NIN drop show over Bush backdrop

[KiwiCoromandel]

The rock band Nine Inch Nails said on Friday it cancelled plans to appear on next week's MTV Movie Awards after the network questioned the band's plans to perform in front of an image of President George W. Bush.

The band was slated to perform "The Hand That Feeds," the first single from its latest album.

A Los Angeles Times review called the song "a warning against blind acceptance of authority, including that of a president leading his nation to war."

"We were set to perform 'The Hand That Feeds' with an unmolested, straightforward image of George W. Bush as the backdrop. Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me," Nine Inch Nails' leader Trent Reznor said in a statement posted on the band's Web site.

MTV said in a statement: "While we respect Nine Inch Nails' point of view, we were uncomfortable with their performance being built around a partisan political statement. When we discussed our discomfort with the band, their choice was to unfortunately pull out of the Movie Awards."

MTV is owned by Viacom Inc., the corporate parent of broadcast network CBS.

source:www.tvnz.co.nz

[slum_goddess]

:)

[bmc]

hell yes. go reznor. fuck mtv. and to hell with bush.

[Ken]

Well, I can think of a millon other reasons to avoid MTV alltogether.

[the70mphshit]

and to hell with bush.

i officially hate you

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Ummm..call me dense, but why the hell is there a Bush backdrop to begin with? Did he make a movie? Did Michael Moore make a movie?

What the fuck does his damn face have to do with anything? As much as I enjoy some of the skits they have during this presentation, I may have to take Mr. Reznor's stance on this one.

Dubya fucking things up, as usual.

[slum_goddess]

hasn't there been a law since late 2000 about not publicising any image of the preznit w/o bowing down to the fucking thing?