There Is No Greater American Than Dolly Parton

[mcar]

There Is No Greater American Than Dolly Parton
The country music legend has now added "helped find a COVID-19 vaccine" to her resume.

By Charles P. Pierce
Nov 17, 2020

s there a greater American than Dolly Parton?

Our lines are open but...I think not. From The Guardian:

The Dolly Parton Covid-19 research fund is the latest example of Parton’s well-known philanthropy. Her Imagination Library gifts free books to children from birth until starting school in participating areas. She recently told Oprah Winfrey that she never had children “because I believe that God didn’t mean for me to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine, so I could do things like the Imagination Library.”

She gave a million bucks that was extremely important to the development of the promising new Moderna vaccine.

In April, Parton donated £800,000 to research after her friend Dr Naji Abumrad of the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee told her that they were making “some exciting advancements” in the search for a cure for the virus. Abumrad and Parton became friends in 2014 after the singer was involved in a car accident and treated at Vanderbilt...The 74-year-old country music icon’s donation has also supported convalescent plasma study at Vanderbilt – treating infected people with the plasma of others carrying antibodies against the virus – as well as the development of several research papers pertaining to the virus.

I mean, how cool is it that Dolly Parton has a friend who is an expert in immunology, and how cool is it that Dr. Naji Abumrad has a friend who's Dolly Freaking Parton? I mean, if we were going to elect a celebrity to be president, why wasn't it her? Also, this post gives me a chance to listen to "Coat of Many Colors" again.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a34701247/dolly-parton-coronavirus-vaccine-covid-19/

[ripcord]

1. She does have class

[northoftheborder]

2. I love Dolly Parton's songs....

She's the ONLY country female singer I enjoy listening to.

If we have to have a celebrity as President, (and I'm not suggesting we should) Oprah or Dolly would be fabulous.

[mcar]

3. I loved the segment about her on Ken Burns' Country Music

I'm not a country music fan but have always admired her.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. Jimmy Carter says "hold my Billy Beer"

[Midnight Writer]

5. Yet we give The Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh?