Posted on 04/04/2018 5:16:53 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
The abrupt ouster last month of Mike Huckabee from the Country Music Association’s charitable board just 24 hours after his appointment sends a strong signal that Nashville’s cultural revolution is in full swing.
An organized right-wing backlash against the removal of the conservative gadfly and presidential aspirant quickly fizzled, and Music City breathed a sigh of relief. The swiftness of the forced departure of Huckabee, who has been vocal about his support for the NRA and objections to same-sex marriage and parenting, underscores how the country music industry has become a nexus of discussion for two of America’s hot-button topics: gun control and gay rights.
In stepping down from the position, Huckabee bitterly publicized his stance by posting his resignation letter on social media with the headline “Hate Wins” — far from how most of the town saw the decision.
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Philips worried that Huckabee’s appointment might have been seen as reversing the industry’s recent disassociation from NRA Country, an NRA offshoot that once hosted events with singers like Blake Shelton but finally removed what was left of its once sizable affiliated artists page in March after most of the stars listed asked to have their names taken off. As CMT head, Philips says he made a copy of every artist who was on the NRA Country website and “tucked it away as ‘These aren’t people that we necessarily want to be in business with.’ If we were sponsoring tours with acts who were taking money from the NRA, [CMT parent] MTV Networks would have been outraged, and rightfully so.”
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It's been dead for a couple of decades.
“Right side of history” always means “progressive” because the proggies from Marx on insist that they have history all figured out. I can’t think of an instance yet where they were actually correct, but still they try.
The stuff on the radio isn't real country music. It's pop with a banjo.
Just can't stand it.
Junior!
The “gay” dude’s last name is actually McAnally?
Continue to buy their music = you support them.
Nothing sounds more wrong than hearing leftist talking points come out of the mouths of a person with a country accent.
Don’t Forget none of these “God and Country “ phoney’s were willing to perform at Trumps inauguration.
They should also remember what happened to the Dixie Chicks when they took to Bush-bashing.
Country music it’s called? Man, times have changed. Metrosexuals, most of them.
Last time watched CMA was 1988 the Beat Farmers, RIP all you guys.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=ivxsWB8tjew
I loooooved Waylon Jennings———(sigh)-—the good old days.
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Where are the next Merle Haggard’s, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, etc. and etc., they are not there right now.
If country music is now becoming PC and moving left in their thinking and actions then say goodbye to a big part of the fan base. Like everything else with the Left, they politicize it and then destroy it.
Bro country = yuppies singing about dirt roads they have never driven and hard work they’ve never done.
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