Toby Keith, the terrible country music singer who has spent the last seven years laughing at Arabs for getting killed by American bombs (2002 lyric: “we lit up your world like the Fourth of July”), is inexplicably a Democrat who supports Obama. This makes no sense. Perhaps he is one of those “Peter Beinart Democrats” who saturated our magazines and newspapers in the years after 9/11 — you know, like “we want sweeping health care reform, but we also really like bombing the shit out of Arabs.” Joe Lieberman is the worst … Wait, what was the question? Oh yes: weird redneck Toby Keith is a Democrat for Obama. [AP]
Toby Keith Is A Democrat?
by Jim Newell
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I guess he hates rich people more than he hates black people.
Didn’t he once rhyme something with “bin Laden” in one of his songs? Impressive.
You know what? As long as he supports Obama, everything’s cool.
It’s all that smoking weed with Willie Nelson that did it.
This is kind of at odds with what he said a few weeks ago: http://www.entertonement.com/collections/1574/Caucasian
Was this a big lesson in irony? I thought it was dead after 9/11. Seems to be making a comeback the past year.
Thus marks the moment when I realized Toby Keith (a) has enough self-awareness to realize the entire country thinks he’s a mouth-breathing moroff, and (b) is a Republican GENIUS.
Congratulations, Preznit McNasty!
Yeah right, good one Newell. Next thing you know, you’ll be saying that STJ came back from the dead. Oh wait…
Toby Keith will soon star in Son of Brokeback Mountain.
[re=64341]Gopherit v2.0[/re]:
Or maybe all that pole smokin’ with Elton John.
Whatevs, I’m glad he isn’t really under the spell of the Dark Lord, Lord Cheney.
Thank you Mr. Keith. I still will not listen to your music.
Anyone making a movie called “Beer for My Horses” is alright by me.
A talentless hat act weathervane.
…will he exiled to the land of cheese eating Europeans to live in a “flat”(American translation: Castle) with the Dixie Chicks?
isn’t ‘beer for my horses’ about hangin’ all the baaad people from trees
still hate him.
…oh yeah and by the way, Toby Kieth can suck a fat donkey dikk! I wonder exactly what made him change his mind, maybe it was the 4,000+ dead American soldiers or the Trillion+ that we have spent or maybe the instability in the middle east or maybe even the fact Osama Bin Laden is still free to wipe his ass with his shitty CD’s. Being that he is a so-called country singer it is probably the fact that he needs to take out a home equity loan to fill up his shitty pick up truck or his dog was killed by tainted Chinese pet food! Shit for brains!!!
I guess I can’t wear that “FUTK” tshirt that Natalie Maines gave me anymore, huh?
The Taliban Song was a joke that got taken too seriously. Evidently only Toby, I, and maybe one of the Dixie Chicks know this.
[re=64341]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: You don’t spend time in Austin and remain immune. I think Toby’s been hanging around here and it’s starting to show. Good for him.
Well, in the trailerpark I call home, the Fourth of July is indeed like an Arab country bombed by CBU-97s. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve ooooh-ed and aaaah-ed as the body parts of small children pinwheeled through the air. “Look! The inside of that skull is PURPLE!”
Yeah, but he ain’t gonna VOTE for Obama. He just kinda-sorta said some not-entirely negative things about him.
[re=64357]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: You are a treasure, Angry BG. Seriously, I just spit water.
Survive the hurricane party?
It’s high time we start making some new Election 08 verbs:
All the country music AM stations should TobyKeith this guy.
Toby Keith should be Talibanned.
Toby Keith should be Sllentconed.
I think he was offended by McCain making fun of celebrities. Even if he is only a celebrity in the eyes of the scratch ticket crowd.
But, what the hell. If he calls his next album ‘I’m Voting for the Negro’, it might flip Tennessee and North Carolina into the blue column.
Have you seen the trailer for his movie “Beer For My Horses”?
I can buy that there are intelligent robots from outer space that can transform into cars but I can’t buy that Claire Forlani would have anything to do with this fat, buck-toothed, sumbitch.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/beerformyhorses/
Folks, hate to admit it but we need the Moran vote to win this thing. So suck it up, and just be thankful that Tobs isn’t voting for WALNUTS!
I don’t know Toby personally, so I don’t know which it is, but he’s either a whore or a ditz. He’s been one of the biggest pro-Bush right-wing assholes in the country music world, which is saying a lot. Now that Bush’s popularity finally is approaching single digits, Toby abandons him? That says HO. Unless he’s so stupid he doesn’t realize that you lose all credibility when you do 180-degree turns. He thinks he can change political parties like he changes brands of toothpaste. That says ditz.
I, for one, remember where I was when they built the ladder to heaven.
So living in Tennessee I learn this shit just by breathing. Toby Keith does/did hang out with Willie Nelson a fair bit and I don’t think Willie lets Republicans on his bus. So yeah, good for TK. We need more redneck democrats in the world. Lots and lots more, apparently. I’d like to see him out campaigning for Obama where people like his awful music.
