Cross Toby off the list

[C Darwin]

Toby Keith praises Obama

LOS ANGELES - Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one big, patriotic country star.

Toby Keith, perhaps best known to non-country audiences for his post-Sept. 11 song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," says he's a Democrat, and was impressed by the senator from Illinois.
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Link

 

[Bart]

Toby Keith praises Obama

From the link:


"So I thought it was beautiful the other day when Obama went to Afghanistan and got educated about Afghanistan and Iraq. He came back and said some really nice things.


"So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat."


I had to laugh when I read his comments. Can we expect anything different fromWhite celebriities? Toby was attacked recently by Max Blumenthal, who claimed the song, "Beer For My Horses ", was really about lynching blacks.

So, I guess big tough Toby had to do the Texas grovel - step to get Max Blumenthal off his back.


http://mycrocosmos.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/toby-keith-is-ac cused-of-racism-by-a-liar/


Max Blumenthal recently referred to Toby Keith's hit song Beer for my Horses as an "ode to lynching." Later he insulted the whole audience at the Colbert Report where Keith performed the Song by saying, "Colbert's studio audience clapped to the beat, blithely unaware that they were swaying to a racially tinged, explicitly pro-lynching anthem that calls for the vigilante-style hanging of car thieves and other assorted evildoers." Later, Blumenthal added, "...during the days when Keith's 'Grandpappy' stalked the Jim Crow South, lynching was an institutional method of terror employed against blacks to maintain white supremacy."


Edit: There is more at Blumenthal's blog


http://maxblumenthal.com/2008/07/212/#more-212


Edited by: Bart

 

[jaxvid]

Later, Blumenthal added, "...during the days when Keith's 'Grandpappy' stalked the Jim Crow South, lynching was an institutional method of terror employed against blacks to maintain white supremacy

Well duh! That's why everybody liked the song!!!

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Toby never was on my list to begin with.

 

[PhillyBirds]

It's every white celebrity's obligation to support Obama these days. Didn't you know?

 

[Deacon]

Toby never was on my list to begin with.

Same here. I never liked him.

 

[GWTJ]

It's every white celebrity's obligation to support Obama these days. Didn't you know?

That doesn't mean they are going to vote his way once they get inside the privacy of the voting booth.

 

[Charlie]

The video for 'I Love This Bar' had a large Confederate flag hanging from the wall. Keith has performed in Iraq.

So who knows? I mean, how do you measure a pop music performer beyond his or her 'art'? When Keith names an album 'White Trash With Money' is he taking back a slur against his people or is simply making an attempt at comedy?

According to Richard Faussette in his Occidental Quarterly article (Winter 2006-07) white gentiles are being replaced in virtually every niche in America. 'Country singer' might be allowed to remain a white niche, but only within limits. Keith, a successful careerist in a very competitive field, no doubt understands these limits. Max Blumenthal will happily remind Keith if necessary.

The Dixie Chicks expressed an honest opinion, Bush is an idiot, and suffered for it. They might have thought being the sort of country act acceptable to trendites who also thought Bush an idiot made them off-limits to criticism. What they failed to realize is our masters had placed them in the country niche, which is closely monitored for unacceptable notions.

What is acceptable within the mainstream country niche? Feminism, especially if it leads to murder of an unfaithful or abusive spouse; 'Goodby Earl', 'The Thunder Rolls', 'Independence Day'. Ain't America Great! Jesus, though perhaps not sexy Jesus, just mystical and cool, no rampages through the temple giving justice to money lenders. Drinking which leads to entertaining hijinks.

What isn't acceptable? Steve Earle writing a song about the American Taliban, Johnny Walker. Porter Wagoner's 'The Cold Hard Facts of Life' in which a husband pays a little visit to his wife and her lover. Anything which addresses non-white crime, third world immigration, an increasingly impoverished working and middle class, and anything which might be out of place in Nation or Forward.

'Welfare Cadillac', a top ten hit for Guy Drake in the early seventies:

I've never worked much, In fact
I've been poor all my life
I guess all I really own
Is ten kids and a wife
This house I live in is mine
But it's really a shack
But I've always managed to somehow
drive me a brand new Cadillac.

The back door steps ...
They done fell plumb down
The front screen door is off and
Laying somewhere out there on the ground
The wind just now whooped
Up another piece of that tar
Roofing off the back; I sure hope it don't
skin up that new Cadillac.

The front porch post fell
loose at the bottom
It don't make no sense to fix 'em
'Cause that floor's just too darn rotten
In Winter time we sometimes have some snow
That blows in through the cracks
If it gets too bad we all just pile up
And sleep out there in that new Cadillac.

I know the place ain't much
But I sure don't pay no rent
I get a check the first of every month
From this here Federal Goverment
Every Wednesday I get commodities
Sometimes four or five sacks
Pick 'em up down at the Welfare Office
Driving that new Cadillac.

Some folks say I'm crazy
And I've even been called a fool
But my kids get free books and
All them there free lunches at school
We get peanut butter and cheese
And man, they give us flour by the sack
'Course them Welfare Checks
They meet the payments on this new Cadillac.

Now the way that I see it
These other folk are the fools
They're working and paying taxes
Just to send my young'uns through school
The Salvation Army cuts their hair and
Gives them clothes to wear on their backs
So we can dress up and ride around
And show off this new Cadillac.

