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One of Worley's best-known songs is the 9/11 anthem "Have You Forgotten?" Just before Christmas last year, he joined Turner, Franken, the pro wrestler Bradshaw, a couple of Washington Redskins cheerleaders and the D.C.-area urban pop trio No Illusion, among others, on a swing through Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. But the Tennessee-born singer -- who leans "a lot to the right," as he puts it -- says he was far from pleased that the left-leaning Franken was coming along.
"You know, I just don't understand -- why would somebody be on this tour if they're not supportive of the war?" Turner remembers Worley saying before they left. "If he decides to play politics, I'm not gonna put up with it."
After Worley and Franken had became friends, Franken says, he joked about this. "What'd you think, Darryl? That I was gonna go: 'Your president lied to you and you're dying for no reason. Ladies and gentlemen -- Darryl Worley!'
Franken does believe that the hawks in the Bush administration lied. He thinks they massaged intelligence to sell the war, "blew the diplomacy so we didn't have a real coalition," then failed to send enough troops to do the job right. "Out of sheer hubris, they have put the lives of these guys in jeopardy. That makes me furious," he says. But he didn't go to Iraq to talk to American soldiers about those things.
"I would never do anything to undermine morale," he says. "You're going there because they're our guys."
"He's just a class act," Worley says. "Let me tell you, that guy loves our troops and he totally gave it everything he had."
Franken worked up a Saddam imitation so good (he'd borrowed a costume from "Saturday Night Live") that Worley says it was both hysterically funny and almost frightening. He and Turner did a Bob Hope-style routine that ended with her kissing a soldier from the audience. One of the high points of every show was when Franken introduced the Taliban Cheerleaders, who'd come out with only their eyes visible behind their burqas and refuse to dance. "Wait a minute, we liberated you!" he'd yell in frustration -- which was the cue for the bumping and grinding to begin.
Sure sounds like a guy who is an asshole who hates America to me, huh guys?
"You know, I just don't understand -- why would somebody be on this tour if they're not supportive of the war?" Turner remembers Worley saying before they left. "If he decides to play politics, I'm not gonna put up with it."
After Worley and Franken had became friends, Franken says, he joked about this. "What'd you think, Darryl? That I was gonna go: 'Your president lied to you and you're dying for no reason. Ladies and gentlemen -- Darryl Worley!'
Franken does believe that the hawks in the Bush administration lied. He thinks they massaged intelligence to sell the war, "blew the diplomacy so we didn't have a real coalition," then failed to send enough troops to do the job right. "Out of sheer hubris, they have put the lives of these guys in jeopardy. That makes me furious," he says. But he didn't go to Iraq to talk to American soldiers about those things.
"I would never do anything to undermine morale," he says. "You're going there because they're our guys."
"He's just a class act," Worley says. "Let me tell you, that guy loves our troops and he totally gave it everything he had."
Franken worked up a Saddam imitation so good (he'd borrowed a costume from "Saturday Night Live") that Worley says it was both hysterically funny and almost frightening. He and Turner did a Bob Hope-style routine that ended with her kissing a soldier from the audience. One of the high points of every show was when Franken introduced the Taliban Cheerleaders, who'd come out with only their eyes visible behind their burqas and refuse to dance. "Wait a minute, we liberated you!" he'd yell in frustration -- which was the cue for the bumping and grinding to begin.
Sure sounds like a guy who is an asshole who hates America to me, huh guys?
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