Transcript: Zach de la Rocha’s Anti-FOX News Rant

Thanks to Jokah for the transcript. Enjoy.

A couple of months ago, those fascist motherfuckers at the Fox News network attempted to pin this band into a corner by suggesting that we said that the President should be assassinated. Nah, what we said was: that he should be brought to trial as a war criminal and hung and shot. That’s what we said. That’s what we said. And we won’t back away from the present (?), from the position cuz the real assassinator is Bush and Cheney and the whole administration for the lies that destroyed men (?) in Iraq. They’re the ones.

And what they refuse to air, what they refuse to air which was far more provocative in my mind and in the mind of my family is this: that this system has become so brutal and vicious and cruel that it needs to start wars and profit from the destruction around the world in order to survive as a world power. That’s what we said.

And we refuse not to stand up, we refuse to back down from that position not only for the poor kids who are being left out in the desert to die, but for the Iraqi youth, the Iraqi people, their families, and their friends, and their youth who are standing up and resisting the U.S. occupation everyday. And if we truly want to end this fucking miserable war, we have to stand up with the same force that the Iraqi youth are standing up with everyday and bring these motherfuckers to their knees. Wake up.

Zach de la Rocha Responds to FOX News

Here is a low quality video of Zach’s response to FOX News and Ann Coulter at Rock The Bells Saturday that I mentioned in my previous post. I scrounged around for a transcript to no avail.

I’m hoping Ms. Coulter will have a response in a few days….

Rage Against The Machine at Rock The Bells

Last night I witnessed music history when Rage Against the Machine played at Rock the Bells, the second of a brief six show reunion tour.

Only one description does this show justice: FUCKING AMAZING.

Which shouldn’t surprise, considering 70,000+ Rage fans had been waiting seven years to see the band perform. This place was destined to explode, and it did.

At one point during the set I feared for people’s lives because the crowd was so insane. The mosh pit ended when the show ended. People were being rescued from the fracas by the dozen. We lost Wes before the band even went on.

This was easily one of my top five concerts, right up there with the first time I saw Rage in 1997 at Coca-Cola Starplex in Dallas.

To see Zach de la Rocha back on stage with his old mates sends a tingle down your spine, and makes you wonder why the hell they would ever break up something so good. Everyone in the band sure looked like they were happy to be back together.

Tom Morello seemed like he had put his bland made-for-radio Audioslave days behind him by shredding his guitar all night and jumping from amp to amp with his fist in the air. Tim Bob tore up the base. At one point while I was fighting off some 6’7″ guy with a mohawk, I caught Zach staring at his band mates with a smirk on his face. He knew. We knew. This was history in the making.

Zach also had a follow-up to his controversial comments in the band’s first show at Coachella, which was all over the news and made the band a target of FOX News and – that’s right you guessed it – the dumbest bitch alive Ann Coulter. Stay tuned – I’ll post Zach’s response video as soon as it hits the web.

The only question remains: can they work it out long enough to put together a new album.

It means that Zach will have to put up with Tim Bob’s antics, and Tom and Zach will have to put their egos aside. Zach isn’t going to calm the anti-Bush rhetoric, so Tom should embrace the band for what it used to mean to all of us: fight the power, question authority, and lastly WAKE UP.