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Michael Stipe Murmurs He's Charmed By Huckabee

Yeah, I know, that was the best R.E.M. album-title pun I could come up with, it's Monday. Lead singer Michael Stipe, known lately for painting weird crap on his face as well as, uh, being gay "queer," has told a Sirius radio station that he finds rapidly fading presidential candidate Mike Huckabee "charming" and "funny":

"I can't think of probably a single issue in which I am even remotely in the same universe as that guy ... and yet, he was kind of charming and ... self-deprecating," Stipe told Jane Radio host Jane Pratt, a day after watching Huckabee's Thursday appearance on CBS' "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson." "He was actually kind of a good sport, and funny, and I don't know what that means. Maybe it's a good thing that's he's being lauded right now by the right. He's an evangelical. May God bless all living creatures but my god ... how weird."

Hey, don't forget that hi-LAR-ious bit he does about how homosexuality isn't as bad as necrophilia, it's just on a continuum with necrophilia. He's a riot. Anyway, Stipe may just be trying to get R.E.M.'s name back in the press (look, it worked!) since the band have a new album coming out April 1st called Accelerate, recorded last year with U2 producer Jacknife Lee.

Posted by Party Ben on 01/07/08 at 12:39 PM | Comments (1) | Email | Print

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