CMA (Country Music) Awards Just Made Fun Of Obamacare In Their Opening Number.....

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44. They Are Comics And Political Humorists.....

they do political humor all the time and are pretty much equal opportunity cut-ups. You should also include Letterman and Ferguson in this group and SNL. Political humor has been part of their job. I kind of always expect this kind of humor from this group.

I just did not expect - when I sat down to watch the Country Music Awards show that the hosts of the program - both country singers themselves and not comics - would target the President and ACA (aka Obamacare) on a show broadcasting (I'm sure) to a wide audience of Americans - about honoring their own in country music. It was out of place and disrespectful. It was a political statement of sorts that appeared to me to be meant to send a negative message (albeit subliminal). I did not think it was funny. It was biting and hurtful.

I read comments above in this thread about the Dixie Chicks comments about the war and G.W.Bush. I learned later from Wikipedia that those comments weren't made on the CMA awards show - but at a concert in London.

Here's the passage from Wikipedia that I read:

During a London concert ten days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, lead vocalist Maines said, "we don't want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States [George W. Bush] is from Texas".[1] The positive reaction to this statement from the British audience contrasted with the boycotts that ensued in the U.S., where the band was assaulted by talk-show conservatives,[2] while their albums were discarded in public protest.

My beef is that this was so-called misplace humor not fitting for a country music awards show.