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Much like an AME church it is simply a DNC org dishonestly implying otherwise.
I had the pleasure last nite of helping my pal here in Nashville who is a booking agent with his Lynyrd Skynyrd show at an outdoor venue in Rome Georgia. Let me tell ya'll, there is no doubt where that band and the crowd stands. Unabashedly pro-America and pro-troops and pro-WOT and pro-Stopping Illegal Immigration.
The song Red White and Blue was spot on and most refreshing was the crowd. It was not what folks like to stereotype as some kind of drunk David Allen Coe bacchanalia....it was a broad crowd of very decent patriotic Southern folks from teens to 60 and included a bevy of the very best in gorgeous Southern womanhood there is to offer.
I salute Georgia and their ladies!!! It was so refreshing to see such a huge like minded crowd of younger folks. Gives me hope and does me proud.
And I hope the Sara Evans and Darryl Whorley's of the world keep on doing their part. To hell with the America haters. I'll buy Patti Griffith's damned ticket.
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I don't care if they do it on their own time. If I'm buying their time (at a concert) to hear their music, then it's not OK.
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They can say anything they want. But they are ENTERTAINERS and risk loosing money when they begin to "sing" about what goes on in politics. Just because nobody wants to listen to them when they state thier political views or BUY thier records because of thier religious, political beliefs is not a violation of thier free speech what so ever.
Yeah, an encouraging sign. The attempt by academia to mould our youth into socialist one-world automotons is failing.
And in so doing, they voluntarily place their fame in the line of fire of potential public backlash.
Toby Keith wrote that song with the line 'it ain't no rag, it's a flag..' and I believe he deleted it when singing in Dearborn,Michigan. They played that Lynard Skynard song a lot here for a while.
A minimum requirement for the publication or broadcast of an opinion should be the suspicion or existence of knowledge of the matter at hand. To have an opinion is everyone's right. To speak it in some public forum should demand that you demonstrate, at the very least, a grasp of the most rudimentary facts surrounding a topic or incident. The pride of ignorance should not be your claim to fame.
Lynyrd Skynard's fan base is Baby-Boomer heavy. I know they have some young fans, but most of their fans are the same age as the band members.
There are some gains being made by the youth vote in the conservative movement, but the MTV generation is solidly in the Commie Camp.
We watched the Redskins play the Cardinals last night. What a relief to have football season start! Anyway, Tom Bostick was announcing and I counted 3 times in the first half that he tried to inject politics into the commentary. No kidding! Once was about the player "Clinton". Once was about how the game was being played in Washington, a lobbying town. And, hmmm, I forgot what the third was.
I don't know what angle he was pushing, but that's not the point. I hope they continue to keep football play-by-play focused on the game. Like music and movies, an entertainer's audience is politically diverse.
Why would an entertainer risk of offending a portion of their audience on a subject that is outside their patronage?
It doesn't make business sense. I would really hate to put football announcers on my boycott list.
Don't take time out of a concert or show that I paid money to see and waste it spouting your drivel (whether I agree with it or not) unless I knew, up front, that it's part of what I was paying for.
Don't air our dirty laundry to a foreign audience. This is akin to going to school and telling an auditorium full of kids about your brother's inability to keep from wetting the bed. It's just not done.
If you, as an entertainer, can't understand the above concepts, then you won't be receiving my money. That's not a violation of your free speech, moron, it's accepting the consequences for your freely-exercised option to be as stupid as you want to be.
Freerepublic is mentioned, isn't it?
This looks like a case of the First Amendment being opposed by popular sentiment on the face of it, but I believe it's truly a matter of artists lacking respect for the sensibilities of half the people who helped them become successful. Music artists, much like those who work in film and television, depend on creativity for continued inspiration and hidebound closed-mindedness would chisel the epitaph on their careers. They're also surrounded by bohemian coworkers and management that invariably arrived from a liberal arts background. It's a wonder that there's any conservative Republicans among the ranks of artists at all.
On the other hand these people have a responsibility toward their fanbase. To best do that they need to read at least a portion of their fan mail and keep up with the current of public opinions. Depending on hired help to do those things skews that information when conveyed through the filter of the helpers' personalities. I suspect this and virtual insulation from anyone remotely normal contributed to Lina Rondstadt's goof (well, that and a lack of any common sense).
Then there's the minority who seem aware of those things yet remain determined to use their priviledged positions to push their agendas on people. Their lack of respect for fans combined with their ego-driven arrogance should be noted and remembered when their products appear on the market. Because, hey, it's a free country.
(Say hi to your family for me.)
"Singers" can say whatever they like.
However, if their FANS don't agree .. then the singers have to be willing to take the lumps. If they're not willing to allow other people to have a different point of view .. then they should just "shut up and sing".
