Son of a buck. This is hilarious. I know exactly what type of people from the Roanoke area would show up for a rodeo at the Salem Civic Center, so the crowd reaction must have been priceless. Thanks to Joel for the link.

"Man I'm the dumbest son of a buck in the world."

Six weeks ago Bobby Rowe got a call. His rodeo was headed to Salem and a Hollywood film company doing a documentary on a Russian immigrant wanted to come too - and wanted their star to sing the national anthem.

"When he said California that made me a little bit suspicious, because there are some weirdo's out there," Bobby said.

But, the show went on. On Friday night the cowboys and horses filled the ring and the star grabbed the microphone, but before singing he told Bobby he wanted to say something.

"How he was proud to be an American, this and that and Americans have always been his idols and all this stuff," Bobby said.

Instead of saying that the guest start began talking about the war in Iraq, the United States government and sang his "home" country's national anthem.

"So, I turned to one of the people and said 'What the heck is going on?" Bobby said. He told his staff, "You get that son of a buck and get him out of here. I don't want to see him no more."

The guest star left the stage. The crowd - not happy.

"I said you go out there and you won't make it to the other end of the arena. I said these people will skin you. They're a simple American, God fearing, flag waving person."

But, what Bobby didn't know?

"Somebody said, "Well don't you watch HBO?' and I said what the heck is HBO?"

Bobby quickly learned that the man wasn't an immigrant. His name is Ali G. He has an HBO comedy show that puts his characters in some interesting situations, situations like Salem's rodeo.

"He wasn't no daggum immigrant," he said.

Bobby says he's looking forward to seeing the comedian one more time.

"Somewhere we'll run into him. Somewhere I'll see him."

"Daggum." "What the heck is HBO?" Equating skinning someone with being a "simple American" and "God-fearing." I love it.