Notes on the Culture

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.

Comments

[Suki]

good morning again reason

The only thing the Tea Party was missing was folk songs. It is now complete.

[Kyle Jordan Prime]

See Untermensch (sp?), it's magic.

Morning Suki.

[Suki]

Hi KJP!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Don't look, Ethel.

[Pro Libertate]

Nice.

[Pro Libertate]

That song was pretty big during the 70s, believe it or not.

[ransom147]

#1 pop hit is big.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Worst decade ever.

[Warty]

I'm not sure if that's brilliant or a brilliant parody. Awesome.

[ed]

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.

[Marc]

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]

Was that as good as "The Bel Air Arabs?"

[Upgrayyed]

"The Fresh Sheik of Bel Air" FTFY

[Drax the Destroyer]

Washington...Good. Jefferson...Better.
Reagan...Oh Fuck, here we go. Truman...you've got to be shitting me.

[Codger]

He dropped the Big One! Twice!

[bookworm]

Apparently, Ray Stevens didn't know that Truman was the first president to try to give us socialized medicine.

[Abdul]

PETA gets hot models, and the Tea Party gets Ray Stevens.

Life is really unfair.

[BakedPenguin]

...it's possible that he edits his own videos.

If it weren't for the still photos, I would have thought it wasn't edited at all, just shot "in camera".

[ed]

And yet it's technically superior to 99.97% of all the other vids there.

[Joel]

I'd be more convinced if he could have found one republican bum he wanted thrown out.

[henry]

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.

[Douglas Fletcher]

Oy vey. The tea parties I've seen around here have more women than men, some of them actually good looking.

[Rainer Wolfcastle]

1:19 Condom?

[mantooth]

They are going to build a shining new republic in Gatlingburg, TN.

[Peetsker]

he's a corny ol' bastard, but it's not like he's wrong or anything

[Douglas Fletcher]

I don't understand what the shot of basketball players has to do with it.

[Jesse Walker]

I think it's a reference to fouling out. But I'm not sure.

[Ken Shultz]

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]

What about me?

[ransom147]

you're actually dead...

[TooFunny]

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.