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Music should lift us up. It should make us better for having heard it. It should ennoble our souls (or have a beat that we can dance to) and in the best of moments it is the white-hot fire in which our greatest cultural moments are forged. Like any tool, though, music can be used for evil purposes. It can be used to make us hateful and dumb. It can be used to pander to our worst instincts and to empower those who approach life in a spirit of militant, malignant ignorance.
Today’s song is built on so many lies, so much ignorance, such powerfully stupid ill will that it would take an army of scholars years to unravel it all.Music should lift us up. It should make us better for having heard it. It should... more
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Latest Complete Sports News Updates But one of the highlights in today's game is the singing of the National Anthem by Ms. Martina Mcbride. Ms. Martina Mcbride and Mr. Joe Nichols will be performing at Sunday's (Jan. 23) AFC Championship game when the New York Jets meet the ...Latest Complete Sports News Updates But one of the highlights in today's game is... more
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Latest News Updates Tonight the country music stars came out to shine for the fans at the Country Music Awards in Nashville. One of those wonderfu legends of counrty music is Mr George Strait.Latest News Updates Tonight the country music stars came out to shine for the fans at... more
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This is a moving video and a celebration of our troops with singer Toby Keith performing "American Soldier" as a salute to our men and women in the Armed Forces on Fourth of July--2010
http://tiny.cc/7di11This is a moving video and a celebration of our troops with singer Toby Keith... more
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Host Conor Knighton and team wickedly skewer the week in media. Includes Health Care Reform, a politician's survival guide to their gay crisis, sex addiction in the news, a Viral Video Film School Pop Quiz, and songs that celebrities like.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Host Conor Knighton and team wickedly skewer the week in media. Includes Health Care... more
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Sergio Cilli looks at iTunes celebrity playlists in this special edition of The White Hot Top 5.
Sergio's White Top 5 is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. For more Sergio visit http://current.com/white-hot-top-5/ and Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Sarah Haskins, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10 pm Eastern and Pacific Times and can be found online at http://current.com/infomania/ or on Current TV. And make sure to check out our facebook profile for special features at http://infomaniafacebook.com.Sergio Cilli looks at iTunes celebrity playlists in this special edition of The White... more
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The Globe cites sources close to the Obama administration.
“Obama is getting strategic guidance from Bill Clinton,” the report states. “Bill has met several times with Obama to discuss how he can counterattack his enemies, the source says. The most recent powwow was a 90-minute session at New York’s trendy Il Mulino restaurant on Sept. 14. As police and secret service surrounded the eatery, Bill sat with Obama plotting various ways to get even with his fiercest critics.” Clinton allegedly urged Obama to draw up an enemies list and “then take them down one by one.”
Wow, Ron Paul didn't make the list!The Globe cites sources close to the Obama administration.
“Obama is getting... more
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They gave it a shot and don't mind if others do.
With Willie Nelson, Toby Keith & Scott Emerik.They gave it a shot and don't mind if others do.
With Willie Nelson, Toby Keith... more
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Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift are among the first round of performers announced for the 2009 CMT Music Awards to be held June 17 at Nashville's Sommet Center. Tickets go on sale on May 2 via Ticketmaster. Prices start at $25 and will go up to $99 for a ticket package that includes a seat on the red carpet as well as the main show. Fan voting continues through May 11, and final nominees in all categories except video of the year will be revealed on May 19. Learn more about this year's CMT Music Awards.
I'M SO EXCITED!!!!Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift are among the first round of... more
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Who isn't a Hot Mess? How about Fast and Furious! Who walked away the hot mess at the Academy of Country Music Awards - Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus or Toby Keith? Plus internet scoops on Reaper, Chris Pine as Green Lantern, and an official Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover. But it's a main event death match as Jackie Earle Haleys is announced as Freddy Krueger and Michael Bay's announcement of who he's killing off in Transformers 2.Who isn't a Hot Mess? How about Fast and Furious! Who walked away the hot mess at... more
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What does Filmore Mescalito Holmes know about Kings of Leon? Our Critc Critic, Peter Grumbine returns to the Daily Fix with words for Holmes on his review of the Kings' latest album, "Only By The Night."What does Filmore Mescalito Holmes know about Kings of Leon? Our Critc Critic, Peter... more
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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.
