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Apparently, Ray "The Streak" Stevens is a tea partier. Also, it's possible that he edits his own videos:
For more Ray Stevens protest music, go here. For more on the politics of country music, go here and here.
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Suki|3.25.10 @ 5:35AM|#
good morning again reason
The only thing the Tea Party was missing was folk songs. It is now complete.
Kyle Jordan Prime|3.25.10 @ 7:32AM|#
See Untermensch (sp?), it's magic.
Morning Suki.
Suki|3.25.10 @ 7:33AM|#
Hi KJP!
Fist of Etiquette|3.25.10 @ 7:38AM|#
Don't look, Ethel.
|3.25.10 @ 9:24AM|#
Nice.
|3.25.10 @ 9:36AM|#
That song was pretty big during the 70s, believe it or not.
|3.25.10 @ 11:37AM|#
#1 pop hit is big.
Fist of Etiquette|3.25.10 @ 9:09PM|#
Worst decade ever.
Warty|3.25.10 @ 7:47AM|#
I'm not sure if that's brilliant or a brilliant parody. Awesome.
ed|3.25.10 @ 8:00AM|#
O'Reilly had him on a couple months ago. They played a clip from the ancient "Ahab The Arab." The next night, Keith Olbermann pointed out FOX News's vicious, hateful racism.
|3.25.10 @ 8:53AM|#
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess held captive in a high castle. The next night, Keith Olbermann pointed out FOX News's vicious, hateful racism.
Suki|3.25.10 @ 9:17AM|#
Was that as good as "The Bel Air Arabs?"
Upgrayyed|3.25.10 @ 9:41AM|#
"The Fresh Sheik of Bel Air" FTFY
Drax the Destroyer|3.25.10 @ 8:05AM|#
Washington...Good. Jefferson...Better.
Reagan...Oh Fuck, here we go. Truman...you've got to be shitting me.
Codger|3.25.10 @ 10:23AM|#
He dropped the Big One! Twice!
|3.25.10 @ 11:01AM|#
Apparently, Ray Stevens didn't know that Truman was the first president to try to give us socialized medicine.
Abdul|3.25.10 @ 8:16AM|#
PETA gets hot models, and the Tea Party gets Ray Stevens.
Life is really unfair.
BakedPenguin|3.25.10 @ 8:20AM|#
If it weren't for the still photos, I would have thought it wasn't edited at all, just shot "in camera".
ed|3.25.10 @ 8:24AM|#
And yet it's technically superior to 99.97% of all the other vids there.
Joel|3.25.10 @ 9:00AM|#
I'd be more convinced if he could have found one republican bum he wanted thrown out.
|3.25.10 @ 9:44AM|#
Ray Stevens is just about right. He's a good fit with Chuck Norris, Pat Boone and Jon Voight. Nothing like a stream of cranky old white guys to dispel the ol' Tea Party image.
|3.25.10 @ 10:27AM|#
Oy vey. The tea parties I've seen around here have more women than men, some of them actually good looking.
Rainer Wolfcastle|3.25.10 @ 3:38PM|#
1:19 Condom?
|3.25.10 @ 11:00AM|#
They are going to build a shining new republic in Gatlingburg, TN.
Peetsker|3.25.10 @ 9:55AM|#
he's a corny ol' bastard, but it's not like he's wrong or anything
|3.25.10 @ 10:26AM|#
I don't understand what the shot of basketball players has to do with it.
Jesse Walker|3.25.10 @ 11:21AM|#
I think it's a reference to fouling out. But I'm not sure.
|3.25.10 @ 1:07PM|#
In middle America, I think pro basketball players are seen as a the epitome of over-privileged big spenders who think they're above the rules.
And referees can throw "the bums" out of a game.
I don't think there's any more to it than that.
Ernest P. Worrell|3.25.10 @ 11:20AM|#
What about me?
|3.25.10 @ 11:39AM|#
you're actually dead...
TooFunny|3.25.10 @ 1:55PM|#
Ahab The Arab, lol!! Totally forgot about that old song.
Back in the day, my father had a searchlight business & hired them out to various events (usually car dealership sale-a-ramas) & often we tagged along. One outdoor event featured Ray Stevens with two blond go-go dancers, one on each side of him, with short-shorts & white go-go boots. Too funny all around.