We’re so proud to be collaborating with @sandyhook at this year’s #CMTAwards. To learn more about gun violence prevention, please visit https://t.co/OgsIWzknZg
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— CMT (@CMT) April 3, 2023
“We’re so proud to be collaborating with @sandyhook at this year’s #CMTAwards,” Country Music Television tweeted Sunday. “To learn more about gun violence prevention, please visit http://sandyhookpromise.org.”
So they’re collaborators. Interesting choice of words.
According to CMT on Twitter they are now collaborators with gun control. Interesting choice of words. Sandy Hook Promise’s well-funded efforts (over $17M in revenue per its last reported 2019 Form 990) are based on lobbying for citizen disarmament mandates and keeping schools “gun-free” predator empowerment zones. Despite a decade of subverting the right to keep and bear arms, it can’t claim credit for preventing even one instance of “gun violence,” but that’s not something anyone inclined to tune in and admire overprivileged, narcissistic virtue-signaling elites is likely to consider.
Neither is the reality that CMT ain’t really a “country” venture. Headquartered in New York City, it is wholly owned by Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global. And what’s left unsaid is that the music industry luminaries gathered to congratulate themselves were protected by the finest security money can buy.
The fact is country music “stars” selling out their “fans” on guns is nothing new.
Multiple award winner Toby Keith (2003, 2004) admitted voting for Bill Clinton twice, meaning he voted for him after the 1994 “assault weapon” ban. Keith praised Barack Obama, calling him “the best Democratic candidate we’ve had since Bill Clinton. And that’s coming from a Democrat.” And Keith went on to honor Obama by performing at his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo.
That made him a curious choice for NRA to pick as the performance headliner at its 2016 Annual Meeting…
Shania Twain (2004 Female Video of the Year) was one of the celebrity signatories to “An Open Letter to the National Rifle Association,” a full-page ad taken out by Handgun Control in USA Today on June 9, 1999 (p.5D), which started out by claiming “We are not gun haters,” and then demanded limiting handgun purchases to one a month, banning “assault weapons,” magazine capacity limits, gun locks and “a ‘cooling off’ period … [that] might just save the life of a child …”
That didn’t stop her from reportedly employing “several armed security guards” at her 2011 beach wedding in Puerto Rico (with said guards apparently in violation of Puerto Rican laws and said to be forcing beachgoers to turn back or wade into the water to get around the event).
Despite their characters’ heavy reliance on guns in Paramount’s Yellow Stone prequel 1893, Tim McGraw (2016 Video of the Year) and his wife Faith Hill came out as celebrity Fudds after the atrocity in Las Vegas (for which plenty of questions still exist).
“Look, I’m a bird hunter — I love to wing-shoot. However, there is some common sense that’s necessary when it comes to gun control. They want to make it about the Second Amendment every time it’s brought up. It’s not about the Second Amendment.”
What a load. Of course, it is, especially when he then went on to thank Dick’s Sporting Goods and headline a concert for Sandy Hook Promise.
Then there’s Taylor Swift (CMT Award winner in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2011) and a host of other anti-gun “artists.” One of the profiled VIPs, or in this case to use a neologism making the rounds, “nepo babies,” is Roseanne Cash, the daughter of the late Johnny Cash who, per a 2007 New York Daily News gossip column, dressed in black for “a noon demonstration at Times Square, where they remembered the Virginia Tech tragedy by lying down for three minutes — the time it took Seung-Hui Cho to kill 32 students and himself. The demo, attended by Mayor Bloomberg, was organized by protest site easyguns.com, a grass-roots group started by Washington Philharmonic cellist Abby Spangler.”
One can only wonder, considering awards co-host Kelsea Ballerini singing about “going down” with drag queens, if Roseanne’s father would be canceled as a hater today if he were still alive and tried to perform “A Boy Named Sue.” As someone who also professed deep Christian beliefs, he’d be lucky if that’s all that happened to him.
This is all part of a larger calculated and continuous effort to transform traditional institutions, not just here, but globally. By dividing groups with “progressive” social issues, heritage Americans are increasingly marginalized and ultimately painted as throwbacks, haters, and worse, until what they built has been taken over by people who hate what they stood for. Then again, anyone pointing out what those directing this openly advocate is then ridiculed by gaslighters as a baseless conspiracy nut.
The anti-gun country music “stars” are classic examples of useful idiots, ensuring their continued privilege and uncaring of the damage they do to the birthright legacies of their countrymen. Gun owners need to be aware of who they and other cultural influencers are and use that to inform their entertainment choices. Because “Get woke go broke” might make for a catchy slogan, but until more people wake up the viewership incentives are going in the wrong direction.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
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