Music icon Pat Boone backs Jason Aldean, says leftists are infected with 'moral sickness' over hate for 'Try That in a Small Town'

Iconic singer Pat Boone is backing embattled country music star Jason Aldean amid left-wing hate for his "Try That in a Small Town" song and video — and Boone told Fox News' Jesse Watters that the woke crowd's behavior shows they're infected with a "moral sickness."

What is the background?

Country Music Television on Monday pulled the video for "Try That in a Small Town" as leftists raged over its anti-crime, anti-woke message. The video shows familiar clips of individuals rioting, beating people up, looting, robbing, and spitting in cops' faces. The song's lyrics challenge such lawless folks to attempt that behavior in a small town, where residents aren't as likely to take it without pushback:

Sucker-punch somebody on a sidewalk, carjack an old lady at a red light, pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store, ya think it’s cool, well, act a fool if ya like. Cuss out a cop, spit in his face, stomp on the flag and light it up. Yeah, ya think you're tough? Well, try that in a small town, see how far you make it down the road. Around here, we take care of our own, you cross that line, it won't take long for you to find out — I recommend you don't."

Here's the video. Content warning: language:

Jason Aldean - Try That In A Small Town (Official Music Video)youtu.be

As the left has raged over "Try That in a Small Town," it has only grown in popularity. In fact, the tune promptly rocketed to the top of the iTunes charts this week while the video saw similar success.

What else did Boone have to say?

Boone, 89, told Watters that country music has "gotten sick" over opposition to Aldean's anti-woke song.

"I can't believe it's country music," he said, noting that the songs of another country music star — Trace Adkins — have been "very supportive of opposing America's enemies. What we're not taking into account is that many of our enemies are in our own house ... and our own streets."

Providing an example, Boone quipped that "I live in a small town called Beverly Hills" and that recently in "broad daylight three hoodlums broke into a house up the street, and the police had to remove us from our house while they searched because two of the criminals they caught, but one got away down the back alley over here, and they thought he might have gotten into our yard."

He added that "a neighbor, a tough little Italian lady ... had taken some shooting lessons and had a gun sitting in her lap." Boone noted that when he warned the woman about what was going on, she said she was "hoping that the guy would come in. She wanted to discourage him in a very positive way."

Boone also held aloft an old Colt .44 that he said his grandfather gave him, noting that it was the type of firearm commonly on hand for defending families and property in earlier times when the Second Amendment wasn't under fire.

Image source: Fox News video screenshot

"And small towns all over this country — in our earliest days, our most productive, positive days — knew that what we had these guns for was not for offense and usually not even for animal hunting, because shotguns or rifles were for that, but ... if somebody broke into your house," Boone added.

He also showed off his Sig Sauer .45, telling Watters he wouldn't hesitate to use it for defending himself or his loved ones.

Image source: Fox News video screenshot

"If somebody's gonna come into my house in this small town of Beverly Hills, he's gonna meet me," Boone promised. "Because I'm gonna defend my house and my daughters and my wife. And that's what small-town America is geared for. They're not wanting to kill anybody in the streets. They don't want to break into stores. They don't want to deprive any citizen of whatever color of anything they're entitled to, but they do want to defend their lives and their honor."

Boone lamented that "for anybody — country music or not — to take a stand against that, against us taking a stand for our own rights and our own protection — is sick. It's just really a moral sickness. I can't believe anybody is criticizing Jason."

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