# Country Music Awards "controversy" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423 "2013-11-08T13:53:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/1 "2013-11-08T13:53:03Z")
Background: In the show intro, the hosts did a parody song turning “Amarillo by Morning” into “Obamacare by Morning”. The basic joke was that the website doesn’t work well. I like parody songs, found it mildly amusing. Now I’m seeing references to how brave the performers were (joking about something that the late night talk shows have been joking about for a month?) and how there is outrage among liberals over this. The most I can find is some Twitter comments, none by anyone of note. Is this a big deal? ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/2 "2013-11-08T14:08:56Z")
Never heard this. Sounds like a morning zoo show song. I’m a flaming “liberal” and this gets a big meh from me. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/3 "2013-11-08T15:04:04Z")
First I heard of it. But if The Daily Show and SNL are making fun of it, why would anyone be surprised/shocked/outraged by an awards show doing it? Not even “those country guys are all tea partiers!” but I’d expect any show with an entertainment portion to consider it fair game for an easy joke. ---
**Author:** ![NVME702-redux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@NVME702-redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NVME702-redux)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/4 "2013-11-08T17:45:30Z")
for about 2 seconds I got my panties in a bunch but then I remembered their audience and thought, meh, it figures… but at the same time, awwww, how sad. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/5 "2013-11-08T18:02:57Z")
Not a big deal at all. How much of a cultural impact do Country Music Awards have? I’m more confused over why they would create a satire song for an awards show. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/6 "2013-11-08T18:24:30Z")
Silencing the mike while Kacey Musgraves sang the lyric “roll a joint” caused more outrage. Which is to say, only the manufactured kind used to drive page views, not any actual outrage. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/7 "2013-11-08T22:26:37Z")
I didn’t watch the show, since I’m not much of a country music fan and generally hate award shows. Was there a “huge controversy” over the song? Nah, that would be an exaggeration- but there are certainly more than a few humorless liberals getting huffy about the parody song. > **[The Affordable Care Act At The CMAs](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19774/affordable-care-act-country-music-awards-110713/)** > > Apparently, the Affordable Care Act was the subject of some mockery in Nashburg last night at the Country Music Awards. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2013, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/8 "2013-11-09T06:51:49Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > [http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/affordable-care-act-country-music-awards-110713?src=spr\_TWITTER&spr\_id=1456\_29195568](http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/affordable-care-act-country-music-awards-110713?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1456_29195568) Holy crap…that guy comes off as a complete asshole. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/9 "2013-11-10T01:04:19Z")
As a liberal, I say “meh.” As someone who enjoys comedy, I was offended. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/10 "2013-11-11T02:48:47Z")
As I said in another thread, the only thing that really bugs me about this is that they are once again conflating Obamacare with a website (albeit moreso the people reporting on it than the actual song itself.) That’s just become a pet peeve, I guess. Otherwise I agree–meh. It would only be funny if it were shocking, and, unfortunately, such things are not. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/11 "2013-11-11T15:21:52Z")
I’m a flaming liberal, too, and I like modern country music. But I think most any awards show is stupid and massively rigged. It’s not funny, but that doesn’t mean I am offended. ---
**Author:** ![jenn128](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@jenn128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jenn128)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-awards-controversy/673423/12 "2013-11-12T19:45:28Z")
I watched the CMAS and also thought it was pretty funny the parody they did. I don’t think they meant any harm by it just lightening the mood.