Country star John Rich reveals plan to thank patriotic UNC frat boys for defending our flag and teases a blockbuster new song



Country music megastar John Rich experienced a second bold revelation after seeing a bunch of frat boys at the University of North Carolina save Old Glory from “unwashed Marxists” trying to replace it with a Palestinian flag.

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“I wanted to let them know they had my sincere gratitude, so I offered them a free concert at some point to celebrate their efforts and the patriot fire that is now beginning to fire back up across the USA,” Rich told Blaze News Friday morning.

Many patriotic Americans have been inspired by the young men who stood up to the pro-Hamsas protesters at UNC-Chapel Hill. A GoFundMe in support of the boys has hundreds of thousands of dollars pledged. And now a major music star wants to party with the college kids.

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Rich will likely make his new single, “Revelation,” part of his eventual performance in North Carolina, an event he’s calling “FlagStock.” The song will be at the center of Rich’s performance and partnership with BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock at the Roll Call 2.0 men’s summit on June 1 at Rocketown in Nashville. Rich and Whitlock are bringing divided believers together with music, food, and dynamic speakers, including Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck and Pastors Voddie Baucham and E.W. Jackson.

Three months ago, Rich wrote "Revelation," a provocative warning to sinners about the wrath of Jesus Christ. Rich told Whitlock earlier this year that the song just popped into his head.

"'Revelation' is a song about what will happen upon the return of Jesus Christ to the earth,” Rich told Blaze News. “To my knowledge, there has never been a song written and recorded like this one. The song doesn't reflect my opinion; it is directly derived from Scripture itself. This song should be strength to the saved, conviction to the lost, and fear to the truly wicked.”

Fearless Army Roll Call 2.0 is a gathering, celebration, and encouragement of men to put on the full armor of God to take a stand against the evil forces destroying American culture (Ephesians). It’s being held because it’s important that men not give up meeting together and encouraging one another toward love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24-25).

To join Rich and Whitlock at Roll Call 2.0 — which is perfectly scheduled on the first day of “Pride Month” — visit FearlessArmyRollCall.com to reserve your spot. While the world celebrates sinful pride, you can listen to music, eat great food, and listen to powerful speakers share biblical wisdom and encouragement.

Fearless Army Roll Call 2.0

Fearless Army Roll Call 2.0 will be held on June 1, 2024, at Rocketown in Nashville, Tennessee. Join BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, John Rich, Pastor E.W. Jackson, Pastor Voddie Baucham, and more as they join together to celebrate and encourage men to put on the full armor of God to take a stand against the evil forces destroying American culture. Reserve your spot at FearlessArmyRollCall.com

John Rich REACTS To Oliver Anthony's Instant Success

John Rich REACTS To Oliver Anthony's Instant Success

Amateur country singer launched from obscurity to the big time after surrendering to God and playing his heart out in viral song



Oliver Anthony's powerful song "Rich Men North of Richmond" has gone viral and prompted country music fans and legends alike to take notice. Whether it's a matter of the song helping to exorcise the sickly zeitgeist or just resonating with Americans "living in a new world with an old soul," millions are tuning in — and country legend John Rich has reportedly volunteered to produce Anthony's record.

The young man, who has roots in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, sings in his viral song, "I've been selling my soul / working all day / overtime hours / for bulls*** pay / so I can sit out here / and waste my life away," proceeding to note, "It's a damn shame / what the world's gotten to / for people like me / and people like you."

Anthony introduced himself on YouTube in an Aug. 7 video ahead of his song's debut on Radiowv, saying, "It's going to be the first song to get out there that's been recorded on a real microphone and a real camera and not just on my cell phone."

"Lord willing, it's going to get some traffic," said Anthony, noting the song touches in part on his time working in a factory in western North Carolina as well as on depression and the evil of child trafficking.

"This is no Dr. Phil episode," he continued. "But I found an outlet in this music. ... I started getting messages from people saying like how much the music was helping them, you know, with their struggles and their lives and that they'd been sitting on the back porch listening to me for the last hour. ... It really gave me a purpose."

