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Originally Posted by Battybarb
If you are a true fan of someone in this case Meat Loaf and I have been for years .you are a fan for their music and their talent , and whatever their political views are their business and is nothing to do with anyone else , I have read some articles where Meat has been slated and some awful things have been said by people who are meant to be fans , at the end of the day everyone is entitled to their opinion and this includes Meat Loaf , what happened to free speech ?
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If was about his political views this would be true. The problem wasn't with his politics, it was about his generally bad behavior on so many levels, which reached a peak when he insulted 97% of his fan base. As a fan even if you didn't feel like you were one of the 97%, one of your friends had to be. He then tried to soften that message by saying the figure was highly inflated. IT was too little too late. The damage had already been done and people had already been hurt. The problem was also that Meat was using his free speech yet not allowing his fans that same option - to speak freely. When fans spoke out against that, he then insulted those that dared excercise the right to free speech, calling them "his enemies." The whole free speech thing works both ways - it is for the fans as well as Meat.
Every single time someone says it is simply about politics, it shows that they haven't been paying attention and reading what others have to say to find out what is going on. That only brings the whole heart of the debate and the feelings that go along with it back to the surface again.