NBC Refuses Ads For Dixie Chicks Movie

To: Mr Ramsbotham

The paying public simply refused to buy the crap they peddle out of disgust for what they had said.

Hey, you know this is just a singing group and everything but I'll risk scorn at my assertion that this is waaaay more important in so many ways that our bemused and shocked selves might consider it.

THIS is the only power us minions in the Middle Class of America has! We carry this country, indeed the world, on our collective backs. We are raising the next generation of citizens and soldiers out here in la-la land. And they want to take the one power we have away from us: the power to buy/see/listen/vote for whatever and whoever the hell we want!

They are trying to lead us stupid horses to water and we ain't drinking and they are pissed.

There is no law, no commandment, no ethical standard, no rules of conduct that we, the citizens of la-la land who abide by the law and support our families, are breaking by not buying records made by twits who spit directly in the eye of their most targeted audience.

With all of our power, the mighty Middle Class is notoriously difficult to organize but on the Dixie nothing Chicks we have banded together and refused to buy their product and they still want to piss on our feet and tell us it's raining.

I am so freaking insulted by these idiots who think they can make me feel guilty about not buying a product that they sell! I don't have to buy the product and I don't have to buy the product for whatever reason I damn choose and in this case I think the singers should sing and leave the pontificating to the pundits, politicians and citizens.

I don't begrudge the celebrity elite their fame. If they've talent and they've scrunged and struggled their way to the top then God Bless America and good on you.

But the Dixie Chicks overstepped their bounds and yet they refuse, just REFUSE, to leave us law-abiding citizens who buy the goods, carry this country and pay the taxes, ALONE!

NBC isn't running this ad because they hear a death knell in the distance. The public isn't buying this crap and that same public ain't buying Katie Couric and all the crap they try to shove down our throats.

Damn I feel so powerful and here I am just a humble citizen. Today I posted another wise observation on the Katie Couric thread and darn if I didn't mention the Dixie Chicks in THAT post...way before this flap started.

They really need to start paying attention to us as we've got the medium to communicate en masse now.

Above rant courtesy of Pat Fish.

61 posted on 10/26/2006 7:59:46 PM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com)

To: blogblogginaway

What??????? Is it possible they have seen the light?

62 posted on 10/26/2006 8:00:48 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn

So, Shut Up And Wait. Come November 8th, you can spew your bilge on any network you please. Otherwise, you are simply one more loophole in the whole McCain-Feingold canard and you should have no more right to speak just before an election than a myriad of other interest groups with a political point of view.

I was wondering about that. My read of McCain-Feingold is that it restricts "issue ads" that name a federal candidate -- Bush isn't a candidate for any office, and I didn't see any other politicians I could identify in the ad. But the ad spending, even without targeting a specific race, could still classify as an in-kind donation to the Democrats, I guess. I noticed that the ad didn't have the disclaimer about who paid for it at the end.

All you'd have to do is release a movie or a book, and launch an ad blitz for it, thus sneaking an issue ad in the back door -- not a bad ploy, and if it worked this time, you could count on it being tried again.

Ann Coulter's (a small mention, so just a small pic, but rules are rules) publisher, for example, could decide that her book needed a promotional boost in early November for some reason -- and so could Al Franken's. Give 29 seconds of quotes from the book with pictures of the people targeted, and then plug the book at the end.

From there it's a small step to throwing together a cheap book or movie with no intention of ever making any money off of it, but just using it as a conduit for advertising. And from there it's a small step to a 527 setting up its own ostensibly for-profit publishing house to crank out books as an excuse to advertise them.

63 posted on 10/26/2006 8:04:39 PM PDT by ReignOfError

To: blogblogginaway

64 posted on 10/26/2006 8:06:08 PM PDT by Txsleuth (EVERYONE VOTE---AND VOTE REPUBLICAN,...even if you have to hold your nose!)

They're taking this small, un-altering stand so that they can say, "See, we're balanced."

65 posted on 10/26/2006 8:09:16 PM PDT by bannie

To: ButThreeLeftsDo

66 posted on 10/26/2006 8:10:52 PM PDT by AmishDude (Mwahahahahahahahaha -- official evil laugh of the North American Union)

To: Txsleuth; blogblogginaway

67 posted on 10/26/2006 8:11:21 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)

68 posted on 10/26/2006 8:16:47 PM PDT by Txsleuth (EVERYONE VOTE---AND VOTE REPUBLICAN,...even if you have to hold your nose!)

