Toby Keith is a Big, Fat Idiot

I only vaguely have an awareness of country music singer Toby Keith. About all I can recall is the feud he had with the Dixie Chicks — who turned out to be right, of course, about George Bush. Stephen Colbert had Toby Keith on his show tonight. If Keith isn’t putting on a front, this guy is a total moron. The song Keith sings is the usual sort of unoriginal, by-the-numbers crap that guys like him do. Hey, talent like that goes only so far, y’know? Steve Earle he ain’t, musically or politically.
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6 thoughts on “Toby Keith is a Big, Fat Idiot”

  1. Ha-Ha! Sorry Doug:-) I just can’t stomach that tough, hard-ass, macho, bigger-than-life crap. Toby Keith told TV Guide he’s a Democrat, but to me he’s an infomercial for the Dubya way of thinking. I picture Dubya in his flight suit on the aircraft carrier when I hear Toby Keith and Dubya’s friend Travis Tritt. Dubya’s way of playing a game with a deadly real situation for soldiers. Like Curt Schilling going around the Red Sox dugout making a game out of drumming up teammates to vote for Dubya in 2004 and them laughing about it. And how many of them went to Iraq?

  3. Toby Keith is a living stereotype of a Republican Redneck-truck driving, beer guzzling, screw ’em and leave ’em Saturday night and go to church on Sunday, gun toting, flag waver-who claims he’s a Democrat! HUH?!!

  4. Thanks for your comment, Cactus Lizzie!

    Eclectic is the only way to be musically, I feel. And with art, as well. But there’s a misogynist mentality that comes through with certain country music and rap music that really bugs me.

    Does anybody else think Colbert looks a little like Mitt Romney here?

  5. As many people know, Natalie Maines, the lead singer of The Dixie Chicks, criticized Toby Keith’s song “Courtesty of the Red, White and Blue” as making country music sound ignorant. I can understand a certain amount of anger and frustration in the wake of 9/11, that spurred venting in a song like that. But there is also truth is what Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks was pointing out about particular songs in country music.

    I have eclectic tastes in music, and I enjoy everything from opera and classical to reggae, ragtime, zydeco, Russian balalaika music, rhythm and/or blues, jazz, and yes, country music. (My only exceptions are most of the heavy metal, and some of the rap music.)

    I live in the Southwest where we have free range cattle nearby, and I have Western clothes, boots, hats, etc. in my wardrobe, as does my husband. I do listen to country music from time to time, and I like it a lot, in its various forms, from the old stuff like Hank Williams Senior, Patsy Cline, Charlie Daniels, Jr. to so many of the cross-over country/pop hits of today. I enjoy listening to slide guitar and fiddle, also. We’ve been to Nashville twice, and had a great time there!

    However, there are some country songs which do sound ignorant and offensive, such as one I heard recently. I don’t know if it’s a new one or an old one, nor who recorded it, but the radio played it The chorus went like this: “Screw you, we’re from Texas, screw you, we’re from Texas; We’re from Texas, We’re from Texas, screw you.” My jaw dropped from shock! There was a day when such a song would’ve been banned as in exceedingly poor taste by radio stations, but unfortunately, those standards have changed.

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