America Can’t Make Shared National Treasures Like Dolly Parton Anymore

Where the pop stars of today see an audience to be lectured, Parton saw people to be entertained, comforted, and loved.

Kacey Musgraves opens tour with plea for children of 'unfairly' deported migrants — and gets BRUTAL backlash



Multi-Grammy-winning country singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves is facing calls for a boycott after she asked her fans to support a legal aid organization helping the children of deported migrants.

Musgraves has been directing some proceeds of her sales to the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and she went farther during the Chicago opening night of her newest tour.

'What happened to the country music industry?'

"It’s a wonderful organization, and they help give aid — legal aid — and money to children whose parents have been deported unfairly,” Musgraves said at the United Center on Friday.

"It’s not a political thing. It’s just these kids need help," she added.

"That would mean a lot to me. If you don't want to, that's totally fine too."

While she got a lot of applause and support from her fans, there were some boos from the crowd as well.

Many on social media said the plea would end Musgraves' career.

"'[Musgraves] has just officially ended her career by asking for money for criminals who used their children as pawns to commit crime and stay in America illegally. She could have asked for money for Americans who need assitance [sic] but nope. She's done!" said one critic.

"How about donating money the help kids who's [sic] parents have been killed by illegal immigrants! What happened to the country music industry?" replied another detractor.

"People need to stop giving money to these pieces of s**ts, and I'm talking about the likes of Kacey Musgraves, don't buy her music, don't go to her concerts. And if you do you might as well say you're okay with illegal immigration," read another reply.

"Boycott Kacey Musgraves Music! Her music sucks and her tour had nobody attending! Lmao," said another critic.

In May Musgraves had a teenage mariachi band open for her concert after they made headlines for being previously detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

RELATED: Kacey Musgraves calls voting for Trump an ‘act of violence’ against LGBTQ community

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security defended the detention of the teens in a statement to KSAT-TV.

"The law requires illegal aliens who show up at a port of entry without valid entry to be detained while all their claims are heard. You can look it up in the statute," the spokesperson said.

"Unlike the previous administration, the Trump administration is not going to ignore the rule of law," the spokesperson added. "Every day, the brave men and women of ICE are arresting and DEPORTING dangerous criminal illegal aliens, including gang members, from our country."

Musgraves' "Middle of Nowhere" tour will continue on to New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

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Kacey Musgraves mocks Ted Cruz and the Supreme Court at Austin music festival



Singer Kacey Musgraves mocked Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas during her set at the Austin City Limits music festival over the weekend.

Musgraves was in the middle of the song "High Horse" when she added Cruz's name in order to provide her approving audience with some left-wing political commentary.

"'Cause everyone knows someone who kills the buzz, every time they open their mouth—Ted Cruz," she sang to a cheer from the Austin audience.

"I said what I said," she added a moment later.

The moment was captured by one of the audience members and shared on social media.

\u201cyou can tell @KaceyMusgraves is a real Texan by the volume of her hair and how much she hates Ted Cruz \u2764\ufe0f\u201d
— Cat Cardenas (@Cat Cardenas) 1665376495

Musgraves also criticized the U.S. Supreme Court according to a report from KXAN-TV.

“F the Supreme Court honestly. We’re in a weird time but we’ve got each other," she said during the show. "There is a light. I promise."

This isn't the first time the Grammy Award-winning entertainer has taken aim at Cruz. After he was criticized for a trip to Cancun in Mexico during the winter crisis in Texas, Musgraves sold T-shirts mocking him with a “Cruzin’ for a bruzin’" design. She said that proceeds from the sale of the shirt would go to “Texans affected by the storm and also to homeless immigrants seeking shelter and food.”

She tweeted at the time, "Texas is cold, I can be cold," with a link to the shirt.

In 2015, Musgraves was far more supportive of the Supreme Court after the ruling that all states must allow same-sex marriages.

"I just wanna say that - how great of a day is today?" she asked at audience at NPR. "So while we're here, if it's okay with y'all, I would love to do 'Follow Your Arrow.' I think it's appropriate. Now that it's all legal, I don't have anything to sing about! But here we go anyway."

Singer Kacey Musgraves calls voting for Trump an ‘act of violence’ against LGBTQ community — Richard Grenell has words



Grammy award-winning country music singer Kacey Musgraves took to Twitter recently to declare that voting for President Donald Trump in November would be equivalent to an "act of violence" against the LGBTQ+ community.

Musgraves posted an image to her feed Friday night which said: "If you love an LGBTQ+ person and you're planning on voting for Donald Trump in November, that's an act of violence against them."

In a caption posted along with the image, the 32-year-old singer-songwriter wrote, "to each their own but know what your vote means" — a confusingly passive-aggressive message from someone simultaneously claiming that to vote one way would be violent.

In response to the tweet, former Trump administration acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell, who is also the first openly gay member of a presidential cabinet, had words for Musgraves.

"Twitter should ban this piece of fake news. This isn't remotely correct," Grenell wrote on Twitter. "Stop making gay rights a partisan issue, Kacey! You aren't helping gay people one bit."

"We aren't tokens," he added.

Twitter should ban this piece of fake news. This isn’t remotely correct. Stop making gay rights a partisan issue,… https://t.co/7IeUv8SueP
— Richard Grenell (@Richard Grenell)1598732553.0

Last year, Grenell, who was serving as the U.S. ambassador to Germany at the time, spearheaded a Trump administration effort to end the criminalization of homosexuality.

The move was reportedly launched in response to the Iranian government's execution of a 31-year-old gay man by public hanging.

In an op-ed in the German newspaper Bild, Grenell condemned the execution and argued that "politicians, the U.N., democratic governments, diplomats, and good people everywhere should speak up — and loudly."

He further called on world leaders to "work harder to demand that U.N. members decriminalize homosexuality."

Trump has often been demonized by the left as anti-LGBTQ despite being the first president to take office in support of gay marriage.

The administration, though perhaps more left-leaning on LGBTQ policy initiatives than many conservatives in America, took heat from the left earlier this year for ending an Obama-era regulation that prohibited health care discrimination against certain LGBT individuals.

The regulation under Obama had defined sex discrimination as including gender identity, or "one's internal sense of gender, which may be male, female, neither, or a combination of male and female."

The Trump Department of Health and Human Services announced it would return to an interpretation of sex discrimination using the "plain meaning of the word 'sex' as male or female and as determined by biology."