Reflecting on his time working in a factory and on various job sites as well as upon his engagements with other Americans struggling to make ends meet, Anthony said that he wants to "be a voice" for people who are "sick and tired of being sick and tired."

Days before his meteoric rise, he stressed, "I don't care where you are or what you've done, where you think your life's heading — everything can change in a moment. As long as you're above the dirt, you've got a fighting chance."

Among the millions of ears Anthony's song has graced were those belonging to the founder of High Value Dad, Jason Howerton, who promptly reached out to the musician.

Howerton learned that Anthony had struggled with mental health, alcohol, and drugs in the past.

"Just about a month ago," Howerton relayed, Anthony "got to his knees & broke down in tears. Though he wasn't a religious man, that night he promised to get sober if he helped him follow his dream."

According to Howerton, "Here is a man who broke down & surrendered everything to God."

Only 30 days sober, someone apparently reached out to him and asked him to record a song for his YouTube channel. That song: "Rich Men North of Richmond."

Within hours, it had gone viral.

There's little surprise in that. Have a listen:

Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North Of Richmondyoutu.be

Anthony's song has attracted some significant attention.

Early Thursday, Howerton posted, "Hey, someone get in touch with this artist for me and tell him I will fund him to produce a studio quality album with this as the first single. He is too good to not have a better catalogue on iTunes," adding he didn't want "some asshat in a suit digging his hooks into him, would love to see him stay independent and own his music."

Tyler Cardon, CEO of Blaze Media, tweeted to Howerton, "This is so awesome. Let's get him to Dallas. I want to help blow this up."

Soon, other country fans, media professionals, and conservatives were offering to help Anthony, who joined Twitter Thursday and within hours had netted over 27,000 followers.

Doug Eldridge, the founder of DLE Agency, which specializes in marketing, offered to handle strategic media and communications for free.

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh indicated Thursday night, "If he produces an album I'll promote it on all my platforms."

Dan Bongino announced he and country music legend John Rich were "in" — meaning he would assist with distribution, while Rich would produce Anthony's record — then asked Anthony to play his song on the radio today, such that it could be heard on "over 300 stations across the country."

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While kingmakers and newly minted fans spoke of record deals, promotions, and distributions, Howerton quipped, "The irony is Oliver is probably working his ass off right now and doesn't even know what's happening."

Anthony used his first tweet to express his gratitude, writing, "Rich Men North of Richmond has been uploaded to all major streaming platforms and will show up there in a few days. Im still in a state of shock at the outpouring of love I've seen in the comments, messages and emails. I'm working to respond to everyone as quickly as possible."

In his Aug. 7 video, the breakout star made clear, "Sometimes it takes falling down on your knees and getting ready to call things quits before it becomes obvious that [God is] there. But He's always there. You just gotta look out for him and listen for him."

It's a pleasure to meet youyoutu.be

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Customers want to give Ben & Jerry's the 'Bud Light' treatment for scorning America on Independence Day and telling it to return 'stolen indigenous land'



The woke ice cream company Ben & Jerry's accosted Americans celebrating the nation's 247th birthday online, telling them their country "exists on stolen Indigenous land" and to return it.

Patriots and other critics rejected the Vermont-headquartered company's recommended action plan and came up with a plan of their own: Give the confectioners the "Bud Light" treatment.

More sourness from the sweets company

In a July 4 social media post, Ben & Jerry's wrote, "This 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it."

The corresponding action plan on the company's website claimed that "a good parade, some tasty barbecue, and a stirring fireworks display" in celebration of American independence from Great Britain were altogether problematic.

Instead of lauding the nation that gave so much to co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield and the company's current C-suite, Ben & Jerry's urged that the U.S. surrender Mount Rushmore to the Lakota Sioux.

