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Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines Rips Country Music, Fans
By CK Rairden, Jan 30, 2006
The Dixie Chicks were humming along as a darling country music trio until one night in March 2003 in London. Lead singer Natalie Maines slammed President George W. Bush at a concert and announced to the British crowd, ''We're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.''
That didn't sit well with country music fans then, and now Maines says she's finished with the genre and is none too pleased with the fans, basically labeling them as redneck hicks.
She tells Entertainment Weekly, "the stereotype is true."
"For me as a person, [The incident has] completely altered the course I was on," Maines tells Entertainment Weekly. "For me to be in country music to begin with was not who I was. I liked Martie and Emily's (the talented Dixie Chicks) playing, but I did not grow up liking country music."
"And I guess I was ignorant to the fact that the stereotypes behind country music were true — and it was disappointing."
Ouch. She wasn't finished trashing the fans of country music.
"So I'm pretty much done. They've shown their true colors. I like lots of country music, but as far as the industry and everything that happened... I couldn't want to be farther away from that," Maines told EW.
So - how do sisters Emily and Martie feel about this?
"Um... I don't know," answers Maines. Yikes.
The easy solution when this all began for the Chicks was to back Maines' right to rip the president and then move forward. But then Natalie attacked mega-star Toby Keith and now has attacked the fans and basically anyone that listens to country music.
The trio also tried the victim route at the time crying on national TV and posing for the cover on the left. That didn't work as the only folks running to their defense was the far left political fringe.
And with this rambling diatribe, it appears Natalie fits right in:
"Every day a soldier dies, I am more proud that I spoke out. For the last three years, I am at a loss for words as to... what this country is. Who we are. I really think people have just gone insane. And they think we've gone insane.
I think it's sad that you have to truly seek out the truth these days, because CNN and Fox News don't give it to you. So you can't really point a finger at individuals, because it's exhausting to seek out fact from fiction.
I used to try and make sense of it but when Bush got reelected, I just didn't know what to do. Keep livin'. It's gotta change back.
Politics — I just think it's all corrupt. The entire country is controlled by money. And I think that's what people feel, they don't — their voice isn't heard. They don't have a say. It's corporate America. My friend made up the word corpocracy. I love that word."
Natalie Maines is a classic moonbat. She admits that "it's easier when you're financially set, because you can be a little 'more ballsy,' and just do what you want to do," then rips the folks that bought her records and paid cash to attend Dixie Chicks' concerts that gave her that independence.
She says ripping country music and its fans is not revenge; she just doesn't want to "compromise herself."
I guess that means she'll be giving back the fortune she amassed as the lead singer of the Chicks then - right?
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Jimmy Carter: At Least Hamas Isn't Corrupt
When asked by the media for his thoughts on the Hamas triumph in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, former President Jimmy Carter replied that while they have a terrorist past, at least they're not corrupt.
One of the complaints by many in the Middle East was the corruption within the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat's Fatah Party.
Arafat himself squirreled away millions of dollars from aid packages that were intended to help the Palestinian people.
However, Carter's comment appears to dismiss the years of death and destruction perpetrated by Hamas on the Jewish State.
One of the first statements made by the leaders of Hamas rebuffed demands to disarm and change its charter. Part of Hamas' charter is the total destruction of Israel and the establishment of an Islamic nation.
Israelis are in shock over this development and they wonder how they will be able to negotiate with these newly empowered Islamic Jihadists in their midst.
It's one thing to fight terrorists living in the shadows, but quite another thing to deal with them when the are legally elected officials in a sovereign nation that borders the Israeli State.
Tehran sent its congratulations to “the Palestinians, the Hamas movement, all Palestinians combatants, and the great Islamic [jihad].”
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