as insulting, hypocritical, and naive. And if you&#039;re just going to edit it, then why put it up in the first place? Just This was among the first articles I&#039;ve ever read for the site, and I really don&#039;t ever wish to go back here, sorry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your article did nothing to help your point Brett, and ended up coming off as insulting, hypocritical, and naive. And if you&#8217;re just going to edit it, then why put it up in the first place? Just This was among the first articles I&#8217;ve ever read for the site, and I really don&#8217;t ever wish to go back here, sorry.</p>
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		<title>By: Ace</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ace</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m sorry but I think you might have just been having a bad day because the way I read eddie&#039;s response, it didnt seem condescending at all. The rainy day comment was just an observation which he chose to use as a metaphor for a breath of fresh air he felt, we all felt, when Obama defeated McCain.

Not condescending, unapologetic perhaps. I mean that&#039;s part of what grunge was always about right? Keeping that frank honest punk mentality. Condescending would be like unjustified scorn and elitism and I think eddie is neither.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sorry but I think you might have just been having a bad day because the way I read eddie&#8217;s response, it didnt seem condescending at all. The rainy day comment was just an observation which he chose to use as a metaphor for a breath of fresh air he felt, we all felt, when Obama defeated McCain.</p>
<p>Not condescending, unapologetic perhaps. I mean that&#8217;s part of what grunge was always about right? Keeping that frank honest punk mentality. Condescending would be like unjustified scorn and elitism and I think eddie is neither.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eddie never mentions Obama is a God?  Bush was in office longer than this  and then we got attacked on 9/11, but everybody absolved him of any responsibility.  Obama inherits this quagmire of an economy and world issues and he supposed to have solved it all in less time than Bush had before 9/11?  That wasn&#039;t my expectation...  I think he is taking a pragmatic approach that requires unpopular short term decisions and it is only yahoos like you that interpret the support of Obama as servile idolatry...  It is a free country and Eddie can say or sing whatever the hell he wants.  If you don&#039;t like it, don&#039;t buy it, listen to it or read it, but quit expecting him to keep his mouth shut on his view point of what a better world would be like, just because you or others may disagree with him.  Tony - you are spot on man!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eddie never mentions Obama is a God?  Bush was in office longer than this  and then we got attacked on 9/11, but everybody absolved him of any responsibility.  Obama inherits this quagmire of an economy and world issues and he supposed to have solved it all in less time than Bush had before 9/11?  That wasn&#8217;t my expectation&#8230;  I think he is taking a pragmatic approach that requires unpopular short term decisions and it is only yahoos like you that interpret the support of Obama as servile idolatry&#8230;  It is a free country and Eddie can say or sing whatever the hell he wants.  If you don&#8217;t like it, don&#8217;t buy it, listen to it or read it, but quit expecting him to keep his mouth shut on his view point of what a better world would be like, just because you or others may disagree with him.  Tony &#8211; you are spot on man!</p>
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		<title>By: Brett</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I edited out some of my thoughts on what he said because I don&#039;t really want to piss people off and this is not a political site, so I apologize for that.  I just wasn&#039;t too keen on how Eddie worded some things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I edited out some of my thoughts on what he said because I don&#8217;t really want to piss people off and this is not a political site, so I apologize for that.  I just wasn&#8217;t too keen on how Eddie worded some things.</p>
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		<title>By: Brett</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m a huge fan of Eddie and I think he&#039;s a great guy, I just don&#039;t really like what he said in the interview about politics.</description>
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		<title>By: Tony</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Funny that you call Ed Vedder &quot;condescending&quot; and than go on a rave on how &quot;fucking stupid&quot; Ed Vedder is...

I do not know you, but what I read from your comments though - some very objective journalism here btw - you have no sense of real politics, economics or the philosophies that drive the poltical parties... There is some definite confusion here (and also by your readers) between socialism, marxism, libarlism, anarchism, conservatism etc. You write that you live in a capatalistic country, indeed. And that the government should not intervene with businesses... Also indeed. Can somebody call out the fucking &quot;credit crisis&quot;?

