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KPFT (90.1 FM), said it would play the Dixie Chicks now more than ever.
Houton Chronicle ^ | 3/15/2003 | LOUIS B. PARKS

Posted on 03/14/2003 10:58:06 PM PST by MigrantOkie

In Houston, listener-sponsored Pacifica radio station KPFT (90.1 FM), said it would play the Dixie Chicks now more than ever.

"I just heard about it an hour ago from a caller who said there is some kind of boycott against the Dixie Chicks," said Wendy Schroell, KPFT administrative assistant. "That is the craziest thing I have ever heard. We are going to be playing them all the time.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: activistactors; anarchists; blixiprix; dixiechicks; houston; kpft; leftwingradio; pacifica; radio; socialists; texas; usefulidiots
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To: MigrantOkie
Just so you know, I'm ashamed I'm not from Texas.
61 posted on 03/15/2003 6:41:49 AM PST by cavdad (what your children are learning)
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To: gcruse
And does a Pacifica station play country music?

Here's one for them:

Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American) (Toby Keith)

American Girls and American Guys
We’ll always stand up and salute
We’ll always recognize
When we see Old Glory Flying
There’s a lot of men dead
So we can sleep in peace at night
When we lay down our head

My daddy served in the army
Where he lost his right eye
But he flew a flag out in our yard
Until the day that he died He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me
To grow up and live happy
In the land of the free.

Now this nation that I love
Has fallen under attack
A mighty sucker punch came flying in
From somewhere in the back
Soon as we could see clearly
Through our big black eye
Man, we lit up your world
Like the 4th of July

Hey Uncle Sam
Put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty
Started shaking her fist
And the eagle will fly
Man, its gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringing her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue

Justice will be served
And the battle will rage
This big dog will fight
When you rattle his cage
And you’ll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass
It's the American way

Hey Uncle Sam
Put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty
Started shaking her fist
And the eagle will fly
Man, its gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Freedom
Start ringing her bell
And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Brought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue

62 posted on 03/15/2003 7:14:02 AM PST by BenLurkin (They might also like "The Stockpile Song" Posted Jan. 23, 2002 at cmanandkane.com)
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To: InfraRed
This should be welcome news to both of the KPooFTer listeners.

One of them is in rehab, the ratings have fallen marginally.

63 posted on 03/15/2003 8:15:13 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
OK, now I can understand radio stations dropping their songs, but I think it crosses the line when the stations take it out on the girls personally. Apparently, one radio station--the call letters are KFC; I don't know where it's located--has actually started torturing the Chicks (see below). To me, this is too much.


64 posted on 03/15/2003 8:20:21 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (14:47 . . .)
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To: MigrantOkie
Here is a copy of a letter I just sent to their general manager.

'Sir,
As a veteran who just spent 20 years on active duty in the Navy, I can say that I am appalled at your support of the Dixie Chicks after their remarks about my Commander in Chief. This shows that your organization is one of those leftist outfits that tried to undermine this great nation while hiding behind its rights guaranteed to you by veterans like myself and many others. If you want to live in a socialist state, just head 90 miles south of the tip of Florida, there is a socialist paradise just tailor made for you. You are the useful idiots that Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin spoke of for his plan of global communism. Lenin predicted that prediction that liberals and other weak-minded souls in the West could be relied upon to be "useful idiots" as far as the Soviet Union was concerned. I know you definitely support Saddam's regime by your views. To put it bluntly sir, you suck, your station sucks, your beliefs suck. And I regret spending 20 years of putting my life on the line to protect losers like yourself.'

Guess that sums it up for me.

65 posted on 03/15/2003 8:27:29 AM PST by Colt .45 (Certo scio, occisam saepe sapere plus multo suem.)
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To: Colt .45
'Sir,
As a veteran who just spent 20 years on active duty in the Navy, I can say that I am appalled at your support of the Dixie Chicks after their remarks about my Commander in Chief. This shows that your organization is one of those leftist outfits that tried to undermine this great nation while hiding behind its rights guaranteed to you by veterans like myself and many others. If you want to live in a socialist state, just head 90 miles south of the tip of Florida, there is a socialist paradise just tailor made for you. You are the useful idiots that Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin spoke of for his plan of global communism. Lenin predicted that prediction that liberals and other weak-minded souls in the West could be relied upon to be "useful idiots" as far as the Soviet Union was concerned. I know you definitely support Saddam's regime by your views. To put it bluntly sir, you suck, your station sucks, your beliefs suck. And I regret spending 20 years of putting my life on the line to protect losers like yourself

GOOD FOR YOU!!! WELL SAID!!
66 posted on 03/15/2003 9:05:56 AM PST by BriarBey
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To: Colt .45
Great letter Colt.
67 posted on 03/15/2003 9:26:47 AM PST by MigrantOkie
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To: CroftonFreeper
Great work,Mass Freeping under way....
68 posted on 03/15/2003 9:33:24 AM PST by razbinn (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,and the republic for which it stands)
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To: MigrantOkie
This is no big deal. KPFT is a rabid socialist/communist, far left-wing radio station that hails out of Berkeley. I'm sure that Natalie Mains is pleased as punch to know that the A.N.S.W.E.R. crowd is giving the Vichy/Blixie Chicks their full support and admiration.

