Jeff Foxworthy tells it like it is Video Added
posted at 9:57 pm on April 21, 2007 by Bryan
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I’m not much of a country music fan, but Jeff Foxworthy makes the case that I ought to be one. Click to head over to the CMT page, scroll down to video #11. It’s one of those must sees, especially a minute or two in.
(h/t Rick)
Update: CMT’s video player isn’t working for a lot of you (maybe they ought to hire us for consulting). I captured Foxworthy’s speech and will have it up here. Stand by.
Update: Here’s the video. Enjoy!
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There are very few liberals in country music. And the country music that I hear on the radio is very pro-American.
I think that’s why I’m more drawn to it now than I have been in past years. Or it’s the fact that today’s pop music SUCKS.
The video won’t play for me for some reason, but I can agree with the sentiments.
ScoopPC11 on April 21, 2007 at 10:05 PM
That was remarkable. No cutaways to the Dixie Chicks, though…
Jim Treacher on April 21, 2007 at 10:07 PM
Does’t work for Macs? CMT is living in the past.
BJ on April 21, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Can’t get the vid to work, but the audio worked well. All I can say is wow.
djohn669 on April 21, 2007 at 10:17 PM
Site is unfriendly to anything but Internet Exploder.
JinxMcHue on April 21, 2007 at 10:18 PM
It works in Firefox for me–I don’t even use Explorer. I’m trying to capture the video to edit and post here. No luck so far though.
Bryan on April 21, 2007 at 10:20 PM
It’s Macintosh bigotry, I tell you! I’m offended! I demand a voice!
Bob's Kid on April 21, 2007 at 10:23 PM
That was great. Thanks for sharing that one Bryan. I didn’t like country music growing up, but it’s grown on me in recent years for exactly the reasons Foxworthy stated.
CP on April 21, 2007 at 10:23 PM
One thing Mac users do not lack is voice. lol
EnochCain on April 21, 2007 at 10:32 PM
Well, time to crank up the ‘ol PC and see what Jeff has to say
bbz123 on April 21, 2007 at 10:32 PM
They open it with a cover song??
Now that is what I call a speach. Jeff Foxworthy for Press Sec in ‘08.
- The Cat
P.S. Too bad the sound just grates on me.
MirCat on April 21, 2007 at 10:33 PM
Odd. I use Firefox and I got a message saying that Netscape, Mozilla and Firefox users need to use IE.
JinxMcHue on April 21, 2007 at 10:34 PM
That was great, Thanks Bryan. I always liked Jeff Foxworthy; he’s a real American.
Zorro on April 21, 2007 at 10:39 PM
Thanks Bryan! Great post!!
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GT on April 21, 2007 at 10:40 PM
CMT needs a new video player
BJ on April 21, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Foxworthy’s comments reminded me why I am a country music fan.
Hey Bryan if you dont like country then check out video #7, Bon Jovi’s performance, they are perfect as always.
BTW, I work in Nashville and happen to know the CMT Webmaster so I will let him know about the video problems.
Steve
realVerse on April 21, 2007 at 10:48 PM
Please do that, realVerse. I am feeling marginalized, and you know that that means. I might just have to embark upon a chocolate chip cookie rampage. Or even more horrifyingly, a brownie blitz.
So watch out.
Bob's Kid on April 21, 2007 at 10:55 PM
Nice catch, Martina rocks, ugly dress though.
dingoatemebaby on April 21, 2007 at 11:01 PM
“If’n it weren’t fer them two good lookin’ sisters, that little fat one would be workin at a Lane Bryant in Nashville!”
–Larry The Cable Guy
fusionaddict on April 21, 2007 at 11:03 PM
Have to differ with you there, realVerse. I can’t even stand the sight of Bon Jovi, much less listening to them.
Incoming snark in 3…2…1…
Bryan on April 21, 2007 at 11:05 PM
I loved it when the crowd boo’d the Ditzy Chicks! RAWKIN’!
SouthernGent on April 21, 2007 at 11:08 PM
Bryan,
Not a country music fan? Can’t stand the site of Bon Jovi? If I hadn’t seen your videos I might have to question your patriotism. ;-)
I guess this means that you don’t like this Bon Jovi / Sugarland duet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_PnfITxnhM
Thanks for posting the vid!
Steve
realVerse on April 21, 2007 at 11:14 PM
If it has Bon Jovi in it, I don’t like it. For some reason I have loathed that hairdo since high school.
Bryan on April 21, 2007 at 11:17 PM
I am not a Country Music fan.
