The 51st Annual Grammy Awards was an occasion to celebrate great musicians and … our president. Viewers were treated to more Obama love, as they learned he has received two Grammys for reading his own books on tape.
The president of the Grammys, Neil Portnow, made sure to let viewers know how much he loves the new commander-in-chief by spending his three minutes on stage chanting President Obama’s campaign phrase “Yes we can!” five times and pleading with Obama to create a new cabinet position dedicated to the arts and culture.
“Because of the creative community, it means that he is one of us – he’s an artist,” Portnow gushed. “… So having a Grammy-winner in the White House provides great hope for the future of music and the arts in our country, and for that we say, ‘Thank you Mr. President for the inspiration to loudly shout, ‘yes we can.’’”
Portnow asked President Obama to exercise some executive power on behalf of the recording academy. “And to our new president, we have a request: Our finest national treasure is our culture and the arts. It's also one of our most embraced and economically significant exports all around the world. So it's time that we acknowledge that fact with the creation of a cabinet position of secretary of the arts to promote and develop this vital contribution to society everywhere.”
Portnow also lobbied Congress on behalf of the academy: “And with a new congress, we will champion the passage of pending legislation to ensure, that just like in every developed country in the world, all music creators are compensated for their performances when played on traditional radio.”
Hopefully, the “national treasure” he spoke of wasn’t the lackluster performance of Katy Perry’s bi-curious song “I kissed a girl,” singer MIA’s performance in which she wore a see-through polka dot outfit while she danced on stage (and she's nine months pregnant), or the best rap album of the year. That Grammy win was for Lil’ Wayne’s obscenity-laced album full of explicit sexual lyrics and could hardly be considered a “vital contribution to society everywhere.”



















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Barf Bag Alert!!
February 9, 2009 - 15:51 ET by motherbelt'Nuff said!
I only made it through the first sentence.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
What are "Grammy's"?
February 9, 2009 - 17:38 ET by SouthernRootsAnd they have a show? Doesn't sound like I missed much.
By the way, I actually tired of "Yes we can" before I had ever heard of Obama. Look up the kids show, Bob the Builder. It was his favorite saying, and my son watched it all the time.
Obama stole a slogan from a kids show.
I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. - J.B. Books (John Wayne)
Good news for the elephant
February 9, 2009 - 15:56 ET by FreakyBoyGood news for the elephant dung industry.
Awe Cheeze.. did you just
February 9, 2009 - 15:57 ET by rimskyAwe Cheeze.. did you just have to remind me that the "O" won a Grammy for reading his ghost written book on tape? Big Whup!
I'll take one of those barf bags, if you have one to spare?
Yea!
February 9, 2009 - 15:59 ET by lkoturI'm gonna Puke!
I'm gonna Puke!
I'm gonna Puke!
And when they find out......
February 9, 2009 - 16:15 ET by Prester John.....he's going to take all their money to pay for his socialist utopia they'll be the first to be chanting,
"Oh no you don't!!"
Be Warned!
February 9, 2009 - 16:47 ET by thebutlerdiditI watched that clip over at Breitbart, and it is barfier seen than read. And the Lil' Wayne performance, wow! Definately a national treasure. I was so choked up over the sheer beauty of hearing him rap about hos. If we throw the PissChrist and Bush made of dung exhibits in there, I know that you all are just as ready as I am to call up our new Pres. and beg for money for the arts.
All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric. How else to explain the rise of Joe Biden? P.J. O' Rourke
Obama Art Church
February 9, 2009 - 17:03 ET by SeftonThe Grammys are bad enough. Wait till the orgy lovefest that commences at the Oscars.
By the way, more doublespeak by a small liberal mind - Portnow espouses how our culture and the arts are the "most embraced and economically significant exports all around the world" ... then says we need to create a cabinet position of Sec. of the Arts to "promote and develop this vital contribution to society everywhere"? WTF?
Do these people realize how idiotic they sound when they open their mouths?
great commentary on Obama I just found
February 9, 2009 - 17:09 ET by Mike76London Daily Mail
Peter Hitchens 10 November 2008
"Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement
for God, with a plan to modernize Heaven and Hell - or that at the very
least John Lennon had come back from the dead.
The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the
United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception
and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilization. At
least Mandela-worship - its nearest equivalent - is focused on a man
who actually did something.
I really don't see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the
Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted
in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around
Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.
It already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which
recorded Obama's victory have become valuable relics. You may buy Obama
picture books, and Obama calendars, and if there isn't yet a children's
picture version of his story, there soon will be. Proper books,
recording his sordid associates, his cowardly voting record, his
astonishingly militant commitment to unrestricted abortion and his
blundering trip to Africa, are little-read and hard to find.
