NOW EVEN DAVE MUSTAINE AGREES THAT DAVE MUSTAINE IS A YUTZ
Yesterday it was suggested to me that Dave Mustaine is just trolling us all, and I’m starting to think that could be true. I mean, look: motherfucker is definitely testing the limits of the credo “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.”
The latest on Mustainegate is after the jump. Please note that I’ve included an image of an Aurora, Colorado shooting survivor; it’s not especially gory, but if you’re easily upset by that kind of thing, just turn back now, okay? Thanks.
And here… we… go:
Carli Richards (above), one of the surviving victims of last month’s tragic movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado (not Aurora, Illinois — Wayne and Garth are safe), has now gone on record as agreeing with the rest of the sane world and disagreeing with Dave Mustaine, who recently alleged that President Obama “staged” the shooting so he could enact stricter gun control laws.
“Some people think the President is a good scapegoat but he didn’t shoot me,” Richards told TMZ. “It’s obviously kind of absurd and people who make up conspiracies just want attention,” she added, apparently unaware that she was talking to TMZ.
Meanwhile, Gwar’s Oderus Urungus, never one to shy from voicing his opinion on Mustaine’s public rants, took to Twitter to offer some words of encouragement to the Megadouche:
So that happened.
Finally, Mustaine seems to have decided that he needs to respond to all this controversy, which is actually probably a really good idea, because he’s in serious danger of alienating untold scores of fans, if he hasn’t already. (Megadeth are currently free agents, TH1RT3EN having completed their contract with Roadrunner; I know of at least one label that’s already passed on them because they didn’t feel Mustaine was worth the hassle.) So of course he’s gone ahead and done that via an interview with Alex Jones from Info Wars, which is a little bit like if Fred Durst tried to prove he was worth taking seriously by being on Celebrity Apprentice. (The gist of the interview is, “I was just repeating something this guy said.”) The clip was e-mailed to us by a reader named Ricky, with the subject line “Dave Mustaine looking a little more Sane”:
In other news, we now know that we don’t have to take e-mails from Ricky seriously.
Look: I’ll ignore the fact that this nonsense argument is distracting people from matters of actual substance (like the innocent people our government seriously does have killed), and I’ll even ignore the fact this nonsense argument is distracting from the fact that our government is directly responsible for the deaths of those poor people because of its failure to pass and enforce more stringent means of gun control. But I will NOT ignore a “I was just saying what he said” argument. Trying to point the blame for your shitty position is a pussy’s way out. Mustaine might as well stand up and say, “Well, Alex, I’m too stupid to support my own opinions, but rather than just shut my fucking feed hole, I’m going to openly admit that someone else has his hand up my ass and works my mouth like a puppet — metaphorically speaking of course, har har har.” It’s like someone let a child have a seat at the grown-up table too soon — except he’s fifty fucking years old. He shames any adult trying to have an actual conversation.
(Incidentally, saying people are trying to censor you because they disagree with what you have to say is also a pussy’s argument. It also negates itself, as it is an attempted act of the censorship it claims to denounce.)
And I choose to conclude this debate as Mustaine began it — like a pouty, miserable adolescent:
Worst. Song. EVER.
Thank you.
-AR
