Listening to Jon Justice this morning I heard him read an email from a listener relaying a story about the Elton John concert.

During the concert, Sir Elton didn’t mince words about those demanding that he boycott Arizona and cancel his concert as a protest of SB 1070.  We won’t repeat his exact words but he made it clear that he wouldn’t have missed playing Tucson for the world and curtly told the Boycott Arizona mafia that he did not agree with them.  According to the Justice listener, John’s comments were well received by the audience who gave him a roaring applause.

I thought, wow, this is kind of newsworthy so I went to the Arizona Daily Star to check out the concert review. 

You want to know what the Arizona Daily Star review said about Elton John’s comments and favorable audience response?

NOTHING.  NOT A SINGLE WORD.

A 600 plus word concert review, Cathalena Burch didn’t even mention this.

So then I checked out the comments, and, sure enough, John’s comments were mentioned there.  Barring some hoax about the comments it makes one wonder.

Why didn’t Burch mention that in her review?  Could it be that they don’t want their readers to know that a major musical talent told the boycott Arizona crowd to stuff it?  Could it be that she did write about it and the Star editors cut it from the story because it doesn’t fit the dialogue they are pushing that Arizona is being economically harmed by SB 1070?  Maybe she went to get a soda when he said that.  We’ll probably never know. 

As Twain said, if you don’t read the papers you’re uninformed and if you do you’re misinformed.

Update:  Yesterday the Star added this separate blurb about Sir Elton’s comments regarding musicians boyotting Arizona.  The header says they posted it at 1 PM, three hours after this Gila Courier post.  Coincidence?  We’ll let you decide.

Update #2:  Fox News’ Megyn Kelly mentioned Elton John’s comments citing the Arizona Daily Star’s coverage.  Heya Cathalena Burch and John Humenik–You’re welcome…since the Gila Courier likely got your paper off the dime to report on this.  See?  You got mentioned in the national media.  Like I said, you’re welcome.