Daughter slams Cash 'endorsement'

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7572040.stm
http://current.com/items/89222188_daughter_slams_cash_endorsement

The daughter of late country star Johnny Cash has called the use of her father's name to endorse a US presidential candidate "appalling".

Country star John Rich implied Mr Cash would have backed Republican hopeful John McCain while appearing at a rally in Florida, according to media reports.

Writing on her website, Roseanne Cash called the remarks "presumptuous".

"Even I would not presume to say publicly what I 'know' he thought or felt," she added.



According to the Washington Post, Mr Rich, a member of the duo Big and Rich, told a crowd of supporters in Florida: "Somebody's got to walk the line in the country."

"They've got to walk it unapologetically. And I'm sure Johnny Cash would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around."

The star then went on to sing Cash's hit, I Walk the Line.

Ms Cash, who is also a singer-songwriter, requested that in future: "My father not be co-opted in this election for either side, since he is clearly not here to defend or state his own allegiance."

"I knew my father pretty well, at least better than some of those who entitle themselves to his legacy and his supposed ideals," she added.

Grammy-award winner Cash sold over 90 million records and had hits with Folsom Prison Blues, Ring of Fire and Man in Black. He died in 2003, aged 71.

[babylonsister]

1. "Presumptuous" - good for her, I love this! nt

[inthebrain]

6. These people love country music and don't get Cash

There was a reason why he called himself the man in black. Much of it having to do with people living in poverty and prison.

[TlalocW]

2. Johnny definitely got religious in the 1970s

But from what I could tell, it was the good kind of religion where he cared about those that society had left behind... you know, like Jesus did. Republicans don't follow that kind of religion.

He was friendly with just about every president from Nixon on but claimed he felt closest to Jimmy Carter. When Nixon requested that he sing, "Okie from Muskogee," and "Welfare Cadillac" (two country songs of more of a right-wing bend), he refused (mainly because he didn't know them), but he did sing, "Ballad of Ira Hayes," (about an Indian who helped take Iwo Jima being mistreated when he got back to America) and "Man in Black," (about why he wore black - because of the ones society left behind) instead.

TlalocW

[Hawkeye-X]

3. ObJohnnyCashFinger

[NYC_SKP]

4. I'm pinching your head...

...the Kids in the Hall...I miss that show.

Thanks for the post!

:hi:

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Umm Johnny Cash sympathized with convicts

Don't think he'd be shilling for the "law and order Republicans".

[KT2000]

7. Big & Rich??

What else could the guy do but co-opt someone else's persona. He doesn't even have one himself.
Really a terrible duo.