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Latest Attack From Dixie Chicks' Lead Singer Hits Home
2006-09-22
Dixie Chicks lead singer and Lubbock resident Natalie Maines has spoken out once again, this time attacking her hometown instead of the president. Maines made comments during the premiere of the new Dixie Chicks documentary being featured at the Toronto International Film Festival "Shut Up and Sing,” which documents the group's time since the now notorious President George W. Bush comments when Maines told a concert crowd she and the Chicks were ashamed that Bush was from Texas.

The lead singer spoke to the Vancouver Sun recently, saying, "but if you live in Lubbock, Texas, where I'm from -- you just have one paper and one radio station and unless you're savvy on the Internet, that's it for you. If Bush said get a gun and kill an Arab, they would do that."

It's a comment that isn't sitting well with some Lubbockites. "I don't believe she should be cutting Lubbock down the way she does because Lubbock housed and fed her for a long time," a resident said.

"Everybody has the right to say whatever they feel, it's a free country," another resident said.

The documentary makers said they don't know exactly when "Shut Up and Sing" will air in Lubbock, but they said it could be as early as October.
Posted by:tipper

#20  This is going to make it tougher for her to get her old job back at the truck stop on I-27.

Not really, it's just that the service she'll provide will be a wee bit different now.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-22 22:45  

#19  This is going to make it tougher for her to get her old job back at the truck stop on I-27.
Posted by: Steve White   2006-09-22 21:20  

#18  
Natalie Maines - Before and After... If her "friends" policies were to be followed.

And she is to stoopid to realize it...
Posted by: BigEd   2006-09-22 20:05  

#17   --- #10 -- More proof that the left are fueled by hate and are judgemental & prejudiced about groups.

Liberals LOVE humanity, they just have no use for people.
Posted by: Almost Anonymous5839   2006-09-22 19:42  

#16  Now they can't even go home. For some reason I get pleasure from this.

But then they claim to be internet savvy, they must be the infamous Left Angle that spews onto this site once in a while. Bwaaaa
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-22 19:18  

#15  #1: "Shut up and Sing sounds like good advice for the Chicks."

Just plain SHUT UP would be even better.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-09-22 18:13  

#14  and unless you're savvy on the Internet

Like you are Natalie? Sounds like you managed to work your way all the way over to the DU and never made it past there. Quite a trip for one brain cell to make all by itself. Now let's hope it can make its way home if it grows up someday.
Posted by: gorb   2006-09-22 17:53  

#13  Natalie is working hard for a guest shot on the Jerry Springer show. Nat, just call. No need to be coy about it.
Posted by: Ulese Jaick6639   2006-09-22 16:10  

#12  Crap on your own doorstep. Always a surefire way to impress the neighbors.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-09-22 15:41  

#11  I think we found Lubbock's village idiot...
Posted by: badanov   2006-09-22 14:41  

#10  More proof that the left are fueled by hate and are judgemental & prejudiced about groups.

To understand the left one only has to understand projection.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan   2006-09-22 14:00  

#9  As a great irony, wouldn't it be funny if someone did a Persian version of the Dixie Chicks song "Goodbye Earl", about women who murder an abusive man, then broadcast the video it on Iranian satellite TV?

Except the women would be wearing a chador, and without saying so, imply that Earl is an Islamist Imam.

The only improvement I could make to that would be by portraying the women as a gang that goes around violently assassinating fundamentalist Imams with daggers in the name of the women's rights.

Showing more and more women joining the cause of killing abusive clerics, so that you have a room full of women waving daggers over their heads at the end of the video.

And give full credit to the Dixie Chicks. I'm sure they would appreciate that.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-09-22 13:43  

#8  Heh. I'd like to attend Natalie Maines Day in Lubbock. Perhaps everyone can dress up as stupid skanks with big mouths and expert opinions derived from their high school education...

piss poor edumacation eh....probally got straight Ass.....
Posted by: RD   2006-09-22 13:35  

#7  I get all my political advice from music college dropouts.
Posted by: ed   2006-09-22 13:14  

#6  Famous Skank Mouths Off Again...film at eleven.
Posted by: tu3031   2006-09-22 12:54  

#5  They are really striving to piss everyone off they can, aren't they?

Typical liberal. If you can't get everyone to agree with you, belittle all other points of view but your own.
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-09-22 12:41  

#4  "Happiness is seeing Natalie in the rear view mirror." with apologies to Mac Davis. And wondering what ever became of the Texas Tech professor, Lubbock radio talk show host, and Rantburger extraordinaire-- Atomic Conspiracy.
Posted by: GK   2006-09-22 12:17  

#3  Heh. I'd like to attend Natalie Maines Day in Lubbock. Perhaps everyone can dress up as stupid skanks with big mouths and expert opinions derived from their high school education...
Posted by: Frank G   2006-09-22 12:07  

#2  Excellent, keep flapping your lips Natalie. I think the other two 'chicks' are going to kick this one out of the coop. At least if they want a pot to piss in.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-09-22 12:04  

#1  Shut up and Sing sounds like good advice for the Chicks.

Posted by: DoDo   2006-09-22 12:01  

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