Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Joan Baez Unwelcome At Concert For Troops

Like anyone at Walter Reed wants to hear Joan Baez anyway.

When rocker John Mellencamp performed for the recovering soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday night, a couple of things were missing. He squelched his typically blistering rhetoric against the war in Iraq. Also MIA, as it turned out, was folkie and antiwar activist Joan Baez, who says she was disinvited from the event by Army officials.

In a letter that appears today in The Washington Post, Baez says Mellencamp had wanted her to perform with him and that she had accepted his invitation.

First question that comes to mind....who invited her in the first place?

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