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"Longtime Democrat Toby Keith is registering to vote as an independent and says the left wing's verbal attacks against Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin could lead to a win for John McCain in November, the singer-songwriter said Thursday (Oct. 2) in an interview with CMT.com." "I've been a lifetime Democrat, and I'm re-registering this year as an independent," he said. "It's strictly [because] my party, that I've been affiliated with all these years, doesn't stand for anything that I stand for anymore. They've lost any sensibility that they had, and they've allowed all the kooks in, so I'm going...

Sen. Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one big, patriotic country star. Toby Keith, perhaps best known to non-country audiences for his post-Sept. 11 song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," says he's a Democrat, and was impressed by the senator from Illinois. Keith has said in the past that the 2002 song – which included lines aimed at the Taliban like "we lit up your world like the Fourth of July" – was more patriotic than pro-war. Asked while promoting his new movie "Beer For My Horses" about the role of patriotism in the current...

Toby Keith Praises Obama Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:30 PM LOS ANGELES -- Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one big, patriotic country star. Toby Keith, perhaps best known to non-country audiences for his post-Sept. 11 song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," says he's a Democrat, and was impressed by the senator from Illinois.

Toby Keith: Obama's 'Best Democratic Candidate We've Had Since Bill Clinton' Toby Keith Praises Obama Tuesday, August 19, 2008 By Ryan Pearson, Associated Press Los Angeles - Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one big, patriotic country star. Toby Keith, perhaps best known to non-country audiences for his post-Sept. 11 song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," says he's a Democrat, and was impressed by the senator from Illinois.

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...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Country star Toby Keith was performing for U.S. troops in Afghanistan last week when the military base he was singing at came under fire, according to People. Keith and his band were in the middle of the song "Weed With Willie" when mortar fire on the base in Kandahar erupted, sending the band and the troops looking for cover. "We all ran about 100 yards to a concrete bunker," Curt Motley, the singer's agent who was with him on the USO tour, told People. Keith is currently on an 18-show USO tour throughout the Persian Gulf. The...

Despite Toby Keith's past public support of President George W. Bush and his famous post-Sept.11 song, "The Angry American (Courtesy of the Red White and Blue)," this year the country star says things have changed. Keith, who in the past has said he's a Democrat but was unhappy with the party's candidates, now can support the current contenders for the nomination. "I'm real happy that there are two candidates that people can get behind," he told PEOPLE at the CMT awards Monday. "I feel like there are two people now – with Hillary [Clinton] and the time she's spent," he...

PURCELL, Okla. (AP) - Toby Keith, his mother and his siblings have been awarded $2.8 million in damages in the 2001 collision that killed the country music star's father. A jury returned the verdict against Elias Rodriguez and Pedro Rodriguez, operators of Rodriguez Transportes of Tulsa, and the Republic Western Insurance Co. According to evidence presented at trial, a charter bus owned by the Rodriguezes was ``in urgent need'' of brake repairs before H.K. Covel was killed in the March 2001 accident on Interstate 35, said attorney Greg Dixon, who represented Keith's family. The Rodriguezes had been advised of the...

Democrats angered at the image of country and western as Right-wing “redneck music” are planning a tour of Middle America during the 2008 election campaign by Nashville artists opposed to the Iraq war. An alliance called the Music Row Democrats is poised to re-launch itself early next year in an attempt to seize back country music from the Republican camp and spread their message that President George W. Bush’s party does not care about ordinary people. Slowly but surely, more country singers are performing songs critical of the Bush administration. Merle Haggard, who once sang the anti-hippie anthem “Okie from...

“Wish I Didn’t Know Now” — Toby Keith song (1994) While most people spent Saturday evening reading or watching television at home, chilling out at the movies or partying with friends, Athanasios Genos (yes, that’s his real name) was working. Marine Cpl. Genos wasn’t dodging bullets on combat duty, though it’s true that he has been in Fallujah, Iraq. Instead he spent his most recent Saturday evening in Bristow, Va., about 35 miles southwest of the nation’s capital, manning a Marines recruiting table at a Toby Keith concert. Keith, one of the brightest of stars in the world of country...

May God Have Mercy on Their Souls By Mark Taylor Country singer Toby Keith inadvertently summed up the attitude of an entire generation with the lyrics to “I Wanna Talk About Me”. Keith laments: I wanna talk about me Wanna talk about I Wanna talk about number one Old my me my…. I have watched with amazement the egocentric attitudes, as well as the half-hearted actions, of too many Americans of a certain generation toward supporting the war on terror and also championing our troops.

BOOK REVIEW & DISCUSSION: Ain't Got No Cigarettes: Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller By Lyle E Style "It's an endless story about Roger. He was one of the cleverest people I've ever met in my life." (Waylon Jennings) This is my own review of Ain't Got No Cigarettes, the first Roger Miller book ever published. My review is based on reading the book (twice) and having several discussions with Lyle E Style, the author. He may stop by later to answer questions (as his schedule allows). This one is a must-read, folks. And for you radio personalities who...

— Outspoken country star has own label, movie deal, integrity intact. — Happy Toby Keith Appreciation Day! Just a few weeks ago, the Greenacres Kiwanis Club named Toby Keith its Man of the Year and successfully lobbied the Palm Beach County Commission to proclaim Sept. 1 "Toby Keith Appreciation Day." They chose Keith because of the five trips he's made overseas to entertain the troops. They chose today to coincide with his concert tonight at Sound Advice Amphitheatre. Keith called from Buffalo where he was a few shows into his 60-stop Ford Trucks-sponsored Hookin' Up & Hangin' Out Tour, a...

-Country's most outspoken star, Toby Keith is learning to enjoy these 'happy days'- Toby Keith learned a valuable lesson in the late 1990s, he says. "You can't be anything other than you are," the country music superstar said recently in a free-wheeling interview that touched upon his ventures into label ownership, acting, his friendship with the always-colorful Ted Nugent and testy relationship with Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines. Keith, whose flashy "Big Throwdown II" tour comes to The Palace of Auburn Hills on Friday, is known for being his own man. He speaks his mind. He does what he wants....

Toby Keith has been the poster boy for patriotic country anthems these past few years. But dig below the surface and you might be surprised at what else he has to say. Toby Keith did not exist to a large chunk of the country before 2002. For anyone who has been in a coma these past four years, that's when Keith became a household name thanks greatly to the controversy surrounding hit "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (Angry American)," his reaction to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Fans called it patriotic. Critics (including the author of...

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Using the slogan "The only thing we take seriously is the music," country superstar Toby Keith and veteran Nashville record executive Scott Borchetta will kick off their new joint label venture Sept. 1. They have already assembled an A-list staff, signed a handful of artists and secured a major distribution deal. Running a label may be a novel experience for Keith, but it's not the only new venture he's embarking on. He's also landed a three-picture film deal with Paramount Pictures and will make his acting debut in the first of the films, set to start shooting in October in...

Toby Keith is tearing up the country charts this very minute with a smile-inducing sing-along that hangs its chorus on the line "I ain't as good as I once was/But I'm as good once as I ever was." -SNIP- "I completely supported the Afghanistan thing 100 percent," he says. "You've got a guy dealing guns and crack in your neighborhood by your kids' school, you call the police. You want 'em to go in, bust it up and get the bad guy, right? Well, when somebody flies planes into buildings, the armed forces may be the police to go do...

The Talk Shows Sunday, June 12th, 2005 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; The Committee for Justice chairman C. Boyden Gray; Alliance for Justice president Nan Aron. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Specter, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah; People for the American Way president Ralph Neas; American Center for Law and Justice chief counsel Jay Alan Sekulow. THIS WEEK...