I am a fan of their values.
moc23 on April 21, 2007 at 11:19 PM
I love country music
I love Jeff Foxworthy (and the Blue Collar Comedy guys)
and this is the first time I’ve heard Foxworthy get in any way political and that was a damn good speech
Defector01 on April 21, 2007 at 11:25 PM
I can’t stand country music, but I like country music artists, and “rednecks” in general. Rather than “rednecks” I prefer the label “real people.”
And I hate Bon Jovi and their nancy-boy wussie music. :)
If you want some patriots that play music with a bit of testosterone in it, try Iced Earth.
Doghouse on April 21, 2007 at 11:27 PM
That reminds me of Denis Leary’s line about Bon Jovi in “No Cure for Cancer.”
I mean Stevie Ray Vaughan is dead, and we can’t get Jon Bon Jovi in a helicopter. Come on, folks. “Get on that helicopter John. Shut up and get on that helicopter! There’s a hair dresser in there. Yeah, go ahead in there, yeah yeah.”
Slublog on April 21, 2007 at 11:29 PM
Maybe there’ll be a place in the next cabinet for Foxworthy. Good speech.
Mojave Mark on April 21, 2007 at 11:31 PM
Me too, I was raised in the city on rock’n'roll and never really got into country music, but Jeff is right on about who makes up the backbone of this Nation. Give me real country people with real country values any day. I’m sick of phony pretentious liberal bullshit.
infidel4life on April 21, 2007 at 11:32 PM
Four minutes of SNL and not one laugh.
Typical Saturday night.
Thanks for providing videos that entertain.
Slublog on April 21, 2007 at 11:35 PM
I guess this would be my one opportunity here to say George Strait is the King. He is country, not this new silky pony stuff a lot of Nashville has been producing lately.
Free Constitution on April 21, 2007 at 11:41 PM
I feel better now. I guess I’ll eat those brownies tomorrow.
Bob's Kid on April 21, 2007 at 11:47 PM
I was tired and dragged out from a long, full day on almost no sleep. I checked in for a quick look, and was rewarded.
Amen, and thanks for the lift, Bryan.
Jaibones on April 21, 2007 at 11:58 PM
Country music? Ack! The hackneyed song structure and chord progressions; flavorless fiddles and the tiresome timbre of the Hawaiian guitar; the ponderous half-talented male vocals… I’m pro America, but a can of lentils has more “wow” factor in it than country music.
FierceGuppy on April 22, 2007 at 12:24 AM
Hey Steve, where’s Bethany? Is she OK? We’ve been missing her and RV around these here parts for so long. I hope y’all do get back up and running.
kevcad on April 22, 2007 at 12:26 AM
If see-dubya wants to start listening to country, here’s a couple of good ones to begin with.
Alan Jackson
Bocepheus
forged rite on April 22, 2007 at 12:29 AM
And George Jones of course.
forged rite on April 22, 2007 at 12:36 AM
And Shooter Jennings (that’s the last one, i promise).
forged rite on April 22, 2007 at 12:38 AM
I don’t even like 99% of country music but that was awesome.
Benaiah on April 22, 2007 at 12:42 AM
I am more a prog rock kind of guy, but I enjoy Johnny Cash and Alan Jackson’s “Precious Memories.” Jeff Foxworthy’s speech was a breath of fresh air from the “entertainment industry.” If I live in the Pacific NW can I still be a redneck?
For any Yes fans out there, Jon Anderson is supposed to be a guest of Michael Smerconish in MSNBC on Monday. Smerconish is the replacement for Imus’ show.
Mallard T. Drake on April 22, 2007 at 12:48 AM
Above is the message I got. But I’m not whipping Bryan on this.
The HA clip gave me the fix I needed. Browsers are Browsers.
Mahalo nui loa a me Aloha!
Kini on April 22, 2007 at 1:16 AM
Salute
Kaptain Amerika on April 22, 2007 at 1:16 AM
Hey Bryan, I recently did a homeshow at the Leon County Civic Center in Tallahassee FL. I worked there for about a month and found a classic country station on my work radio, its better than crack and twice as addictive (I could only imagine) Country Music is the best! I”m a transplanted Eyetalian from Jersey.
sonnyspats1 on April 22, 2007 at 1:46 AM
He may not of been talking about the Dixie Chicks..but when he said that part about the awards being chosen by the people and not the insiders he could have easily of been talking about the Chicks Grammy awards which everyone knows was only given to them to award their Bush bashing and nothing else.
mlong on April 22, 2007 at 1:51 AM
Can’t take modern pop country music.
