Posted on 08/08/2008 8:34:19 AM PDT by Publius804
Toby Keith Hits Back at Accusation Song Is Pro-Lynching
Friday, August 08, 2008
Toby Keith hit back at a recent blog post that derided his 2003 song "Beer for My Horses" as a pro-lynching anthem.
"The song was a hit and the words 'lynch' and 'racism' has never come up until this moron wrote this blog," he said, according to ContactMusic.
The country singer, 47, was on "The Colbert Report" last month to perform "Beer for My Horses," the popular song that inspired a movie of the same name.
Huffington Post blogger Max Blumenthal called the song an "ode to lynching" and said that "Colbert's studio audience clapped to the beat, blithely unaware that they were swaying to a racially tinged, explicitly pro-lynching anthem that calls for the vigilante-style hanging of car thieves and other assorted evildoers."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
How about just saying it’s about “vigilante justice”?
Well a man come on the 6 o’clock news
said somebody’s been shot
somebody’s been abused
somebody blew up a building
somebody stole a car
somebody got away
somebody didn’t get to far yeah
they didn’t get to far
Grand pappy 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
That
Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
And we’ll all meet back at the local saloon
And we’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces singing
whiskey for my man, beer for my horses
We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
too much corruption and crime in the streets
It’s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send ‘em all to their maker and he’ll settle ‘em down
You can bet he’ll set ‘em down
Cause
Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
And we’ll all meet back at the local saloon
And we’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces singing
whiskey for my man, beer for my horses
whiskey for my men, beer for my horses
He knew
Justice is the one thing you should always find
You got to saddle up your boys,
You got to draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we’ll sing a victory tune
And we’ll all meet back at the local saloon
And we’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singin’ whiskey for my man, beer for my horses
Singing whiskey for my man, beer for my horses
What a frickin' idiot.
Well, so now hanging must be referred to as the h-word unless it is used in connotation with punishing the Bush administration?
Blumenthal is a moron trying to create news when it isn’t there... what’s next? All western movies are racist because the cattle thieves were hung?
I didn't get that out of the song. The lines about gathering up a group of guys and going after criminals makes me think of Westerns where the Sheriff deputizes a bunch of townfolk to help him go after bandits or whatever.
"Though they make up just 30 percent of the state's population, blacks account for 63 percent of the lynching charges, according to an Associated Press analysis of crime statistics.
"For every 1,000 blacks in South Carolina, 2.07 were charged with lynching, compared with 0.46 charged per 1,000 whites - meaning blacks are charged with lynching at 4 1/2 times the rate for whites."
That’s too neutral. Gotta have the racial element to keep the blacks “on the plantation” of voting for libs and keeping conservatives out of power.
“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 doesn’t sound like due process of law to me. Notice I didn’t say the song is strictly about vigilante justice, though, nor that it had anything to do with race.
OK, don’t care what kind of reviews this movie gets; I’m going to go pay good money to see it!
I thought it was useful when we had a language with neutral, descriptive terms for which the definitions were understood. Now everyone gets to make up whatever meanings they like, so as to be Offended. Did somebody put the Red Queen in charge while I was napping? (Oh, wait ... was that racist, or homophobic?)
AS an obscure law professor once said — “it is understood that there must be “due process”, the question is just how much process is due.”
This is stupid - and I don’t even like Toby Keith
LOL! Well, yes.
Maybe Keith wrote the word “black” in invisible ink, so that only liberal idiots like this blogger could read it?
Now I really have to see the movie!
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