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CMA Awards start out somber, then mock Trump as Garth Brooks wins Entertainer of the Year
Fox News ^ | November 9, 2017

Posted on 11/09/2017 3:56:15 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

The 51st Annual CMA Awards saw the best in county music come together, but it was Garth Brooks that took home the top prize, being crowned entertainer of the year.

"The most important thing other than God Himself is you, the poeple who allow us to be in the greatest music ever. Country music man," the star said while accepting his award. "I love you."

The show started off on a somber note and quickly segued into political quips with hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley mocking the president.

The evening began with the first verse of “Amazing Grace” performed by Eric Church before Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker and more teamed up to perform “Hold My Hand.”

Underwood and Paisley hosted the show for the 10th consecutive year, and Underwood opened the show by listing off recent tragedies, like the shooting in Las Vegas that claimed the lives of 58 country music fans at the Route 91 Harvest Festival last month.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: awards; cma; countrymusic
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Modern country music is just bad rock with a fiddle” - Tom Petty


41 posted on 11/09/2017 4:51:18 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
“It’s fun to watch it that’s for sure, till little ‘Rocket Man’ starts a nuclear war. Maybe next time he’ll think before he tweets.”

I was only half listening to this from the kitchen but when I heard that line with "maybe he'll think...", I thought the reference was to Rocket Man.

42 posted on 11/09/2017 4:54:49 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: NorthMountain

“Did they poke a little fun at the Bath-house Barry?
OF COURSE NOT!!!”

Sure they did...back when he was president. They poked at GWB also. A bit of light hearted political jabbing is fine. Carson did it back in his day. You take a HUMEROUS shot at the president. Any president. It used to be normal. It was not hateful or malicious like the spew coming from talk show boneheads of today. Very different world today. I thought their message was overall positive. We can’t be so serious all the time. There must be room for some light-hearted humour.


43 posted on 11/09/2017 4:55:49 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Pop with a twang. Stars too pretty.

With a few exceptions There hasn’t been real country music since the 70s.


44 posted on 11/09/2017 4:55:50 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: PSUGOP

“The little ditty they did was fun”

Not to me. Seemed like Carrie and Brad were just showing off how well they could read the teleprompter.

The show should have started with a song or two.

I listened to the show from another room while my wife watched it. I can’t relate to most of the “new” country music. Neither can my wife.

Lacking from this show and many others is any sign of humility from the performers. Maybe the Hollywood scandals are taking their toll. I don’t know who the entertainers are any more.


45 posted on 11/09/2017 4:56:44 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Garth Brooks is single-handedly responsible for the wussification of Country Music.


46 posted on 11/09/2017 4:59:26 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: JudyinCanada

Thank you!...well said.

It was more ‘piling on’......and just like NASCAR fans, true country music fans bleed red, white and blue

THEY KNOW how hard our President works, and won’t take lightly brad/carrie portraying him on a ‘ gold plated toilet tweeting’

I truly despise these puny ankle biters!


47 posted on 11/09/2017 5:00:23 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
It's not country anymore - it's just pop with a southern accent....
...as Hank Williams rolls over in his grave.
48 posted on 11/09/2017 5:00:38 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Perhaps they haven’t noticed how the NFL is doing this season. The nation can ignore Fake Country music, too. Whatever happened to the Dixie Chick?


49 posted on 11/09/2017 5:00:51 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: bk1000

You truly don’t get it, do you?

Almost half the country piles on our President 24/7 and has since 2015!
He never gets a break!

Was it too much to ask these little tweeps to show some respect?


50 posted on 11/09/2017 5:04:36 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Picture of an eye. Picture of a heart. Picture of Hillary Clinton. Picture of a pine tree. Picture of a staff with quarter notes.


51 posted on 11/09/2017 5:07:59 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: deweyfrank

What jabs (gentle or pointed) did they make during the first year of Obambi’s 8 years?

What jabs did they make in the subsequent 7?

FUCMANashvegaspopcrud


52 posted on 11/09/2017 5:08:06 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: bk1000
Sure they did...back when he was president.

Never saw it ... not with Barry.

And this:

“It’s fun to watch it that’s for sure, till little ‘Rocket Man’ starts a nuclear war. Maybe next time he’ll think before he tweets.”

Is not lighthearted humor. That's straight out of the Lyndon Johnson "Daisy Girl" ad.

53 posted on 11/09/2017 5:09:08 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Remember folks, almost the Entire Entertainment industry HATES AMERICA and everything it stands for.


54 posted on 11/09/2017 5:18:45 AM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/08/garth-brooks-admits-to-lip-syncing-at-2017-cma-awards.html


55 posted on 11/09/2017 5:18:54 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: deweyfrank

Thank you, reasonable outlooks seem rare these days. I dont frankly know any Trump supporter who doesn’t think once in a while, oh no... why are you tweeting this.

I think people have forgotten that we jab at Presidents, Obama’s partial minority status made everyone squeamish about making fun.


56 posted on 11/09/2017 5:21:45 AM PST by Katya
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

CMA takes a knee.


57 posted on 11/09/2017 5:27:28 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800><p><h1>NYC 9-11 Memorial 09/11/2016</h1>)
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To: Sooner Gal

It should be renamed “Southern Pop”


58 posted on 11/09/2017 5:32:50 AM PST by nitzy
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To: nitzy

Most modern country songs come from New York City.


59 posted on 11/09/2017 5:33:55 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: pax_et_bonum

I like Jerry Reed, Don Williams, Buck Owens, and Marty a lot.


60 posted on 11/09/2017 5:38:13 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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