Exploit... I mean Use... I mean SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!

If the Bush adminsitration can win an election with nothing but lip service to the troops, why can't a sagging country singer do the same and revitalize her career?

According to The Tennesean either country singer Chely Wright or her fan club relied on an organized effort, built on lies, to boost her song towards the top of the country charts. Specifically, people called in to radio stations and lied about having relatives in Iraq and requested her song be played on the radio. Her song, as you can infer, defends a US Marine sticker on her SUV. The name of the song? The Bumper of My SUV.

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So the troops-loving Ms. Wright completely uses the troops and the war to boost her career. And her song takes pride in the fact that she drives a vehicle that makes us even more dependent on oil from the Middle East. I can't think of anything less patriotic.

It's evil genius that's diving the GOP machine right now. Problem is, it's evil genius in a 1984 kind of way, rather than an Austin Powers variety.

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As a footnote, you should read the lyrics at the end of the story. She chastises a "minivan driver" for giving her the middle-finger for having a US Marine sticker on, you guessed it, the bumper of her SUV. Fair enough. But after ripping the minivan driver a new one for being so judgmental, she then mocks the middle-fingered assailant and assumes she's drving the minivan to pick up kids up at a private school (code for liberal elite). Ummm, what happened to not prejudging people?

Hypocrite, in so many ways.