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It has come to light that the AT&T “Blue Room” Webcast of Pearl Jam‘s performance from Lollapalooza on Sunday night was censored, as segments where frontman Eddie Vedder made remarks about George Bush were not shown. While performing the song “Daughter,” Pearl Jam segued into a portion of Pink Floyd‘s “Another Brick in the Wall,” in which Vedder sang, “George Bush, leave this world alone” and “George Bush, find yourself another home.” Those lyrics were missing from the cybercast.
AT&T said in a statement that parts of the show were indeed missing from the Webcast, but it was due to “a mistake by a Webcast vendor” that was “contrary to our policy. We have policies in place with respect to editing excessive profanity, but AT&T does not censor performances. We very much regret that this happened in the first place.”
Vedder also spoke out against oil giant BP Amoco during his band’s set, and he brought a disabled Iraq War veteran onstage to call for an end to the war. However, neither of those segments were edited.
So – It’s OK to “insult” the soliders, but under NO circumstances will AT&T
allow anyone to say anything negative about Der Fake Fuhrer .