More On the Apprentice Confrontation

During Sunday night’s episode of Celebrity Apprentice, John Rich defended country music when teammates Jose Canseco and Richard Hatch demeaned the genres’ fans. It’s been months since the confrontation took place, but seeing the argument air in the episode got John all riled up again. “Well you wanna tell me how ironic it is that a tax evader who’s in prison and a roid-raging rat from baseball are going to sit back there and tell me that country music fans are dumb, backward hicks? Are you serious?” John said, “And they still called it country-western, by the way, which shows how stupid they really are. I mean, that really set me off.” John says he also stood up for Trace Adkins when Donald Trump tried to take responsibility for launching Trace’s career. “And I said, ‘Well, uh, actually he was multi-platinum before he came on your show. He goes, ‘No, no. Trace Adkins, he was basically no one.’ And I look at him and I said, ‘You know what? You’re right. He, he basically was no one before your show. Thank you so much for putting him on here cause now we all get to hear, hear his great voice.’ And I just totally played along with it, like Donald Trump really thinks Trace Adkins was nobody before that show.” As for Canseco and Hatch demeaning country music, John says there’s a lot that was cut out in editing. He says their comments continued but eventually Hatch apologized.

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Craig Morgan received a plaque and a fireman’s hat over the weekend from four members of the Tennessee City Volunteer Fire Department. Last month Craig rushed into a burning house he passed while headed home from a tour stop to save two small children in Charlotte, Tennessee. …….Jimmy Wayne plans to release his first novel, Paper Angels, November 1st. The book is based on Jimmy’s real-life experience as a child benefitting from the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program. Jimmy started the book last year during his walk across America, co-writing over the phone with novelist Travis Thrasher. …….. And finally, Eddie Montgomery is thanking his son after a visit to the doctor lead to his early prostate cancer diagnosis. When Eddie’s son was injured in an ATV accident late last year, Eddie mentioned his own hip pain to the bone specialist his son was seeing. Eddie says that the doctor offered to X-ray his hip and suggested that he see an urologist after discovering an unusual shadow. Eddie had the cancerous tumor removed over the holidays and his doctors have told him that he’s cancer free.