If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left-wing
machine politician is a sort of secular savior, then you can believe
anything. He plainly doesn't believe it himself. His cliché-stuffed, PC
clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what
you would expect from someone who knew he'd promised too much and that
from now on the easy bit was over.
He needn't worry too much. From now on, the rough boys and girls of
America's Democratic Party apparatus, many recycled from Bill Clinton's
stained and crumpled entourage, will crowd round him, to collect the
rich spoils of his victory and also tell him what to do, which is what
he is used to. Just look at his sermon by the shores of Lake Michigan
He really did talk about a 'new dawn', and a 'timeless creed' (which
was 'yes, we can'). He proclaimed that 'change has come'. He revealed
that, despite having edited the Harvard Law Review, he doesn't know
what 'enormity' means. He reached depths of oratorical drivel never
even plumbed by our own Mr. Blair, burbling about putting our hands on
the arc of history (or was it the ark of history?) and bending it once
more toward the hope of a better day (Don't try this at home!).
I am not making this up. No wonder that awful old hack Jesse Jackson
sobbed as he watched. How he must wish he, too, could get away with
this sort of stuff.
And it was interesting how the President-elect failed to lift his admiring
audience by repeated - but rather hesitant - invocations of the
brainless slogan he was forced by his minders to adopt against his will
- 'Yes, we can'. They were supposed to thunder 'Yes, we can!' back at
him, but they just wouldn't join in.
No wonder. Yes we can what, exactly? Go home and keep a close eye on the tax rate, is my advice.
He'd have been better off bursting into 'I'd like to teach the world to
sing in perfect harmony' which contains roughly the same message and
might have attracted some valuable commercial sponsorship.
Perhaps, being a Chicago crowd, they knew some of the things that 52.5 per cent
of America prefers not to know. They know Obama is the obedient servant
of one of the most squalid and unshakeable political machines in
America. They know that one of his alarmingly close associates, a
state-subsidized slum landlord called Tony Rezko, has been convicted on
fraud and corruption charges.They also know the US is just as
segregated as it was before Martin Luther King - in schools, streets,
neighborhoods, holidays, even in its TV-watching habits and its choice
of fast-food joints. The difference is that it is now done by unspoken
agreement rather than by law.
If Mr. Obama's election had threatened any of that, his feel-good white
supporters would have scuttled off and voted for John McCain, or
practically anyone. But it doesn't. Mr. Obama, thanks mainly to the
now-departed grandmother he alternately praised as a saint and
denounced as a racial bigot, has the huge advantages of an expensive
private education. He did not have to grow up in the badlands of
useless schools, shattered families and gangs which are the lots of so
many young black men of his generation.
If the nonsensical claims made for this election were true, then every
positive discrimination program aimed at helping black people into jobs
they otherwise wouldn't get should be abandoned forthwith. Nothing of
the kind will happen. On the contrary, there will probably be more of
them. And if those who voted for Obama were all proving their
anti-racist nobility, that presumably means that those many millions
who didn't vote for him were proving themselves to be hopeless bigots.
This is obviously untrue.
I was in Washington, DC the night of the election. America’s beautiful
capital has a sad secret. It is perhaps the most racially divided city
in the world, with 15th Street - which runs due north from the White
House - the unofficial frontier between black and white. But, like so
much of America, it also now has a new division, and one, which is in
many ways much more important.
I had attended an election-night party in a smart and liberal white area,
but was staying the night less than a mile away on the edge of a suburb
where Spanish is spoken as much as English, plus a smattering of
tongues from such places as Ethiopia, Somalia and Afghanistan. As I
walked, I crossed another of Washington 's secret frontiers. There had
been a few white people blowing car horns and shouting, as the result
became clear. But among the Mexicans, Salvadorans and the other Third
World nationalities, there was something like ecstasy.
They grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that
America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the
Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most
part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out
against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of
the world.
Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed
to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a
world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global
Warming panic, it was unique. These strengths had been fading for some
time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march
of political correctness.
They had also been weakened by the failure of America's conservative party -
the Republicans - to fight on the cultural and moral fronts. They
preferred to posture on the world stage. Scared of confronting
Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order
soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the
US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the
Third World.
How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?"
