Kelly Slater Politickin' in the Pipeline

1. Umm, I bet he likes the graphics....Can't imagine he is smart enough to have a cerebral opinion about Abu Ghraib...

Posted at 2:34PM on Jun 28th 2007 by WTF?

2. I LOVE HIM!!!

Posted at 2:37PM on Jun 28th 2007 by KPEZZY

3. I'm sure John Gibson is going to have a field day making a bearly coheasive commentarial rant on Hollywood liberals on FOX news, I'm sure Bill and Hannity will catch the spark.

Posted at 3:09PM on Jun 28th 2007 by BOEING 787-8

4. who?

Posted at 3:20PM on Jun 28th 2007 by anal ease

5. Torture in the prison not ok huh? I wish they'd thown them out of a burning window of the 105th floor of a high rise building.

Posted at 3:23PM on Jun 28th 2007 by Bobo Justice

6. BoBo - YOU RIGHT ON MAN! and even THAT would have been too good for them!

Posted at 3:43PM on Jun 28th 2007 by krys

7. He is HOT & talented! I'd love to learn surfing with him any day!

Posted at 3:36PM on Jun 28th 2007 by Ashleigh

8. #6, BOBO Justice...YEAH! Good post, honey :)

Posted at 3:39PM on Jun 28th 2007 by Ashleigh

9. what an IDIOT

Posted at 3:40PM on Jun 28th 2007 by nance

10. From surfline.com what Kelly said about the board art (at bottom).

WTF-Kelly actually has tried very hard to be a positive image on young surfers constantly telling them not to do drugs and to stay in school. And although Kelly's acedemic career was eclipsed by his prosurfing career when he turned 18, he carried an A average through highschool, while balancing his acedemics with his amateur surfing career. I think it paid of for him, he has won 8 world titles, makes plenty of money, dates supermodels and celebrities, and has redefined modern surfing- all while remaining a humble decent person.

What Kelly said about the board art.

"It's my favorite images of the war...no, not really. It's just a poster a friend of mine made to bring some awareness to what's happening in iRaq and a funny play on iPods. Pop culture meets political awareness.
Bruce Gilbert, my traveling partner and one of my best friends, started doing posters with this image on them.

It was originally made with numbers of troops and Iraqis killed to date but it's far outdated and the numbers are way up there now -- around 3500 US troops and between 700,000 and a million Iraqis killed since the beginning of the war!

Why is Paris Hilton going to a halfway house for three weeks bigger news than 500 Iraqis a day being killed in their own country everyday as well as lots of American troops? This is not to mention the injured, which is about ten times higher than the casualties. It's life-changing for so many people. A crime of humanity.

But wait...I'm off track. I just liked the way the colors looked, I guess. Yeah, that's all."

--Kelly

Posted at 3:41PM on Jun 28th 2007 by matt

11. oh wow, i wish we all could be as cool as you!!!! and as NOT POLITICAL too

Posted at 7:12PM on Jun 28th 2007 by kwanda

12. GO BOBO JUSTICE ! Hey XBox, Quicksilver and Honda, are ya listening?

Posted at 3:57PM on Jun 28th 2007 by Grannypants

13. all this means is more publicity for him and his sponsors! FREE PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY!!!!

Posted at 4:02PM on Jun 28th 2007 by URLIFEWASOC

14. Slater is using his board to talk about surf boarding in the water to have fun instead of waterboarding to create more war instead of peace and understanding.

Posted at 4:03PM on Jun 28th 2007 by Gloria Picchetti

15. Go BoBo. and BITE ME Quicksilver.

Posted at 4:12PM on Jun 28th 2007 by Lulu