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Old April-9th-2008, 01:05 PM   #1
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Sonny Bono: victim of political assassination?

I can see bumping him off for "I Got You Babe", but otherwise no.

From The Australian:

Sonny Bono 'assassinated' by hitmen
By staff writers | April 04, 2008

SONNY Bono, former husband and singing partner of superstar Cher, was clubbed to death by hitmen on the orders of drug and weapons dealers who feared he was going to expose them, a former FBI agent claims.

Ted Gunderson, now a private investigator, has told the US Globe tabloid that Bono, who served as mayor of Palm Springs for four years, did not die after hitting a tree on a Nevada ski slope in January 1998 as everyone believed.

"It's nonsense for anyone to now try to suggest that Bono died after crashing into a tree. There's zero evidence in this autopsy report... to show such an accident happened. Instead, there's powerful proof he was assassinated.

"This was an evil plot that was carried out to almost perfection by ruthless assassins," Mr Gunderson told the paper.

The former agent, who has been researching Bono's accident for the past decade, said top officials linked to an international drug and weapons ring feared the singer-turned-politician was about to expose their crimes - so they had him killed on the slopes.

Bono, an experienced skiier, was ambushed on the slopes by hired hitmen, who beat him to death and then staged a tree collision, Mr Gunderson said.

He called for authorities to dig up Bono's remains and open a homicide investigation.

His claims have reportedly been backed by top forensics experts who fear Nevada authorities were too quick to call the death a skiing accident.

Investigator Bob Fletcher had also confessed he sent evidence of a 10-year study that linked top US government officials to arms and weapons dealers to Bono less than a month before his death, the Globe reported.

"(Bono) was going to make it his No.1 priority... There's no doubt in my mind Sonny was murdered by someone who needed him silenced," Mr Fletcher told the paper.
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Old April-9th-2008, 01:36 PM   #2
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They hired a fir tree to wipe him out.
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Old April-9th-2008, 04:59 PM   #3
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Maybe it was the same dudes who killed Vince Foster?
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Old April-9th-2008, 05:10 PM   #4
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There's no doubt in my mind Sonny was murdered by someone who needed him silenced," Mr Fletcher told the paper.
He should have been silenced before he recorded any vocals. The damage is already done.

But seriously, this should be investigated, if there's any substance to it.

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Old April-9th-2008, 08:22 PM   #5
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I can see bumping him off for "I Got You Babe", but otherwise no.
Not even for wardrobe?

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Old April-9th-2008, 09:12 PM   #6
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They hired a fir tree to wipe him out.

Hahahahahaha..............
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Old April-10th-2008, 12:26 AM   #7
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Maybe it was the same dudes who killed Vince Foster?
Come on, Darryl, you know that was Hillary in person.
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Old April-10th-2008, 07:25 AM   #8
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This is unconscionable.
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But wait, there's more! Check out this scorecard of media mentions over the past month:

Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:

"Yoo and torture" - 102

"Sonny Bono and assasination" -- 1,073,000

"Yoo and Fourth Amendment" -- 16

"Obama and bowling" -- 1,043
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Old April-10th-2008, 09:08 AM   #9
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"I Got You Babe" was them at their best. Thank goodness if you missed the rest. I got an album as a present when I was a kid. Did it suck? Does a vacuum cleaner?
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Old April-10th-2008, 10:31 AM   #10
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Mott the Hoople's cover of "Laugh At Me" is all the Sonny I've ever needed.
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Old April-10th-2008, 10:43 AM   #11
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Come on, Darryl, you know that was Hillary in person.

Or her phantom sniper.

He's everywhere!
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Old April-10th-2008, 10:43 AM   #12
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Mott the Hoople's cover of "Laugh At Me" is all the Sonny I've ever needed.
I've always liked Dylan's dismissal of that tune (not Mott's cover): "Guy gets kicked out of a restaurant and writes a song about it. What a drag."
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Old April-10th-2008, 11:18 AM   #13
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I've always liked Dylan's dismissal of that tune (not Mott's cover): "Guy gets kicked out of a restaurant and writes a song about it. What a drag."
In Scorcese's doc, Joan Baez said that Dylan wrote When the Ship Comes In in one night after being refused a hotel room because of his appearance.
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Old April-10th-2008, 11:30 AM   #14
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Old April-10th-2008, 06:36 PM   #15
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"I Got You Babe" was them at their best. Thank goodness if you missed the rest. I got an album as a present when I was a kid. Did it suck? Does a vacuum cleaner?
Heathen!

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Old April-10th-2008, 06:43 PM   #16
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Seems to me that if there is a guy out there poised to destroy you and that guy is only Sonny Bono, you'd want to keep him alive. Sonny Bono is a good archenemy to have. It's not every nemesis that can be dismissed with a Cher reference.
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He co-wrote Needles and Pins with Jack Nitzsche, but I don't know if he ever recorded his own version of it.
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