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Friday, November 07, 2003
Let's Talk About Something That REALLY Matters
Now I’m over it. I can talk about it now. I have to admit for days I walked around in a stupor and couldn’t understand how something like this could happen. I should have seen it coming. But I didn’t. Maybe now with this incident behind me maybe I’ll see it coming the next time and won’t be blindsided like I was this week.To what am I referring? Politics. Unfortunately, politics finds a way to put a cloud over everything. Remember when George 41 ran against Bill Clinton? Do you remember the spoiler in that race? Ross Perot! Ross Perot ran for president of the United States. He split the vote, which allowed Bill Clinton to become the chief executive of the country.
Politics even shows its ugly hand in voting for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. We see players in the All-Star game who have obviously had better years but they were voted to the team because of past performance and sentimental reasons. We don’t get to see the players that really deserve to be there.
But I’m not talking about something as insignificant as a presidential election or baseball’s national pasttime. I’m talking about something truly meaningful. I’m talking about the “Country Entertainer of the Year.” Yes, that’s right, the “Country Entertainer of the Year!”
This week Alan Jackson was presented with the Entertainer of the Year Award. Now don’t get me wrong. I think Alan Jackson is great and I was glad to see him receive some of the awards that he won this year. But I think he won because he split the vote between Toby Keith and Kenny Chesney. Toby and Kenny were the faces of country music this year but Alan won because of the sentimentality and all of the great music he wrote, composed and performed in the past. Looking at his face when his name was announced, I believe he thought it was a mistake that he won the award.
Kenny Chesney feels like he isn’t “The Good Stuff” any more and Toby Keith could probably be found drinking at a bar he loves saying to himself “How Do You Like Me Now?” Now I’m going to have a drink because I’m sure “It’s Five O’clock Somewhere!”
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