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Elton John: Personal life
John has had a complicated personal history. Coming out first as bisexual in 1976, he married (1984) and quickly divorced (1988) Renate Blauel. He subsequently stated that he was gay and has lived with his partner David Furnish for a number of years. He has occasionally battled addictions to cocaine and financial difficulties caused by his profligate spending.
In 1976 Elton John became involved in Watford Football Club and fulfilled a childhood dream by becoming chairman and director. He resigned in 2002 when the club needed a full time chairman. He remains lifelong president.
John has long been associated with AIDS charities after the death of his friend Ryan White, raising large amounts of money and using his public profile to raise awareness of the disease. For example, in 1986 he joined with Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder to record the single "That's What Friends Are For", with all profits being donated to the American Foundation for AIDS Research. The song won Grammy awards for "Song of the Year" and for "Best Pop Performance, by a Duo or Group".
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IssuesQuinn introduced segment about Hillary Clinton by playing Elton John's "The Bitch Is Back"
On the August 27 edition of the
syndicated radio program The
War Room with Quinn & Rose, co-host Jim Quinn introduced a
segment on Sen. Hillary Clinton by saying, "By the
way, that brings us to our Hillary Heads-Up," and then playing audio of
the Elton
John song "The Bitch Is
Back." Quinn then said, "I was going to play
'Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead.'
But you know what, I -- you never know with the Clintons."
The War Room with Quinn
& Rose is a syndicated radio
program based in Pittsburgh
on Clear Channel's WPGB 104.7 FM. Talkers Magazine lists Quinn & Rose
on its "Heavy Hundred." According to
the show's website, it airs on 17
radio stations and XM Satellite Radio.
From the August 27 broadcast of Clear
Channel's The War Room
With Quinn & Rose:
QUINN:
I can't believe that the American people look at Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
and John Murtha and say to themselves, "Yeah, I want more of that."
But that -- maybe it's just me. By the way, that brings us to our Hillary
Heads-Up.
ELTON
JOHN [audio clip]: I'm a bitch, I'm a bitch. Oh, the bitch is back.
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact --
QUINN:
I was going to play "Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead." But you know
what, I -- you never know with the Clintons.
And of course, Bill still has another crack at it
tonight. We'll see if he can control his mouth.
Published: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:48:46 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the articleIssuesCavuto hosted "anti-feminist attorney" Den Hollander, who advocated "cut[ting] out the feminazi, feminist women's studies programs" at Columbia
On the August 20 edition of Fox
News' Your World, host Neil
Cavuto interviewed "anti-feminist attorney" Roy Den Hollander, who
discussed his lawsuit against Columbia University for offering a women's
studies program "but not a men's studies program." During the
segment, after referring to the previous segment's guest, Fox Business Network host Dave Ramsey, who
discussed the high costs of today's colleges and universities, Den Hollander
said: "[C]ut out the feminazi,
feminist women's studies programs and bring back varsity sports, and
you're going to do a lot better for the university." Den Hollander
also stated, "If a guy takes a women's studies course, what's
going to happen to him? The girls in the class are basically going to walk all
over them in their stiletto heels, which may not be too bad," and later
said that women "are a suspect class. Every time they open their mouths,
I begin to suspect something." As Media
Matters for America has documented, Den Hollander is only the
latest guest to make overtly sexist comments on Cavuto's program.
Indeed, on the April 10 edition of Your World,
Cavuto and Marc Rudov, radio host
and author of The Man's
No-Nonsense Guide to Women: How to Succeed in Romance on Planet Earth
(MHR Enterprises, 2004) and Under the Clitoral Hood: How to Crank Her Engine Without
Cash, Booze, or Jumper Cables (MHR
Enterprises, 2007), discussed comments by Sir Elton John at an April 9 fundraiser
for Sen. Hillary Clinton during which John stated that he was "amazed by
the misogynistic attitudes of some of the people in this country." Rudov
stated, "Hillary Clinton, who's living by the gender sword, is going to
be dying by the gender sword. She sends in Elton John to do her hissing when
she's having a catfight with America."
