Dixie Chicks Boycott Coordination thread

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As you might expect, we've received many e-mails and phone calls from KNCI listeners who are upset with recent comments made by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks. Some of our listeners have called for a ban of all the Dixie Chicks' music on KNCI.

We feel that, right now, a total ban of their music is as "un-American" as the comments Maines made while in Europe. She, has an American, certainly has the right to express her opinion...even though I, and roughly 90% of our listeners who've contacted the station, strongly take issue with what she said.

Today, (3/14) Maines issued an apology to President Bush for her remarks (see below).

I would like to remind our listeners that KNCI doesn't make hit songs and artists, you do. Each year KNCI spends tens of thousands of dollars researching music likes and dislikes here in the Sacramento area. It's your purchases at the records stores, the concert tickets you buy, and the thousands of requests we receive each day that makes or breaks artists in Country music.

Many of the Dixie Chicks hit songs were written by people who don't share Maines opinions. KNCI pays royalty fees to these composers, and to take their hit songs off the air would simply not be the right thing to do.

Thanks to all who've taken the time to let us know how you feel. KNCI joins you in keeping our President and the troops overseas in our thoughts and prayers.

Mark Evans,(mevans@infinitysac.com)
KNCI Program Director

Please let Mark know that we do not want to hear the Dixie Chicks anymore.

WMZQ's Poll for TONIGHT !!! (3/17/03)

Well, that address no longer works!!! ... but here is a link to the Lipton promotion:

http://www.lipton.com/images/tour2.pdf

and here is an e-mail/phone for the -

Lipton Press Contact:
David DeCecco, (914) 253-2655, david.dececco@pepsi.com

I also e-mailed these addresses(that I got from Contacts at the Lipton.com website) with no delivery returns:
liptontusa@unilever.com
letters.liptontusa@unilever.com

Here is the email I sent them, entitled "I disagree".

To leave their music on the air is a slap in the face to our country while we are about to go to war. She has a right to express her opinion, but doing it on stage in another country, while she is embarking on a tour away from the US for 6+ weeks is very cowardly and ugly behavior. Her mother obviously forgot to teach her any manners. If I have an issue with my husband I don't go to work and tell my co-workers about it. Houston had a rodeo the other day where some 70,000 people booed the Dixie Chicks and gave a standing ovation to Alabama when they said they were proud to be from Texas. This gives me much hope. I hope Houston does not forget. I know I will not forget.

The Chicks are being nominated on CMT.COM for Flameworthy Aware.

Go to the site and place your vote for someone that is worthy.

“Some of us”.

My Dad made the invasion.

The one that happened in 1944.

The one that stopped the Germans and liberated France and a lot of other places whose citizens seemed to have forgotten who was there to help when no one else came.
I can’t remember if he was on Omaha or Utah beach. He never said too much about where he was and what he saw. In rare moments, when I was a kid, he would haul out his medals and tell me funny stories mainly about pranks and jokes his men played on each other.
He didn’t talk about the other stuff.
After the war was over he, along with a lot of other Americans came home and went to work.
He paid his taxes, paid his bills, smoked cigarettes a lot, made his way through life and then died.
I can only remember taking one vacation with him. He didn’t laugh a lot.
I can’t remember ever sitting down and just talking to him about life in general.
He was a quiet, silent type of person.
I don’t recall him blaming anyone but himself for his misfortunes in life. He didn’t think the government ‘owed’ him anything. He knew that smoking was bad for him and yet he didn’t think of suing the tobacco companies for his choices.
In short, he was just an average American who got yanked up by a war he didn’t start and was sent over to some foreign country for their defense and then came home.
There were millions more just like him out there.

Somewhere, along the way we seem to have lost our way and have forgotten these brave, silent men and women.
Somewhere, along the way we have changed the rules of fair play.

Some of us have made the rapper… whose words of rape, robbery, murder and mayhem…the song of the day.

