A double scoop of HELL...Lee Greenwood coming up on Rita Cosby

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

"Rita Cosby Live & Direct"...coming up after the commercial break.

Tune in if you DARE.

[unschooler]

1. Oh, Gaaawwwd. Please tell me he's not going to SING.

[ohio_liberal]

2. "I'm proud to be an AMERICAAAAAAAAN"...

That lame ass dude squeezed more out of one shitty song than I care to think about. :D

[unschooler]

3. No! No! Please make it stop! I'll do anything! I'll confess to terra!

[ohio_liberal]

5. And I'd gladly staannnnd UP! next to you and defend her still today......

Come on, you know you want to join in :)

[unschooler]

6. Blah, blah, my wife and kids... blah, blah Ford trucks or something..

I cracked under the pressure.

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. I wonder why old Lee dodged the draft if he's so patriotic?

Did he have a pimple on his butt like Limbaugh?

[ohio_liberal]

8. He was classified 3A because he had kids at 17

Or so Snopes.com says.

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/leegreen.htm

Lee Greenwood was born on 27 October 1942. During the Vietnam War era young men between the ages of 18 and 26 were eligible to be drafted for military service, and until the lottery system was instituted at the end of 1969, the order of call was to take oldest first. As Lee Greenwood turned 26 at the tail end of 1968, this would have made him a prime draft candidate throughout 1969. The biography on his official web site mentions that he foresook a college scholarship, a promising baseball career, and even his own high school graduation in the early 1960s to perform as a musician in Nevada casino lounges. He performed by night and dealt blackjack by day before moving to Los Angeles, breaking through with a demo session in Nashville in 1978, and scoring success with "It Turns Me Inside Out" in 1981. Since details of Greenwood's life during the late 1960s are difficult to come by, we asked him directly:

It angers me when I hear this. I never served in the military because I had children at the age of 17. I was given the classification 3A. The draft never got to that #. If it had, like my father, I would have left my wife and children (for I know they would have understood) to fight and die if necessary for my country.

(A 3-A classification was a hardship deferment given to an eligible male if "service would cause hardship upon his family.")

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. He must be older than I thought

There were married men with kids in my Army unit. They were draftees just like me. I thought that deferment ended in the mid-60s when the war really started heating up.

[ohio_liberal]

12. It says in there that his number never came up or he would've gone

:shrug:

[LeftyMom]

13. Welcome to DU unschooler!

:hi: Are you an unschooling parent or kid, if you don't mind my asking? I'm just curious, being an unschooling parent myself.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He sucks, but better he should sing than Rita.

She'd sound like a sea lion in heat.

[Theres-a]

11. She already sounds like a sea lion in heat

[Octafish]

10. Who's stupider?

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

14. Not on my TV

It goes off MSNBC the second KO throws the paper.

That woman's voice has the timber of someone who has spent half the night drinking and the other half puking.