See apparently he was heading to Bahrain in December as a good will ambassador. Say what? Mr. “Party Til You Puke”?
Luckily someone at the US Department of State took a moment to have a WTF moment and look in to it. The plan was that the rocker would go to speak about the positive power of partying. Thankfully the Government determined that the money could be better allocated. I mean we could fund something nuts like education or infrastructure I suppose but what fun is that.
A spokesperson for the US Department of State, Victoria Nuland. In that conference Nuland said: 'we had a Bahraini entity that approached the embassy about co-sponsoring a visit by this guy, who I take it is pretty popular there in Bahrain. That was initially approved, and then when more senior management at the embassy took a look at this, the conclusion was that this was not an appropriate use of U.S. government funds.'
'I think the conclusion was when they looked at the body of his work that we didn't need to be part of this invitation,' she added. 'He is not going to be going to Bahrain on the US government's dime.'
This could be one of the oddest stories I have ever written about. How much more horrible it would have been had the trip actually happened. Andrew was to visit some elementary schools, The University of Bahrain and spread a message of “partying for world peace”. Pure genius.