Toby Keith Praises Obama, Says He's A Democrat

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This smells of a public relations move by Keith. I mean, him talking abut foreign policy is a bad joke.

Nevertheless, this McCarthyite jihad that Max Blumenthal has been waging against Keith has been unfair and further injures the credibility of anyone rightfully making racism charges.I hope this statement, as soup thin as it is, helps to quell some of the absurd invective hurled Keith's way recently.

Yeah, he's a cretin, but he is not a racist.

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Max Blumenthal's Jihad Against Toby Keith Continues

Blumenthal's blue in the face stupid ass rant is here.

Blumenthal is also a chicken shit, as he has deleted all three posts I have submitted on his spittle flecked ruminations on his antipathy for Keith and his song, Beer for My Horses.

In that post, which I submitted over the past weekend and was too tired to copy and leave here, I accused Blumenthal of giving Keith the full McCarthy (as in Joe, not Eugene) and that he was getting exercised over nothing

I also pointed out that Blumenthal is making a martyr of Keith much as how the publicity that the PMRC gave to heavy metal and rap groups helped those outfits go platinum largely after those records had bombed commercially (2Live Crew and Ice T.'s Body Count come immediately to mind) and was thus actually making progressives look like a bunch of irrational politically correct zealots with no sense of proportion.

I further added that Keith's tune reflected a weariness with crime in the U.S. among working class whites and that Democrats had better hear that message or suffer the consequences.

Just to reiterate, I think Keith is a knuckle dragging dipshit. But the stuff he has said in both this song as well as in statements after this controversy flared up are emblematic of the thinking of millions of southern whites in America and it does Democrats no good to talk down to them. Rather, progressives have to tailor their message to persuade that bloc to see our side of things rather than just engage in knee jerk condemnations.

Lynching Advocate Toby Keith: Obama "Talks, Acts, And Carries Himself As A Caucasian"

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Keith's purported remark to Beck was stupid, but I don't think that he intended anything racist in it. The fact of the matter is, and keep in mind I am a card carrying ACLU loving liberal, that blacks do often make distinctions about which of their number is "really black" and who "acts white." In some inner city circles, really stupid ones, getting a college education is seen as "trying to act white." There is even debate within the black community as to the desirability of light skinned blacks vs. darker hued folks.

So these anti-Keith diatribes by Blumenthal, which are reminding me of the whining Heather Mills engaged in during her divorce proceedings with Paul McCartney, are getting to the point of a neurotic obsession.

Geez, I can't believe that I am defending a cretin like Keith. But Blumenthal is just being totally unfair here because he is apparently pc to the point ot being delusional.

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Note: Blumenthal is on a jihad against Keith just as blind as that of Islamic fundamentalists against the USA and the HuffPo moderators are apparently saying that is okay with them. The truth? They can't handle the truth!

Toby Keith's Pro-Lynching Publicity Tour Hits Colbert, CBS and More

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My first run at Blumenthal's jihad against Toby Keith, who, again, I generally regard as a simple minded cretin, was censored, but I will try again: Keith isn't nostalgic for hanging blacks or for segregation, etc. Rather, like a lot of Americans, including even progressives such as myself, he is frustrated by the fact that we keep recycling thugs back into our society, where they loose their depredations time and again on regular folks who just want to live in peace. The U.S. justice system moves slowly and is often too lenient. That guys like Keith want to get these crumbums permanently out of society is not a surprise. I do too.

Democrats need to listen to this. This is what, for better or worse, America thinks. We need a comprehensive plan to clean our cities of gangs, for example, that only seem to be growing more powerful and threatening as time passes. That neither Obama nor McCain is talking about that issue fuels attitudes like the one you see in Keith's song. If you want to prevent that sort of viewpoint from being aired, then do something about the actual problem.

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Note: this was the second time I took a run at Blumenthal's outright politically correct character assassination of Keith and the second time he censored me. The nonsense assertions by Blumenthal is another example of where ideology deteriorates into idiocy.