This article is nearly three months in the making.  For the second year in a row, my partner John and I attended the Country Music Association (CMA) Music Fest in Nashville, TN in early June.  As a side note, if you ever get the opportunity – GO!  It is a weeklong celebration of great country music and the great American city of Nashville.

But this isn’t a tourist agency pimping of Music City.  Nope, it is a damning indictment of Hollywood’s natural, auto-immune liberal bias.  Let me explain.

During the actual CMA Music Fest in June there is a massive concert each of four nights at LP Field where the Tennessee Titans play football in the fall.  The good old American Broadcasting Company takes four nights of country music and compresses it into three hours.  That edited program was shown last evening on ABC for all to see.

As I sat in LP Field in June and saw each night’s great entertainment unfold, I knew with confidence that two notable events would NOT be aired last night on ABC.  I was right.

In fact, I tweeted “live” from the floor of the concert when one of them occurred.  Unfortunately, as usual, Twitter’s status history is malfunctioning. When viewers saw Tim McGraw sing “Southern Voice” last night on ABC, there was an important moment that the network cleverly edited out and actively hid from America.  Why? Because it was inflammatory and would have exposed McGraw, a passionate Democrat activist, to extreme ridicule today. (more…)

[Ed. Note: Please welcome Bruce Carroll from the indispensable Gay Patriot blog, an early supporter of yours truly (thanks, Dan!) and my favorite gang of apostates.]

There’s a simmering civil war in my house on Tuesday nights.  First off, I’m so disgusted with the lack of talent on American Idol that I can’t stand watching it anymore.  But, my partner John still enjoys it so FOX is on Tuesdays.  But the battle lines have now been drawn at 9:00PM. All over a little show you may have heard about: Glee.

Yes, we enjoy musicals and stage productions; but let’s not be too stereotypical, shall we?  In fact, I was a late bloomer to Glee.  John loved it from the beginning and got me to tune in by convincing me it was the next best thing to sliced bread.  For a while, I agreed with him and thoroughly enjoyed watching the show.  I especially enjoyed the music.  Producer Ryan Murphy is a fellow Gen-Xer and you definitely know it from the 80s-inspired songs he has used to form the basis of much of Glee’s musical foundation.

So, like much of America (and probably all of gay America), I was hooked last year on the music, the kids and the story of William McKinley High School [fictional] in Lima, Ohio [not fictional].  (more…)