What a shame.
Via Hollywood Reporter:
Now into his third decade of using his guitar to fight for social justice causes, the 48-year old Illinois native is as vocal as ever. In August, Morello made waves when he blasted Wisconsin Rep. and GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan for the lawmaker’s professed love of his band, Rage Against the Machine, and speaking to The Hollywood Reporter this weekend at Comedy Central’s Night of Too Many Stars, he one-upped his slam of the conservative politician.
When asked how he thought Ryan, who has become known as the fiscal architect of the Republican party’s free market economic plan, could ever become a fan of Rage, given its leftist-anarchic lyrics, Morello said, “[Rage] is a band that casts the nets really wide, and that’s part of the strength of the band. People are drawn to it by the music, the aggression, the rockingness of it, and then they’re exposed to different ideas. Paul Ryan was a jackass before he listened to it, came out a jackass at the end, so he missed a lot of it.”
At the same time, Morello, who supported Barack Obama in his 2008 run for the presidency, says that he is less than pleased with Obama’s performance in the White House.
“I drank a little bit of the kool-aid initially,” he sighed, referring of the cult of personality around the candidate four years ago. “It looked different than any other president, sounded different than any other president, and then he acted the same as all the other presidents. If you have war crimes on your record, and you still continue to suck at the corporate teat like he does — my hopes were higher.”