Toby Keith and the CMTA: Jerks of the Week

This video, "A Little Too Late," features Toby Keith singing to his girlfriend, who, is not only tied to a chair in the basement, is depicted as kinda emotionless and non-reacting. Sorry, but if you are waving a shovel at me, I'd have an expression on my face. Like fear. When she sees the shovel, she doesn't even scream. She basically looks pretty and looks around alot.

In the video it looks like he's going to drown her, then maybe bury her alive in cement. Nope, he finishes it off by what he thinks is enclosing her in a man-made wall.

It's fucking sick and scary.

It's sick because again, there is nothing funny or cool or non-chalant about domestic violence. At the end, he tries to excuse his behavior on his temper and she, of course, laughs it off like it is no big deal that he had her tied to a chair and attempted to enclose her behind a wall....alive.

He says at the end: "How do you like in there baby? This is the only way. I am beter off without you. Finally, peace and quiet. You got a big mouth, you know that?"

It was nominated for Best Video at the Country Music Television Awards. WTF?

Yea, real good work there, Toby. And while I'm at it, its high time the country music industry started accepting responsibility that much of its music endorses misogynistic themes, domestic violence and just all around outdated gender stereotyping. For starters, stop nominating videos that glamorize domestic violence.