It’s only February, but there’s already a finalist for the coveted Palme D’Hair.

The devil’s alter what? Alter ego? Alter native?

Goddamn, to think all that drinkin’, fightin’, adulteratin’, and killin’ folks was actually representative of the kind of pro-family world this poor bastard misses! Seriously, did the boy ever LISTEN to country music? I did, stuck in a station wagon from Pennsylvania to California, 25 years ago, and I still haven’t recovered. Maybe all he had was The Mom and Pop Waltz on constant loop. That would explain his bizarre nostalgia and thinly veiled insanity. But not even Waylon and Willie are responsible for his creative choice of words. Damned shame anyone taught that boy to read.

I actually like the old-skewl country music, before the wussy, glossy Nashville crap took over.

Some female singers eagerly become scorching risqué singers in their videos to help market their songs. Sex sells and they make it exceedingly pleasant for viewers to listen to their filthy and outrageous lyrics as they gyrate around in various stages of undress.

Wait. I wish he’d keep his story straight (such as it were) here. I thought this was supposed to be a gay conspiracy! Unless…
[gasp!]
Oh, no! The lesbians are making their move!! Aieeee!!!!

I want to see the allegorical painting of the Entertainer stretching the Envelope of Decency in pursuit of the Odor of the Greenback. It sounds hot.

I was the cleanest, most moral fucking Country/Western singer ever. And don’t let no cobgobblin’ dipshit tell you any different.

For the last time, the Willie Nelson song is a COVER of something written in 1981. Jesus, people.

It’s coming to something when you can’t even use the telly as a babysitter for the kids anymore. I don’t know!

“Michael Westfall writes incongruous and nefarious columns that people read while eating Pepsi. Sane people should be relaxed and overwrought. For the cynosure and vibration of Internets fame there are wingers who are more than able to re-ravel the reality of grammar.”

I’m simply in awe of this selection. Is it possible to do better? Sadl…oh wait, that’s your line.

Willie Nelson debuted his groundbreaking “gay cowboy song�. . .

Of course, Willie Nelson’s performance is actually a cover of Ned Sublette’s “gay cowboy song.” Also performed by Pansy Division several years back. Not that fact-checking would make the piece any less stupid, but still.

At one time country music meant mom, home and apple pie

Yes, and it was exactly one time. 12 seconds past 3:07pm, GMT, on April 19, 1975.

Willie: You know how much condoms used to cost in those days?

Thurgood: How much?

Willie: I dunno, we never used ’em.

Seriously though, I guess because Willie had his problems with the reveneurs, the wingnuts assumed he was one of them.

Also, I thought the free market could do no wrong. Call me crazy, but complaining about the decadence of art as a commodity sounds Red to me.

“Willie Nelson and his gay agenda”

I will never stop laughing.

Dr. BLT doesn’t mind at all. He’s only mad because old Willie beat him to the punch, just as he was about to record his new one: “Homo on the Range.”

“Willie Nelson and his gay agenda.”

Well, he does have that long hair…and braids…and a whiny voice. I heard you can only get that twang from too much semen on the vocal chords.

Oh man, that was choice. More Westfall please.

Love the picture too. He’s smiling, yet terrified.

Is “Willie Nelson and his gay agenda” anything like “Lyle Lovett and His Large Band”?

I worked for years in a bank HQ. He looks exactly like dozens of assistant vice presidents of checking services that I worked with.

Brad R.’s right, before the *shudder* Urban Cowboy thing, country music was pretty sweet. One of my favorite songs is D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

“Country music’s formula was filled with family values, nostalgia and the issues that everyday families face.”

I’m sitting here thinking of Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue,” trying to square family values with mixing it up “down in the mud, the blood and the beer,” and about a “paw” who wasn’t gonna be around to raise his kid, so to get him to be tough, he named him Sue.

Then there’s that old parlor sing-along favorite of Johnny’s, “Folsom Prison Blues.”

Issues that everyday families face?

Sheesh.

some trivia – ‘A Boy Named Sue’ was written by Shel Silverstein, whose poems were a staple in my elementary school. (He got his start writing and drawing for Playboy.)

He also wrote a cautionary song about VD called ‘Don’t Give a Dose to the One You Love Most.’

I think we’ve broken the wingnut writing code – they’re using Mad Libs. Just interchange whatever the latest not-conservative work, throw some adjectives and nouns aroung in random order, an voila!

