Bush shuns Hollywood, opts for "wholesome" country acts at convention

[brooklynite]

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) goes into the Republican convention next week mocking Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites)'s glamorous Hollywood support base and pitching instead to America's rural heartland.

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The low-key list includes a host of gospel and country-music performers including country performers Brooks and Dunn, Lee Ann Womack and Grammy-award winning rockers Third Day.

Also doing turns on stage at Madison Square Garden will be country singers the Gatlin Brothers and Christian singer Michael W. Smith.

Other celebrities expected to show up at the four-day event include "10" actress Bo Derek, actor Stephen Baldwin and US lounge-style singer Wayne Newton.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&e=3&u=/afp/20040827/pl_afp/us_vote_republicans
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You know, my recollection is that Bo was pretty good at full frontal nudity in most of her pictures, capped of course by her star-turn in Bolero, where she goes on a quest to lose her virginity. Love those family values...

[vi5]

1. Isn't ZZ Top going to be there too? Will they play Tush? Legs?

Pearl Necklace? Although I don't think anybody there would even get the innuendo with that one.

[Philostopher]

2. My guess is that headline is reversed.

"Hollywood Shuns Bush" would be more like it. This was probably about as good as they could get as far as people who weren't afraid of losing their fan base, careers or at least personal integrity by being associated with the whole clusterf*ck over in DC. Not that they don't admit that is "one possible perception" in the article -- then they claim it's intentional. My cats do that, too, when they fall off the windowsill. They act like they meant to do that.

[LosinIt]

7. That would be the headline if it were the Dems

Have to put up a good front for the Boy King.

[drhilarius]

3. Ahhh the GOP: "We hate immoral celebs...

unless, of course, they shill for us."

[LosinIt]

4. Stephen Baldwin???

huh?? is there a family rift?

[drhilarius]

8. He's a fundie, now.

[mac56]

13. I asked that question the other day.

He went into drug rehab, came out a fundie right-winger.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Ahnold

[displacedtexan]

6. No Brittney?

Not wholesome enough?

But... but... she's a Bush supporter!

[Ruffhowse]

9. Sounds like the cast for Hee Haw, what fun

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Holllywood Entrance?

Bush will make a dramatic (Hollywood?) entrance on Thursday after 20 workers spend 8 or 9 hours constructing this set. There is a false floor for the convention, 9 feet above the real floor. It would seem designed for Arbusto to appear in the middle, as if by magic.

[Guaranteed]

11. I hate that fucking word. nt

[flakey_foont]

12. Wayne Newton??

oh geez! We're sunk!!!

[liberalmuse]

14. The Ku Klux Klan will be at the convention?

Hey, country western stars have orgies and do coke, too.

I also had a weird dream the other night where I told Bo Derek, 'How could you? I used to be a fan! How could you be Republican?' (Um...I was never a fan, but nonetheless, she was in my dream, which was a total waste on a heterosexual woman)

[nickinSTL]

15. yeesh

Another reason not to watch the convention.

Country and Christian music? Yuck.

And Stephen Baldwin is dumber than a post.

[Libby2]

16. Oh yeah those wholesome country acts

The beer swilling, wife beating, cheating hacks?

Give me a break.

[sadiesworld]

17. Bo Derek, Stephen Baldwin, Brittany Spears...

Do I detect a pattern here?

[MrBenchley]

18. In other words...

Even Mel Gibson, Tom Selleck and Bruce Wilis think a photo-op with pResident Fucknut is going to hurt their career....

By the way, the list also includes THIS specimen:

"Donnie McClurkin, one of the just-announced entertainers to be performing at the GOP Convention in NYC, thinks homosexuality is a "curse," that it's caused by men raping small children, that being gay is a choice, that it can be cured, and most explosively, that gays are trying to "kill our children." Big tent? Try big tent of hate.
One more thing before we get to the good stuff. The GOP Convention Web site notes that McClurkin "is spearheading a grassroots effort to bring about unity among churches throughout New York and New Jersey." What the GOP doesn't tell you is that, according to the 700 Club, he's spearheading the grassroots effort so that "Christians can have a major voice against the homosexual agenda."
From the 700 Club (this one is particularly bad - it sounds like he's planning to use his GOP convention appearance to help the war against the gays):
The recent limelight on the homosexual agenda has Donnie stirred. "The gloves are off," he says. "And if there’s going to be a war, there’s going to be a war. But it will be a war with a purpose." "

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http://americablog.blogspot.com/archives/2004_08_22_americablog_archive.html#109353318618121871

[hatrack]

19. Great, Christian rock . . .

Among other finalists in the Oxymoron Derby: dry water, soft granite, tall midgets.

[kentuck]

20. They didn't invite Alice Cooper ???

Shame...shame... :)

[JI7]

21. what a joke, it was Bush who is unable to get some star whose name

most people can recognize.

[JI7]

22. what's Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp ?

[MODemocrat]

23. Golly gee, maybe he will have Loretta Lynn

Why doesn't anyone ever care about the fact her old man was in his twenties when he started seducing her at 12 years old? She was married and pregnant at 13. That does not sound very wholesome to me.
Glen Campbell in handcuffs with a puffy read face from his boozing is
also not exactly the most wholesome image I've ever seen.
Who are these people trying to fool anyway? They are perfect company for George Bush. :eyes: :dunce: :hangover:

[cmkramer]

24. Michael W. Smith

He was involved in a scandal in which he had an affair with a woman who subsequently became pregnant although she miscarried. He was married at the time. In fact, he was out of Christian music for a while over it.

And didn't Glen Campbell "steal" Mac Davis's wife? That was several wives ago, I think.

[DemBones DemBones]

25. All those songs about boozin' and cheatin' never did

reflect my family values. So what if they can sing "Amazing Grace" and "Whispering Hope"?