(Cowboy hat tip to conservativegal, who’s rightly dang mad about this)
Apparently Stompin’ Tom Connors isn’t Canadian enough for the CBC. Or is it that he’s too Canadian? Or is it that he insists that he’s a “proud Canadian”? Or is it that Harper represents Alberta and Stompin’ Tom might remind people of him? Or is it that he might be too “Bush-like” or that he’s “American style”? Maybe he’s not a socialist. Maybe he believes in God. Worse, maybe his lyrics include the word God.
We just don’t know. We do know that the state-run and taxpayer-financed (to that good old country tune “One BILLION Dang Dollars Every Goll Dang Year”—sing along!) CBC had plenty of time and our tax dollars to produce videos of boys/young men getting their testicles waxed, then placing that video and several other such videos on the air and on their mutli-gazzillion-dollar state-owned and taxpayer-funded web site for all our kids to enjoy, in addition to other porno or near-porno flicks which they place on their/our web site for our kids to enjoy.
Perhaps they wanted him to perform in the nude. Too bad our nation wasted that Order of Canada honour on him.
Stompin’ Tom angered by CBC-TV refusal to air music special Canadian Press
Published: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 Article tools
TORONTO (CP) – Stompin’ Tom Connors is stompin’ mad.
The legendary country singer says CBC-TV is refusing to air a television concert special he taped last fall.
Connors says he recorded the show at the behest of repeated pleas from the national broadcaster.
But when it was sent to CBC-TV, Connors says he was told the network was moving away from music and variety shows and that it was not interested in airing the performance.
In an open letter dated Tuesday, Connors says the network added insult to injury by suggesting he perform a song on the CBC-TV series Hockeyville or be interviewed for a segment of the biography series Life and Times.
This offer was flatly rejected, he says.
“As far as I’m concerned, if the CBC, our own public network, will not reconsider their refusal to air a Stompin’ Tom special, they can take their wonderful offer of letting me sing a song as a guest on some other program and shove it,” Connors writes, signing the letter “still a proud Canadian.”
Connors says he and his concert promoter are trying to get federal Heritage Minister Bev Oda to look into the matter.
“If this is not a complete snub to Stompin’ Tom Connors by Canada’s own television network, then I’d like to know what is,” Connors writes in the two-page letter.
[…]
My Stompin’ Grounds
I’ve been all across this country
From the East coast to the west
And I’ve been asked about a thousand times
What places I like best
Well I’ve had to base my answers
On the friendly people I’ve found
And if you’re inclined to take the time
This is where you’ll find my stompin’ grounds
Just take a little piece of P.E.I & old Saskatchewan
Nova Scotia & New Brunswick, we’re back in Newfoundland
Alberta & Manitoba
Ontario & B.C
And you’ll have found the stompin’ grounds of all my friends & me
And you’ll have found the stompin’ grounds of all my friends & me
Now there was a time with a buddy of mine
When a frieght train was our load
And we found people in this here land that would help a guy along the road
Some of them lived in the country
And others lived in town
But these are the people that made me proud
To say this is my Stompin’ Ground
Just take a little piece of P.E.I & old Saskatchewan
Nova Scotia & New Brunswick, we’re back in Newfoundland
Alberta & Manitoba
Ontario & B.C
And you’ll have found the stompin’ grounds of all my friends & me
And you’ll have found the stompin’ grounds of all my friends & me
And now you’ve heard my answer
It’s one I hope you’ll understand
It’s just my way of kinda sayin’ Thank You to the people of this land
And it doesn’t matter really where you’re from
Ya can spread the word around
For where ever you find a heart that’s kind
You’re in a part of my stompin’ ground
Just take a little piece of P.E.I & old Saskatchewan
Nova Scotia & New Brunswick, we’re back in Newfoundland
Alberta & Manitoba
Ontario & B.C
And you’ll have found the stompin’ grounds of all my friends & me
And you’ll have found the stompin’ grounds of all my friends & me
Just take a little piece of P.E.I & old Saskatchewan
Nova Scotia & New Brunswick, we’re back in Newfoundland
Alberta & Manitoba (fades out)
Yeah. That’s “American-style”. Too “Bush-like”.
Vote liberal.
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