Ole Chuckie was up for the Home Depost Humanitarian Award at the Academy of Country Music awards program on Wednesday. Chuckie almost got hisself that award. But that Martina McBride dame done beat him out of it.
Now, let's not be sarcastic about ole Chuckie's charties. No, the Fund for Disabled Klansman is not one of his charity projects. You can read about Chuckie's charities, and see a benign photo of Chuckie himself, ats the CMT Web site.
And you can see in Chuckie's regular Soapbox rants that heart of gold underneath the gruff exterior. I mean, those three recent columns defending torture were obvious overflowing with humanitarian spirit! And his rants against immigrants and welfare mothers and traitorous Senators are just bubbling over with compassion and concern for the community.
I do notice among his "Christian Charities" the 10 Commandments Project of former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. (Martina McBride's charities prominently include domestic violence awareness; she is currently the national spokesperson for the Domestic Violence Hotline.)
Also, while I was checking out the latest Chuckie news, I found that there is a Chuckie brand jam out there somewhere. At least I guess that's what this item means, which says that Chuckie "put his name on" some jam. I assume they didn't mean that he was writing his name in jam on the table.
And here's a scandalous little item. Back in 1976, ole Chuckie supported Jimmy Carter for President! See this Charlie Daniels profile from GACTV.com.
Daniels aligns himself with presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. "I didn’t think he had a chance. When I was asked about doing something for him, he was ‘Jimmy Who?’ But he called me one night. I read some clips about him, and I felt good about him. We’d come out of a catastrophic political time...Carter personified honesty and goodness." When "Jimmy Who?" becomes President Carter, the CDB are among performers at his inauguration.
Oh, Chuckie, Chuckie, Chuckie. How can we believe in your true Patriotic Correctness ever again if you could be so, so ... liberal? Chuckie, how could you do this to your loyal fans?
But somehow, by 1990 Chuckie had finally crossed over to the Oxycontin Side:
Simple Man is issued and rises to #2 on the country charts. The album is ignited by the title single, in which a simple man ("with simple attitudes," Daniels explains) calls for the lynching of drug-dealers and slow deaths by way of gators and snakes for murders, child abusers and rapists. The song gets Daniels onto numerous talk show, where he’s asked to explain himself. He wrote the song, he says, "out of frustration." He’s read about a scandalous case in which a child was killed by her stepfather. "I know how I feel about it; I know what I’d like to do. Some of it’s kind of tongue-in-cheek; it’s a knee-jerk reaction. I don’t really want to take people out and leave them in the swamps... But violent crimes--that’s what that song’s about."
Technically speaking, the song's more a revenge fantasy than one about violent crimes. Hey, I bet Chuckie's working on the "Abu Goo Raib Blues" right now!
Chuckie's latest soapbox offering is about how ole Chuckie's Disappointed 'cause the NASCAR races are being taken over by the "the Perrier and lime for lunch bunch."
Go figure. What is the world coming to?
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