[re=64376]Uncle Al[/re]: He did write that idiot song about killing brown people in Iraq, but God knows it wasn’t only republicans who got absurd patriot-wood over that endeavor. Maybe he means it. Bush’s approval rating is fucking nothing yet 1/2 the country plans to vote for McCain. At least he’s not as dumb as they are. I’m looking forward to crazychristian nashville panties to get all wadded up over Toby’s ‘betrayal’.
[re=64375]NoWireHangers[/re]: Very true….
Americans and others have spent 60+ years trying to get the Japanese and Germans to say “I’m sorry I started this bad war and here’s how it happened and here’s all the bad things I dun,” and change their museums, textbooks, laws, movie content etc. . . and now these Bush rah-rah guys like Toby Keith and Rick Warren just move along like nuttin’ happened and don’t even say, “OOOPS, MISTAKE!” ??????
Ooops, rants in my pants.
[re=64369]Doglessliberal[/re]: …I actually ended up hitting a bar last night. You would be surprised how many people(mostly women) would go to a bar during a tropical storm watch. Needless to say I showed up to work this morning tired and slightly tipsy(and by tipsy I mean a BAL of atleast .11).
Someone on HuffPo has been whining about TK for the last couple weeks. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a worthless, talentless whore, IMHO. But suggesting that he’s using a variety of racial subtleties in his lyrics is a bit of a stretch.
[re=64375]NoWireHangers[/re]: …very true, but that doesn’t mean I’m going let any of these shit for brains forget that the size/power of your military doesn’t reflect the size of your penis/brain!
I was watching Glenn Beck a few weeks ago, because I have a casual interest in sadomachism, and this redneck asshat was being interviewed. He stated he was a Democrat, and would most likely vote Obama. He seemed to have his shit together.
Toby Keith ain’t got s.h.i.t. on C.S. Lewis Jr.
“If you’re from europe you can suck my d*ck”
[re=64398]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: One step at a time. You’ve gotta learn how to use the indoor toilet before you learn how to flush…
um, sorry, don’t buy this. His most recent hit song references lynching. I don’t think he likes black folks too much.
All hat, no cattle. The end.
[re=64399]InsidiousTuna[/re]: OK, tanks for the tip. I looked at the unofficial transcript. Toby plays the, “Afghanistan = good war, Iraq = bad war” card, and says he was misunderstood and victimized because people thought his tunes were meant to drum up support for the Iraq war. He gets the inquisition about some other Democrat platform things like gay marriage and says stuff like he has no right to judge and play god.
Here’s some of the unofficial CNN transcript. (In which Beck assumes he, Beck, is not a neo-con “far right” since he is only a libertarian “far right”)
BECK: Do you at all wonder how we navigate these waters when the truth, it seems, doesn`t really matter. I mean, especially when it comes to politics. The truth doesn`t seem to matter to these people.
KEITH: No, it doesn`t. And the two extremes make the most noise of all. You know, the 80 percent I see, the 80 percent in the middle, it is those two that make the most noise on each end. And they`re almost just alike.
BECK: I think it`s a circle. They`re right here together.
KEITH: And I say every time I say, if you go over here to the far left, they think I`m a right-winged gun-toting redneck. And if you come over here to the extreme right, they`re like he`s a weed-smoking, alcohol- drinking hippie, you know. So you know you`re stuck in the middle because you have both sides bringing it to you.
BECK: I think if both sides hate you, you`re in the perfect place.
KEITH: You`re somewhere in there, right? And when I first started getting attacked for my song it was like from the extreme left. Well, then here comes this right running and supporting me and I`m going to somebody supporting me. Then they find out, oh, he`s a Democrat. Oh he does that, oh he —
BECK: I have more respect for when you when I found out you were a Democrat.
KEITH: And then they went running and I almost got so mad that I changed my affiliation which would have been my dad`s and grandfather`s grief. But I thought, you know what? I`m a stronger Democrat if I don`t change it.
On the one hand, Toby Keith’s music sucks (but that’s not a character flaw). On the other hand, he did go to Baghdad when I was there, and was nice to everybody. On the other other hand, he was dressed like a dirty hippie (cargo shorts, a ratty ballcap, shades, an ACU blouse somebody gave him with his name on it, and goddamned Birkenstocks). I was embarrassed to look at him; the Iraqis all wear long pants, dirtbag, and their AC doesn’t even work.
On balance, I guess he’s a reasonably good ol’ boy, but I wouldn’t want my niece to date any of his younger relatives. I have cousins in West Virginia I hate more, is what I’m saying, I guess.
He isn’t really. It’s just out of fashion to be completely rednecky, so he’s looking to appear just a little less stupid, and you know, like he’s from Texas or something. So he just thought, “hey, I’ll claim to be a votin’ for the black feller. Hell, nobody gonna know fer sure any how”. He must have goten one of those P.R. firms or something.
I’ll believe this “conversion” shit when I see Toby Keith punch Charlie Daniels in the cock and put a crossbow arrow into Ted Nugent’s jugular.
