10-21-2012, 04:42 AM
john dough wrote:
Rest assured; Eddie Vedder has not gone stupid in the last month.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ed...ser-372731
According to a pool report on the event, Vedder then referred to Mitt Romney's 47 percent comments, offering a personal story.
"I'm an example of someone who never made it to university," Vedder said. "I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date."
He recalled signing up for a government security guard training program. He was hired for the midnight shift, and later became the security supervisor at a petroleum company.
"It was that job which allowed me to keep affording to guitars and microphones," he said. "For me, it all began with that ability to get the proper training for a decent job….It's very upsetting to hear a presidential candidate be so easily dismissive of such a ginormous amount of the population," he said.
Yeah, I found that straightaway. But she's insistent that they were talking about it on 'our' station and likened him to Ted Nugent. I have no doubt she's serious (not her type of humor.) Will have to drop a line to the DJ I've been