Good for MTV.

I didn't think I'd ever say that, actually, after they gave BOTH Simpson sisters TV shows and also, they let everyone walk around all nekkid and profane. But I am so tired of these celebrities that think they know more about foreign policy than the leaders of our country do.

Nine Inch Nails, MTV at Odds on Bush Photo

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nine Inch Nails dropped out of the MTV Movie Awards after clashing with the network over an image of President Bush the band planned as a performance backdrop.

The Bush image was to accompany the song "The Hand That Feeds," which obliquely criticizes the Iraq war. It includes the lyrics: "What if this whole crusade's a charade / And behind it all there's a price to be paid / For the blood on which we dine / Justified in the name of the holy and the divine."

MTV said in a statement to its news division that the network was disappointed the industrial rock band would not perform but had been "uncomfortable with their performance being built around a partisan political statement."

That reminds me - I forgot to mention this horrible piece of trash that I heard on one of the late night talk shows (Jay Leno, I think) by some guy named Bright Eyes called When the President Talks to God. You may question someone's actions, and point out wrongdoing and sin where you see it, but the "judge not" verse that everyone likes to quote? That doesn't mean that no one is to ever say that anything is sinful - Jesus, the disciples, and the apostles all pointed out sin if they saw it. It means that you don't judge the fate of someone's eternal soul. (Excellent Stand to Reason article on the "judge not" issue here.) Their relationship with God is up to them and God, and God is the only one who gets to judge that. I think it was the biggest piece of garbage that I have ever heard set to music.

That is all, rant over.

UPDATE: Michele at A Small Victory mentions the NIN/MTV thing and the NIN boycott that followed their little, "FINE then, I'm just gonna take my ball and go home!" fit. And she just doesn't care. I concur - I think boycotts are silly. The end.