Until then, he remains to country music what he always was: bad 80s bighair metal with a hayseed twang and none of the wit. [Which, come to think of it, is a remarkable talent all by itself.]
The only two things I know about Toby Keith is that he’s a Ford Truck Man (and that’s all he dri-ives) who has no boundaries and does not know the meaning of the word compromise, and that he wrote a song called “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” that was basically a non-ironic “America, Fuck Yeah!” so I’m pretty sure he’s a purposefully-ignorant pseudo-cowboy who would never ever admit how much he enjoyed Brokeback Mountain (hint: a lot).
Still, glad to have him aboard.
[re=64449]Canuckledragger[/re]: I don’t care who you are, or how you vote, nobody punches Charlie Daniels in the cock. Charlie Daniels’ cock punches YOU.
[re=64464]Godless Liberal *[/re]: Given his girth, Charlie hasn’t even seen his cock in thirty years. If ya tell him his shoelace is untied, he’s gotta take your word for it. He’s not svelte any more, like he was when he was portraying Comic Book Guy.
Ever since he recorded the “Brokeback” soundtrack, Toby’s been actin’ kinda queer…
Somone put acid in my coffee this moirning.
Toby Keith is a Democrat Obama supporter???
WTF??? He’s always been a hard-right Repuglican,
I see him on Beck all the time!
This is bad acid.
As a Keith (surname not first name) – I have long said that it is time that the Keith family officially and publicly disown Toby!!! I may start a petition at the next family reunion.
We knew something had gone terribly wrong when Toby would repeatedly asking everyone what best rhymes with ass (“…we’ll put a boot in your ass” – after we catch that great big bass -OR- after we get out of our remedial math class -OR- right after I pray for all the non-Christian-mongrol people at the revival mass)
Oh, and Toby, if there was such a thing as a “Caucasian” (which by the way those WAY-smarter-than-you-nerdy-types AKA “Scientists” have concluded there isn’t) BARACK IS HALF WHITE, you nitwit, that would make him “Caucasian”!!!
I know, I know, now your head really hurts….I’ll let you get back to your cow-tipping and putting lit firecrackers into frogs butts…
Maybe Toby can go back to OK & campaign for Obama. I notice he doesn’t have the nerve to say that in OK. Those racist rednecks would vote for a bag of Cheetos before they’d vote for a black man. (I grew up in OK; I know what I’m talking about.)
He only likes Barry because they are both celebrities.
[re=64502]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: CORRECTION:
*inadequate black man.
/fixed.
[re=64514]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: In OK, they’re ALL inadequate. (Unless they’re scoring a TD for the Sooners.)
Toby Keith likes Obama because Barack is happily married to a black woman, and therefore no threat to our white sisters and daughters. He would have wrote a song about it but he couldn’t rhyme anything with miscegenation, much less spell it correctly.
[re=64357]AngryBlakGuy[/re]:
I love it when you try to sugar coat things.
CHEETOS FOR PREZDINT !!
Wait wait wait. He’s a country singer, right? Listen to his lyrics, people.
Well, I’m not talkin bout locking down forever, baby.
That would be too demanding.
I’m just talkin bout two lonely people
who might reach a little understanding.
I’m not talkin bout knocking out heaven
with whether we’re wrong or we’re right.
I’m not talkin bout hooking up and hanging out.
I’m just talkin bout tonight.
He’s just looking for a one-night stand at the DNC ’cause we gots the hot chicks.
You guys don’t be mean to Toby, he might be able to help Barry with the BITTERS!
Every moment he’s grudgingly praising Barack is a moment he’s not singin. S’all good.
[re=64678]regisgoat[/re]: Really, this is the most important development. Music, and the nation in general, is better off because of it.
I’ll admit a certain fondness for his “Who’s Yore Daddy?” number.
I don’t know why.
jim newell you young whippersnapper, calling toby keith a country music singer is an insult to george jones, waylon jennings, johnny cash, buck owens, merle haggard, johnny paycheck, webb pierce, jimmie rodgers, loretta lynn, tammy wynette, ray price, etc …
I have been a Toby Keith fan for a long time, and he has always said he was a Democrat. He says he votes for the person that he thinks will do the best job, not necessarily just along party lines. He also has stated over and over that he supported the war in Afghanistan, but not Iraq. His song, “Beer for my Horses” is about justice. When he sings it in concert here in California, he says, “round up Scott Peterson and hang him high in the street.” Why there are hundreds of blogs and internet and newspaper articles about him praising Barack is beyond me. Why anyone cares a whit what a singer’s political views are is also beyond me. I know that since he is a public figure he has to take the bashing along with the praise, and he certainly doesn’t need me defending him, but I just make it my personal duty to attack assinine ignorance wherever I see it!
Didja see TK on Politically Incorrect when Lama Surya Das told him that people who drove big pickups usually did so to compensate for “deficiencies elsewhere?”
Now that was entertainment gold.
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