Oh, and I suppose Willie’s album about killing his wife, his wife’s lover, and a blond haired prostitute before finding love in the arms of another woman of possibly ill repute was just part of the good ol’ country that the writer misses.

Wow, that was pretty awesome. This is the best sentence I have seen in a long time:

“Sex sells and they make it exceedingly pleasant for viewers to listen to their filthy and outrageous lyrics as they gyrate around in various stages of undress.”

Exceedingly pleasant? For viewers to listen? This guy RAWKS! I hope he becomas a regular at S,N!

It would make his head explode to realize that Johnny Cash was one of us.
Also, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.
I hate to admit it, but I kinda liked that music growing up. Not that I had a choice.

my god, that’s a beautiful ass.

Weird. Here’s that site’s list of what lyrics people who searched for Cocaine Blues by the man in black also searched for:

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Fans who visit this lyrics also like:

# Boyzone – Love Me for a Reason Lyrics (YOU WHAT?)
# Frank Sinatra – Theme from New York New York Lyrics
# Michael Buble – Sway Lyrics
# Paquita La Del Barrio – Rata De Dos Patas Lyrics
# The Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian Lyrics (SERIOUSLY!)
# Bush – Gglycerin Lyrics
# Sugarcult – Hate Every Beautiful Day Lyrics
# L5 – Maniac (Flashdance) Lyrics
# Jason Mraz – Summer Breeze Lyrics
# Crossfade – Dead Skin Lyrics
# Shania Twain – Man! I feel like a woman! Lyrics (No. Surely not.)
# Eagles – Already Gone Lyrics
# Anastacia – At The Beginning Lyrics
# Haiducii – Dragostea din tei – translation ENG Lyrics
# 3 Doors Down – Dangerous Game Lyrics
# 50 Cent – Heat Lyrics
# Brad Paisley – We Danced Lyrics
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# Rascal Flatts – You Lyrics
# Michael Learns To Rock – 25 Minutes Lyrics
# Dr.Dre – Ring Ding Dong Lyrics
# Avril Lavigne – Slipped Away Lyrics
# Perry Como – Catch A Falling Star Lyrics
# Brad Paisley – Little Moments Like That Lyrics
# Ella Fitzgerald – Someone to Watch over Me Lyrics (All right, that’s more like it, and so is this..)
# Deep Purple – Smoke On The Water Lyrics
# Seether – Driven Under Lyrics
# Jem – Save Me Lyrics
# Blondie – One Way Or Another Lyrics (that’s not bad either)
# Kid Rock – Only God Knows Why Lyrics

Marq: I for one welcome our new lesbian overlords!

Brad, what a Yankee you are! You write a post on teh gay and country music without a reference to longtime Hee Haw cast member Gailard Sartain? Wtf?!

Ah yes, the frequent use of the word “filth” and its synonyms, coupled with the terror of anal penetration – a classic Freudian stage-two compulsive/shame case. You can just see this guy bent over his kitchen sink weeping, a brillo pad dropping from hands that looks like flayed steak.

Marq: I for one welcome our new lesbian overlords!

Cool. I got dibs on the minion.

In fact, “Cocaine Blues” is a Woody Guthrie song. And Woody, as we all know, was a big ol’ commie. (Who also sang a number of female-POV songs.)
This doesn’t prove anything, but I think it means Johnny Cash was also a commie or something. And by extension, Michael Westfall is an ignorant twerp.

I’ve never actually seen much country music that wasn’t about sex, in one form or another.
Mr Westfall is like Lewis Grizzard, only without the humor or the observational skills or the self-awareness.
I find that kinda sad, really.

Willie Nelson debuted his groundbreaking “gay cowboy song� on the “anti-family� Howard Sterns satellite radio program. Nelson also sang in the recent gay movie “Brokeback Mountain�.

I think we need to take the scare quotes away from him before he hurts himself.

I mean, before he “hurts” himself.

Don’t forget that Johnny Cash song where he’s on trial for murder but he can’t give his alibi because he was sleeping with his best friend’s wife.

I somewaht agree with Westfall though. It’s a shame that they don’t have the technology to block MTV or, you know, turn the TV off.

Hold up a minute! You mean female singers are now dressing up and acting sexy when they perform to sell their records?

What’s this world coming to?

“Country music’s formula was filled with family values, nostalgia and the issues that everyday families face.”

