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| Telegraph Puffs Dixie Chicks, Racially Attacks Their Critics |
| 2006-06-17 |
| Will it be the salmon teriyaki with organic greens, or asparagus tempura and tuna sashimi? As the waiter hovers with pencil poised, the Dixie Chicks debate the menu with the practised air of professional restaurant critics. The Chicks have traditionally been branded a country band, but clearly it's some time since their diet consisted of ribs, tacos and pancakes. Sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire project a polished Fifth Avenue elegance, and vocalist Natalie Maines is a vision of sculpted cheekbones and smoky eye-shadow... ...Yet within days, their music vanished from the charts and the airwaves, apoplectic rednecks crushed piles of their CDs with tractors... ..."The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism," Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole countryÂ… I don't see why people care about patriotism..." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #14 If they're so freakin' gorgeous right now, how come the picture with the article is an old one taken back when they sold millions of records, not just 500,000? |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-06-17 22:43 |
| #13 always! 6er, if that gives others hope - I'm glad to do it! LOL :-)~ |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-17 21:39 |
| #12 When the Sun go Red, Frank's ever hitting it, There's always hope. A hiakoo for u |
| Posted by: 6 2006-06-17 21:24 |
| #11 Natalie Maines - isn't she that fat girl always screaming "look at me"? Let's stop giving her publicity. These articles are designed to promote her album to the hate-America crowd. Ignoring is the best way to go here. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-06-17 18:50 |
| #10 Sorry to stoop to low humor, but you know that the name 'Dixie Chicks' can be rearranged via a spoonerism into.... |
| Posted by: WTF! 2006-06-17 16:33 |
| #9 "How much for the one with sculpted cheekbones and smoky eye-shadow, big mouth and little brain"? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-17 16:29 |
| #8 Can't we sell them to the Arabs? |
| Posted by: ed 2006-06-17 16:25 |
| #7 so successful that they're cancelling concert tour dates for lack of sales...in the US (but they're SO popular in Canada and Europe!) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-17 14:47 |
| #6 "It was like the McCarthy days, and it was almost like the country was unrecognisable." Ooooh. Couldn't see that coming. Oh, well. Time to send them back to the reeducation camps... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-06-17 13:47 |
| #5 the Dixie Chicks debate the menu with the practised air of There, fixed that sentence... |
| Posted by: Raj 2006-06-17 13:42 |
| #4 "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? Â… I don't see why people care about patriotism..." -I love her (lack of) logic. I lack the words to even begin a rant about how stupid and arrogant this skank is. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-06-17 13:19 |
| #3 The poleis is obsolete, just like professional musicians. |
| Posted by: Phil 2006-06-17 12:13 |
| #2 Many people don't understand the need for patriotism, community, or buying CD's when the music can be downloaded for free off the internet. |
| Posted by: Phil 2006-06-17 12:12 |
| #1 Maines can't see anything larger than herself. She deserves to watch her career rot, reduced to fluffing for leftists. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-06-17 11:48 |