It never seize to amaze me that some people seem to think that eight years of very bad politics (Iraq, the biggest economic crisis since the thirties) can be solved in eight months... (I guess McCain of course would have done wonders... Which we would have voted it for of course in a cathardic way to deal with our guilt of eldery people and the way we kill them off in our current health care system.) 

And for those of you who call Ed Vedder a marxist. In the name of Christ, go back to school and actually get educated before you spring stupity on the net.

This is the dumbest thing I read in months.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Funny that you call Ed Vedder &#8220;condescending&#8221; and than go on a rave on how &#8220;fucking stupid&#8221; Ed Vedder is&#8230;</p>
<p>I do not know you, but what I read from your comments though &#8211; some very objective journalism here btw &#8211; you have no sense of real politics, economics or the philosophies that drive the poltical parties&#8230; There is some definite confusion here (and also by your readers) between socialism, marxism, libarlism, anarchism, conservatism etc. You write that you live in a capatalistic country, indeed. And that the government should not intervene with businesses&#8230; Also indeed. Can somebody call out the fucking &#8220;credit crisis&#8221;?</p>
<p>It never seize to amaze me that some people seem to think that eight years of very bad politics (Iraq, the biggest economic crisis since the thirties) can be solved in eight months&#8230; (I guess McCain of course would have done wonders&#8230; Which we would have voted it for of course in a cathardic way to deal with our guilt of eldery people and the way we kill them off in our current health care system.) </p>
<p>And for those of you who call Ed Vedder a marxist. In the name of Christ, go back to school and actually get educated before you spring stupity on the net.</p>
<p>This is the dumbest thing I read in months.</p>
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		<title>By: Gman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well if it wasn&#039;t for music Eddie would probably still be working at a gas station. He is not the smartest guy in the world.

So eddie says &quot;Fuck Americans, because you are badly informed and based your vote on values that I cannot accept.&quot; So then will he say they are not informed now? Will he say fuck Americans cause most of them voted for a black man just as a cathardic way of dealing with their own bigotries?

I guess it is safe to say Eddie is also a marxist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well if it wasn&#8217;t for music Eddie would probably still be working at a gas station. He is not the smartest guy in the world.</p>
<p>So eddie says &#8220;Fuck Americans, because you are badly informed and based your vote on values that I cannot accept.&#8221; So then will he say they are not informed now? Will he say fuck Americans cause most of them voted for a black man just as a cathardic way of dealing with their own bigotries?</p>
<p>I guess it is safe to say Eddie is also a marxist.</p>
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		<title>By: Tony</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t think Eddie is &#039;condescending towards people who disagree with him,&#039; nor is it a pearl jam fan&#039;s &#039;least favorite thing in the world&#039; when he expresses himself. It&#039;s why people enjoy the band in the first place, numnut. Fucking stupid indeed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think Eddie is &#8216;condescending towards people who disagree with him,&#8217; nor is it a pearl jam fan&#8217;s &#8216;least favorite thing in the world&#8217; when he expresses himself. It&#8217;s why people enjoy the band in the first place, numnut. Fucking stupid indeed.</p>
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		<title>By: doug</title>
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		<dc:creator>doug</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When I told my father that Pearl Jam put a new song out, he said jokingly, &quot;What is it about, Obama?&quot;

The Fixer is probably about Obama</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I told my father that Pearl Jam put a new song out, he said jokingly, &#8220;What is it about, Obama?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Fixer is probably about Obama</p>
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		<title>By: The Incredible Mr. Mark Arm</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Incredible Mr. Mark Arm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>obama sucks
bush sucks

hillary clinton was WAY better than nobama</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>obama sucks<br />
bush sucks</p>
<p>hillary clinton was WAY better than nobama</p>
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		<title>By: andrew</title>
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		<dc:creator>andrew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i would rather hear eddie&#039;s point of view than yours. And I heard A LOT more of yours.</description>
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