The most shocking revelation to come out of the mini-kerfluffle over Toby “we’ll put a boot in your ass / it’s the American way” Keith’s ode to lynching? Not that a man who prides himself on being “White Trash With Money” is, at best, an ignorant fuckwit (or, at worst, a racist fuckwit); nor that he managed to pull Willie Nelson (!) down into the muck too; but rather, that Keith “holds the distinction of being the only musical artist to have received a five star rating from Stephen Colbert on I-Tunes.”

Suffering through Stephen’s fanboy drooling over Keith was bad enough, but imagining him air guitaring along to racist and misogynist ditties like Getcha Some, The Taliban Song and – of course – Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue? Well, that just breaks my heart. Or puts a boot in my ass. Whichever is more painful, I guess.

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