To: All; blogblogginaway

How do they get away with using the title of Laura's book?

69 posted on 10/26/2006 8:23:58 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Arnold-McClintock-YES 85 Parents Notified-YES 90 Eminent Domain-SanDiego:NO A,YES B & C)

You are so witty. Indeed they have though, although I imagine that NBC is also tired of hearing the screeches of the Dixie Chicks.

70 posted on 10/26/2006 8:42:56 PM PDT by Niuhuru

"Weinstein continues to direct the company's endeavors, producing box-office successes like "Pulp Fiction," "Shakespeare in Love," and "The English Patient.""

I heard that Gwyneth Paltrow 'baked cookies' for Weinstein to get the lead part in "Shakespeare In Love."

71 posted on 10/26/2006 8:44:49 PM PDT by Niuhuru

You are so witty. Indeed they have though, although I imagine that NBC is also tired of hearing the screeches of the Dixie Chicks.

Oh don't call me witty. It only serves to encourage me. And I've made my share of less than appropriate comments. Anyway, I love you and all that.

72 posted on 10/26/2006 8:49:57 PM PDT by Jaysun (Idiot Muslims. They're just dying to have sex orgies.)

To: blogblogginaway

Does this mean they will no longer be airing the Today Show, NBC Nightly News and half of their programming then?

What's the real reason, because they certainly have never given a damn about just representation toward this President let alone critisism.

73 posted on 10/26/2006 9:03:55 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)

BTW, the question is rhetorical on my part.

IF there are no other anvils waiting to be dropped about this I'd wager they've been in communication with Halperin.

And, it's not going to work. No conservative is going to believe a few carefully chosen denouncements and suddenly the MSM is into "fairness". because 98% of the rest they don't raise to attention say otherwise.

If I had to guess I'd state this goes beyond '06, but into '08. They want to defuse distrust of conservatives and other Americans towards them, and defuse a base mobilzer in '08.

Tell them what. When they log ten years of consistent just treatment to either side and to themselves as well, then I might lower the suspicion a degree.

74 posted on 10/26/2006 9:10:29 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)

To: blogblogginaway

To register you have to give a real email addy so they can send you a pin# to log in before posting to their blog.

No way were those pigs getting my real addy. Not with what I was going to tell them..lol

75 posted on 10/26/2006 9:33:57 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Getting the FReepers to bring down the Dixie Chix is hard work......G.W. Bush)

To: blogblogginaway

Hypothesis:The agitprop masters at National Socialist Broadcasting recognize that pop-culture conspiracy theories appeal only to a limited audience and would tend to alienate more mainstream voters in the coming election.

Short version: Not many potheads vote and running the Chick commercials would annoy everyone else and backfire on the Donks.

76 posted on 10/27/2006 12:27:24 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Islamo-terrorists: Strike force of the MSM)

To: blogblogginaway

So, they won't get to run a partisan anti-republican ad in the form of movie trailer during the election. Good. Scratch one more October surprise.

77 posted on 10/27/2006 5:35:13 AM PDT by Grig

To: blogblogginaway

Famed litigator David Boies stated, “It is disappointing and troubling that NBC and The CW would refuse to accept an otherwise appropriate ad merely because it is critical of President Bush."

One week before an election, and not being submitted as a campaign ad? The networks are dong absolutely the correct thing. For a change.

78 posted on 10/27/2006 5:37:34 AM PDT by kevkrom (War is not about proportionality. Knitting is about proportionality. War is about winning.)

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the Vichy Chicks

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Outstanding!! That should become the official Free Republic moniker. No more Dixie slander. Hence forth they are the

Vichy Chicks

79 posted on 10/27/2006 5:47:02 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. We will screw you inshallah)

To: blogblogginaway

It’s a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America.

Note to Natalie and her enablers: You weren't blacklisted. You were merely unpopular.

What's more, you did it to yourselves. That isn't the wisest move for a musical performer, but what makes it all the more baffling is that you continue to do it.

Nobody's mind will be changed by your tantrums. Your best career move at this point is to shut up and sing.

80 posted on 10/27/2006 5:52:40 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)

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