The must read.

The Phil Nugent Experience:

And the fact that he wants to publicly deny the inner badass that is so beloved of his real fans bespeaks a wimpiness that links him to his famously spine-free father, who really was the mirror image of his son, a civilized, not wholly unintelligent man who was always embarrassing us by insisting that he was really a pork-rind-eatin' country music listenin' macho wild man son of a bitch.

But you should read it all, then ask which is more pathetic: the transparent phony or the 62 million people taken in by him? Via CT.