Yeah, like drinking and adultery and fighting.

Don’t forget that Johnny Cash song where he’s on trial for murder but he can’t give his alibi because he was sleeping with his best friend’s wife.

“The Long Black Veil.” That’s a terrific song.

“Much of today’s popular music and music videos are bursting with obscenities, foul language, and gory violence. It is designed to target, titillate and confuse the moral make up of American youth along with any morally challenged adults that will listen to this vulgar noise.”

The funny thing about this sentance is that you could probably go to some archive of 1950’s newspaper editorials or LTTE’s and read the identical sentiment. Only it would probably be written better.

I’m going to start a Willie Nelson tribute band just so I can call it Willie Nelson and his Gay Agenda. On an unrelated note, Mr. Nelson will be playing later this year in my small Ontario city. I love any and all musicians who grace Peterborough, ON with their presence, especially since we have a gay agenda of sorts (Gay Pride Day is Sept. 13).

Sex sells and they make it exceedingly pleasant for viewers to listen to their filthy and outrageous lyrics as they gyrate around in various stages of undress.

I’m confused. Whose lyrics? Who is gyrating around in various stages of undress? The musicians or the viewers?

This question brought to you by the people of Ambiguous Antecedents Anonymous, who want to remind you that they can really impede comprehension.

Boy, when Mr. Westfall discovers the secular and blushingly bawdy lyrics of Orlando Lassus and, well, those of scores of other medieval, renaissance, Elizabethan etc composers, and then there’s all those folk songs and tavern songs, and the lyrics of sexy love songs going back millennia, his head will explode. What is it with people who seem to think celebrating sexuality is an unprecedented phenomenon?

Now, in a chicken suit, that might be unprecedented.

I’m glad we have some Johnny Cash fans out there. Brad, glad to know you’re one of them. I love Johnny Cash so much that I wrote and recorded an entire CD as a tribute to him. I released it just the other day at:

http://www.drblt.com

It’s called “Blackout: A Tribute To Johnny Cash.” I won’t try to sell the CD to you, but for those who are interested, I didn’t want to withold information on it either. I am prepared to give you all a free copy of my cover of Cash’s “I Still Miss Someone.” It’s from another CD, “Their Songs, My Way.” I re-wrote the lyrics as a Christmas song, but it’s popularity has continued throughout January and February.

(We) Still Miss Someone
new lyrics by Dr. BLT
Original song by J.Cash
http://www.drblt.com/music/MissSomeone.mp3

I hope you enjoy these album cuts. Let me know what you think, whether it’s false praise, genuine respect and admiration, or CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.

Muh hah heh

Was that directed any anyone in particular?

Get any response from Brad, Gav and Seb re your request for serious constructive criticism yet? I’ve volunteered to do it but as I’ve said before I’m not going to work that hard in a comment box. Book me the gig and I’ll deliver.

DR BLT sez: I hope you enjoy these album cuts. Let me know what you think, whether it’s false praise, genuine respect and admiration, or CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.

Here ya go Doc:

Don’t rewrite Johnny Cash’s lyrics.

You’re welcome.

“Don’t rewrite Johnny Cash’s lyrics.”

Well now, that’s not very constructive…

Ambiguous Antecedents aside, you could read this sentence: “Sex sells and they make it exceedingly pleasant for viewers to listen to their filthy and outrageous lyrics as they gyrate around in various stages of undress.” as indicating the (exceeding) pleasure Mr. Westfall derives from their gyrations in various stages of undress.

Opening tonight for Willie Nelson and His Gay Agenda, Ambiguous Antecedents Aside.

“Don’t rewrite Johnny Cash lyrics.”

Actually, this advise is the closest thing to constructive criticism that I’ve received here. Of course, there was nothing wrong with the original lyrics to I STILL MISS SOMEONE, and generally, I agree with the adage: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. However, if you’ll listen to the song, I’m sure you’ll agree that, as a tribute to The Man in Black, my lyrics seem to work.

And BTW, Merle Haggard, like Willie, has a softer side. He revealed it a couple of years back when he spoke on war and peace issues. However, you won’t find that softer side in this song (as it appears on the playlist at WFMU in New York City, and as it appeared in Power Line, where I received a rare bit of positive feedback):

“Merle Hasn’t Lost His Fightin’ Side”
featuring Mark Yeary, formerly of Merle Haggard & the Strangers
words and music by Dr. BLT (c)2006
http://www.drblt.com/music/MerleVeryLast.mp3

MTV and similar channels reach hundreds of millions of young households. Their music videos contain strong violence, have tobacco or alcohol use in 25% of their videos…

Only 25%? Wonder what percent the channel formerly known as CMT had…

Also, can “young” be used to describe a “household”?

