Dixie Chicks' Maines apologizes to Bush (The first one didn't cut it)

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[GAGOP]

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - The Dixie Chicks (news - web sites)' Natalie Maines has apologized to President George W. Bush (news - web sites) for am anti-war comment insult she made at a London concert.

"As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful," the singer said Friday in a statement. "I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect."

Maines told the audience earlier this week, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

Angry phone calls flooded a Nashville radio station on Thursday, some calling for a boycott of the Texas trio's music. Two Dallas stations stopped playing the group's music because of Maines' comments.

The Dixie Chicks are touring Europe where Maines said Friday they are "witnessing a huge anti-American sentiment as a result of the perceived rush to war."

Maines said she is a mother and wants to see "every possible alternative exhausted" before lives are lost.

The Dixie Chicks will kick off a U.S. tour in support of their multi-platinum album "Home" on May 1 in Greenville, South Carolina. The group's hits include "Wide Open Spaces," "Ready to Run" and "Landslide."

[isthisnickcool]

Correction!

Her current name is Natalie Louise Maines Tarabay Pasdar. She is married to Adrian Pasdar. He is 9 years younger than her and is the son of HOMAYOON PASDAR Born in Tehran, Iran.

[error99]

I wonder if this one will get pulled...

[nicmarlo]

LOL....too little, too late; they'll be better known as 'LANDSLIDE backlash'

[Dianna]

Apologies for this sort of thing don't cut it with me. If no one had complained would she be apologising? Doubt it.

[katana]

Well isn't that bit of information enlightening. Funny how the group's publicists don't make that a headline at their website.

[TankerKC]

Well, that is interesting.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Natalie Maines is finding out the public doesn't have to buy Dixie Chicks CD's or buy tickets to their concerts. I hope this is the end of the Chicks' career. It will send a big message to the rest of the egomaniac entertainment crowd to keep their anti-American mouths shut or face the wrath of the publc who will force them to find a new line of work.

[oyez]

I use the usual leftest response: Too little, too late. Not interested.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

By Mary Murphy
(TV Guide: November 18, 2000)

After a whirlwind romance, Dixie Chick Natalie Maines and husband - actor Adrian Pasdar - prepare for their greatest production (a baby!)

Tummy protruding and cheeks aglow, Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, cuddles up on a sofa next to her husband, actor Adrian Pasdar, to talk about the dramatic new twist in her life.

"We are so lucky," says Maines, who is four months pregnant with the couple's first child. "This is one of the most beautiful things that can happen to two people."

Their romance may feel like a fairy tale, but the newlyweds hardly have time for a pregnancy that's by-the-book. Pasdar spends most of his days in Vancouver filming the Pax series Mysterious Ways (Tuesdays, 8 P.M./ET), in which he plays a quirky anthropology professor pursuing paranormal events. Maines is touring with the Dixie Chicks and recently taped the group's first concert special, Dixie Chicks: On the Fly, which airs this week on NBC. At the moment, the couple is enjoying rare time together in their rented home in Vancouver.

So far, the pregnancy hasn't been too tough physically for the petite singer. "I've had no morning sickness," says Maines, who, true to her Lubbock, Texas, roots, admits to having a craving for Mexican food. But the coming months just may put a crimp in her rompin', stompin' stage show. "I'll be sitting down a lot more," she says with a laugh.

Emotionally, being an expectant mom has been stressful. "I cry for no reason," she says. "You want to tell yourself to stop, but you can't. I went to a doctor and said, 'Can't you give me something for these ups and downs?' And he said, 'Just live through it.' "

Country singers have written many songs about rocky relationships, but it appears as if Maines's will be only about wedded bliss. "I didn't think there could ever be anyone like Adrian," she gushes. "We're both thrill seekers. And even when he didn't have a job, he was always working, fixing up the house or the car. He was never just sitting around watching TV. I would lose respect for him if he was living his life through me."

Maines, 25, and Pasdar, 35, were married June 24 of this year in a Las Vegas chapel. Four weeks later, she took a home pregnancy test. "It was only a month after the wedding," Maines says, "but I knew I was going to be bummed if I wasn't [pregnant]."

Says Pasdar: "There's no point in getting married without having children. But we didn't really think it would happen like, 'Hello! I'm pregnant!' She went off the pill, and it was like, whammo!"

That word could also describe their whirlwind courtship. The couple met in May 1999 at the wedding of Dixie Chick Emily Robison nee Erwin and singer-songwriter Charlie Robison. After the ceremony, Maines and Pasdar ended up in a swimming pool - and then in bed.

