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| Dixie Chick runs her mouth off...again |
| 2003-11-24 |
| Natalie Maines: ’People were misled’ "Bush Lied, People DiedTM". How original... Dixie Chicks singer I must digress there. To paraphrase that great Klingon philosopher Lt. Worf, "She talks much, but says little". "I think people were misled and I think people are fighting a war that they didn’t know they were going to be fighting," Maines said Friday on NBC’s "Today" show. "And I think they were misled by people who should have been asking questions and weren’t." Is it me, or is that incoherent? I mean, the Hussein regime was our enemy for, what 12 years but she claims ’they didn’t know they were going to be fighting,’? And how were the masses misled? Anything worth hanging your hat on there, Natalie? The country stars faced criticism and even death threats after Maines said she and her bandmates were ashamed that President Bush was from Texas. She made the remark in London shortly before the war began. Repeat bullshit early and often enough and some people will buy it eventually. Though Maines apologized for the phrasing of her remark, some radio stations banned the group’s music. The group also received death threats in the wake of Maines’ comments. The lesson of cause and effect still hasn’t been learned. Maines said Friday she did not feel vindicated by how the war has unfolded: "I would have liked to have been proven wrong." Memo to Natalie: you were. The band’s recent concert tour was one of the year’s most successful, but Maines said it is too early to predict the long-term fallout. As for the backlash, she said, "We like making music and we’ll continue to do that whether people buy it or not." Prediction: They’ll be playing places like the Club Casino in Hampton, NH (seating: about 500) in five years. The Dixie Chicks on Friday released, "Top Of The World Tour Live," their double CD set and DVD. I’ll buy a Vanilla Ice CD before even thinking about buying that b.s. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #14 AC, that was a take off on Dippsie's being ashamed of being from Texas. My sister lives in Lubbock and I love the place. I'll be back and will tune in a CW station. I hope that LLL Moon bat was on the air when you revealed that she had more mouth than brains. |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2003-11-24 10:20:17 PM |
| #13 I said it when you shot your mouth off before and I will say it again: The term 'Love your Country' has a double meaning with country music fans, Nat. And you are right, Nat. People had been mislead for eight soilid years as Clinton got his knob polished and his political buddies disregarded the Al Qaeda threat. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-11-24 9:14:59 PM |
| #12 I think she's trying to prove that by having a political stance she has balls. Y'know - chickswithdix. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-24 8:30:27 PM |
| #11 Katze, I live in Lubbock, I host a weekly radio show on an all-news station here, and I can assure you that the Vichy chicks do not represent this community. The first time I used this term "Vichy Chicks" on the air, btw, I had to explain the reference and also mentioned that the owners of our station were exercising their Constitutional rights by refusing to play the Chicks' music on their C&W stations. One of our 10 or 12 local LLL moonbats (a *spit* mass-com major *spit*) called in at that point and demanded that the station owners and I be jailed for violating the Chicks' right of free expression. She could not explain exactly which part of the Constitution guaranteed the right to the forum of one's choice or immunity to criticism, let alone the right to be taken sersiously, but she was sure that we were evil fascists. She would get her wish, of course, if this gang of LLL-conformist media professionals got its wish and managed to gain absolute power over the ownership and content of media. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2003-11-24 6:38:54 PM |
| #10 Natalie needs to learn that just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it's wrong. Or just because you don't like someone doesn't make them wrong either. It's those pesky things called "truths" and "facts" that always seem to confound folks like her, and get in the way of them having any kind of substantial opinion. |
| Posted by: Brainiac 2003-11-24 6:25:48 PM |
| #9 Steve White I don't know enough about Nathalie Maines but I can only think about two jobs at a truck stop: waitress in a bar or whoring. Which one did she exert? |
| Posted by: JFM 2003-11-24 2:39:42 PM |
| #8 And we should care about her mouthings why, exactly? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2003-11-24 1:35:07 PM |
| #7 More enlightening information on foreign policy from international affairs expert Natalie Maines..... |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-11-24 12:04:01 PM |
| #6 Understandably Natalie isn't worried about the negative publicity. She still has a right to return to her former job at the truck stop on I-35. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-11-24 11:31:28 AM |
| #5 Listening to Natalie Maines makes me ashamed to admit I've ever visited Lubbock or listened to 'country' music. |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2003-11-24 11:27:03 AM |
| #4 Natalie Maines: ’People were misled’ Calling yourself a country music artist and peddling your wares to an audience that largely doesn't share the same values? Yeah, that could be considered misleading... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-24 10:46:29 AM |
| #3 maybe she's not such a ditz afterall. |
| Posted by: anon 2003-11-24 10:31:40 AM |
| #2 The Dixie Chicks on Friday released their double CD set and DVD. Need I say more about negative publicity? |
| Posted by: B 2003-11-24 10:30:57 AM |
| #1 What a ditz. |
| Posted by: Atrus 2003-11-24 10:20:53 AM |