I love Johnny Cash! I love him so much, I changed the words to all of his songs!

/BLT

MTV and similar channels reach hundreds of millions of young households. Their music videos contain strong violence, have tobacco or alcohol use in 25% of their videos…

Only 25%? Wonder what percent the channel formerly known as CMT had…

Also, can “young” be used to describe a “household”?

Let’s be fair, Yosef. The only Cash song I changed the lyrics too was “I Still Miss Someone,” and, if you hear it, you’ll understand that the change was introduced tastefully and tactfully.

The other songs on “Blackout” are original Dr. BLTunes about the life and music of Johnny Cash.

In fact, “Cocaine Blues” is a Woody Guthrie song. And Woody, as we all know, was a big ol’ commie.

You sure about that? Hank Williams III (badass) does a version of it on his “Risin’ Outlaw” album and the songwriting credit goes to a guy named T.J. Arnall.

Here’s my recommendation to Mr. Westfall, courtesy The Man In Black.

Well put, Pere.

I was a readin’ in the bibble bout hows the isreal lights spilt their seed upon the ground and such. And bouts all the Lust flesh and deepravity. And about hows there is fornicating with womeen whos not you wife. An I think that men laid wihth each n’ other. Yuccch!!that was gross. And what’n would jeebus think? The bibble, like county mosic, hain’t what is used to be neither.

Merle Haggard has that new song out that goes:

Let’s get back on track
Let’s get out of Iraq
And rebuild America first.

Stupid loser-defeatist.

“Here’s my recommendation to Mr. Westfall, courtesy The Man In Black.”

Though the finger was aimed at Nashville record executives and the like, the photo is priceless, Pere. It only goes to show that Johnny Cash never lost his fightin’ side either.

Yosef, it’s hard to believe the same man you quote penned these words, the words that became my muse in “Merle Hasn’t Lost His Fightin’ Side”:

“I hear people talkin’ bad,
About the way we have to live here in this country, Harpin’ on the wars we fight,
An’ gripin’ ’bout the way things oughta be.
An’ I don’t mind ’em switchin’ sides,
An’ standin’ up for things they believe in.
When they’re runnin’ down my country, man,
They’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me.
Yeah, walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me.”

It just goes to show that us right-wingers aren’t all so easy to put into a box. Even right-wingers are allowed to be complex. It’s like what Kris Kristopherson said about Johnny Cash: “A walking contradiction…”

I suppose it depends on your definition of hip (and probably your age), but Willie is definitely hip. Dude is in the hip hall of fame, and nothing he could do short of renouncing dope smoking could remove him from the hip list.

MTV plays videos?

“I suppose it depends on your definition of hip (and probably your age), but Willie is definitely hip.”

Gus is correct, and Willie can’t be removed from the “hip” list. He’s a permanent fixture. But it seems that some hipsters are considered hip no matter what their age may be (or the age of the hip-acknowledging party). Timeless/ageless heroes such as Johnny Cash, for example, are considered “hip” by folks representing a wide age range. Johnny Cash, for example, was considered hip by followers who ranged in age from 5-95, and had plenty of teen fans, particularly in his later years, after Rick Ruben began to produce his music.

Reading this post was exceedingly pleasant.

Hey, if it means I get to be an overlord, I’d be willing to give up men forever. I have some great plans for this planet, and all I need now is a minion to help me zip up my dominatrix boots (which I found while packing my closet…amazing the things you can find in a closet!)

Well, okay, the original “Cocaine Blues” was a folk tune first recorded by Woody, who did his own set of lyrics. It’s sometimes called the “Lee Brown” version. The Johnny Cash/Hank Williams/most frequently covered version has somewhat different lyrics, and additional verses. The whole thing is a good deal more fleshed out than the Guthrie version.
That’s probably the Arnall credit.

The Woody Guthrie song can be found on the Asch Recordings.

These anti-family messages are pickling our innocent children’s minds.