Patsy Cline, The Man In Black, Gene Autry’s blues beginnings, The Kings of Western Swing, Bill Allen’s psycho-billy, Woody Guthrie, , Hank Williams, even early Dylan, yes, but I still like Foxworthy’s and Country’s spirit.
They just need to get back to the rawer Appalachian roots and strip away the timid, predictable schmaltz.
profitsbeard on April 22, 2007 at 2:26 AM
Well said, Jeff Foxworthy. Well said.
birkel on April 22, 2007 at 3:03 AM
not a big country fan, but hearing that i got the same chills i got hearing axl rose slagging the entire urban white kid junkie radical establishment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-UGJpIYdiI
jummy on April 22, 2007 at 3:25 AM
Ahh, country music. I was in the Pink Floyd Led Zeppelin generation.. no more. give me Alison Krauss & Union Station.
George on April 22, 2007 at 4:11 AM
If there was a lib watchin’ that anywhere in the country, I’ll be that sent ‘em flying for the remote!
LonelyMassRepublican on April 22, 2007 at 5:46 AM
Jeff Foxworthy has grown on me over the years, and this speech had “perfect pitch”. Well done, redneck.
Martina McBride’s music has such a strong positive message of life and faith. The Dixie Snerts shouldn’t be allowed on the same stage.
Freelancer on April 22, 2007 at 6:20 AM
Foxworthy on the dixie chicks:
::smack::
Freelancer on April 22, 2007 at 6:36 AM
I’ve gotten more into country music because of it sounding more like pop, but I’ll sit there and listen to the older stuff as long as it doesn’t get too twangy.
And now that I’ve seen the video, it is pitch perfect, and lists all the reasons why I do love listening to country.
ScoopPC11 on April 22, 2007 at 6:52 AM
This is probably the greatest speech I’ve ever heard about country music. I never liked country music until I got older. Here in Chicago, US99 is run by leftists, who attend Cindy Sheehan events and protest the war.
I have respect for Foxworthy doing that, and I’m glad the people running the event didn’t keep him from saying it, as he feared. McBride’s song “Anyway” at the end was very uplifting. The lyrics alone are inspiring.
Thanks for the post, Bryan, particularly the video!
Cao on April 22, 2007 at 7:30 AM
This video makes a great double-feature with Hillary’s latest “I see black people” video on Michelle’s site. Y’all. You know what I’m talkin’ ’bout.
saint kansas on April 22, 2007 at 7:51 AM
Cao:
I lived in the ’south ‘burbs’ until we moved to St. L. last June.
We’re moving to the NorthWest ‘burbs THIS June.
Have you tried “Q-Country”?
I don’t remember where it is on the dial.
97. something I think.
US 99 run by leftists?
My son will be unhappy to hear that.
I’m more of a “Jack” person myself.
They seem to be pretty a-political unlike, oh “The Drive”.
annoyinglittletwerp on April 22, 2007 at 7:55 AM
Hey you forgot to mention that Jeff’s from GA. I like country music and wound up listneing to almost exclusively through the 90’s because the other stuff was junk.
Well that and because country music had Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, George Strait, Alabama, Randy Travis, …..
Well Toby Keith, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton
Okay I ain’ a big fan but I do listen.
Can’t wait for NYC to get a country music radio station. Hard to believe a town that big doesn’t have one.
LakeRuins on April 22, 2007 at 8:55 AM
Oh yeah, remember when Charlie Daniels was classified as Rock and Roll??
LakeRuins on April 22, 2007 at 9:24 AM
I’m with you Bryan. Can’t stand em either. But I did grow up on country music, real country music, and there are still a lot of artists keeping it country. Jeff was right on about country music. I hope it stays that way. An awesome speech.
Glynn on April 22, 2007 at 9:44 AM
I’ve listened to Country music for over 30 years now. There is nothing in the human condition which cannot be explained in a country song. From loving your children (hundreds of songs fm Martina McBride, Trace Adkins, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams JR, Darrel Worley, etc…) to fighting for your country (Toby Keith American Soldier, Trace Adkins Arlington, Fighting Words) to how we feel about homicide bombers and their nasty, ugly ilk (Trace Adkins Welcome to Hell), country can cover any story with music.
And I listen to them all.
There is one thing country does much better than any other genre does, though.