The company reduced the personages carved into the rock — U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt — to "colonizers, four white men—two of whom enslaved people and all of whom were hostile to Indigenous people and values. ... The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights."

According to Ben & Jerry's, to surrender vast swaths of American territory now would serve to help dismantle "white supremacy and systems of oppression."

This sour note from the sweets company is hardly the first put out in recent days and years.

The company recently bemoaned the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision — which restored state rights and the power of the people as it pertains to their ability to make regional decisions about whether or not to permit the legal slaughter of the unborn — calling on activists to fight abortion bans, even those imposed at 24 weeks.

The company, which a New York Times exposé revealed used child migrant labor to process milk, often in violation of labor laws, has also taken hard anti-Israel stances, forbidding the sale of its sugary sludge in territories belonging to the Jewish state.

Besides its anti-American, anti-Israeli, and pro-Palestinian activism and resistance to a "post-racial era," Ben & Jerry's has previously been called out for peddling lies, in particular about Kyle Rittenhouse. The ice cream brand suggested online in 2021 that the then-17-year-old who killed a violent pedophile and another radical in self-defense during a riot was a racist, incorrectly intimating his victims were black.

While Ben & Jerry's leftist activism has heretofore served to agitate, its attack on America on its birthday appeared to be the last straw for many.

Time for a 'Bud Light' treatment

Billboard Chris, the gender ideology critic whose real name is Chris Elston, tweeted in response to the company's anti-American post, "The only right thing to do is donate all of your assets and retained earnings. Shareholders will understand."

Musician Brad Skistimas of Five Times August suggested something similar, writing, "Sounds like it’s time for Ben and Jerry to donate 100% of their profits to indigenous people."

Angela McArdle, the current chair of the Libertarian National Committee, wrote, "I thought you sold ice cream. You want to evict all of your customers?"

"U stole the milk from cows to make ur ice cream checkmate," quipped Ashley St. Clair of the Babylon Bee.

Retired infantry colonel and Town Hall columnist Kurt Schlichter wrote, "My land acknowledgment is this: 'We won. Too bad.'"

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah tweeted, "@BenandJerry’s are awfully smug and lippy for a sub-brand of the massive Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever. I’m not sure they fully understand the legacy of the respective Dutch and British colonial powers."

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Lee went on to say, "Your once-good ice cream now sucks. ... You just guaranteed that I (a once-loyal customer) will never consume a single pint of it. ... When you suggest 'returning' the land on which our country has been built for centuries, what exactly do you imagine? Expungement of property rights? Repatriation of most Americans to Europe?"

After leaving the company with some penetrating questions to mull over, Lee noted, "There is such thing as a real ice cream made by true American patriots. I highly recommend it," linking to Brooker's Founding Flavors Ice Cream.

Some recognized that the company might understand a market correction better than pointed language online and reminders that the Ben & Jerry's factory is located on allegedly "stolen" land.
Country music singer John Rich suggested, "Make @Benndjerrys Bud Light again."
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Rich was referencing the overwhelming successful boycott of the Anheuser-Busch brand over its partnership with transvestic activist Dylan Mulvaney. Bud Light lost nearly a quarter of its business as a result, and according to former Anheuser-Busch executive Anson Frericks, the relationship with Mulvaney cost the company $20 billion in lost marketing, reported Al.com.

Dr. Jordan Peterson similarly observed, "Looks like someone is looking hard for a @budweiser moment."

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Biden wants to 'finish the job' — here's how people responded to Biden's re-election bid announcement



President Joe Biden officially announced on Tuesday that he will seek re-election, releasing a video in which he trumpets the importance of freedom.

"Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms. I believe this is ours. That's why I'm running for reelection as President of the United States. Join us. Let's finish the job," Biden tweeted.

Some people pounced on the "finish the job" language.

"Finish the job? Based on Biden's record, this sounds like a threat," Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas tweeted.

