didn't know about his progressive politics.

and that is just about all there is to that entire story.

Faux News indeed

Just another irony, where Trump accuses the mainstream media of being fake news while of course he watches Fox News, the father of fake news, and thinks its real.

That orange mobster has to go.

Go Beto!

Link to tweet

fake new (Murdoch) at it again with their trolls (many are Russians)

a Faux News report ....

WHAT A FANTASTIC HIGH! to

all those Ford trucks they have to torch now. Bless their little pea picking hearts!!

The toxic smoke hasn’t yet cleared from the Dixie Chicks Flame Fest and Tractor Pull Back in ‘03.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/71953/protesters-destroy-dixie-chicks-cds
Protesters Destroy Dixie Chicks CDs
Billboard | 03/17/2003
Using a 33,000-pound tractor to obliterate compact discs and other items, a few hundred protesters in Bossier City, La., referring to themselves as backers of U.S. President George Bush...
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Go Willie!!!


GO BETO!!!

n/t

Are they triggered? Do they need to retreat to their safe spaces? How dreadful for them! Maybe they need to go back and watch old episodes of Walker Texas Ranger or old Jon Voight movies to feel better.

First time today.

anyone doubting there are at least 2 USAs can go read the bottom half of that foxnews web page. there will be no reconciliation with the coalition of butthurt stupid known as the GOP. they are lost to us.

unfortunately we
1. don't know which half are the trolls
2. don't know if the remainder are a representative sample of the GOP

Cons befoul comment sections web-wide. They love posting their toxic “opinions” on any site that has feedback.

...would say no such thing.

These so-called "fans" were never his fans.

Good luck with that.

They don’t.

They want everything that's not theirs.

were liberal. Musicians (and artists in general) tend to be left-leaning in their views.

and more recently saw Willie with Lukas playing lead guitar. My son will be seeing them at Farm Aid in Hartford next week! Lukas's most recent album is unbelievably good--I think he has the makings of a legend.

I saw Willie a little while back but have not seen Lukas and TPOTR. But they are on my watch list for if they ever come around here.

Drumpf will be fuming at the numbers and call them fake.

The Dixie Chicks should come too

Willie Nelson is, of course, a legend. The last time I saw him in concert was at least a decade ago with Merle Haggard and Ray Price. I can't say I was too impressed with Willie's singing, but then I never was. I still enjoyed myself.

how on earth would they not know his views, after all this time?

So they can chill out

It's the repugs who are drug users who have never gotten Willie just like him because he's country and smokes pot. I doubt Willie gives a shit if they like this or not, he does what he feels is the right thing, regardless. Go Willie, indeed!!

who is that "Willy"? Willy Brandt?

I seriously doubt any real fan of Willie is shocked by his political views and willingness to support Beto. Willie has been extremely vocal about his beliefs throughout his career...wonder if these same fans would be shocked to learn that Willie smoked a joint on the roof of the White House!

Just as the people who use a non-direct link to avoid giving click-tracebacks and extra Google ratings aren't promoting crackpot but somewhat amusing/relevant threads/articles on particularly nasty sites aren't necessarily promoting the ideas expressed, but showing their existence and mocking.

If we said all RW material wrote about here was promoting their talking points, every person mocking a Drumph tweetstorm would get PPRed in a hurry.

Fox, while not necessarily a "trustworthy news source", isn't being posted for its factual nature here but mocking their slant on an obvious liberal like Willie suddenly "surprising" fans by this decision. And their Google rankings won't be affected by direct links, nor will site operators be aware of clicks from DU and know a thread is being discussed, so a non-direct link will make no difference.

I am posting this in response to you because you questioned the source, and am not attempting to suggest you were implying more than poor choice in news sources. But there's been obvious confusion about this issue in the past, and it sometimes continues.

Willie is a pot-smoking hippie, too!


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If these people were really such huge fans of Willie Nelson, they'd know that he never did give a damn what people thought. If they stop listening to his music, it won't affect him one bit.

And am quite pleased.

back to Farm Aid. Jeez. Buy a clue, people.

Willie Nelson has been liberal an unashamed of it for decades.

are hippie liberal types!

Willie will do just fine without those losers.

They won't burn Willy, will they?

If you were a fan for that long, you'd know he spells his name "Willie", and not "Willy." Somebody is full of shit, as are the rest of the outraged. They never were fans to begin with.

brought to you by Fox News.

I'm betting 99% of his fans had/have no clue about this concert and could care less.

You have to be a real sideshow geek.

would support a Democrat was rather amusing.

This'n is ecstatic! Go Willie!

they're almost down to the guy who married a 13 year and poohed his pants to get out of serving his country. Slim picken's there RWNJ's

And that hurricanes can be wet. Tremendously so.

I just love that love song to Willie.

It is truly entertaining and genuine.

Let Cruz pick a fight with Willie Nelson in Texas. Please.

socially liberal, environmental. He was one of the first to convert his tour bus to run on biofuel.

I wouldn't think Willie is worried about losing fans, but we'll see. I think that anyone who loves Willie will continue to love Willie.

It's not like he is going on an anti-Trump tour.

The rest are too stupid to know they are that stupid.

Sheesh. Just breath deeply around the edges.
Then, go out (if you've replaced the Nike sneakers you burned in last week's protest with some other shoes) and buy more and burn that too.
That'll show Willie.

You really can't make up the stuff these idiots do.
REGISTER and VOTE!

He is an institution and a God at Charley's Bar in Paia.

I've never been a huge country fan but I can appreciate his unique style/voice. I'm going to iTunes right now and purchase me some Willie Nelson.

