TOO BAD

I missed the Grammys tonight, not that I would've watched anyway. I was out with the family attending a David Meece concert at our church. He was fantastic. If you've never heard of him, you've really missed out. He was a child prodigy on the piano at age 5, and by age 10 was already touring with major symphony orchestras. He eventually found his way into Christian music, and is a real talent with an amazing, dramatic testimony of forgiveness toward his abusive, alcoholic father. I know I've made it sound like a heavy outing, but it wasn't--Meece plays mostly pop-rock stuff with a slight nod to classical, and is hysterically funny in his verbal riffs between songs. If you get the chance to see him, do it.

But back to the Grammys--I didn't see them. Didn't care to. But I understand that the anti-war stuff was muted. Too bad. I'd have loved to hear those spoiled, rich, narcissistic, whiny, elitist, know-nothing, undereducated brats tell the rest of us what we should think. I think it would have been wonderful for an America that supports war and its president to hear what these alleged musicians really think of it all, and by extension, of the public that forks over its hard-earned cash to support the lavish, jet-setting lives of today's music stars. If Sheryl Crow's take is any indication, a full-throated anti-war rant could have been must-see-TV:

"NO WAR" was written in silver letters on Sheryl Crow's guitar strap as she performed, although her hair usually covered up most of the "NO."

That pretty much sums up the effects the anti-war crowd is actually having, doesn't it. By trying to promote "NO WAR," she ended up wearing a guitar that to all appearances just said "WAR." In pursuing peace at any cost, it actually makes war more likely by getting Saddam to think he has more support here than he really does. These idiot musicians actually seem to think that Bush is the problem, not the maniac in Baghdad who's been doing all those horrible things we keep repeating endlessly on blog after blog. These idiot musicians actually seem to think that they know more than the one man who wakes up everyday to a briefing outlining some new threat, and who has access to all our intelligence agencies know about the latest schemes in Iraq, Pyongyang, Tehran and elsewhere. But more arrogantly, these idiot musicians seem to think that their opinion should count for more than yours or mine because they have a God-given talent that they use to curse God and spit on the country that makes their wealth possible. These idiot musicians should have been allowed to say whatever they want, so America could get a good, hard look at who it puts on pedestals of fame and fortune. America just might have decided to dethrone a few of these folks, and we would all have been better off for it.

So too bad. CBS chickened-out. And we're stuck with the same idiot musicians who loathe America, loathe the average American, and give succor to tyrants.