{"id":24139,"date":"2012-02-27T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/marathonpacks-markrichardson-its\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:10:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:10:41","slug":"marathonpacks-markrichardson-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/marathonpacks-markrichardson-its\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y4fVxcT00Sc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marathonpacks.tumblr.com\/post\/18333386289\/markrichardson-its-upsetting-to-watch-but\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">marathonpacks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.markrichardson.org\/post\/18332201412\/i-havent-seen-this-in-years-pretty-hard-to-get\">markrichardson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(\u2026) It\u2019s upsetting to watch, but this is one of the great \u201cFuck You\u201d moments in popular music history. Instead of just leaving the stage, she rubs the audience\u2019s face in what she had done. Her bravery is astonishing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What crime briefly made her the most hated woman in America? She had the audacity to protest the way the Catholic Church, all the way up to the top, had overlooked and covered up the sexual abuse of children. Years later, we\u2019d all learn just how right she was. But at this moment, almost no one was on her side. Imagine how lonely she must have felt up there. A singer at a tribute to <em>Bob Fucking Dylan <\/em>is booed off the stage for an act of protest against the rich and powerful\u2019s role in the exploitation of the weak and invisible. It was a different time. We were just about to come out of 12 years of Reagan and Bush I.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So true. I\u2019m forever on Team Sinead for this and the SNL performance. I recently torrented the original SNL episode, and it\u2019s absolutely stunning how silent the crowd was after she tore up the Pope\u2019s photo. Not a gasp, not a boo, not a cheer, nothing. Just stunned silence. I think Tom Shales\u2019 book mentions that Lorne Michaels ordered the episode\u2019s director not to turn on the \u201cApplause\u201d sign when she did what she did. Apparently she tore up a different photo in the run-through? Can\u2019t quite remember.<\/p>\n<p>A couple other reactions bear mention: Tim Robbins, that evening\u2019s host, didnt\u2019 even acknowledge her in the good-nights. Didn\u2019t even look at her or mention her name, and she\u2019s standing right next to him. Tim Robbins! Then it got worse the next week, with Joe Pesci. His \u201chey I taped the photo back together\u201d stunt was fine, but then he said, \u201cif it was my show, I\u2019d have gave her <em>such a smack<\/em>!\u201d, at which point the audience <em>applauded<\/em>. Seriously. A round of applause for a man threatening physical violence against a woman who had made a gesture trying to draw attention to child abuse in the Catholic church. Crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Again: Team Sinead forever. When she walks away from the mic after the above performance, she seemed absolutely fine\u2014no doubt still on a high\u2014until Kris Kristofferson grabs her in his unnecessarily paternalistic way (I think he said \u201cdon\u2019t let the bastards get to you\u201d or something?), at which point she seems to break down. Which makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Also: what a voice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>marathonpacks: markrichardson: (\u2026) It\u2019s upsetting to watch, but this is one of the great \u201cFuck You\u201d moments in popular music history. Instead of just leaving the stage, she rubs the audience\u2019s face in what she had done. Her bravery is astonishing.\u00a0 What crime briefly made her the most hated woman in America? 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