DUmmy proud2BDUmb Anne Pritchett, our undeserving 2010 DUmmy of the Year, has started what may be her first thread of 2011 that isn't a stupid kpete-ish copy-and-paste job. It's only May 5. Anne, as usual, is listening to the radio, surfing the DUmp, and posting during school hours, when the hoodwinked taxpayers think she's teaching school. Pam Dawson's principal was warned about the lunatic on his staff. Maybe someone should do a public service for Anne's boss.
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 01:36 PM
Original message
Ed Schultz is going OFF on country singers today
He wants to know why they aren't singing any songs praising Obama for killing Osama bin Laden. He says they wrote new songs and their stations played one patriotic song after another following 9/11 but they've been silent all week. He called out Toby Keith by name, asked when the Nashville folks will be scheduling the concert thanking the president.
I've listened to Ed for years and I don't remember him being this pissed off.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1043921cali (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 01:48 PM
Response to Reply #3
11. OK, but does anyone really think (or want) liberal country singer/songwriters
to pen that kind of bombastic crap?
There may be a tiny handful of moonbat country singers. They aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer anyway. But they aren't so DUmb that they want to be Dixie Chicked.
JVS (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 01:57 PM
Response to Reply #11
22. I think there could be a market for it.
Based on the posts here over the last few days.
Yeah, there's a big market for anti-American country music. That's why the Dixie Chicks have been at the top of the charts since the little fat one slandered President Bush overseas.
calimary (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 01:57 PM
Response to Reply #1
23. Some of us do.
I'm glad he's calling Country music out on this. I'm glad he's making a stink about it. They, and the rest of us, need to be reminded of how one-sided and downright jingoistic most of Country music was, and called out on their distinct and VERY obvious double standard. And they need to know that their slanted shit back then was noticed and won't be forgotten anytime soon. They need to know that a lot of us have been keeping track. I remember what Country music, and its assorted radio stations and advocates, did to the Dixie Chicks, who - like the rest of us liberals who were muzzled, shouted down, called names, and accused of being treasonous and anti-American and unpatriotic - turned out to be 100% correct. Even if I LIKED Country music, which I DON'T, I wouldn't be buying the CDs of artists who'd been so pro-bush and pro-knuckle-dragger, ever again.
Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 01:40 PM
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4. Where do I begin with my DESPISE of THAT genre of "music".
It goes back further than 9/11.
The country base of religious fundamentalists/neo-confederates are the same thugs who worked to remove the Beatles from the air after John Lennon made the infamous comment.
Lennon said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus, but no one removed them from the air. I am certain that Lennon today deeply regrets his blasphemy.
Rebubula (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 01:59 PM
Response to Reply #4
29. So....
...I guess it is cool with you when people start talking how they despise Rap "music" and the rap base of misogynists, rapists, gangbangers etc???
Bake (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 01:40 PM
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5. I don't remember any country songs naming Bushie by name.
And Toby Keith actually leans Democratic, from what I've heard.
Ed: lighten up.
Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 02:03 PM
Response to Reply #32
35. Toby said that Obama had the best chance of winning (for Democrats).
http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1596198/toby-keit...
"I've been a lifetime Democrat, and I'm re-registering this year as an independent," he said. "It's strictly my party, that I've been affiliated with all these years, doesn't stand for anything that I stand for anymore. They've lost any sensibility that they had, and they've allowed all the kooks in, so I'm going independent."
He's convinced the attacks on Palin are likely to backfire on the Democrats.
"It's just like this: If I was a strong supporter of Obama and Biden ... the kooks in the Democratic party -- this extreme left -- are hammering Palin so bad, that they're gonna cause John McCain to win this thing," he said.
Keith said he will probably vote for McCain because Palin is his running mate."
Toby Keith was a good country artist, and at the same time, a pinhead.
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 02:04 PM
Response to Reply #31
37. He's still an ass though
My sister sat behind him at a college basketball tournament and said he was such an ass and so drunk that security had to come tell him to calm down.
DUmmy CatWoman is a rare bird. A black DUmmy.
CatWoman (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 02:03 PM
Response to Reply #12
34. my dad pretty much forced it on us
all of our friends used to laugh at us -- we were the only black family in the neighborhood whose house was filled with that music
having said that - I still enjoy some CW artists and their music.
Johnny Cash RULES!!
Johnny Cash was a bigger pinhead than Toby, but he definitely does rule. Great entertainer.
madamesilverspurs (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 01:57 PM
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24. I get it.
But I tend to just turn the radio off.
Don't get me wrong, I've long enjoyed "country" music. For my money, it's second only to Big Band swing for dancing. That said, I've been more than sickened by many of my neighbors who like to wrap themselves -- and their houses and their cars and and their children and their pets -- in the flag, while blaring those allegedly patriotic anthems as they drive down the street in their Hummers with the yellow ribbon magnets on the back. As if doing so makes them more American.
ieoeja (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 02:30 PM
Response to Reply #25
51. That is why they turned on the Dixie Chicks the first time.
With Country Disco (aka line-dancing) all the craze, some suit finds a band of good-looking women doing a great job with old style country, figures they could be molded into the modern style and with their good looks and talent attract a crowd. So he signs them to a record contract.
When the Chicks showed up for their first recording, they are told they can not use steel guitars and fiddles. And absolutely, positively *not* sing bluegrass. The Chicks told them to shove it, and did the recording their way.
While everyone else dressed country and sung city, the Chicks dressed city and sung country. And became the 2nd biggest seller in Nashville history (Elvis was still #1).
They made the industry leaders look like idiots. So when they come out with Good-bye, Earl, a "spontaneous" ban of Dixie Chick music sweeps the radio stations.
Because nothing could be farther from Country Music than a humorous song about a battered ex killing her abuser with poisoned black-eyed peas.
Wow! Who knew? The Chicks ruined their careers by singing Goodbye Earl, a tremendous hit, not because the little fat one shot off her mouth about the President on the eve of war.
pamela (1000+ posts) Thu May-05-11 02:10 PM
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42. They're afraid to say they are proud of President Obama.
There are quite a few Dem/progressive country singers but they are afraid of getting Dixie Chicked. That's the thing that makes me so sad about Obama's presidency. The teabaggers and their ilk get so angry if anyone says anything nice about the President. I've honestly never seen anything like it in my lifetime. These people get furious if anyone even treats him decently or acknowledges that he IS President. If a country singer came out and said they were proud of the President, the baggers would be smashing their records and boycotting them. Guaranteed.
I think everyone who is proud of the jug-eared muslim is singing it at the top of their lungs......(crickets)...
