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Fifth Column
PhD Candiates, the Dixie Chicks call GW a "Dumb F***"
2006-09-13
Normally I would interlace the article with a number of smarmy, but witty (of course) comments. But I think this article, especially regarding character issues with Natelie Maines, speaks for itself. She comes across as a bitter, foul-mouthed, immature bi***. The two sisters appear to be having some 2nd thoughts. Read the whole thing.

The international press won't get their first look at the documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing until its gala premiere at the Toronto Film Festival tonight. But EW.com got an early look at the sure-to-be-controversial doc in Los Angeles and can attest that the film will continue to bring the (ex?) country trio more plaudits from progressives and further condemnation from conservatives. And if you think singer Natalie Maines had some harsh words for President Bush in public, wait till you hear what she had to say about him behind the scenes.

In one memorable scene, Maines watches news footage of the president being interviewed about the furor that followed the singer's on-stage comment that she was ''ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas,'' which resulted in the group being dropped from most radio stations, as well as protests and plummeting sales. ''The Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind,'' Bush told Tom Brokaw at the time, adding, ''They shouldn't have their feelings hurt just because some people don't want to buy their records when they speak out. You know, freedom is a two-way street.''
Posted by:anymouse

#31  This bitch needs to be raped and beaten so she falls off planet Imspecial and lands back on Earth.
I'm adopting the enemy's tactics.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-09-13 09:55  

#30  re:#4, besoeker. Speaking as a Georgian (I believe you're one too), "I'm ashamed that the Dixie Twits are now Waffle House waitresses in my home State." I don't want 'em. Good riddance, I say.
Posted by: BA   2006-09-13 23:20  

#29  Hope you socked some of that money you earned earlier away, gals - you're going to need it.

Whatever money they don't have socked away they can make up in tips.
Posted by: badanov   2006-09-13 23:06  

#28  Stupidity is a terminal illness. It may be like cancer, and take a decade to kill you, or it could be like a rifle bullet and happen instantaneously. Either way, it'll get you. That applies to individuals, groups, and societies. European stupidity is on the verge of destroying several societies. The stupidity of the Dixie Chicks, insulting their primary audience, making stupid statements overseas, and just plain screwing up will bring their careers to a painful dead end. SO sorry, but that's the price of stupidity. Hope you socked some of that money you earned earlier away, gals - you're going to need it.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-09-13 22:41  

#27  Well, they better be pulling in a ton of foreign sales (both record and concert tickets) to make up for the falling ones here. I really doubt they are, and that's the only bottom line that counts. If this keeps up, their label will cut their losses at the soonest opportunity.

I mean, whoopee, they're at #7, but that's only with a ton of hype, and it's less than half of their sales before all this crap exploded. Add to that the cancelled concerts/smaller venues in strong country markets, toss in country stations that are refusing to play any of their music (even the older pre-controversy songs), and you got yourself a problem bigger than Natalie's derriere.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-09-13 19:42  

#26  It's all yours!
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-13 19:09  

#25  49 Pan, can I quote you from your post in #9? "The ignorant can be tenacious in their beliefs." That has email signature line all over it. Thanks!
Posted by: IG-88   2006-09-13 18:27  

#24  ex-lib-

RE: Record sales - those numbers a very much like the bottom line on a Hollywood film. That is to say they're pretty much what the record company wants them to be. The numbers can be juggled sufficiently without fraud that the company can look at you with a straight face and say, 'It's doing fine', but in reality not a lot of albums are being sold.
As of today, the DC's are at #7 on the Billboard Country Chart - pretty good until you remember that they are on a North American tour, and they should be doing a bit better than that.
But let's take a look at their tour schedule for a second, shall we? From October 6th through November 8th, they're out of the country. Any takers that Miss Natalie will be mouthing off left and right? She never seems to say much when she has to face the people who are buying most of their albums.
And I think the other two are really biting their tongues - not sure how much longer they're going to put up with it.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2006-09-13 15:16  

#23  To make your point, Barbara, here is a quote:

It also explains why the Dixie Chicks have made such a point of saying good riddance. "I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it," says Maguire, "who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do."


