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babylonsister

(171,066 posts) Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:13 AM Nov 2018

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ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons Kicks...Benton Blount off Tour for Posing With MAGA Hat

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons Kicks...Benton Blount off Tour for Posing With MAGA Hat
By Ewan Palmer On 11/9/18 at 11:21 AM

Singer Benton Blount has claimed he was kicked off a tour with ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons after uploading a photograph onto Facebook of him wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat.

Blount, who reached the final of 2015’s America’s Got Talent said he was also banned from the social media site for 24 hours because the photo of him wearing the red hat synonymous with President Donald Trump and holding a Chick-fil-A sandwich and drink along with a “I Voted” sticker violated their standards.

"Someone reading this just got offended multiple times. My work here is done! #Vote,” Blount wrote in the caption.

Blount, who had already played four shows on the tour, later wrote in a follow up Facebook post: “I was banned from Facebook (for 24 hours) and now I’ve just been banned from my opening spot on the Billy Gibbons tour. But suppression of Conservative opinion doesn’t happen and it doesn’t effect [sic] your career!”

Blount further explained what occurred during a 10-minute Facebook Live video.

“For anybody that doesn’t know, I posted a picture of me with the ‘I Voted’ sticker and I had a Chick-fil-A sandwich in my hand and I had a Chick-fil-A drink and I had a Trump hat on. Well that was pulled down for some reason because it violated their standards.

“I Drove down here [to Atlanta] from Greenville, South Carolina to the venue. I get a call from my friend from California who informs me that not only have I been banned from Facebook but as a result from being banned from Facebook I was pulled off of the Billy Gibbons tour, effectively immediately.”

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https://www.newsweek.com/zz-tops-billy-gibbons-kicks-americas-got-talent-finalist-benton-blount-tour-1209421

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ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons Kicks...Benton Blount off Tour for Posing With MAGA Hat (Original Post) babylonsister Nov 2018 OP

You deserve it asshat. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2018 #1

Haw Haw peekaloo Nov 2018 #2

I see what you did there.... Blue_playwright Nov 2018 #14

cry about it, snowflake NatBurner Nov 2018 #3

Good for Billy. Lochloosa Nov 2018 #4

Bad business choices have consequences. Funtatlaguy Nov 2018 #5

That HAS to be bullshit about the facebook ban... Dennis Donovan Nov 2018 #6

Agreed, no way that's enough to get you banned, even for a day ... he did more than that mr_lebowski Nov 2018 #15

So OPPRESSED!!!! hatrack Nov 2018 #18

I knew there was a reason I've always loved ZZ Top. blueinredohio Nov 2018 #7

Cause there's something girls hate about a fool-dressed man. Croney Nov 2018 #8

ZZ Top don't owe you a spot on their tour pal. Loki Liesmith Nov 2018 #9

I misread that headline at first. GoCubsGo Nov 2018 #10

whomp. whomp. Maybe he and the Nuge can go play on a street corner somewhere. marble falls Nov 2018 #11

Suppression Of Conservative Opinion? ProfessorGAC Nov 2018 #12

I am sure Ted Nugent would be welcoming of someone exboyfil Nov 2018 #13

Way to fire, Billy Gibbons. (nt) Paladin Nov 2018 #16

Thoughts and prayers malaise Nov 2018 #17

I finally have a reason to be proud of a bearded good ole boy from Texas. Aristus Nov 2018 #19

rzemanfl

(29,565 posts)

1. You deserve it asshat. n/t

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:15 AM

Nov 2018

peekaloo

(22,977 posts)

2. Haw Haw

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:20 AM

Nov 2018

Blue_playwright

(1,568 posts)

14. I see what you did there....

Reply to peekaloo (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 09:50 AM

Nov 2018

Well played!

NatBurner

(2,640 posts)

3. cry about it, snowflake

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:22 AM

Nov 2018

and when you're done, fuck off

Lochloosa

(16,065 posts)

4. Good for Billy.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:25 AM

Nov 2018

Funtatlaguy

(10,878 posts)

5. Bad business choices have consequences.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:25 AM

Nov 2018

To quote Florida’s Andrew Gillum....
I’m not saying I think you’re a racist, I’m saying that the racists think you’re a racist.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)

6. That HAS to be bullshit about the facebook ban...

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:28 AM

Nov 2018

He poses with a MAGA hat and a Chik-fil-a sandwich and he's banned from FB for 24 hrs? Nonsense - I'll bet he went all MAGAnutz in a comment and that's what got him banned.

...and GOOD for Billy Gibbons!

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

15. Agreed, no way that's enough to get you banned, even for a day ... he did more than that

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Reply #6)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:30 AM

Nov 2018

If the ban ever even happened ...

And even if it did ... it's 24 hours BFD. You'll friggin' live.

hatrack

(59,587 posts)

18. So OPPRESSED!!!!

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Reply #6)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 11:30 AM

Nov 2018

IOW, lying.

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)

7. I knew there was a reason I've always loved ZZ Top.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:40 AM

Nov 2018

Saw them twice in concert. Fantastic. Thank you Billy.

Croney

(4,661 posts)

8. Cause there's something girls hate about a fool-dressed man.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:44 AM

Nov 2018

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)

9. ZZ Top don't owe you a spot on their tour pal.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:45 AM

Nov 2018

They picked you because they thought helping your career out was a good thing to do. And you gave them cause to reconsider.

GoCubsGo

(32,084 posts)

10. I misread that headline at first.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 08:52 AM

Nov 2018

I was about to cry, "ZZ Top, you are dead to me!" Ooops! Wrong guy. Thank you, Billy!

I have a feeling there's more to this story than this asshole wearing a MAGA hat. They don't ban people on Facebook for doing the stuff he claimed he did. I'll bet money it was much, much worse than that.

marble falls

(57,097 posts)

11. whomp. whomp. Maybe he and the Nuge can go play on a street corner somewhere.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 09:09 AM

Nov 2018

ProfessorGAC

(65,057 posts)

12. Suppression Of Conservative Opinion?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 09:19 AM

Nov 2018

What? It's not your tour, idiot. The guy who is a household name in rock circles doesn't want you on his tour anymore.

HE is entitled to have whomever he wishes on the tour with his name on the marquee.

You are entitled to sing when they say they will pay you to sing. They don't want to pay you anymore.

That's not suppression. That's called reality. You pissed off the boss, idiot!

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)

13. I am sure Ted Nugent would be welcoming of someone

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 09:41 AM

Nov 2018

in the warm up band wearing a Hillary shirt or a pro-gun control shirt.

Paladin

(28,262 posts)

16. Way to fire, Billy Gibbons. (nt)

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:33 AM

Nov 2018

malaise

(269,022 posts)

17. Thoughts and prayers

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 10:36 AM

Nov 2018

NOT

Aristus

(66,380 posts)

19. I finally have a reason to be proud of a bearded good ole boy from Texas.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat Nov 10, 2018, 11:34 AM

Nov 2018

Thank you, Billy Gibbons.

I never knew if ZZ Top had any political stances; I assumed they were apolitical. But this is about being a decent human being.

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