I'm sitting here watching a rousing roundtable discussion of Bush's accurate inclusion of the now infamous sixteen words in the State of the Union Address with fair and balanced Hannity and Colms. I've already hurled all five of my foam "bricks" at the television so I'm going to have to reload before Hannity and Colms invite onto the show their collectively best new buddy Charlie Daniels.
Charlie Daniels, if you'll recall, posted the famous Open Letter to the Hollywood Bunch earlier this year. I was somewhat shocked by that letter at the time it came out, not so much by its content but by its author. I hadn't realized the Charlie was, in fact, that outspoken. In retrospect I could have, had I been paying more attention, seen it coming. I liked Charlie growing up as well as some other country-rockers like Pure Prairie League, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Eagles, Marshall Tucker Band etc. Admittedly, my taste in music is equally as eclectic as is the content of my site.
Of course I don't mind that Charlie has his political opinions - so did the Dixie Chicks. And yet one was portrayed as a real patriot while the other was reviled and vituperated unmercifully.
The point is, Charlie is suddenly best buddies with Hannity and vice versa. It was Hannity that sang along with Charlie during the Freedom concert to the tune The Devil Went Down to Georgia" - one of Charlie's hits. Somebody at Fox isn't doing their homework. And I only wonder about Hannity's participation (and his relationship with Charlie) had Charlie picked another of his songs (from earlier days) for their little sing-along:
Long Haired Country Boy
People say I'm no good and crazy as a loon
Cause I get stoned in the mornin, get drunk in the afternoon
Kinda like my ole blue tick hound I like to lay around in the shade
I ain't got no money but I've dang sure got it made
Chorus
And I ain't askin' nobody for nothing
If I can't get it on my own
If you don't like the way I'm livin'
You just leave this long haired country boy alone
Poor girl wants to marry and the rich girl wants to flirt
Rich man goes to college and the poor man goes to work
Drunkard wants another drink of wine and the politician wants a vote
I don't want much of nothing at all but I will take another toke
Chorus
Preacher man talkin' on the TV,
Puttin' down the rock and roll
Wants me to give a donation cause he's worried about my soul
He said Jesus walked on the water and I know that it's true
But sometimes I think that old preacher man'd like to do a little walkin' too
4:53:57 PM 
|
Welcome To The Club
