From the warped parallel universe dept.: Rummy at the Opry

This is what I get for reading my old hometown newspaper. Rumsfeld was actually in Nashville last night at the Grand Ole Opry...

See http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OPRY_RUMSFELD?SITE=TNNAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAUL T

Here's the funny paragraph:

"As people entered the auditorium for Saturday's show they were given postcards with "America supports you," printed on them. Audience members waved the cards and shouted their support to the troops watching on television."

Basically, there is no part of red state kultur that they won't appropriate to advance their agenda. I suppose I/we knew that, even if abstractly, but this is still astonishing.

(Of course, while he was there, he could've gone shopping at the mega outlet mall built right next to the Opry full of manufactured goods not made in the USA)

All we need now is for another member of Bush's cabinet to show up for the theo-fascist hate fest ("Justice Sunday") in Louisville this evening...

PS.: BTW, here was last night's lineup (Dolly introduced Rummy, I figure, during her segment of the 6:30 show):

April 23
6:30-7:00
Jimmy Dickens
The Whites
Jeannie Seely
Joe Nichols

7:00-8:00
Dolly Parton
Jo Dee Messina
Hanna-McEuen
The Grascals

8:00-8:30
Porter Wagoner
Jean Shepard
George Hamilton IV
Riders In The Sky
Connie Smith
Opry Square Dance Band
Opry Square Dancers

8:30-9:00
Bill Anderson
Jimmy C. Newman
Catherine Britt
Ralph Stanley

Second show:
9:30-10:00
Jimmy Dickens
The Whites
Osborne Brothers
Jo Dee Messina

10:00-10:30
Porter Wagoner
Jean Shepard
The Grascals
Dolly Parton

10:30-11:00
Jim Ed Brown w/ Helen Cornelius
Mel McDaniel
Ralph Stanley
Opry Square Dance Band
Opry Square Dancers

11:00-11:30
Bill Anderson
George Hamilton IV
Connie Smith
Hanna-McEuen

11:30-12:00
Riders In The Sky
Stu Phillips
Jack Greene
Catherine Britt