CBS prevents No Age from performing in Obama shirt

According to a Pitchfork report, critically acclaimed noise-punks, No Age, were prevented from performing on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson while wearing a pro-Barack Obama t-shirt. According to the band’s guitarist Randy Randall :

I have recently come under what can only be called extreme censorship. I felt it was important to voice my choice for presidential candidate, Barack Obama, seeing as the episode would air eight days before election day. Dean and I decided that it would be better to take advantage of the stage we had at our disposal… Access to affordable health care is an issue very near to my heart for many personal reasons and I am sure that many of you can relate. I have lost and stood by as many of my close family members have battled with terrible illnesses. I have myself gone through traumatic hospitalizations only to come out the other side alive but horribly in debt.

Randall instead scrawled “Free Health Care” on the shirt and hid the Obama message. The band was then allowed to perform. The band released Nouns earlier this year.
Source According to a Pitchfork report, critically acclaimed noise-punks, No Age, were prevented from performing on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson while wearing a pro-Barack Obama t-shirt. According to the band’s guitarist Randy Randall :

I have recently come under what can only be called extreme censorship. I felt it was important to voice my choice for presidential candidate, Barack Obama, seeing as the episode would air eight days before election day. Dean and I decided that it would be better to take advantage of the stage we had at our disposal… Access to affordable health care is an issue very near to my heart for many personal reasons and I am sure that many of you can relate. I have lost and stood by as many of my close family members have battled with terrible illnesses. I have myself gone through traumatic hospitalizations only to come out the other side alive but horribly in debt.

Randall instead scrawled “Free Health Care” on the shirt and hid the Obama message. The band was then allowed to perform. The band released Nouns earlier this year.
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