Posted by: SwissTex   2006-09-13 15:05  

#22  No, no, #20 tu. You don't understand.

The Dixie Twits are STARS! They're legends in their own minds IMPORTANT!

They can't be expected to get in line with the little people masses.

What were you thinking?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-09-13 13:00  

#21  What a dumb f***.

Brilliant! Such eloquence - such creativity! Sean Penn could not have done better.

/do I really need a sarc tag?

Perhaps, hand in hand with the immediate gratification phenomenon so prevalent today, is a type of time myopia, call it a now bubble, where those who are in the thrall of the first symptom have no future vision, no concept of ramifications, no appreciation for cause -> effect.

That paragraph nails my teenage son. But at least he has the excuse of still-tender years.
Posted by: xbalanke   2006-09-13 12:56  

#20  Aw, who cares? Three famous skanks don't like Bush. Tell 'em to get in line...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-09-13 12:49  

#19  Anyone know the bottom-line regarding sales?
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-09-13 12:28  

#18  Concerts crashed and burn. But the sale charts said otherwise reporting big movement. Hmmm...wonder if the FTC would stick its nose into something that indicates fraud or attempted manipulation of the interstate market?
Posted by: Jort Chitle9044   2006-09-13 11:43  

#17  ignore them. It's the sweetest response
Posted by: Frank G   2006-09-13 11:35  

#16  [golf clap] Superb rant, flyover. Better late than never!
Posted by: Steve White   2006-09-13 11:05  

#15  wxjames, I think you need to go out more. Or something.

The idea of rape is utterly repulsive by itself, but in combination with Maines... not even with a 9-foot pole... I am revulsed.
Posted by: twobyfour   2006-09-13 10:48  

#14  "I'm adopting the enemy's tactics."

Not very sensible as they are losing.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2006-09-13 10:09  

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Posted by: wxjames   2006-09-13 09:55  

#12  Maybe my disgust with them has reached its limit and thier retoric is blocked from my hearing. Now when I'm out and I hear them talking, I'm not angered or even willing to debate them. I do point them out to whoever I'm with as an example of what heppens when ignorance over rides logic and common sense.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-13 09:53  

#11  "This also looks like it is about average when we talk moonbats"

Not to disagree with you 49 Pan, but I think it's way more than any previous war, except for maybe Vietnam. Yes, moonbats have always been around in one form or another in every war we've fought, but due to the explosion of the information age, the vehement anti-US 'blame America first' movement has a much louder voice than before. Sad to say, but we used to be united, and moonbats were the lunatic fringe---and treated as such. Now they're mainstream. We do have a divided electorate. The next few years could very well decide if we can step back from the brink of oblivion into rationality again.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-09-13 09:40  

#10  Welcome to the reality club, flyover. We will take all the good people we can get to combat the LLL.

I guess the Dixie chicks are really shooting for the Canadian LLL audiance.
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-09-13 09:21  

#9  Good read flyover. My disgust/anger with the moonbat crowd seems to move on an emotional sin wave. September is a tough month and October, a bad month for Night Stalkers, becomes unlivable.

Rantburg, through folks like TW .com and LOTP, know their history and bring historical snips of moonbats from every war. As I look through American history in wartime coupled with my education here on this site it seems that this is what a democracy looks like during war. This also looks like it is about average when we talk moonbats. The ignorant can be tenacious in their beliefs. We must stay vigilant in our internal struggle to keep the moonbats at bay and out of power, our civilization depends on it. When this is over they will fade into the footnotes as pacifists and apologists.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-13 08:55  

#8  "My old father used to have a saying that "if you make a bad bargain, hug it the tighter"

---A Lincoln
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-09-13 08:34  

#7  Initially, sisters Emily Robison and Martie Seidel seem downcast over their apparently nose-diving popularity, but Maines assures them, ''I think this is better for our career.''

