brain-dead and tone-deaf CMA

[KG]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mike-huckabee-resigns-country-music-222307149.html

Almost as quickly as he was appointed, conservative radio hostMike Huckabeehas resigned from the board of the CMA Foundation, an educational arm of the Country Music Association. “The CMA Foundation has accepted former GovernorMike Huckabee’s resignation from its Board of Directors, effective immediately,” the CMA said in a statement late Thursday afternoon, just a day after revealing that Huckabee had joined the board, an announcement that immediately set off a firestorm in the country music community.

The CMA had obviously seen Huckabee’s appointment as apolitical, since the former Arkansas governor had long been a champion of putting the arts in schools, which is the CMA Foundation’s mission. But not everyone thought it was possible to view Huckabee’s philanthropic efforts as separate from his extremely conservative politics. “Basically, every gay man in town is furious,” said one artist manager, before the resignation was announced.

The writing appeared to be on the wall for Huckabee’s day-long tenure after one of the most influential managers in Nashville, Jason Owen, wrote a letter to the CMA announcing that his artists would no longer work on Foundation efforts. Owen even suggested that cooperation with the entire CMA was in question. Owen’s clients include Little Big Town, whose Kimberly Fairchild sits on the Foundation board, and was seen as likely to resign if Owen intended to carry out his words. Owen also represents Kacey Musgraves, whose gay-friendly “Follow Your Arrow” politics might be seen as not exactly aligning with Huckabee’s.

Owen’s letter to the CMAs’ CEO, Sarah Trahern, and director of community outreach, Tiffany Kerns, read: “It is with a heavy heart that I must let you know moving forward, Sandbox [his management firm] and Monument [Sandbox’s Sony-distributed label] will no longer support the CMA Foundation in any way (this includes everyone we represent collectively) considering the heartbreaking news shared today regarding Mike Huckabee appointee/elected to the CMA Foundation. Further, we find it hard to support the organization as a whole as a result. As you may know I have a child and two on the way. This man has made it clear that my family is not welcome in his America. And the CMA has opened their arms to him, making him feel welcome and relevant. Huckabee speaks of the sort of things that would suggest my family is morally beneath his and uses language that has a profoundly negative impact upon young people all across this country. Not to mention how harmful and damaging his deep involvement with the NRA is. What a shameful choice.

[machoneman]

1. Hear, hear! I wonder if all the recent movements...

against discrimination of all kinds, let alone the killings in FL, have finally started another movement? That new movement would be entitled standing up to republiscums at all levels, all the time. I do hope this expands exponentially and at the speed of light to defeat the terrible policies of this rapidly sinking political party that holds so, so many radical and un-American views. WE can only hope....and then act!

[ProfessorGAC]

2. A "Day-Long Tenure"

That seems an oxymoron, no? The guy didn't have the gig for a full day? Somehow that and the word tenure don't feel right in the same sentence.

[Scarsdale]

3. I am sure the

"deeply religious" (when it suits him) Huckerbee got a payout? He certainly taught his daughter how to lie for tRump.

[Sam McGee]

4. There is no country music

There is no country music being produced in the USofA. Country music died about 25 years ago.

Ditto for NASCAR, although NASCAR hung in there a little longer. Now, NASCAR is just like "country music" -- slick, cookie cutter, programmed -- and dying.

[Dave Starsky]

7. Country music is now bland pop with hick accents.

I LOVE country music, but only up until about the mid-80s. And whatever Johnny Cash did after that.

[Marthe48]

10. Agree

Country music isn't my favorite, but the songs from the 50s and 60s are ok. Now, it seems like the CM singers all take Nasally Twang 101 and they all sound alike.

Give me a line-up of classic rock and I can listen all day

And I'm glad huckabee got tossed. He's one of the most horrible people I've heard of.

[Nitram]

8. And it's impossible to find good polka music theses days, either!

Things just ain't what they used to be. It's all going to hell in a handbasket!

[Paleologue]

5. Hardly tone-deaf

I'm sure a significant portion of country music's audience thinks that Huckabee is a hero and a wonderful guy. They know their redneck base.

[Nitram]

6. Amazing! So good to hear that even the conservative country music people recognize

how extreme Huckleberry is.

[Lars39]

9. Sounds like Huck

and whoever appointed him didn’t realize while in their little right wing bubble, that the times are changing.
Fwiw, Huckabee's show is recorded at Trinity Broacasting, located just north of very blue Nashville, in right wing as can be Sumner county.