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John Lennon and the Grudge Report

Posted Jul 17th 2006 11:09AM by TMZ Staff

The "Grudge Report" a site that parodies the famous news gathering site "Drudge Report" has appeared on the internet. The offending website is an advertisement for the upcoming Lions Gate documentary " The U.S. vs. John Lennon."

The documentary chronicles Lennon the peace activist as opposed to Lennon the Beatle and his troubles with the U.S. government- from the legal wrangling involving FBI files to the goverment try to deport him. The film will have interviews with Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, Walter Cronkite, Geraldo Rivera, activist Angela Davis, and Watergate ex-con G. Gordon Liddy.

While a parody of websites is nothing new, the act of re-creating a news website with the intent to promote a documentary about a peace activist is. Was Drudge irked? Who knows. But he did post the headline "Paramount Movie Campaign Mocks Drudge Report...."

"The U.S. vs. John Lennon" is set to be released in September.

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1. Oh the good ole days, when the government was evil and the FBI was its filthy shirt and tie suited tentacle probing and prodding its way through the hearts and bowels of America. Will we ever see such a glorious day again? There is not enough probing going on for my liking now a days, lets get some celebrities in on some of this probing action. Come on TMZ you "know" these people, lets get a probin.

Posted at 5:50PM on Jul 17th 2006 by yasodic Hiro

2. Interesting perspective noted in this story: "The offending website is an advertisement ... " as if parodying a website is an offense. Imitation and parody are long recognized as sincere forms of flattery. Matt Drudge should consider himself lucky that he's being parodied!

As far as the government; it's been well known for years that Nixon's administration had a hard-on for Lennon and wanted him out of the country. Hell, if Lennon had been killed in '75 instead of '80 I would much more easily buy the conspiracy-instead-of-crazed-fan line. But by then his five years of being out of the public eye made it hard to believe that the govt all of a sudden wanted him dead.

Either way, the government 'of the people, by the people and for the people' is a joke and always has been. The isolation of a government position and its accompanying power will always lead to a number of people in those positions who will abuse that power for personal and political gain. And damn, if it doesn't keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger...

Posted at 7:14PM on Jul 17th 2006 by Tim 'Gonzo' Gordon