Post this in the "We're Lost, But Making Great Time" column.
Posted by: Jort Chitle9044   2006-09-13 07:53  

#6  ROFL! Uh, that was a "fun" read, flyover. I think you're onto something there, too. Something fundamental and relevant. More!

A warm welcome to the growing club. I'm still working to get past my own remaining "squishy-soft" indoctrination... the domestic pussification program, intensely supported by every internal enemy in our midst, has affected most everyone born after WW-II in some degree - and dealt me a glancing blow, too. But I know where I gotta go, and that there's actually no other choice anyway, though that doesn't make it easy for anyone. :-)
Posted by: .com   2006-09-13 06:26  

#5  'Now that we've f---ed ourselves, I think we have a responsibility to continue to f--- ourselves'

And there you have it. BDS, Moonbattery, LLLism, Tranzism, PCism, all rolled into one, perfectly defined. Don't learn anything, just do even more of what proves you're a loser who has no grasp of reality. Have you, by design or simple opportune idiocy, made yourself into an icon of rash infantile stupidity? Well okaaay then, cash in on it! There will "always" be similar losers who will part with some scratch to maintain you... until there's not. Then, as Besoeker points out, you will move on to your new career in the service industry.

Perhaps, hand in hand with the immediate gratification phenomenon so prevalent today, is a type of time myopia, call it a now bubble, where those who are in the thrall of the first symptom have no future vision, no concept of ramifications, no appreciation for cause -> effect.

Now where have we seen that before?

I haves a theory, heh...

There is no appreciable difference between our native-grown Moonbat idjits and the Muzzbat idjits, except the local variety, call them HedoNazis, try to drown themselves in what they imagine to be outrageous, er, pioneering, self-gratification while the Muzzy variety tries to drown itself in IslamoNazi self-defeating hate.

Sure, they're both demonstrably "surplus", humans which are simply "broken", beyond help or hope, and a generally degrading influence on all they come in contact with, thus worthy of warehousing or eradication by any society which hope to survive in the real Darwinistic world. But in the end, they merely "fry themselves up", LOL, to no substantive effect - assuming we're paying attention and acting upon common sense. I think of them as social mine canaries. They voluntarily extinguish themselves in their pompous deluded dementia - and show us where the behavioral boundaries are for any society that maintains a will to actually survive the slings and arrows (LOL) of evolutionary mutation.

Our Moonbats, as long as we keep the numbers in check, thus provide us a valuable, though temporary, service. As we identify each new outbreak, we must strap 'em down and pump 'em full of the latest warehousing compounds - or snuff 'em, if the society has reached that level of realism. Surplus is surplus. Historically, we squander our societal assets as far as is demanded by the, then current, societal squeamishness. A waste, but necessary to mollify the half-measures segment.

The Muzzbats, since they indoctrinate from birth and embrace tenets which both dissuade individuals from thinking as individuals as well as threaten upon pain of death anyone from straying, prove their society has no place, provides no value, and deserves summary removal. So remove them. Do it well, do it thoroughly, make it permanent and irreversible. We've seen the resurgence of other pathogenic dangers, such as polio, when their extinction was obviously left incomplete... Learn from those mistakes. Remove with extreme prejudice.

I (now) join all of the others here who have decided our squishy-soft approach toward these surplus people has played out and they've proven themselves unworthy. I had hopes and tried to convince myself otherwise, but hell, color me non-squishy, now. I'm late to the reality, but I get it.

Sorry for the bandwidth. I've been re-evaluating this stuff a lot, lately. Yesterday's comments have finally been digested, the reality accepted, and that quote just opened the door for saying what I've concluded. I'm always late, it seems, LOL. So sue me, LOL.
Posted by: flyover   2006-09-13 04:13  

#4  Sales way down? Career changes looming? No worries girls, somewhere in Georgia a Waffle House resturant cries out for your talent.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-09-13 03:18  

#3  Keep digging, the bottom's down there somewhere.
Posted by: flyover   2006-09-13 01:53  

#2  There have been quite a few "acclaimed" TV series and movies which no one ever watched.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2006-09-13 01:27  

#1  Tired of selling albums, are they?
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-13 00:13  

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