Some of us look and admire the film star who; making his or her living by imitating reality, heroes in our eyes because they can afford to make trips to the camps of our sworn enemies. Then they denounce the very country that allowed them to have their freedom in the first place. Some of us listen to that film or rock star de jour who may have a high school education take advantage of their popularity and espouse theory on economic and affairs of state they know nothing about. Then some of us swoon over these ‘profound statements’ spoken by the exalted ones. Words neither of their making nor in a lot of cases even capable of being understood by their speaker. These same people couldn’t string two sentences together without the aid of a publicist or someone to write their dialogs each day. If you can’t explain it, don’t say it. Because you are in a medium that imitates life doesn’t mean you understand it...or live it.

Some of us call a television journalist who poses for smiling publicity photographs with the leader of the nation that has sworn to destroy our way of life…courageous.

Some of us think it is chic and ‘the thing to do’ by attending expensive dress balls and galas to support medical research to find a cure for a disease which is caused by an unnatural sex act. Yet, these same gala attendees rebel against the idea that photos of a moving, living unborn fetus should not be shown to the pregnant mother prior to a government funded abortion. Some of us will put a bumper sticker on our cars proclaiming…”Save The Whales” but will key your car or spit on you if you have a “pro-life” sticker on yours.

As a nation we have allowed the evolution of television to deteriorate to the point where the language is so foul and crude that were you to eliminate the four letter obscenities the program would be virtually silent. Yet these programs are the ones which receive the highest awards the entertainment industry can hand out.

I wonder how our forefathers would have viewed the current rash of so-called ‘reality’ shows in which we encourage and yes, pay large sums of money for out of marriage relationships? I hate to tell these people, but survival isn’t a television program. It’s some poor smuck working on some assembly line for twenty-five years so his kids can have a home and go to college. Try making that into a program.

While we’re at it why don’t we eliminate the word “God’ from our Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. The word is in there, as it is in our Pledge of Allegiance. We can’t allow anything like God to stand in our way, can we? Some of us are working very hard to take this word out of those documents.

Some of us think that corporate greed; theft and embezzlement are all good virtues, unless it happens to be in one of the companies we’re invested with. ”To hell with morality, what kind of profit is forecasted in the next quarter?” Little wonder the barons of Enron and WorldCom were confused and encouraged.

Some of us think it is wrong to own guns but ok to hire bodyguards to protect us. We need it, you don’t. We’re ‘special’… you aren’t.

Some of us want to abolish the death penalty and prison. We shouldn’t lock those poor people up just because they killed someone or maimed someone or stole someone’s’ life savings. No, we shouldn’t traumatize those individuals…but we forget the victims. We’ll spend $40,000- $50,000 each year to keep someone in prison, but we’ll allow the victim to go it alone and be forced to live off of the resources of their families or church. Prisoners get better medical benefits and healthcare than do a lot of the persons they have harmed. Some of us think it isn’t enough and they should have more…lots more.

We’ll allow books to be published, television programs to be made and movies to be filmed about the glamour of crime and it’s participants, but no money finds it’s way into the hands of those most affected by violence. We glorify criminals and hold them up in high esteem. We denounce whistle blowers and so called …’do-gooders’. They have fallen out of style. We make entire television series about the beautiful people who make their living from crime. When’s the last time you saw a series about a plumber or an accountant?

But, you know we need plumbers and accountants. They may not have fancy houses or fly into Hollywood openings wearing Versace suits but when your toilet stops up, you don’t call some Academy Award, Tony or Grammy winner, do you?

No, you don’t…you know why?

Because most of these people are the quiet, silent folks like my Dad was.

They went to faraway places like France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy so that we could have some freedom in this country. They didn’t ask to go. They went because it was the right thing to do. They fought and died to make this world a free place to live in. They fought and died to allow “Some folks” to do as they do in our country.

My Dad never talked about the dead friends he left. He could never look at a photograph of the cemetery at Normandy without his eyes tearing up.

He didn’t consider himself a hero. He thought the ones who didn’t make it back were the heroes.

He was proud of what he fought for and for what it achieved.

I wonder if he’d be so proud now?

Truth to tell, I’m kind of glad he isn’t here to see what “Some of us” have caused to happen.

God Bless this County and our men and women helping to keep us free…wherever you are.

Peary Perry
Austin, Texas
March 9, 2003