This raises a number of questions, including:

– Are we talking hot pickling or cold pickling here?
– Are they doing it in a kosher way, or more gherkin style?
– What are they doing to the minds of our children who aren’t so innocent?
– Is removal of surface oxides from our childrens’ brains really a bad thing?

Dr. BLT–you’re back!
Oh, um….
See, this is kinda awkward, but… Well, you’d bee MIA for so long that we went and got us another right-wing songbird. OK, admittedly, he doesn’t comment. Or give away free songs. But, he does have free samples!

And have you sampled his wares? How do they compare with my musical offerings? Is he getting airplay? Is he getting loved and hated to the extent that I am?

Marq, I understand you folks felt abandoned by me and my music, lonely, yes, perhaps even devastated by my retreat. I have only compassion in response to your forced disloyalty. Moreover, I understand if you folks had to settle for cheap beer while the expensive wine had disappeared from the cellar.
After all,

“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
(Dr. BLT cover of Stones tune, from the new CD, THEIR SONGS, MY WAY)
http://www.drblt.com/music/CantAlwaysGet.mp3
or visit:
http://www.drblt.com

It’s good to be back, Marq. But I’m here for a good time, not a long time, so don’t abandon your newly discovered “right-wing songbird” too quickly.

Well, Doc, I’ve heard them, and I can honestly say they’re inferior to your unique stylings.

Constructive criticism for sale here. For the low low price of one email sent with two cc’s.

Now how much would you pay, Dr. IOU?

BLT, are you insinuating that Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, et al are/were right-wingers? I’m not sure about all that. Most of their music seems to indicate otherwise to me.

Maybe you just didn’t know that much about Merle when you wrote that song about him.

Yosef, I wouldn’t say that Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash were right-wingers. But they certainly were (are, in Kris’s case) respectful of people of both sides of the political spectrum and didn’t go around in public making gratuitous, divisive, ignorant statements about politics like many of today’s celebrities do. And they certainly didn’t fall into the category of folks Haggard so vehemently objected to in “The Fightin’ Side of Me.”

As far as Merle Haggard is concerned, I learned about his politics from hanging out with one of his best friends, his right-hand man of nearly 20 years, former keyboard player, co-writer, and co-producer of Merle Haggard and the Strangers— Mark Yeary. Yeary’s first- hand impressions, things I’ve read about Merle and his life, and Merle’s lyrics (with a couple recent exceptions) seem to portray a man who leaned decidedly towards the right.

‘so vehemently objected to in “The Fightin’ Side of Me.”‘

In your illustrious career as a songwriter (*gag*) have you ever once run across a song that a feller wrote to be sung in character. In other words, do you think Randy Newman really thinks short people got no reason to live.

Subtext, it’s not just for liberals anymore, Dr. Molecular Density of Iridium?

Feeling a little arrogant and condescending this morning, GoatBoy?

GoatBoy, perhaps you’re not really this rude, this arrogant, this ignorant, or this condescending. Perhaps, GoatBoy, you are simply acting “in character.” Yes, I believe I may have underestimated you. You aren’t really mocking me, you are mocking those who mock me.

Not that anyone here cares, Doc, but I’m a musician as well, and the young Goat brought up a great point. My colleagues and I have all written material from a POV other than the strict definition of self. I can’t speak to Mr. Haggards political views but to cite one song as proof of his leanings would be specious at best. And Willie has a lifetime pass for cool.

“Not that anyone here cares..”

Well, mmm…lemonheads, I care. What type of music do you offer, and how does a person go about listening to it?

mmm…lemonheads, you are the master of taking a lemon (namely GoatBoy’s claptrap), and making lemonade out of it. As noted in my initial statement, my impression of Merle Haggard’s political leanings is based upon a confluence of various factors, and input from various sources. Personal sources are among the most highly valued. Few people know Merle Haggard as well as Mark Yeary. Still, I will acknowledge that my impression of Merle’s politics is still simply an impression–nothing less and nothing more. I could be wrong. Others are free to disagree if they have a different impression, and, as I’ve previously indicated, Merle’s mind is complex and he doesn’t fit into nice neat categories. Yes, Willie is firmly ensconced in the catalogue of cool. He and I may disagree on a few issues, but I must give the man his props.

Isn’t “Happy Trails” a gay cowboy song? (well, if not, it SHOULD be.)

Are you freaking crazy, Dr. BLT? Kristofferson is major left-wing; one of his major causes has been that of the Indian activist and convicted murderer, Leonard Pelletier.