But things are still gonna get better yet
At least that's what I understand
They tell me this new President
Has put in a whole new poverty plan
He's gonna send us poor folks money
They say we're gonna get it out here in sacks
In fact, my wife's already shopping around
For her new Cadillac.

Timely as ever, but even with updated music to fit today's country (rock guitars, faster tempo, punchier drums, multi-multi-tracks) it wouldn't now get past any radio programmer and certainly not at Viacom-owned CMT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRKOmAPejNQ

Wow, I got through a whole post on country music without once mentioning how much I despise Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines. 'This is a good person,' someone once said about Garth. Never mind Garth completely ripped off Chris LeDoux. LeDoux dies of cancer and Brooks still waddles among us. How is that fair?Edited by: Charlie

 

[Charlie]

Chris Gaines/Garth Brooks, 'Right Now'

Maybe it's the movies, maybe it's the books
Maybe it's the government and all the other crooks
Maybe it's the drugs, maybe it's the parents
Maybe it's the gangs, or the colors that we're wearin'
Maybe it's the high schools, maybe it's the teachers
Tattoos, pipe bombs underneath the bleachers
Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the crack
Maybe it's the bible, or could it be the lack

Come on people, now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another, right now...right now

Okay, maybe it's the papers, maybe it's the family
Maybe it's the internet, radio, TV
Maybe it's the president, maybe it's the last one
Maybe it's the one before that
Maybe it's the athletes, maybe it's the dads
Maybe it's the sports fans, agents, fads
Maybe it's the homeless, aliens, immigrants
Maybe it's life, don't tell me that it's imminent

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
You gotta love one another

Maybe it's the fallout, maybe it's the ozone
Maybe it's the chemicals, the radiation, cell phones
Maybe it's the magazines, maybe it the next page
Lotteries, fast food, bad news, road rage
Maybe it the unions, big business
Maybe it's the KKK and the skinheads
Maybe it's the daughters, maybe it's the sons
Maybe it's the brothers of the mothers or the guns

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now

(You know, if we don't talk about it
It ain't gonna get better)

We gotta love one another

(So, whadda say, let's talk)

Maybe it's the parks, maybe it's the sex
Maybe it's the talk shows, maybe it's a reflex
Maybe it's the taxes, maybe it's the system
Judges, lawyers, prisons
Maybe it's the Catholics, maybe it's the Protestants
Maybe it's the addicts, and the hippies and communists
Maybe it's a fashion, maybe it's a trend
Maybe it's the future... maybe it's the end

Maybe it's the KKK and the skinheads

Maybe it's the Catholics, maybe it's the Protestants

That Garth Brooks has it all figured out. This is a good person.

A person that is so good a learned teacher may reference him:

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Gift of unanswered prayers

By Rabbi Dov Fischer

Parshat Beha'alotecha (Numbers 8:1-12:16)

When prayer is not answered, sometimes -- as the country singer Garth Brooks poetically has observed -- one reflects, stunned, and suddenly realizes that some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. Edited by: Charlie

 

[Bear-Arms]

I hate Toby Keith regardless. Actually, I have no idea who he is, never heard of him until today. From reading the other comments I can tell he is some kind of country western singer, which I kind of like, I mean, I do like country music. I just don't like the modern country music. To me it's just not real country music. I would call it rock music. Modern country music sounds more like rock and not even southern rock. Yeah, I hate that new stuff.

I can't dog him too much for backing a Democrat. You can't really say the Republicans are for country anymore. What bugs me about him is that he's still a believer. When I say believer, I mean people that still believe in the parties - the Democrats and Republicans.

As for whites. There is something I wanted to say about us. We are a compassionate bunch. Even when we were doing things like slavery we were having debates on whether it was moral or not. All the ideas for black equality and civil rights came from whites. The world would be a different place without these ideas. Do you see this much diversity in Japan or Africa? We are supposedly the racists?

Look at this way, millions of illegals don't come here thinking we're racists, if they did, they wouldn't come here. They show up here because they know we are stupid. Okay. Not stupid but naive. We like to help people. They know this. They know white guilt is our kryptonite. They know if it ain't then call them racist. Simple math some whites can't seem to understand.

The problem has never been other races but our own nativity. Yes. We should embrace the fact we are not inhuman. We are better because of it. I don't want to harm blacks. I'm not about that. We just have to be smart about handling matters. The problem is whites are not. We let people walk all over us. Freedom is not having a group of white guys coming to your house and hang you from a tree. However, freedom is also not having whites give you everything for nothing.

 

[jaxvid]

I like Toby Keith. I have all his CD's and went to one of his concerts recently, it was the best one I have ever been too and I've seen the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Led Zepplin, Lynard Skynner, Eric Clapton, and many more.

He's always been a working class Democrat wo why would he support McCain? It's disappointing but not surprising.

 

[guest301]

Toby Keith hasn't actually said that he's voting for Obama. He just said a few kind but stupid words of praise about him. Maybe he doesn't want to offend a certain percentage of his audience like the Dixie Chicks did. I think he's voting for McCain anyway because of Keith's very vocal support and visits to our troops in Iraq. Like Jaxvid said, I enjoy his music as well.

 

[jared]

He visits our troops in Afghanistan as well. I was never a big country (as it's commonly understood today) music fan, but he put on an enjoyable show and seems like a cool guy.

 

[White Shogun]

Great post Bear-Arms. I particularly like your last comment:

Freedom is not having a group of white guys coming to your house and hang you from a tree. However, freedom is also not having whites give you everything for nothing.

I want to use this elsewhere, do you mind?