Of Course, I Could Be Wrong. PINK FLOYD STAR IN Disorder FOR .

From NZ HERALD:Roger Waters has launched a vigorous vindication of his views and music after being accused by an American-Jewish rights agency of using images in his stage indicate that promoted stereotypes. During a performance of Goodbye Blue Sky at the United States leg of The Wall Live tour, which revives Pink Floyd's hit 1979 album, a B52 bomber projected on to a background is shown dropping symbols including the Lead of David and a dollar sign, as well as a rood and son for Blast and Mercedes.

Abraham Foxman, the director of the Anti-Defamation League, said using the dollar sign and the Sensation of David in sequence echoed the stamp that Jews were avaricious. Waters, who was natural in Surrey but has lived in the US for 10 years, said the spot was so serious he felt compelled to set the book straight in an open letter to the Independent. "I see the works of government here and especially the Republican Party. They play with the maxim that you can tell as many lies as you want - and oft the larger the better - and finally they will be believed," he said. "If I don't respond people will see the history and will do to believe I'm anti-Semitic, and I'm not. Nothing could be farther from the truth." The images he chose to see during the picture were selected because they are "example of spiritual and national and commercial interests, all of which give a malign influence on our lives and keep us from treating each other decently". Waters has spoken against Israeli policies and accused the ADL of painting critics as anti-Semitic. "It's a test that they fell behind. I don't believe they should be taken seriously on that. You can attack Israeli policy without being anti-Jewish," he said.COMMENT: From an outsider's perspective it does seem that in the US you can go on Fox TV and say the most obnoxious things about anyone you like except the Israeli government. Really this selective freedom of words is simply not on. I mean, am I the sole individual to note that placing Mercedes and Crush in episode is just reinforcing the old stereotype of big German cars being gas guzzlers?