Just (bleep)-ing great, Ray Stevens has joined the Dark Side.

[Archae]

Anti-"Obamacare," "death panels," pro-Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, well go Cheney yourself, Ray "has-been" Stevens! :grr:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc_-L4fyLUo

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Who is Ray Stevens?

[stopbush]

2. Isn't he the guy who sang Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer?

[Bolo Boffin]

5. No, he did "The Streak" and "Mississippi Squirrel Revival" n/t

[tblue]

17. Hey, well, if we've lost Ray Stevens

rhe Democratic party is defunct! I have no idea how we'll overcome this loss.

And I bought Gitarzan as a 45, too, umteen years ago. Dangit! Wonder if I can take it back....

[Archae]

4. Used to do funny country songs.

"Mississippi Squirrel Revival"
"The Streak"
"Gitarzan"

And who's the moron who unrecced it?
Thanks to the rec to cancel the unrec.

[Bolo Boffin]

3. Joined?

Everything is Beautiful In His Own Mind...

[Bluebear]

6. What a shame. Trying to make one last buck off the teabag crowd.

Alas, poor Ray, we knew you when your were funny!

[Wapsie B]

7. I didn't think he ever was a Dem certainly not a Liberal Dem.

[slackmaster]

8. I thought he was dead

:shrug:

[Bluebear]

9. The last gasps these days seem to be a Xmas album, then an album of faith or right-wing protest.

Then death.

[slackmaster]

10. You mean, PEACE!

And death.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. Fuck a DUCK, that's worse than that Hank Williams Jr. "McCain-Palin Tradition" song

Ray is most certainly a has-been...I assume he's been paying the bills with stints in places like Branson...but it's been a L-O-N-G time since I've even given him a thought. The sad thing is that the "intended audience" for that clip has probably already emailed it all over creation (I have a good friend who is a fundie-slash-evangelical, and I'm surprised I haven't seen this in his emails yet).

:silly:

[Bluebear]

14. And that is saying a lot (re: "tradition" "song")

Also. His intended audience is most surely too cheap to buy his CD, so you are correct that this will be emailed to every holler imaginable with no coin crossing Steven's pocket for this monstrosity!

[Terra Alta]

12. and to think I liked Ray Stevens.

I had no clue he was a right-wing fanatic. And apparently is afraid to say the word "ass". :eyes: What a moron. He won't be getting my support anymore!

[msongs]

13. his first big hit was "Ahab the A-rab" in the early 60's nt

[Archae]

15. Back then it was just silly, no racist connotations.

[regnaD kciN]

16. He was always a conservative...

...right after his big hit "Everything Is Beautiful" back in 1970, he used his newfound clout to record "America, Communicate With Me," a rejection of '60s activism and a patriotic big wet kiss to Richard Nixon and his "silent majority." :puke:

[donheld]

18. This man's a has-been's has-been.

[Lucian]

19. I don't think that's a great loss to us...

c'mon...he did sing "The Streak"...not exactly the world's greatest song...

[Subdivisions]

20. He's always been on that side of the aisle. No surprise here. n/t

[FarLeftFist]

21. Did anyone think he was a Democrat?

[Archae]

22. I don't remember him shoving his politics in our noses before.

We just laughed at his funny tunes.