I can not say the same for at least a good 40 to 60% of her former fans (myself included) who were rightly offended and disappointed by her dissing President Bush, along with American servicemen & women whether or not she realized that at the time, in front of cheering anti-American, pacifist Euro-weenies. Yeah, she apologized, but I'll bet if there hadn't been such an uproar, she would be giving an interview on KPFT and standing next to Martin Sheen at a "peace" rally in a nano-second.

69 posted on 03/15/2003 11:50:27 AM PST by demnomo
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To: pollywog
"LOLOL!! and then promote Darryl Worley's new song " Have They Forgotten".!!!

Yep!!

70 posted on 03/15/2003 1:04:21 PM PST by Theresa
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To: MigrantOkie
Boycott this sation and let Houston hear us, so they can join in. lets' find forums in houston and call for a boycott of this station and the Dixie Chicks.

Ops4 God Bless America!
71 posted on 03/15/2003 1:06:04 PM PST by OPS4
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To: MigrantOkie
Would you expect anything from Pacifica - the idiot's network or record?
72 posted on 03/15/2003 1:07:07 PM PST by mhking (Fasten your seatbelts....We're goin' in!)
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To: MigrantOkie
This station is a dot org, it must be part of NPR the Commies radio Network.

Advertising does not support this station so we must get the public in Houston to hear the Freepers.

Get on the forums anywhere you can in Houston.
Stop the citizens from sending them money through membership.

Ops4 God Bless America!
73 posted on 03/15/2003 1:10:49 PM PST by OPS4
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To: Colt .45
Ditto,

From former 101st Psyops Team.

Ops4 God Bless America!
74 posted on 03/15/2003 1:12:32 PM PST by OPS4
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To: MigrantOkie
Done:

"I just heard about it an hour ago from a caller who said there is some kind of boycott against the Dixie Chicks," said Wendy Schroell, KPFT administrative assistant. "That is the craziest thing I have ever heard. We are going to be playing them all the time. If people are calling them un-American, how American is it to boycott someone for something they think?"

That is the beauty of living in this country, my dear: You can say anything you like, but you cannot force people to listen or spend their money on you.

Try that in a place like Iraq, and see how far it gets you.

The exact contents of my e-mail to her.

I find it rather amusing however how she is implying bashing your Prez and his (which just happens to be your own) home state is American, but boycotting them for saying it is not.

75 posted on 03/15/2003 1:55:09 PM PST by Houmatt (Accept no substitutes.)
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To: MigrantOkie
I guess that means all of KPFT's 12 listeners in the greater Houston area will get a chance to hear a Chick-A-Thon.
76 posted on 03/15/2003 2:23:37 PM PST by HennepinPrisoner
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To: OPS4
After a little research into this station I discovered the following, They are supported by donations and grants, mostly from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which I believe receives tax funding, It received it's broadcasting license for free, and is located in the core of gay Houston, Montrose. It is a target beyond our reach right now, any attention we bring to it will probably boost it's ratings by bringing attention to it. I'm not from the area and didn't know all this at first I just saw the article and it got my blood boiling and thought it deserved it's own posting.

Thank you for your posts.

77 posted on 03/15/2003 7:45:31 PM PST by MigrantOkie
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To: MigrantOkie
Two sides of the dial tackle war- Talk radio stations air opposing views (Houston, 501C3 violation?)

Again I ask, does KPFT violate their tax free status?

78 posted on 03/16/2003 5:59:36 PM PST by weegee (McCarthy was right - Fight the Red Menace)
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To: MigrantOkie
Montrose is still queer....damn it was that way 22 years ago...some things never change.

Westheimer apartment jungle dweller circa 1980 here.
79 posted on 03/16/2003 6:03:51 PM PST by wardaddy (The only way to defeat these invaders is I fear the Black Flag!!.....very true today in my view)
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To: MigrantOkie
SXSW Scene

Michael Corcoran
American-Statesman Staff

Add Lyle Lovett to the Natalie Maines critics, though the Houstonian did call the outspoken Dixie Chicks singer "a sweet girl" at his one-on-one interview with Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith at the Convention Center Saturday. "There are appropriate times for appropriate people to speak out," Lovett said when Smith brought up the controversy Maines has caused by telling a London audience she's ashamed President George W. Bush is from Texas.. "But just because you have the forum doesn't mean you should speak," Lovett said. Maines' sentiments no doubt had greater support at the big anti-war march that turned an already packed downtown area into a crush of pandemonium. I've never seen it so crazy so early downtown during SXSW.

80 posted on 03/16/2003 6:13:04 PM PST by weegee (McCarthy was right - Fight the Red Menace)
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