Country Music Loves The United States of America
Subsunk
Subsunk on April 22, 2007 at 9:47 AM
Yeah… lots of people say this, but most people like a good country song just as much as any other type of good song.
;)
Lawrence on April 22, 2007 at 9:48 AM
Godspeed, Jeff
Valiant on April 22, 2007 at 9:51 AM
While not a big country music fan, there a number of songs I really like, including David Alan Coe’s “You Never Even Called Me By My Name” written by Steve Goodman.
He added a verse to complete it and make it the perfect country song…
Well, I was drunk the day my Mom got out of prison,
And I went to pick her up in the rain,
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck,
She got runned over by a damned old train.
Coastian on April 22, 2007 at 10:04 AM
Well, that block quote didn’t quite work…
oops
Coastian on April 22, 2007 at 10:04 AM
It’s great when a country celeb brings out the homestone for us all to touch.
csdeven on April 22, 2007 at 10:22 AM
Real Country???
Chris Ledoux… God rest his soul… 3 time national Rodeo Champ… and wouldn’t move to Nashvile after he started to make it because it would be a crappy place to raise his kids.
Romeo13 on April 22, 2007 at 10:24 AM
Great video Bryan. Foxworthy laid it down! Umm! Dang son!
Theworldisnotenough on April 22, 2007 at 10:35 AM
The only thing they are short of is marketshare.
Theworldisnotenough on April 22, 2007 at 10:36 AM
Amen to that. And they aren’t afriad to sing about God either. Just like Jeff said.
Glynn on April 22, 2007 at 10:39 AM
Thanks for the laugh.
Glynn on April 22, 2007 at 10:44 AM
Forged rite-
Bryan’s the one who doesn’t like country music, and who posted this. I’m a BIG fan.
I even dabble in writing country lyrics.
see-dubya on April 22, 2007 at 10:49 AM
“We get up and go to work, we get up and go to Church, and, when necessary, we get up and go to war.”
Thank you, Jeff Foxworthy.
DavePa on April 22, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Very nice speech. Doesn’t make up for making ethnic bigotry acceptable, but it might help repair the damage he’s done.
(redneck jokes = okay, “nappy-headed ho’s” not okay.)
I live in the heart of country music, it sometimes seems. I go out to the suburb, there’s Garth Brooks avenue. I head down to a movie in Bricktown, there’s Toby Keith’s “I Love This Bar”. I think that gal who won the American Idol contest was from Muskogee… yup, just checked. Ugh. She’s a Tulsa chick (Tulsa == liberal Oklahoma). Then of course there’s Reba Macintyre, and on and on. Can’t go through a day without hearing something to do with C&W. And I’m not much of a C&W fan. But I can’t imagine living anywhere else.
Compare and contrast: the story behind “Whiskey for my Men (and Beer for my Horses”) with “Gangsta Paradise”. After 9/11 we had songs coming out from Country and Western performers like “God Bless the USA”… where’s the hiphop, rock, or other genre’s equivalent?
The most terrifying truth to liberals: rednecks are the REAL Americans.
Time off in hell for this speech, Foxworthy. But you still have a lot to be forgiven for.
What I mostly listen to? Retro Remix
Hiraghm on April 22, 2007 at 12:14 PM
That was just beautiful. I’ve put this in my favourites area.
Canadian Infidel on April 22, 2007 at 1:44 PM
Whoa! I love it!!! You know he LOVED writing that speech!
Rightwingsparkle on April 22, 2007 at 1:59 PM
Wait… what? Foxworthy’s a bigot? Example please.
As for “Whiskey for my Men (and Beer for my Horses”), that’s not the greatest example. Toby Keith can be decent, but that song wore out it’s welcome quick. And it didn’t help that he teamed up with Willy Nelson… The same Willy Nelson who supports the looniest of the left in this country. The same Willy Nelson who came up here to VT to support (during the election) the (self proclaimed) socialist that represents us, when we moved him from the U.S. House to the Senate.
RightWinged on April 22, 2007 at 2:16 PM
why is it that showbiz stars and comedians always feel the need to espouse their political philosophies? I thought that Foxworthy was immune to it but apparently not.
crr6 on April 22, 2007 at 2:52 PM
I spilled my beer applauding!
dallas94 on April 22, 2007 at 3:02 PM
I’m lost. Are you talking about his “You might be a redneck” schtick? Jeez. I thought it was still OK to do that. In my mind, it’s the equivalent of the inner-city “Yo mama’s so…” jokes.