What a bunch of brazen,
February 9, 2009 - 17:18 ET by winston smithWhat a bunch of brazen, politicized crap the Grammy's have become. I can't even watch it anymore. I'm still unsure whether or not cRap is a legitimate music genre. I had to suffer through some of the worst examples of no-talent American culture just to get to watch Paul McCartney. Oh, but they're all dressed in the latest celebrity fashions and so they can make whatever inane political statement they wish and they will be hailed by the media and papparazi. You used to respect the Grammy's when people like The Doobie Bros., Glen Cambell, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Cash, Paul Simon or Burt Bachrach got their well-earned awards. Truly great singing and songwriting talent and kept their political and cultural opinions to themselves. But when you see the likes of Jay-Z or Nas awarded a Grammy or even nominated for what is essentially vile swearing and raging on recorded media (in time to the beat, of course) it really makes you wonder about the future of popluar music. RIP the great Levi Stubbs - went to his grave without a Grammy.
keep up the good work folks
February 9, 2009 - 17:30 ET by candanceKeep spending 50 bucks a month on cable, watching sports on the main networks to give them bigger profits, and buying the music/videos of artists who use that money to fund the DNC.
Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know we're all contributing to this - and no one is brave enough to pull away from the Borg.
But acts of kindness and generosity must be free and voluntary; no man has a right to compel another to follow his conscience. This is a concern which lies between a man and his God.
-Richard Fuhrman, pro slave advocate, 1823
Count me out, candance!
February 9, 2009 - 17:41 ET by choselife3xI don't even use Google!
In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.
"...pleading with Obama to
February 9, 2009 - 17:50 ET by TruthMatters"...pleading with Obama to create a new cabinet position dedicated to the arts and culture."
Really, Mr. Portnow? Whose culture?
Do they want a separate
February 9, 2009 - 20:17 ET by motherbeltWhat, the NEA isn't enough? They want a CABINET position?
Do they want a separate position for "black" culture?
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Zeppelin Rules!
February 9, 2009 - 23:51 ET by The7SticksYou all seem to act like Robert Plant and Allison Krauss weren't the ones who won best album of the year. Alt least it still validates one thing: ZEPPELIN RULES!
Now if you excuse me, I've got to ramble along the firey pits of Mordor with a whole lot of "Led".
There were some great
February 10, 2009 - 01:26 ET by RR GOPThere were some great spatulas they were selling on HSN at that time...darn, I missed the Grammys.
One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
Stop please.
February 10, 2009 - 07:23 ET by EurikaMy head is going to explode, do they really have to push this man down our throats ALL the time? It's going to be a loooong 4/8 years.
THE GRAMMY'S DIED YEARS AGO...
February 10, 2009 - 09:56 ET by danybhoyLook folks, the Grammy's died years ago. In 1989, they added metal for an award, everyone, & I MEAN EVERYONE knew that Metallica should be the winner. Then it was given to Jethro Tull...who have not been important since "Aqualung"(sitting on a parkbench...)in 1971. Even people who don't care about hard rock or metal knew this was screwjob.
Then in 1990, they gave the best new artist to.......Milli Vanilli. They sucked, they did'nt sing on their own album, but hey, the "Behind The Music" about them was one of the best of the bunch.
"...it's still We The People, Right?" Megadeth
The Cult Deepens
February 10, 2009 - 14:35 ET by Pilgrim1949Soon to come:
Award for narrating public service announcement promoting washing one's hands after going to the toilet.
Award-winning "performance" sequel for being able to urinate and not let one drop go outside the urinal, earning "Neatness Award" formed in the shape of a gold-plated urinal.
...not to be outdone by little know fact that even his flatus is fragrant -- no offensive odor at all. Surely there must be some award for this!
Truly, The One is special (...as is a case of the Ebola virus...).
/addendum to all previous barfs
Interesting to read all the
February 10, 2009 - 15:25 ET by JRJ08Interesting to read all the whining about how popular Obama is, even in this economic crisis. Just sticks in some people's craw that he is liked by the vast majority of the country. The more that the GOP obstructs any kind of action on the economy, the larger that majority is going to get. It is now known as the anti-education, pro-creationism, do-nothing party. If the next Republican candidate for president is looking for a new slogan, how about "I hate Americans"? That's pretty much all you read here.
Huh JRJ08, is that why his
February 10, 2009 - 15:37 ET by UtherpendHuh JRJ08, is that why his approval rating is dropping day by day?
Now lets address your fantasy of Republicans hating Americans. Hating someone means you wish ill will and the likelihood that they will fail. Exactly what the Democrat Party has been doing to the military and all the troops serving over seas for 5 years.
Go back to the Huffington post or ask ACORN for another hand out.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you."
Another reason I won't be
February 10, 2009 - 15:33 ET by UtherpendAnother reason I won't be watching the Oscars either.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you."