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!
I think the video reveal Keith portraying a law enforcement official and Nelson his father and a retired law enforcement official. But actually, it is.....a SONG...for entertainment....it is a makebelieve song......they are not really advocating,,,in real life....hanging people.
Oh STFU idiot!
I am so sick of this crap.
Country songs that call for justice = reactionary.
Morons.
The only thing idiots like Blumenthal do is create an audience for the movie.
http://www.rall.com/inter04.htm (interview MOSH GESTAPO ZINE, 2-25-97)
"I don't think it's going to send people to the barricades to string up CEOs or anything. Unfortunately." - Ted Rall
Deconstructionism
A term tied very closely to postmodernism, deconstructionism is a challenge to the attempt to establish any ultimate or secure meaning in a text.
Basing itself in language analysis, it seeks to “deconstruct” the ideological biases (gender, racial, economic, political, cultural) and traditional assumptions that infect all histories, as well as philosophical and religious “truths.”
Deconstructionism is based on the premise that much of human history, in trying to understand, and then define, reality has led to various forms of domination - of nature, of people of color, of the poor, of homosexuals, etc.
Like postmodernism, deconstructionism finds concrete experience more valid than abstract ideas and, therefore, refutes any attempts to produce a history, or a truth.
In other words, the multiplicities and contingencies of human experience necessarily bring knowledge down to the local and specific level, and challenge the tendency to centralize power through the claims of an ultimate truth which must be accepted or obeyed by all.
http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/gengloss/decon-body.html
I heard Toby Keith on Glenn Beck the other day.
The irony here; Toby Keith is a democrat and supports Obama. He likes McCain, too....”We have two of the best candidates in years” running for office, he quipped on Glenn’s show.
Joe -
You are right Keith is basically a DLC type - good on guns and the troops but other than that he leans to the left.
“Another case of the “bitter” liberal elite pontificating on something of which they know less than nothing.”
Of course they know less than nothing about it. The song is about justice for the victims and we all know that justice is only for the “alleged” criminal. Don’t you know that victims are not really victims but deserved anything that happened to them? /sarc
But songs by Snoop Doggie Poop and Ludacrisp are anthems for the delusional left
What did Reagan say its not that libs are ignorant its that they know so much that isn’t so.
Blumenthal is just scared of real men who don’t live in Mom’s basement and wear jammies all day.
Maybe Blumenthal ought to dust off his Dixie Chicks CD and take a listen to “Goodbye Earl.” I think he’d find the vigilante theme there for sure. Doubt he will get that upset about it, though.
I’ve had it! I can’t stand it anymore! I’ve labored in ignorance for too long! What is IIRC?
Blumenthal jumps from there to saying that Keith's song advocates lynching - on the Colbert Report, no less.
Well I'm sure glad a whiner and fantasist like Blumenthal was able to set everyone straight.
Well, well, well. This guy just admitted that the people of this country know how to take care of problems and the politicians and liberals don’t. Amazing what happens when the truth comes out.
IIRC = If I Recall Correctly
Call me cynical but this sounds like a manufactured controversy to drum up interest in his movie.
Guess I'm just too dense. I read the words and I don't understand where ol' Max gets the "racially tinged" thing from. I'll have to assume it's Max and not me that is "racially tinged"!
BTW, no one has the right to not be offended, as this would destroy free speech. Oooops. that's what the liberals want to do!
Of course not.
So Toby Keith asked this loon to write this particular blog?
“it is a makebelieve song”
How many times have you had a liberal quite a line from a movie or from a TV show? They have difficulty distinguishing make-believe from reality.
The big corporation that owns the song and his movie calls the division that owns the Huffington post and they talk. Is that so inconceivable?
Perhaps the twit has confused "gangstER" with "gangstA", the latter the hallmark of a modern subculture which cannot spell and which also embraces lawless activity.
Perhaps the idea that that subculture is not limited to any particular race has escaped the writer, which is reflective of their personal prejudices, not any inherent the song.
Outlaws in the west were hanged regardless of race, creed, or color. It was an equal opportunity thing.
The liberals hate Toby Keith because he is a conservative and he is not bashful about it. He is a great supporter of our troops. They just don’t get it at all. Jerks.
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