And, crr6, the fact that you would confuse love for the USA with a partisan political philosophy says more about our times than I care to address.
SailorDave on April 22, 2007 at 3:23 PM
I started loving country music about 5 years ago.
Here is something for all Mary Chapin Carpenter fans, like me.
“The Hard Way” from the 1995 PBS special “Women of Country”
pabo on April 22, 2007 at 3:37 PM
After years of dribble, hate-America, blame Bush, oh so politcally correct, wear a ribbon on your shirt, bovine fecal matter, a simple statement by Foxworthy made millions stand up and cheer.
No liberal left, you have not won the day, the battle is not yours, and regardless of what you keep telling yourselves, “yours” is not the ideology of this country…
PinkyBigglesworth on April 22, 2007 at 3:55 PM
Steve,
Will realVerse ever return? I really enjoyed the podcasts.
OhioCoastie on April 22, 2007 at 4:19 PM
Trace Adkins
Lyrics for Song: Songs About Me
Album: Songs About Me
I met a guy on the red eye
He spotted my guitar
and said what do you do?
I said, I sing for a living,
Country music mixed with
a little rock and a little blues
He said I’m sorry
but I’ve never been crazy
’bout that twang and trains and hillbilly thing
What ever made you want to sing stuff like that?
I just looked at him and laughed and said
cause it’s songs about me
and who I am
songs about loving and living
and good hearted women and family and God
yeah they’re all just
songs about me
songs about me
So I offered him tickets
I said you’ll see what I mean
if you show up tonight
he said I doubt you’ll change my opinion
I’ll be kind of busy, but hey man, I’ll try
Then later on when we finished our songs
about scars and cars and broken hearts
I saw him, he was standing there
right next to the stage
and he shouted
man you were right
it was like you sang those
songs about me
and who I am
songs about loving and living
and good hearted women and family and God
yeah they’re all just
songs about me
songs about me
So I’ll just keep on singing
’til I hear the whole world singing those
songs about me
and who I am
songs about loving and living
and good hearted women and family and God
yeah they’re all just
songs about me
songs about me
Random Numbers (Brian Epps) on April 22, 2007 at 4:31 PM
I would imagine Foxworthy made that speech because he, like so many of us, has been sickened by these “artist award” shows lately where the awards are given not for talent, but for political conformity.
Random Numbers (Brian Epps) on April 22, 2007 at 4:36 PM
I come from hill people. No, really.
What’s wrong with being called a redneck? He’s right, we know who we are.
The name itself comes from farmers workin in the field. Thier necks were always sunburnt. I know that feeling too.
unamused on April 22, 2007 at 4:42 PM
This was even far better than Danny Bonaduce telling OFF that conspiracy nut. I was raised a coonass (born in Louisiana) on Zep and Floyd also but have been reborn on country so to speak, when in my younger days I worked on the LEFT coast with this kid named Levi who loved Garth Brooks.
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This gets my vote for the best Hot Air Post
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Thanks for the post Brian
Thanks for the links forged
GOD Bless country music …..Amen
abinitioadinfinitum on April 22, 2007 at 5:45 PM
The self-congratulatory culture of Country sometimes grates on me, and Forworthy brought it to that edge, IMO.
I like both rock and country. One of my favorite fusions is Dolly’s cover of “Stairway to Heaven”. (Plays on Real … sorry.)
laelaps on April 22, 2007 at 6:38 PM
Preach on Borther.
PS
I use Linux with Firefox and the video worked just fine.
jdsmith0021 on April 22, 2007 at 7:00 PM
Country music and Jeff Foxworthy humor are authentic American. If some snooty left winger calls you a redneck, don’t be offended. You would much rather be a redneck than a snooty left winger.
Phil Byler on April 22, 2007 at 7:50 PM
Country music and Jeff Foxworthy humor are authentic American. If some snooty left winger calls you a redneck, don’t be offended. You would much rather be a redneck than a snooty left winger.
Phil Byler on April 22, 2007 at 7:50 PM
Country music and Jeff Foxworthy humor are authentic American. If some snooty left winger calls you a redneck, don’t be offended. You would much rather be a redneck than a snooty left winger.
Phil Byler on April 22, 2007 at 7:50 PM
He’s changed it since then! Oh, you meant the guy underneath it? Yeah.
Jim Treacher on April 22, 2007 at 9:50 PM
annoyinglittletwerp on April 22, 2007 at 7:55 AM
Where in the south suburbs, twerp?
Jaibones on April 22, 2007 at 11:42 PM
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