This is good.

smoke a joint and drink a Lonestar with him.......

Cruz does not fit that profile and is also a batshit crazy repug.......

I am no fan of country music, but I love his music.

A Texas legend, he can transcend all. I have loved his singing since way back when his hair was brown.

Why the hell would they not expect a well known liberal public figure to support a Democratic candidate?

Idiots.

Willie has been out as a liberal for years. He even performed at a democratic event.

Thanks for the thread Arkansas Granny.

Looks to me like the Twitter bots are out raging in full force. Twitter needs to eliminate them.

I think he, like Nike, can withstand the deplorable outrage.

Willie gets a headbang !

He's a right winger Fox darling. He sounds like shit! My favs besides Willie are Lyle Lovett and Ray Wylie Hubbard (Oh that Henhouse! I need to get up and dance around)

does he realize the man he worships, Eric Clapton, wouldnt want him in his concert?

assholes

England was for white people not immigrants . In fact, his bizarre outburst was one of many rockstar actions that helped spur the Rock Against Racism movement so maybe the coworker is in to that era of his music .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Against_Racism

Clapton later apologized and said it was drugs or maybe he said it was the drinking talking...I think he is more libertarian leaning now and gave a concert to raise money for the pro hunting fox faction after it was banned in U.K. when the labor party was able to push the fox hunting ban to law

He was a born again Christian also maybe still is ?
I do not know but a lot of righties are into that so maybe the coworker is a rightie born again and remembers Clapton was, or is also too

the kind of thinking that led to Brexit and he did not vote for it.
He has come off as more libertarian than RW imo, but other than mentioning Brexit he did not delve into his political opinions , he is a musician foremost.

Hey Elvis Costello was one of the leads in rock against racism movement events then in later years spent a decade in shame for calling James brown and ray Charles n*##@;s !!
Which he then repented many times

Clapton is mortified by his past behavior. Interestingly, no known audio, film or video exists of the 1976 racist rant in question. It was initially reported in a rock-music periodical, so one has to accept (or not) that every word about this incident is true as written, and nothing was embellished.

However, Clapton himself has owned up to this particular reprehensible behavior. It was during that very dark time that he was ultra-high on heroin, booze and god-knows-what-else. It’s a miracle that he even survived that period. Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, “Blind Owl” Al Wilson, Keith Moon and dozens of other rock icons didn’t survive. Jack Bruce of Cream died in 2014 due to a failed liver transplant— his heroin addiction went on longer than Clapton’s.

Clapton is deeply ashamed and has apologized repeatedly about the 1976 incident while extremely inebriated. In a recent documentary about the musician, “Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars” by the American filmmaker Lili Fini Zanuck, Clapton says he was disgusted at his infamous concert outburst. Clapton said that he accepted it was “shocking and unforgivable”, adding: “I was becoming not only chauvinistic but fascistic too. I was so ashamed of who I was, a kind of semi-racist, which didn’t make sense. Half of my friends were black. I dated black women and I championed black music.”

Critics still bash him, some even saying that his apologies amount to “whitesplaining.” Whatever the case, I think that Clapton is a changed man (the accidental death of his 4-year-old son in 1991 shook him profoundly). My own opinion is that Clapton’s earned forgiveness.

But don’t let this lousy moment spoil your appreciation of the artist. As someone posted above, Elvis Costello had his racist moment, too, as did David Bowie, who said “Hitler was one of the first rock stars,” and used Nazi iconography in his performances.
Nevertheless, we embrace these artists because they’re complex, and their music touches on issues that concern the human condition— and that includes all of us.

Where was this outrage when Beto jammed with Willie Nelson on stage 3 months ago ?

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he is getting even from long time supporters like Nelson . They played Roll me up and smoke me when I die together !
And it was at Willie's 4th of July Picnic not a random campaign stop
These RWers are not real Nelson fans just drama queens
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Beto signs are everywhere in my neighborhood. Only one lonely Cruz sign. Cruz is a loser and a joke.

Make them listen to Nugent

I attended a Leftover Salmon show at Terrapin Crossroads several years ago. I couldn't help but be
put-off by a few random nut-jobs who warned me that "these are Willie fans so watch yourself..."

being in a dead-friendly venue with these attitudes was a bummer.

especially Wellie Nelson. Charlie Daniels not so much.

Willie Nelson has been a Liberal as long as I've known (of) him. I wonder if this story is COMPLETELY made up. I can't imagine ANYBODY in Texas being surprised and there being a backlash....Give me a break!

I'm trying to be positive about having moved to Clarksville Arkansas, but I really, realllllly wanted to vote for Beto.


You are in NW Ark, aren't you?

Hopefully he'll wake up some sheep and lead them to the polls for Beto.

His concert was the best time I have ever had at a political event, by far. It was swinging.

I'm guessing these people aren't really his fans, and even if they are, those people were never going to vote for Beto anyway. So no loss. Willie has enough money, they aren't going to hurt him.

Farm Aid’s board of directors:
Willie Nelson
Neil Young
John Mellencamp
Dave Matthews

OMG! All liberals! All four!

I don't like to admit this cause t don't put any human on a pedestal, but Willie Nelson is a hero to me. He embodies many things I admire, honesty the most. Willie Nelson is an American original.

And a finer liberal Democrat you'll never find.

Upset at Nike and Keurig to the point of shooting those expensive products they bought.....and now Willie upsets them. The off the rails righties are insane. That’s what 20+ years of Fox News and right wing radio has created.

been singing about all these years.

This is fake news BS from GOP/Russian trolls.

Love you Willie!