"He stayed all night,"says Maines. "But we didn't do anything. Except a lot of kissing. I knew I loved him from the first night."

Pasdar proposed after joining Maines on the road in early June of this year, having asked her father, guitarist Lloyd Maines, for permission to marry his daughter. "He told me, 'Adrian, you are getting a good girl,' " says the actor. (Pasdar's parents, Homayoon, a heart surgeon, and Rosemarie, a travel agent, are divorced and live in Philadelphia.) Lloyd also recommended that his future son-in-law sign a prenuptial agreement. "He said, 'Adrian, you got to get you a prenuptial there, just to be smart,"' remarks Pasdar. "I think I brought it up first because Natalie had been through a bitter divorce [from musician Michael Tarabay, to whom she was married for 18 months], and it made perfect sense. There were a lot of people in various camps, [like her] handlers, who didn't know who I was, and you have got to make it very clear." Says Maines, "My parents are so protective." Did they think Adrian was interested in her money? "No, they just thought I had poor judgment from the first [marriage]."

And then there was the actor's Hollywood bad-boy past. Pasdar, a pal of both Mickey Rourke's and Sean Penn's (and whose credits include the TV series Profit and the films "Top Gun" and "Carlito's Way"), was once arrested for taking part in a fight at a bar while at the Cannes Film Festival. Pasdar says he was defending the honor of a female publicist. "This drunk guy started getting rowdy. I told him nicely to leave. I meant to pick him up and move him away, and he tripped and went through a plate-glass table. He got up and started swinging a lamp around. The police came. They took us both to jail. We finally got out and didn't have to pay [damages], but it was one real pickle I got myself into." That phase of his life is over, Pasdar insists. "I was never wild. Just careless."

Now the couple is writing a new life chapter. They're house hunting in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, where they'll be near fellow Chicks Robison, 27, and her sister Martie Seidel, 31. After the tour ends in December, the group will take a year off. "At some point, all the Dixie Chicks will have little chicks," explains Robison, who says she and her husband are - how do we say this? - trying to make a baby. (Seidel is currently dating Irish schoolteacher Gareth MaGuire).

And Maines is thinking about another gig: acting, perhaps in a TV-movie that Pasdar can direct. "My life has changed," she explains. "It doesn't devalue the Dixie Chicks. But I am a little more distant. It is not my life now. My life is about Adrian and me and the baby. We come first."

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[Savage Beast]

"The Dixie Chicks will kick off a U.S. tour in support of their multi-platinum album 'Home' on May 1 in Greenville, South Carolina."

This is a joke, right?

You mean they are seriously planning to come back to America!?!!

Message to Chicks: America is not proud of you! Don't bother to come back! And you can forget about your "careers".

[nothingnew]

"A$ a concerned American citizen, I apologize to Pre$ident Bu$h becau$e my remark was di$re$pectful," the $inger $aid Friday in a $tatement. "I feel that whoever hold$ that office $hould be treated with the utmo$t re$pect."

How's that?

FMCDH

[Savage Beast]

Somebody hand those Chicks a scrub brush and a couple of mops.

[The Wizard]

it's a bit late for an apology....notice you're being thrown off the radio, and some concerts are being canceled......no one is too big to fall....and maybe you should shut your mouth

[The Wizard]

I bet this impacts on their ticket sales, big time

[Diddley]

Apologies for this sort of thing don't cut it with me. If no one had complained would she be apologising? Doubt it

I agree with you.
I have always held that an apology (most apologies) just means, “OK. You caught me. Now leave me alone.” There is rarely any real atonement.

[nicmarlo]

How's that?

Now, that's an honest apology!!! : )

[Recovering_Democrat]

"As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful," the singer said Friday in a statement. "I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect."

ISSUED A STATEMENT?? I WANT TO HEAR HER SAY IT ON STAGE. AND SHE NEEDS TO REPEAT IT CONSTANTLY. HER WORDS STUNG, AND THE PAIN WILL NOT GO AWAY QUICKLY.

[uvular]

I saw her awhile back on of all shows, Trading Spaces. The host never mentioned her name, just said she was a country music singer. She did a room in her mom's house while mom did a room in hers-both goshawful!

When I first heard her statement about President Bush, I wondered if she was intentionally trying to break up the group, with hopes of a solo career in rock. Then I just figured, nah, she's just a stupid celebrity that doesn't know when to keep her pie hole shut.

[Recovering_Democrat]

THANKS FOR THAT EDITED VERSION OF THE STATEMENT!! I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT ON!