Why Can't People Just Tell The Truth?????

Singer Joan Baez was banned from performing in a concert at Walter Reed. And once again nobody knows how to tell the truth.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez says she doesn't know why she was not allowed to perform for recovering soldiers recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as she planned.

Baez, 66, told the Post in a telephone interview Tuesday that she was not told why she was left off the program by the Army. "There might have been one, there might have been 50 (soldiers) that thought I was a traitor," she told the paper.

In a statement, a Walter Reed spokesman said that leaving Baez out of the program was a matter of logistics.

Baez's manager, Mark Spector, told the Post that Mellencamp's management invited Baez to perform in March and handled all the arrangements. The Post said Mellencamp's manager, Randy Hoffman, did not return calls requesting comment and that Mellencamp's publicist said the singer was ill Tuesday and unavailable.

But Mellencamp earlier told RollingStone.com: "They didn't give me a reason why she couldn't come. We asked why and they said, 'She can't fit here, period.' "

I don't understand why they can't just admit that they didn't want her to perform there because she's an anti-war activist. That's the truth, and not some bullshit about "logistics." Anyone with even half a brain knows why they essentially banned her from performing at Walter Reed. So they need to stop with the BULLSHIT, and start telling the truth because people in this country can see right through their lies.