All Things Chuck Norris

In a story appearing in the Las Vegas Review Journal , hip-hop star Nelly is quoted as saying, “I wouldn’t want (expletive) Chuck Norris to tell me to vote for anybody.” Whatsa matter Nelly? You scared of the big bad Chuck?

To be fair, Nelly was actually commenting on the penchant entertainers have for expressing their political views, particularly those whose views are flat-out Democratic. Nelly, after all, openly supports Barack Obama in the presidential election. But the thing that’s odd about Nelly’s perspective is that he goes on to say, “”I tell fans … ‘I don’t think you should vote for somebody because an entertainer tells you to. But if you’re gonna listen to me, then I ask you to listen to [Obama].’”

What? Does that mean, “don’t listen to me, but if you did, listen to Obama?” That sounds strangely reminiscent of the already famous line from Tropic Thunder uttered by the very talented Robert Downey, Jr., “I’m just a dude playin’ another dude, dressed up like another dude.

So judging by the way Nelly communicates, maybe he isn’t much of a role model. Remember, he was the one who asked, What does it take to be Number 1? Duh, everybody knows the answer to that: it takes Chuck Norris.

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