Megadeth hates Obama

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine rocked concertgoers during a recent show in a completely different way - blaming President Obama for “staging” the recent spate of mass shootings in the United States.

At the band’s Aug. 7 concert in Singapore, the 50-year-old heavy metal went on a bizarre anti-Obama rant in between songs.

"Back in my country, my president is trying to pass a gun ban, so he's staging all of these murders,” says Mustaine in a video flagged by heavy metal news site Blabbermouth.net Wednesday.

“Like the 'Fast And Furious' thing down at the border and Aurora, Colorado, all the people that were killed there and now the beautiful people at the Sikh temple."

On a recently-surfaced video clip taken by a fan, the crowd can be heard going quiet as Mustaine continued his diatribe.

"I don't know where I'm gonna live if America keeps going the way it's going because it looks like it's turning into Nazi America," said Mustaine.

The heavy metal singer-guitarist, who once wrote the lyrics to the anti-George H.W. Bush administration song "Foreclosure of a Dream," has shown over the course of this year that he has an ax to grind with the Democratic President.

He outed himself as a birther in March when he told a Canadian talk show that he believes Obama was not really born in the United States.

"[I have] a lot of questions about him, but certainly not where he was born," Mustaine said on “The Hour.” "I know he was born somewhere else than America.”

This from a man man who reported from the Democratic National Convention for MTV News at Madison Square Garden during the 1992 election.

Mustaine, though, has admitted in interviews over recent years that he has changed many of his opinions since he ditched drugs and alcohol and became a born-again Christian.

Earlier this month, Mustaine regurgitated his birther views in an interview with conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones.

"Why hasn't somebody moved to impeach this man?" Mustaine said on Jones’ Infowars show. "With all of the proof about his birth certificate being fake. And you see the signs in Kenya that say 'the birthplace of Barack Obama.' Hello?! C'mon, guys. How stupid are we right now?”

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I like the phrase "conspiracy theorist radio host", but they should have worked "professional liar" in there somehow.

I am not a disagreeing with some of what he feels but it is pretty much stupid to say mass murder was staged, don't you think?

If he said that about the Singapore government [or any elected official] here in Singapore in a public forum like that, he'd be jailed, fined and facing major repression - just saying. Why didn't he say that in the USA?

This has been going around Facebook since the day after the Colorado shootings....

Every one of their claims are complete nonsense, but these idiots see them as proof that this was a setup.

Point 1a - The shooter did not kick in the door. He bought a ticket, went into the theater, went out through the exit door, propped it open and re-entered through the open door.
Point 1b - Exit doors all open out, not in, as they seem to believe. This is because people fleeing from a fire are supposed to be able to exit by pushing and running.
Point 2 - The shooter was not dressed as Bain and it was not tear gas. It was a pepper spray canister
Point 3 - People who were literally 4 or 5 feet from the gunman stated that it was one lone gunman. I think we can take their word for it.
Point 4 - Most of the 71 people hit were hit by shotgun pellets, which spray out and cover a wide area and hit several people at once. He also has an AR-15 capable of firing more than 60 rounds per minute.
Point 5 - Calling any county in Colorado, the state with the laxest gun laws in America, a place with the "strictest gun laws" in the state is as absurd a statement as ever made.
Point 6 - The UN Gun ban has absolutely nothing to do with the sale of guns in the USA. The proposed UN Gun Ban is intended to regulate the export of US guns to other countries who are sick of us exporting all those guns so that people in their countries can use them to kill each other. It's also been proposed from long before Obama became president.

Despite the fact that these are all lies, people like Alex Jones and this Megadeath moron believe this is absolute proof that it was a government conspiracy to help Obama take your guns away.

I'd have more respect for him (if any can be had for saying such idiotic thing) if he said that in USA soil but to do it in a country where people have zero freedom to speak against the one party ruling government, just proves he is a big p****

What an idiot. Whats the deal with these middle aged hard rock front men hating on Obama. First Ted Nugent and now this.

These guys and their obsession with their guns and them thinking that Government is out to get them.

What an idiot. Whats the deal with these middle aged hard rock front men hating on Obama. First Ted Nugent and now this.

These guys and their obsession with their guns and them thinking that Government is out to get them.

He should talk on US soil and see the response he gets

I am hopeful that Megadeth hates all government. I mean, that's the whole point.

What an idiot. Whats the deal with these middle aged hard rock front men hating on Obama. First Ted Nugent and now this.

These guys and their obsession with their guns and them thinking that Government is out to get them.

He should talk on US soil and see the response he gets

These guys are the equivalent of Rich-Wing Shaun but with more money and fame..lol

I am hopeful that Megadeth hates all government. I mean, that's the whole point.

Right?

What an idiot. Whats the deal with these middle aged hard rock front men hating on Obama. First Ted Nugent and now this.

These guys and their obsession with their guns and them thinking that Government is out to get them.

He should talk on US soil and see the response he gets

These guys are the equivalent of Rich-Wing Shaun but with more money and fame..lol

He is just trying to take Ted Nugent's thunder and sound a fool while he is at it