Toby Keith is a jackass

I hate Nashville country. You know me. I listen to WNCW, have tons of Johnny Cash and Hank Sr on the ipod, and faithfully buy the Oxford American music issue every summer. So I was never a big fan of Mr. Keith to begin with.

When he said on the Colbert Report that he still wouldn't set aside his differences with the Dixie Chicks over certain comments about the relative sense of shame of being from the same state as the president on the eve of an unjustifiable war -- well, whatever. Big surprise.

But the thing he said next has been sticking in my craw. "I don't have to apologize for my patriotism."

I can't stand these fat-headed conservatives who think they have the monopoly on patriotism. as defined by them, patriotism is blindly following the president (oh, unless he's a democrat), looking the other way while the military is slowly being bled to death in Iraq, and calling French Fries, Freedom Fries.

I think. Yeah, I think an apology is in order. Actually. And that new song of his? Musical soft porn to make your mother blush, sir.