I’ll preface this with this statement: I think Jeff Foxworthy is funny. I like the Blue Collar guys and have watched all their specials. I enjoy a few country songs (fyi Martina McBride’s song "Independence Day" that Sean Hannity uses as his theme music has nothing to do with the war and is in fact a song about a woman leaving an abusive man).
But conservatives have made a concerted effort to attack celebrities for making political statements (some of them even write books about it) but when Jeff Foxworthy makes a statement that in some ways at least could be construed as political? "Jeff Foxworthy tells it like it is".
Just thought I’d point that out.
Here’s the main difference between liberal and conservative celebrities…
If someone repeated what he said but reversed it to attack conservatives, they’d get death threats.
don’t forget the chickenhawk ted nugent.
What’s saddest of all is that all the isolated Party of the South (i.e., GOP)) has to brag about are unfunny, one-note douchebags like Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy.
Hey, Jeff: Just shut up and sing. Oh, right, you can’t even do that. Just crack stale jokes.
I had to hear that again. Fuck’s sake: If you’re not “country folk,” you don’t love your kids, don’t believe in God, and you hate America. Do I got that right?
And it’s positively post-modern/post-ironic for Foxworthy–a millionaire several times over, who happens to live like one–to stand up there emceeing an awards show staged and broadcasted by a CBS affiliate, and rail against the showbiz elite, and the “self-important Hollywood hype.”
And, Jeff, “Hollywood” has plenty of awards shows for which the fans vote. Ever hear of American Idol? Or the People’s Choice Awards?
Sheesh, again, stupid masquerades as “uncomplicated.”
Actually, we attack celebrities for the content, the stupidity of their statements - not just for the statements. Hey, every time Babs or Alec Baldwin show their progressive credentials via a public statement, we pick up votes.
Ex: “I don’t really view communism as a bad thing.”
Whoopi Goldberg
DUH-gger: “Hey, every time Babs or Alec Baldwin show their progressive credentials via a public statement, we pick up votes.”
So why did the GOP get swamped last fall? (And why do polls point to even more Democratic Party pickups in the coming elections?)
Foxworthy’s platitude-laden monologue was 100% meaning-free. And you know it. It was an isolated millionaire trying to establish a little street cred with an audience that is tired of being marginalized. (Just not tired enough of it, it seems, to take the stupid fucking Rebel Flag stickers off their cars.) What Foxworthy did was no different (potty talk aside) than t he estate-dwelling Snoop Dogg talking about keeping it real at the Essence awards.
And PLEASE spare us the self-righteousness, DUH-gger. You attack celebrities for their presumed party affiliation ALL THE FUCKING TIME. There’s a clear enough record of that here on OW’s message boards.
What jimmmmmmm said. Bravo!!!!
Plus anyone who believes a voter is swayed because of something Barbara Streisand says is an idiot.
has Barbara Streisand said anything lately? I mean besides paraphrasing Dick Cheney to a heckler?
Liberal activists routinely bash people they disagree with. Foxworthy didn’t do that. He just kind of admitted he was a conservative, which I guess to racist partisan hacks like OW, is on par with joy behar comparing Rumsfeld to Hitler.
Go cry me a river you fatass ignoramus.
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The ‘right’ won’t read this and care. They only like to listen to those in the military that agree with their views.
For me it was interesting to find out that country music singers are the only celebrities who sign autographs, take pictures with their fans and do charity work.
Who knew?
“Liberal activists routinely bash people they disagree with. Foxworthy didn’t do that.”
Yes he did.
‘I love country because country people love their kids.’ The obvious implication is that non-country people don’t. He made a dozen such bullshit claims.
jimmm
Been here a long time. A lot longer than you. Many more posts. Even so, you won’t find an example where I attacked a celebrity based on party affiliation only. It didn’t happen. But feel free to search - should be easy - since, as you say, the records are there. But be careful of Dugger’s dictum: words have meaning.
Joey: For every pissed off widow there are probably a hundred men who want us to kick terrorist butt, and come home winners.
Why does she have some sort of monopoly on insight, or truth, or wisdom? When I came home from Vietnam, I was pissed off, too — pissed off because I knew that the Vietnamese were going to get sold down the river.
And they did.