Keith has said in the past that the 2002 song _ which included lines aimed at the Taliban like "we lit up your world like the Fourth of July" _ was more patriotic than pro-war.
Asked while promoting his new movie "Beer For My Horses" about the role of patriotism in the current presidential election, Keith replied: "There's a big part of America that really believes that there is a war on terrorism, and that we need to finish up.
"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."Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one big, patriotic country... more
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Now, Keith has trained his sights on Barack Obama, attacking him in racially tinged language that startled even the notoriously reactionary radio jock Glenn Beck. During Keith's appearance on the July 30 broadcast of Beck's show, he remarked, "I think the black people would say he [Obama] don't talk, act or carry himself as a black person."
"What does that even mean?" the audibly shocked Beck replied.
"Well, I don't know what that means," Keith drawled, "but I think that that's what they would say. Even though the black society would pull for him I still think that they think in the back of their mind that the only reason he is in [the general election] is because he talks, acts and carries himself as a Caucasian."Now, Keith has trained his sights on Barack Obama, attacking him in racially tinged... more
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With all the controversy regarding rappers lyrics going on right now, from Nas' protest of Fox News to the Ludacris misguided pro-Obama song, Politics as Usual, the media has been neglecting the negative lyrics of country music’s most popular star.
Singer Toby Keith is promoting a movie called Beer for my Horses, based on a song of the same name. The song promotes lynching criminals and vigilantism. In the song, Keith says
Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that
During Keith’s grandpappy’s day, 3,437 black people were lynched. Most of the ‘bad boys’ who were lynched by vigilante white mobs were in fact blacks who weren’t given a chance to defend themselves from the charges brought against them. Charges could include anything from theft, rape and whistling at a white woman and the punishment was always death. Most lynchings involved some kind of interaction with a white woman whether it was consensual or forced sex or ‘inappropriate’ actions. While white people charged with a crime would have the right to trial by jury, black people had to face the white mob as judge, jury and executioner through lynching.
While Keith does not explicitly call for the lynching of black people, he talks about ‘gangsters’ and ‘crime in the streets’ which are phrases often connected to urban African Americans. In the trailer for his movie, Beer for my Horses, the enemies are all dark skinned stereotypical Mexicans. Images and symbolism of lynchings are very disturbing and offensive to African Americans as it brings back a dark part of their history.
Fox News’ Sean Hannity, who has been extremely critical of negative rap lyrics, has been a big supporter of Toby Keith. Hannity often used Keith’s song, ‘Courtesy of the Red White and Blue,’ a song that glorified bombing Afghanistan, as a theme song for his radio program and many other right-wingers had adopted it as a theme song on talk radio. Keith has also been very active performing overseas for military troops.
Will the right wing republicans at Fox News and conservative talk radio and the military be as quick to denounce Toby Keith, as Obama was to denounce Ludacris? Calls to Sean Hannity’s office at Fox were not returned.With all the controversy regarding rappers lyrics going on right now, from Nas'... more
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I don't know what to think about this just yet. Some of the lyrics in his song "Beer for my Horses" play out as this:
Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, son
A man had to answer for the wicked that he'd done
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street
For all the people to see
It doesn't necessarily talk about race but it is terrible to bring up a form of punishment that was used against Blacks and of course, with the Leo Frank incident, against a Jew. What do you think? A non-issue? No meaning in the song? Or is there something hateful in all this?I don't know what to think about this just yet. Some of the lyrics in his song... more
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Sergio is proud to be an American and to prove it, he's compiled the most patriotic songs ever made.Sergio is proud to be an American and to prove it, he's compiled the most... more
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