Last time I saw John and June was at the late and lamented Valley Forge Music Fair outside of Philadephia. Kris was the opening act. His second or third song was “Sunday Morning Coming Down” when a bunch of rednecks started heckling him. Kris ignored them and kept going but the jeering continued. All of a sudden there was the Man in Black himself who put his arm around Kris and sang along with him. The yahoos shut up, the two men finished the song and then John left the stage so Kris could finish his set.

And as far as Haggard goes, the guy is a loon. A genuinely talented singer and songrwriter but a loon nonetheless.

This is surrealistic.

I swear to you that “Honey, I’m on the Ralph Bailey Show” http://www.drblt.com/music/bailey.mp3

is airing on the radio right now, even as I’ve begun to answer a question about right/left-wing singer/songwriters. Ironically, the line I’m hearing right now is “…they’ve got me singin’ right-wing rock n’ roll.”

Ijg, I don’t remember saying Kris Kristopherson was a right-winger, or suggesting that he was not a left-winger. I only said that he and Johnny were respectful towards people of different political views and didn’t abuse their fame to introduce gratuitous, divisive, ignorant public statements about politics.

I picked up the Willie nelson version of “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other,” ‘cos I absolutely lurve the Pansy Division version of it (I’ve never heard the original), and it’s decent. I’m not sure who was straying here, but Willie’s version ends differently than PD’s version, and I prefer PD’s ending (once again, don’t know which is closer to the original, ‘cos I haven’t heard it). Also, Willie drops the f-bomb in it, which PD didn’t. I have to surmise that this is an addition by Willie, ‘cos PD certainly isn’t shy about using the f-word under normal circumstances, so I have to figure it wasn’t there in the original version. That was a wee bit jarring, but actually works where he used it. All-in-all, a decent cover of an amusing tune.

I “love” when “writers” randomly “pepper” their “articles” with “quotes”…

These days, there’s a disturbing trend towards family-friendly, wholesome country music. If people want to listen to country singers sing about sobriety and fidelity, that’s their prerogative, but they’re most certainly not carrying on a tradition.

The Father of Country Music, Jimmie Rodgers, routinely sang about loafing around, drinking, stealing other men’s women, gambling and murder. In “T For Texas (Blue Yodel #1)”, Rodgers says he’s “gonna shoot poor Thelma, just to see her jump and fall” and in “Jimmy The Kid” he brags about carrying a “gat”. Sounds more like gangsta rap than the wholesome family values of traditional country music.

Then there’s the Blue Sky Boys, who made their first recordings in 1936. Consisting of only guitar, mandolin and sublime vocal harmonies delivered in a bizarre deadpan, the Bollick Brothers seemed to have a soft spot for songs in which lovers killed their significant others and/or themselves. Sure, they also sang about mom & God, but more often than not, their songs are the musical equivalent of a Takeshi Miike movie.

Merle Haggard has always been candid about knowing who butters his bread – “Okie From Muskogee” was conceived with tongue firmly in cheek (you can even hear Haggard laughing during the song) and “Fightin’ Side of Me” was an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of “Okie”. Nevertheless, at the same time he was riding the charts with these songs, he was recording songs about interracial romance (“Irma Jackson”) and freed slaves getting hassled by rich white women (“Uncle Lem”).

I don’t see what the uproar about Willie Nelson is… it’s as if the right-wingers are saying, “Okay, Willie… we’ll overlook the songs about drinking, smoking dope, snorting cocaine, domestic violence, suicide, infidelity – and if you have any plans to release songs dealing with necrophilia and bestiality, we’ll overlook those, as well; but damnit, that gay cowboy song is taking things too far!!!!!1one!”

Besides, it’s not like it’s Willie’s first gay song. Here’s a sampling of 1968’s “Buddy”:

Laugh with me, Buddy
Jest with me Buddy
But don’t let her get the best of me, Buddy
Don’t ever let me start feeling lonely

If I ever needed you, Buddy
You know now I really do, Buddy
Don’t ever let me start feeling lonely

I can just picture Willie singing that to Scott Thompson, from “Kids in the Hall”…

And who could forget “My Girl, Bill” by Jim Stafford? Oh yeah, that was actually a very witty, skillful song that tricked the listener into thinking it was about a gay romance until the very end, when the listener turned out to be a complete and utter fool for taking the bait.

