‘Get over yourself': Garth Brooks won’t appear on TV because of Ferguson

Twitter, Hollywood Reporter copied onto Twichy ^ | 12/26/14

[Impala64ssa]

Country star Garth Brooks was scheduled to appear on several shows this week, including Thanksgiving edition of “The Tonight Show.” But his conscience won’t let him do it anymore. Because of … Ferguson?

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“We landed in NY last night to the news of the civil unrest that was going on in our nation. To spend the day promoting our stuff like nothing was wrong, seemed distasteful to me,” Brooks wrote in a statement posted on his Facebook page. “I will gladly reschedule any or all appearances the networks will allow. Love one another, g”

Brooks appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday, but that appearance was pretaped. The country superstar was scheduled to appear on Tuesday’s Live! With Kelly and Michael, on Thursday’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Friday’s Today.

[Impala64ssa]

For his next act, this a**hat will go solar, buy a Prius and come out of closet, then he'll be the complete progressive package, with a country twist.

[Crazieman]

Should shut up and drink more Pina Colada.

[Impala64ssa]

Or maybe he’ll wear his cowboy hat sideways to show his peeps that he’s “down wit da struggle”.

[dfwgator]

The man who single-handedly wussified country music.

[a fool in paradise]

Well canceling teevee appearances until the riots subside is one way of shutting up about politics.

[South40]

And that one African American who listens to Garth Brooks’ music will appreciate it.

[blackdog]

For a guy who travels the country with armed personal security guards for his personal protection, he’s got some kind of nerve.

[a fool in paradise]

How many Ferguson protesters are going to stop their actions so they can go back to watching Garth Brooks play some songs on the telly (if they behave)?

[a fool in paradise]

The country superstar was scheduled to appear

The industry said he was a bigger country superstar than Johnny Cash.

Such titles are bogus.

[dfwgator]

Y’know Garth, I was really enjoying your retirement, why did you have to go and ruin it?

[Slings and Arrows]

“We landed in NY last night to the news of the civil unrest that was going on in our nation. To spend the day promoting our stuff like nothing was wrong, seemed distasteful to me,”

Why not just admit that you're scared of the rioters, you ****ing =^..^=?

[morphing libertarian]

Waiting for the Brooks telethon to help all the innocent shoppers and bon-fire makers make bail.

[Eagles6]

Ellen Degenerate show, huh Garth?Buh Bye.

[Steve_Seattle]

Brooks acts like this is like 9/11, whereas - if the media and race-baiters hadn’t latched on to it - it was a local thug-killed-by-cop story. Much worse goes on in Chicago every week, and Brooks doesn’t cancel his appearances.

[a fool in paradise]

Have the Rolling Stones or Paul McCartney had to resort to being on the Ellen Show yet?

[Texas Eagle]

There IS a God!

[Steve_Seattle]

"Y’know Garth, I was really enjoying your retirement . . . "

Second time today a Freeper comment has cracked me up.

[grumpygresh]

No need to boycott, as an entertainer, he should appreciate a staged event such as Ferguson.

[eyeamok]

“We landed in NY last night to the news of the ORGANIZED CRIME WAVE that was going on in our nation.

There, fixed it

[Signalman]

Garth who?