Rudov further stated, "This is a gynocracy. ... The reason that Hillary is
losing is because people don't like her. That's all it is." Fox News legal
analyst and University
of Washington associate
professor of law Lis Wiehl responded: "It's the old thing, Marc, of if a woman
is aggressive, then she's, again, the B-word. If a man is aggressive, he's just
assertive and claiming his own." Rudov later said: "The woman is not
called a B-word because she's assertive and aggressive; she's called a B-word
because she acts like one."
On his website, Den Hollander explains that the
purpose of his lawsuit against Columbia University is "to find the
Columbia University Women's Studies program unconstitutional for using
government aid to preach the religious belief system 'Feminism' and
for discriminating against men." Also on his website, Den Hollander
describes the Violence Against Women Act as the "Female Fraud Act."
From the August 20 edition of Fox
News' Your World with Neil Cavuto:
CAVUTO:
All right, so are women's studies courses spreading prejudice and bigotry
toward men? Well, my next guest thinks so -- so much so that he is suing Columbia University. He's anti-feminist
attorney Roy Den Hollander. Why Columbia?
DEN HOLLANDER: 'Cause I went there. I graduated there, and so
that gives me standing. But going back to what your past guest said, cut out the feminazi, feminist women's studies
programs and bring back varsity sports, and you're going to do a lot
better for the university.
CAVUTO:
But what is Columbia
doing that ticks you off?
DEN HOLLANDER: Well, what Columbia
is doing is it's presenting a women's studies program but not a
men's studies program. So what the complaint charges is that women's
studies is really -- which teaches feminism, they state that they're
teaching feminism -- and so the teaching of feminism -- I'm arguing that
feminism is a religion. Now, religion doesn't require a god.
CAVUTO:
And what have they told you? Where is this going?
DEN HOLLANDER: Well, it hasn't -- it just started. I just filed
the case, so --
CAVUTO:
You want to cancel that course?
DEN HOLLANDER: Well, it's appropriate --
CAVUTO:
What if there's a sort of 'men-ism' course? You be OK with
it?
DEN HOLLANDER: No, it's a program. It's not just courses,
you understand, it's a program --
CAVUTO:
Oh, it's part of a whole mindset --
DEN HOLLANDER: It's a network situation. It's a way for
girls to acquire jobs, it's a training [unintelligible] --
CAVUTO:
We should say we tried to get a statement from Columbia on this, and we couldn't get
one from them. But your point is that it's showing an inherent kind of a
bias.
DEN HOLLANDER: A definite bias. Because girls can benefit from women's
studies, but guys aren't going to benefit. If a guy takes a women's studies course, what's going to
happen to him? The girls in the class are gonna basically walk all over him in
their stiletto heels, which may not be too bad --
CAVUTO:
Stop, stop, stop. All right, so you're saying that it's unfair for
women who, you know, for years and even up to now, have not earned as much or
gotten ahead as much, to get a little bit more exposure in school, that's
too bad?
DEN HOLLANDER: That's not -- no, that's not -- what
you're talking about is affirmative action. And what legally, that says that girls are a suspect class. And yes, they
are a suspect class. Every time they open their mouths, I begin to suspect
something. The point is --
CAVUTO:
You have issues, don't you?
DEN HOLLANDER: No, the point is, if you look at equal pay per unit of
time, or equal pay, or pay per unit of risk, girls are making more than guys.
CAVUTO:
Are they really?
DEN HOLLANDER: Girls control nearly 60 percent of the wealth in this
country. And if you want to look at the real oppressors, you look at who lives
longer, who -- on whom most of the health dollars are spent --
CAVUTO:
Roy,
you're angry. You're very angry.
DEN HOLLANDER: -- and who eats more. Oh, absolutely. But only against
the feminists.
CAVUTO:
All right. And Columbia.
All right, Roy,
thank you. I want to keep track of this, my friend. Thank you very much.
DEN HOLLANDER: I'll keep you up to date. Thank you.
Published: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:36:24 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the articleArts}Stars Edinburgh-bound for Emin's showcase
IT IS set to be the most star-studded party of the Edinburgh Art Festival ? with Sir Elton John and George Michael among those on the guest list.
Published: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:00:00 GMT - Source: News.Scotsman.Com - Read the article
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