Got a response yet on that review? You have the energy to request it in comments incessantly but you can’t seem to muster the gumption required to send off one palty email cc’d to two others.

Do you want it or are you just blowing more of your typical smoke about your CONSTRUCTIVE serious criticism?

And don’t ever forget why The Man in Black was the Man in Black. Damn commie idealism!

Lyrics to Man in Black = Sermon on the Mount = Eugene Debs’ most famous quote.

Same same.

What a foolish uneducated wolfpack of profane jokers you all are!
Where did you people find each other?
You are atheistic,pro-homosexual, anti-family and you don’t give a hoot about our culture or our kids.
I am sure Westfall and his many colleagues laugh at , pity and yet still pray for you.
You are going to look back at your stupidity one day and wish you had listened.

Joyce

Joyce,
You are wasting your time with these airheads. They are….. ZERO’S.
Westfall’s papers are published regularly with reputable organizations and are followed by thousands of people.They are also archived in major universities across America where they are available to students and to those who can read and comprehend.What library would ever be interested in the rediculous ideas of any of these degenerate critics?
The best they have is this stupid pitiful tiny blog where they give their dumb vulgar one one liners attemting to impress one another.
Look at their comments, they are just immoral, mentally challenged morons.
Jerry R.

Joyce,
You are wasting your time with these airheads. They are….. ZERO’S.
Westfall’s papers are published regularly with reputable organizations and are followed by thousands of people.They are also archived in major universities across America where they are available to students and to those who can read and comprehend.What library would ever be interested in the rediculous ideas of any of these degenerate critics?
The best they have is this stupid pitiful tiny blog where they give their dumb vulgar one one liners attemting to impress one another.
Look at their comments, they are just immoral, mentally challenged morons.
Jerry R.

Jerry, I agree with you about these pathetic degenerates and their atheistic attacks on anything related to the Bible. If people like us are fools for Christ, then whose fools are they?
Life is but a vapor and they are going to answer for their stupidity at the thrown of judgement.
Tony

You named this site correctly when you call it sadly no.
You are a group of sad losers. You stand for nothing as you attack those who take stands for our culture which you would like to bring down.
You will never win attacking people like Westfall because it exposes you all for the foolish losers you are.
George G.

Such a silly site you have. To discredit Westfall you use foolish adolescent one-liners because you are unable to put two intelligent sentences together. Westfall’s site is one of the smartest, most followed and quoted sites on the web because of his sharp and well written papers. Westfall is talking to decent people. Who are you talking to? Your unknown, negative and degenerate site smells and it is a clear example of your stupidity taking on genious….and losing.
You lack the brains to be in westfall’s league.

Carol…

You people are to be pitied!
To see yourselves as others see you go to…
http://michaelwestfall.tripod.com/id94.html

You degenerates won’t understand or comprehend this serious piece at Intellectual Conservative because you are neither intelligent nor conservative.
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/05/18/the-american-conservative-worker/
Bill

w00t paleo-trolls

MICHAEL WESTFALL TARGETED ON SADLY NO!
SADLY NO! is one of the typical athiestic gay sites that target and wolf pack highly visible well followed conservatives who they feel threaten their anti-family agenda.
Keep up the good work Mr. Westfall.The fact that so many of these dark and profane people vehemently attack your pro-family message clearly demonstrates that you are speaking the truth. They are reading your material.

John Z.

SADLY NO ! TARGETS MICHAEL WESTFALL

SADLY NO! is one of those typical athiestic gay sites that wolf pack well followed conservatives whom they feel threaten their anti-family agenda.
Keep up the good work Mr. Westfall.The fact that so many of these dark and profane people vehemently attack your pro-family message clearly demonstrates that you are speaking the truth. They are reading your material.

MR. WESTFALL…
Thank you so much for telling it like it is.
Those illiterate and morally challenged people who run and comment on this stupid site with their unintelligent quips will face their maker one day for their Godless behavior.
We are closest to evil when such people spit out their profanity.
Keep up the good work!

You who practice and promote the homosexual lifestyle show which side of the Bible you are on. Anyone who compares Westfall’s site with yours quickly see’s that those of you from Sadly No are the sad ones.

I will take Michael Westfall any day over you.

What a wasted site. These jealous wolf packing slackers dislike Michael Westfall because he is obviously so much more handsome then they are.