\u201cFinish the job? \n\nBased on Biden's record, this sounds like a threat.\u201d
— Tom Cotton (@Tom Cotton) 1682427874

"40-year inflation, a stagnating economy, turning over Afghanistan to the Taliban, China flexing its muscles over Taiwan, chaos in the Middle East. Give him four more years, and he'll finish the job, all right," conservative commentator Ben Shapiro tweeted.

"What Joe Biden means by 'Let’s finish the job': Worsening crime rates. More economic struggles. Higher inflation. Exacerbated border crisis. America's enemies further emboldened. Increased attacks on religious liberty and our Constitutional rights. Hell no," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas tweeted.

"Yes, Joe stands up for fundamental freedoms unless it involves the 1st or 2nd Amendment, search and seizure or the ability to exercise bodily autonomy when it comes to rejecting a dangerous and feckless vaccine. Other than that, he's ALL about freedom," country music star John Rich tweeted.

Left-wing figures, including former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and current California Gov. Gavin Newsom, expressed their support for Biden's re-election bid.

"Proud of all that @JoeBiden and his administration have accomplished these last few years. He's delivered for the American people — and he'll continue to do so once he's re-elected," Obama tweeted.

"Joe and Kamala are the best people for the job of defending our democracy, fighting for our rights, and making sure everyone has a fair shot. Join me in becoming a part of their re-election campaign, starting today," tweeted Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential election to Trump.

\u201cJoe and Kamala are the best people for the job of defending our democracy, fighting for our rights, and making sure everyone has a fair shot. \n\nJoin me in becoming a part of their re-election campaign, starting today.\u00a0https://t.co/RH881JCR75\u201d
— Hillary Clinton (@Hillary Clinton) 1682429548

If Biden secures the Democratic presidential nomination and former President Donald Trump manages to win the GOP presidential nomination, Americans could face a rematch of the 2020 presidential election during the 2024 contest.

Biden, who is currently 80, would be 86 by the end of a second term in office if he were to win the 2024 contest. Trump, who is currently 76, would be 82 by the end of a second term.

Joe Biden Launches His Campaign For President: Let's Finish the Job www.youtube.com

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Country music singer John Rich to scrap Bud Light from his Nashville bar amid Dylan Mulvaney backlash



Country music singer John Rich is in search of a new beer to replace Bud Light at his Nashville bar following the backlash to Dylan Mulvaney's partnership with Anheuser-Busch.

Dylan Mulvaney is a 26-year-old biological male who has amassed nearly 11 million followers on TikTok for the "Days of Girlhood" video series. Mulvaney, who has not undergone gender-reassignment surgery, claims that he is a girl. Critics view Mulvaney's impersonation of a female to be aiding the erasure of women.

The transgender social media star caused a stir last week after launching a promotional partnership with Bud Light. The beer company sent the influencer a Bud Light can with Mulvaney's face on it.

On Monday, Rich polled his more than 900,000 Twitter followers: "Are you thirsty for a Bud Light now?" Over 30,000 of his followers voted, and 97.5% responded, "Hell Naw," versus only 2.5% who answered, "Yep."

On Wednesday, Rich hinted at a Bud Light boycott and asked his Twitter followers, "What beer should my bar Redneck Riviera in Nashville replace Bud Light with?"

Rich founded the Redneck Riviera bar and restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee.

Fellow country music singer Travis Tritt also hit back at Bud Light this week.

"I will be deleting all Anheuser-Busch products from my tour hospitality rider. I know many other artists who are doing the same," Tritt declared on Wednesday.

Tritt added that other country music artists are boycotting Bud Light, but not going public "for fear of being ridiculed and canceled."

The country music legend said Anheuser-Busch used to be a great company when it was American-owned, but had become "unrecognizable" since being acquired by Belgian-Brazilian brewing company InBev in 2008.

Kid Rock reacted to the Mulvaney partnership with the beer company by shooting cases of Budweiser beer with a gun.

Kid Rock yelled, "F*** Bud Light, and f*** Anheuser-Busch. Have a nice day!"

