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Liberals are celebrating the dying of the nation music star Toby Keith, who handed away on Monday on the age of 62 after a prolonged battle with abdomen most cancers, by rehashing his feud with the Dixie Chicks.
Keith’s Feud With Natalie Maines
“Toby Keith passed away peacefully last night on February 5th, surrounded by his family. He fought his fight with grace and courage. Please respect the privacy of his family at this time,” Keith’s household stated in a short assertion saying his dying.
All through his profession, Keith was identified for placing out music that was each patriotic and masculine, scoring hits like “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue,” “I Love This Bar,” and “Should’ve Been a Cowboy.” Sadly, this made him a frequent goal of liberals who despised the American values that he proudly stood for.
Again in 2002, the Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines spoke out in opposition to Keith’s music “Courtesy of the Red White and Blue,” describing the hit single as “ignorant.”
“I hate it… It makes country music sound ignorant. It targets an entire culture — and not just the bad people who did bad things,” she instructed the Los Angeles Each day Information of the music. “You’ve got to have some tact. Anybody can write, ‘We’ll put a boot in your ass.’ But a lot of people agree with it.”
Keith fired again months later by telling CMT.com, “I’m a songwriter. She’s not. She can say my song is ignorant, then it’s ignorant for her to say that because she’s not a songwriter.”
Maines went on to attend the ACM Awards sporting a shirt that learn “FUTK” — “F*** You Toby Keith.” Her publicist later alleged that the letters on the shirt stood for “freedom, understanding, tolerance, knowledge,” however no one was shopping for that.
“Only Natalie can tell us why she wore it,” stated Nation Music Corridor of Fame Senior Editor Jay Orr. “I have no idea why she wore it. We can speculate about her motives, but that would be a mistake.”
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Although this feud has been useless for a few years, social media customers tried to rehash it whereas celebrating Keith’s dying:
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Keith’s Alleged Feud With Kris Kristofferson
Others introduced up Keith’s alleged political feud with Kris Kristofferson at Willie Nelson’s birthday celebration again in 2003. Legend has it that when Keith approached Nelson to want him a contented birthday, he noticed Kristofferson and stated, “None of that lefty s*** out there tonight, Kris”
“What the f–k did you just say to me?” Kristofferson replied, based on Outsider. “You ever worn your country’s uniform?”
“You heard the question, you just don’t like the answer,” Kristofferson continued. “Have you ever served your country? The answer is, no, you have not. Have you ever killed another man? Huh? Have you ever taken another man’s life and then cashed the check your country gave you for doing it? No, you have not. So shut the f–k up!”
Keith would later deny that this trade ever passed off.
“Kris and I are good friends and have come close to working on a couple of projects,” Keith stated in 2009. “I don’t have to defend myself on this. This is 100 percent fiction. And I’d bet a million dollars on a lie detector test that this didn’t happen.”
“You know, when I call somebody out, I say their name,” he added. “So, you can talk to Kris and you can talk to Willie. … They’ll all laugh and say it didn’t happen. … Somebody’s trying to get fiction in whatever magazine to make themselves a story. But if anybody does have anything to take this any further, I’m available. … They can find out the truth.”
Regardless of this, leftists tried to rehash this supposed feud as effectively after Keith’s dying:
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It needs to be famous that Keith dared to carry out on the 2017 presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, an unforgivable sin within the eyes of the left. It’s unlucky that leftists are actually celebrating Keith’s dying by mentioning previous feuds of his when he was such a patriot who merely beloved this nation with all his coronary heart.
Relaxation in peace, Toby Keith.
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