Moe Tucker: 'Anyone who thinks I'm crazy about Sarah Palin has made a presumption' | Music
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This article is more than 13 years oldThe former Velvet Underground drummer gives her first interview since footage of her at a Tea Party rally went viral. And she doesn't have a nice message for her liberal critics ...When footage surfaced earlier this month showing former Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker expressing her fury over the Obama administration at a Tea Party rally, it's fair to say she broke a few liberal hearts. But in her first interview since she railed against America's slide "towards socialism", the 66-year-old musician explained she has been a Democrat all her life, until Barack Obama.
"Anyone who thinks I'm crazy about Sarah Palin, Bush, etc has made quite the presumption," Tucker told the Riverfront Times music blog. "I have voted Democrat all my life, until I started listening to what Obama was promising and started wondering how the hell will this utopian dream-land be paid for? For those who actually believe that their taxes won't go up in order to pay for all this insanity: good luck!"
Asked about her involvement with the Tea Party, Tucker said: "I'm not 'involved' with the local movement. I went to the first Tea Party in June or July of 2009 because it was within striking distance and I wanted to be counted."
The Tea Party movement emerged last year in protest against a series of reform bills introduced by the Obama administration. The New York Times recently reported that 33 Tea Party-backed candidates were standing in the midterm elections, which take place on 2 November 2010.
Tucker also said she is "amazed" that her interview was so widely criticised: "I'm stunned that so many people who call themselves liberal yet are completely intolerant. I thought liberals loved everyone: the poor, the immigrant, the gays, the handicapped, the minorities, dogs, cats, all eye colours, all hair colours! Peace, love, bull!"
She continues: "You disagree and you're immediately called a fool, a Nazi, a racist. That's pretty f'd up! I would never judge someone based on their political views. Their honesty, integrity, kindness to others, generosity? Yes. Politics? No!"
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