Ashwari, Arafat: "All your media are ours.
We have arranged with Peter Jennings that he shall
play on July 4th our Palestinian anthem, 'Death to America'."
Posted on 06/21/2002 6:49:35 PM PDT by Issaquahking
I normally don't listen to Dr. Laura but by chance today she had a winning idea from a listener who was doing the following.
Toby Keith has been removed from the star-studded gala with ABC for the 4th of July because Peter Jennings was upset with the fact that the song "Courtesy of the Red, White , and Blue" makes refernce to a 'boot up the ass'. This person has taken it upon herself, as a personal friend of Toby Keith, to honor him and make Peter Jennings understand American Patriotism. She cut a deal with a large shipper to send Mr. Jennings a boot, I assume at ABC. This person is doing a mass drive in Kansas City, Missouri and thought she might need our help?
Wonder if it wouldn't be Kosher to make this a mini-freep, and all of us at FR help out in the effort and send Mr.Peter J. a boot(wouldn't want him to gain by having a nice pair out of the insult) at ABC studios?
Following is a clip from USA Today:
06/13/2002 - Updated 11:59 AM ET
Singer Toby Keith speaks out on ABC censorship
By Brian Mansfield, special for USA TODAY
By Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY Country singer Toby Keith has some choice words for Peter Jennings.
Toby Keith says the producer of an ABC 4th of July TV special rescinded an offer to have the country singer perform his current hit after the show's host, World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings, heard the song and vetoed it.
The single, Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American), is an outpouring of grief, anger and frustration Keith wrote in the wake of Sept. 11 and the earlier death of his father. The controversial, patriotic song tells of a veteran who lost his eye in a combat training mission and also features a number of confrontational verses.
Lyrics from Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)
This big dog will fight
When you rattle his cage
And you'll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A
'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass
It's the American way
"I find it interesting that he's not from the U.S.," Keith says of Jennings, who is Canadian. "I bet Dan Rather'd let me do it on his special."
ABC News spokeswoman Cathie Levine downplays the controversy and says that Keith's camp overstates the reasons he's not going to be on the show.
"They talked to him, but they talked to a lot of people," Levine says. "There were a lot of factors in play," among them a travel conflict, since Keith already had booked a show in Provo, Utah, that night. "The whole production is still in the planning stages."
Keith has been performing the song in his concerts all year, but initially wasn't sure he'd record it. That ambivalence was apparently shared at first by radio programmers. "But the second they put it on," Keith says, "they went, 'Yeah, he's right.' "
"We had one station in Phoenix that actually played an edited version," says DreamWorks Nashville promotion chief Scott Borchetta. "They got complaint callsbecause they bleeped (the word 'ass')."
Courtesy is the fastest-rising single of Keith's career, which has recently included country chart-toppers How Do You Like Me Now?! and I Wanna Talk About Me. The song, nearing the top 10 after just five weeks, will appear on Keith's album Unleashed, due July 23.
"By the time the 4th of July gets here, that thing'll be No. 1, and it'll sit there for weeks," says Keith, who returned this week from a USO tour to the Balkans.
"It was a song I was inspired to write because I lost (my father) six months before 9/11. Nobody wrote an angry American song, and this was one. It was the way everybody felt when they saw those two buildings fall."
Ashwari, Arafat: "All your media are ours.
We have arranged with Peter Jennings that he shall
play on July 4th our Palestinian anthem, 'Death to America'."
I heard a rumor that Hank Williams Jr. was going to fill Toby's spot. Do they think he won't say "boot up your ass?" hahahahahaha!
Are you sending a message with the boot?
You should post the address to which we should send.
And of course - Bump
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