Conservative rapper Tom MacDonald lampooned Bud Light for putting Mulvaney's face on a beer can to celebrate Dylan's "365 Days of Girlhood."

"Hey Bud Light, my mom's been a woman for 23,725 days – you didn't put her face on a can," MacDonald said in the video. "Rosa Parks ain't on a can. Mother Teresa ain't on a can. Joan of Arc ain't on a can. Mother Mary ain't on a can, and she gave birth to Jesus."

\u201cDear Bud Light\u2026\u201d
— Tom MacDonald (@Tom MacDonald) 1680644552

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Country music star John Rich's new anti-woke song tells leftists to 'stick your progress where the sun don't shine' — and it hits #1 on iTunes in just hours



Country star John Rich — one half of the popular duo Big & Rich — penned a decidedly anti-woke song he dubbed "Progress" that rails against left-wing politics and culture and stands up for traditional American values.

However, Rich told Just the News that he foresaw a problem getting a song that tells leftists to "stick your progress where the sun don't shine" played on the radio and distributed to the masses. Mainly because the music industry also leans left.

So Rich did an end-around on Friday, bypassing the music industry's gatekeepers and instead releasing "Progress" on Truth Social — the platform started by former President Donald Trump — and on the Rumble video platform.

What happened next?

In just a few hours, "Progress" jumped to number one on iTunes, Just the News said, besting the likes of Billie Eilish and Lizzo and Beyonce. A quick glance Tuesday at PopVortex revealed that "Progress" is indeed the top song on the American iTunes charts.

"Here I am with no record label, no publisher, no marketing deal," Rich told Just the News. "I just got a song that speaks to a lot of people, and Truth and Rumble pushed it out there. And man, I'm really proud of what we did today."

A lyric in "Progress" takes aim at the forces that conspire to "shut down our voices," and Rich explained to the outlet that he's "talking about Twitter and YouTube and Facebook. And I thought, 'You know what? I'm gonna reach out to Truth Social and reach out to Rumble because they still allow free speech over there.' Why would I launch this song on the platforms that I'm railing against in the lyrics?"

Rich added to Just the News that his launch experiment is "bypassing this machine that they've built, going right around the machine, going right to the people. It means that if you bring the right content, and you have people like Truth and Rumble that will get that message to your core audience, you can beat the machine that's been put in place to keep people like me shut down."

He also told the outlet that "the problem with country radio" isn't the DJs or others at country music stations; instead "it's the people way up the food chain that run the conglomerates that have bought up 90% of all of our radio stations ... a big [contingent] of them ... do not like anybody bucking their woke system."

Still, Rich added to Just the News that "there's a few good ones in there. And when I say 'good,' I mean, you know, 'lean conservative.' They want free space; they want artists to be heard."

The meaning of 'Progress'

The author of "Progress" revealed to the outlet how his new song was born.

"I'm watching what I consider to be the dismantling of our country at a lot of different levels," Rich told Just the News. "And when you sit back and look at it, the vast majority of it's being perpetuated on us under the banner of 'progress.' Like in the name of progress we're going to send gasoline through the roof so you have to buy an electric car. In the name of progress, we're going to let anybody and everybody into our country, and if that means we get overrun with fentanyl and every other bad thing, well, so be it. Because that's progressive: You need to be open-minded and open borders in the name of progress. They target our kids in the name of progress; they do all these things that are actually the opposite of that. They're regressive. They're not constructive, they're destructive."

