Reply #18: I cut and pasted for your benefit since you didn't seem to know what you were talking about.

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.. and provided no basis for what you were saying. Awards are always political and highly subjective and people always get overlooked. Being an art historian, (and, yeah, I guess, an "outlander,") I never take them too seriously at all - especially in matters of performing arts, I think the Grammies and the Academy Awards are a joke. B.B. King and Chuck Berry have both received Kennedy Center honors, by the way, although there are many more who deserve recognition, and many who probably didn't particularly deserve it. For artists, the real honor is what they accomplish, not in what others think of it.

I will acknowledge that their have been some if not many frivolous and unworthy recipients, but associating Pete Townshend with Paris Hilton is ridiculous on numerous levels, which was the main point of my post.

Do you have any evidence that Pete Townshend's "campaign," if indeed there is one, was responsible for his being nominated? Do you know for sure that he doesn't deserve to have his name cleared?

George Jones is a key figure in the history of the American popular song form known as "Country," regularly acknowledged as one of the greatest vocalists within the genre, no matter what you might think of that genre.