CMA Lifts Restrictions on Red Carpet Journalists Questions about ‘Gun Rights’ after Backlash

breitbart.com ^ | 11/3/2017 | AWR Hawkins

[Dixie Yooper]

If it had been a Roy Rogers concert, he would have pulled his trusty Winchester from Trigger’s saddle and laid down a barrage of gunfire back at the shooter for the few minutes it would take for Bullet to run to the hotel and up to the 30+ stairs, smash through the hotel room door and maul on the overwhelmed shooter until Dale can get there with her lasso to tie the murderer up.
Then it would all be on their TV show the next week for all of us to see!

[moovova]

Keeter tweeting: “I have been a proponent of the 2nd Amendment my entire life. Until the events of last night, I cannot express how wrong I was. We actually have members of our crew with CHL licenses and legal firearms on the bus, [but] they were useless...”

Mr.Keeter...if an enemy jet drops a nuclear bomb on a US naval battle group (say, for example, in the Sea of Japan), the ENTIRE fleet’s armaments would be useless. Should we go ahead and disarm the US Navy?

[moovova]

“Add them to the NFL.”

Make that the NF’nL...

[rebel25]

Garth may have changed country music but certainly did not kill it. Like someone else said I don’t care what their views or history is as long as they are good. They still sing about real life if somewhat differently than 30-50 years ago.

[raybbr]

No idea who Keeter is. He sounds like a complete moron. Just because the members of his crew were unable to act effectively that means we should simply give up our arms. He’s truly a moron.

[OttawaFreeper]

“Country music is dead. Garth Brooks killed it.”

I hated the Billy Ray Cyrus “Achy Breaky Heart” mania went on at about this time back in about 1992. Keith Whitley dying in 1989 and that clown Cyrus making it big with that stupid song a few years later both also did country music a great deal of harm as well.

[niteowl77]

Country music is dead. Garth Brooks killed it.

Garth was just a tool in the box of the liberal coastal elite suits who greened all us rubes. He did do the job effectively, but he couldn't have done it without a lot of saps out here who fell for the schtick. Your post, though, is right on. If anyone had told me in 1980 how the entire industry would eventually be dominated by young mediocrities marketed by urban corporate functionaries, I would have said that it wouldn't get that bad. It did. The CMA is just another org run by the leftist media/entertainment complex.

"Post-Garth," I tapered off country music until I basically stopped listening to anybody younger than Waylon Jennings.

Mr. niteowl77

[DoodleBob]

It is time for Deplorables of all kind to go full-Trump with the press. These dolts think they hold the morality card, that they're better than us. But they melt like a witch in Oz when challenged.

If these stars REALLY want to make a statement, they should follow Frank Zappa's lead. Frank was interviewed on the Joe Pyne Show, who's host was an angry man, possibly because he lost his leg in WWII. Payne started right in.

Pyne: "So I guess your long hair makes you a woman."
Zappa: "So I guess your wooden leg makes you a table!"

I personally don't care for country music, but if one of these musicians, gets the "why would you support the gun culture after this massacre?" question, I will buy their albums on principle if they respond in kind, e.g., "because I don't believe in being a victim. By the way, you may want to check online because some of my fans may not like your attitude and I can't be held responsible if they release your address and phone number on 4chan in a few minutes. Toodles!!"

[IronJack]

Just because these parasites are allowed to ask the questions doesn’t mean anyone is required to answer them. “None of your business” or “Go to hell” are perfectly valid responses to this crap.

[Sam_Damon]

Agreed. Better still, I think I would have just let them on the red carpet do their thing, and then frozen the crap out of them for years afterwards if they violated the agreed-upon rules.

Country music used to be fun. Think “Hee Haw” in its original run. Killed off by CBS, endured for years and years in syndication.

IMO, now it’s just theater, skewed way too much to pop. Brad Paisley used to show signs of the old fun country music, but it seems lately he’s backed off from that. Might be him, might be his label. Who knows?

I suspect one thing, though. If “country” artists start dissing their fan base with politics, Nashville’s struggling mu-sick-kan community will only grow larger.

[Bender2]

There is no there there in what they call laughingly Country Music these days--

Country & Western Music died a long time ago and what's remains is sadly the left of center semi-pop clap-trap music attempting to masquerade as what the late, greats Hank Williams, Jim Reeves, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Jimmy Dean, Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Horton, Don Gibson, Don Williams, Faron Young and Ferlin Husky wrote and sang some 50-plus years ago.

[mountn man]

If his crew would have joined in the shooting, then I could see him having a reason to be upset.

The fact that the shooter was 32 floors up
and 500 yds away
shows this twit has no understanding at all of the subject matter.

500 yds away is well beyond someones range with a concealed handgun.

32 stories, approximately 320 feet (107 yds),
If shooting straight up, would be an almost impossible shot with most concealed handguns.

[Romans Nine]

Country music has been “manufactured” for many years now by people who try to sing about country roads they have never driven down.

[trisham]

I couldn’t agree more.

[OttawaFreeper]

“Country music used to be fun. Think “Hee Haw” in its original run. Killed off by CBS, endured for years and years in syndication.”

I discovered not too long ago, episodes of Hee Haw with Stringbean (RIP) in them that were made between 1969 and 1973. Those were really fun to watch and you can see why the limousine socialist idiots who run the entertainment industry (including country music) from their ivory towers would never show those episodes on CMT or any other outlet they control. And that was when even Don Rich (Buck’s late, great backup vocalist) was on Hee Haw as well.

[big'ol_freeper]

RE: Country & Western Music died a long time ago

Unfortunately, true.

[Sam_Damon]

IIRC, CBS programmers killed off “Hee Haw” because the audience was the “wrong” demographic. “Wrong” as in rural America. We might even go so far as to say “deplorables”, haha.

CBS replaced shows like “Gomer Pyle, USMC” and “Hee Haw” with a string of Norman Lear shows and spin-offs, starting with “All in the Family.” The intent then, as now, was to attract a cooler, hipper audience. (Never mind about the money they didn’t have to spend.)

Forgot about Stringbean. Thanks for jogging my memory.

You’re right, gotta search those episodes out.

[Impy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zE1-48AAYc

[Bender2]

Re: Tennessee Ernie Ford's Sixteen Tons

Yeah, also forgot Hank Thompson... and my Dead Old Mama's favorite packing song: And A Six Pack to Go--

BTW I was living in Nashville when in 1955 when "Sixteen Tons" came out and can remember seeing Old Ern sing it at Ryman Auditorium on "The Grand Old Opry."

Might as well throw in Ernest Tub's Waltz Across Texas

Also one of my Dead Old Pappy's after the war favorites: Hank Locklin's Fraulein

Plus Frankie Laine's Ghost Riders In the Sky

Ken Curtis And The Sons Of Pioneers What Makes A Man To Wander

Roy Rogers & Dale Evans with the Sons of the Pioneers Cowboy song tribute

And Kitty Wells' It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.

[Bender2]

Mom and Dad are laughing up in Heaven for my Dead Old Mama’” & “Dead Old Pappy’s” above when I was to have written “Dear Old Mama’s” & “Dear Old Pappy’s”—