Here are the lyrics:

There's a hole in this country where its heart used to be
And Old Glory's divided on fire in the street
They say Building Back Better will make America great
If that's a wave of the future, all I've got to say
(chorus) Stick your progress where the sun don't shine
Keep your big mess away from me and mine
If you leave us alone, well we'd all be just fine
Stick your progress where the sun don't shine
They invite the whole world to come live in our land
And leave our countrymen dying in Afghanistan
They say let go of Jesus, let government save
And you can have back your freedom if you do what we say
(chorus)
They shut down our pipelines, and they shut down our voices
They shut down our Main Streets, and they shut down our choices
They bent us all over, but it's all over now
'Cause we've figured it out, we ain't backing down
(chorus)

Here's Rich playing "Progress" live on on "Fox & Friends" and explaining its origins:

Fox & Friends : John Rich's 'non-woke' song hits number one on iTunesyoutu.be

John Rich savages fellow country music stars kowtowing to leftist ideology with silence following 'woke' CMT Music Awards show



Country music star John Rich launched into a diatribe against his fellow country artists on Thursday, tearing into them for what he said was silence when it came to speaking up for their values.

In the tweet, he appeared to suggest that leftist ideologies were infiltrating the industry, and complicit country music singers were more apt to keep their mouths closed — perhaps out of fear of cancellation — thus allowing liberals to steamroll what they care about into the ground.

Rich made the remarks just one day after Wednesday night's 2021 CMT Music Awards, which Rolling Stone praised for what it suggested was the annual show's newfound "wokeness."

What are the details?

In the Thursday morning tweet, the outspoken country star wrote, "There are many conservative country music singers that just won't say anything to push back against the ideologies that aim to erase what they care about. Why? You know why. I hope soon we see them start to speak up. The country music industry is out of touch with the audience."

There are many conservative country music singers that just won't say anything to push back against the ideologies… https://t.co/hzhhXhIk7G

— John Rich (@johnrich) 1623335303.0

What happened Wednesday night?

According to Rolling Stone, the CMT Music Awards had five defining moments that detailed how "the show woke up."

Rolling Stone's Jon Freeman and Joseph Hudak began the lengthy article, "The producers of the 2021 CMT Music Awards were clearly paying attention. After a year-plus national conversation about equity, diversity, and, yes, racism, Wednesday night's CMT Awards made a clear attempt to be inclusive, devoting airtime to artists and personalities of color."

They continued, "While we would have liked to have seen the CMTs acknowledge June as LGBTQ Pride Month (especially after former CMT Awards host Kid Rock doubled down on a homophobic slur on Twitter a few hours earlier), the production was an admirable step forward in country music's ongoing evolution."

Several moments of diversity that caught their attention, Freeman and Hudak added, included Gladys Knight's performance with Breland and Mickey Guyton to cover "Friendship Train," which the pair said "has a stirring message of unity for a world about to go up in flames."

"Somehow, it's a message that — no offense — just hits different when it's not coming from Tim McGraw and Tyler Hubbard," the article added.

Freeman and Hudak also lauded the show for naming Linda Martell with CMT's Equal Play Award "owing to her status as the lone black woman to have charted a solo single inside the country Top 20."

"[I]t was the presentation of Video of the Year that best illustrated how CMT is reading the room and looking forward," Freeman and Hudak noted. "Anthony Mackie, the black 'Captain America' star of Disney's 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,' made his CMT Awards debut to give the trophy to winners Carrie Underwood and John Legend — TV's biggest superhero handing out the night's biggest award."

What else?

Rich's remarks also come just a week after CMT fans threatened a boycott of the network after it urged viewers to support a Michael Bloomberg-backed gun control initiative from Everytown for Gun Safety.

The network tweeted its support of the movement last week, writing, "We're (virtually) wearing orange today in support [sic] National Gun Violence Awareness Day and to call attention to more than 100 lives that are lost every day to gun violence. #WearOrange and visit rearrange.org for more."

The tweet was not well received for many fans, and one user blasted the comment as "anti-gun propaganda disguised as virtue."

"CMT has gone down the train with all other corporations who sell out to Woke extremists," the user added.

Another Twitter user noted, "I for one, will not ever watch any station who champions any campaign against the 2nd Amendment, which is what CMT just did. You'd think they would know their audiance [sic], but you put woke idiots in charge, and you get stupidity."

Yet another critic complained, "@CMT and @NASCAR have both forgotten who their core audience is again I see."