Dixie Chick Apologizes to Bush

The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines, who told a London audience earlier this week that she was "ashamed" of President Bush, said Friday she's sorry for her comment.

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

The Dixie Chicks, who are from Texas, are on a European tour. While in London, Maines told the audience, "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 trio's music. Two Dallas stations stopped playing the group's music because of Maines' comments.

The popular group won three Grammys last month for their multi-platinum disc Home. They have the No. 1 country song with "Travelin' Soldier," about a soldier in Vietnam.

On Friday, Maines said the group is "witnessing a huge anti-American sentiment as a result of the perceived rush to war" while on tour in Europe.

"While war may remain a viable option, as a mother, I just want to see every possible alternative exhausted before children and American soldiers' lives are lost," she said. "I love my country. I am a proud American."

Maines' contrite statement is in contrast to her comments on Thursday, when she said: "I feel the president is ignoring the opinion of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration, and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view."

The Dixie Chicks will kick off a U.S. tour on May 1 in Greenville, S.C. The group's other hits include "Wide Open Spaces," "Ready to Run" and "Landslide."

Goodbye Girls
(parody of Goodbye Earl)

Natalie Maines was a big mouthed broad
Set in her backwoods ways,
Not a big fan of Toby Keith,
Not a big fan of Jenny Craig.
After failed tryouts her dad went out,
Told her to give country a whirl.
Nat went out and met Martie and Em,
and they became the Dixie girls.

Well it wasn't 3 albums
After they joined up
Natty started shooting her mouth,
She joined Lillith fair, dissed Toby's hair
And started alienating the South.
Well, she finally went on tour in the good ol' U.K.,
And started badmouthing Bush,
But the good ol' boys caught wind of her trash
And her career began to flush.

Right away their PR firm called in from England
said "Bush ignores every one"
They said speech is a right,
and there's no need to fight,
But it appeared the damage was done,
Those girls better run...

na-na-na-na-na
Goodbye Girls
Those three CDs
na-na-na-na-na
They make good frisbees, girrrrrrrrls
You're feeling bad?
na-na-na-na-na
Why don't you take it to Iraq girrrrrrrls
Ain't it dark
na-na-na-na-na
At the bottom of the charts girrrrrrrrls

Nattie wrote back to cry some more
She told the Pres she was sorr-ay
Then she played the "mother" card,
claimed Europe was jarred,
and said "I lub the USA"
Well, the weeks went by and
spring turned to summer
and summer faded into fall.
And it turned out the Chicks were a missing group
who nobody missed at all.

So the girls lost their cash
When Sony got mad and they were soon broke,
They got America annoyed, and were soon unemployed
And all because the big one spoke

Girls, say goodbye

na-na-na-na-na
Goodbye Girls
The Dixie Chicks... (break in the song)
Working at Hotel 6, girrrrrrrls
Without a trace,
na-na-na-na-na
Shedaisy's taking your place, girrrrrrrls
Ain't that weak?
na-na-na-na-na
Good! Think before you speak, girrrrrrrls
Hey!
na-na-na-na-na

New Boston Tea Party Without Dixie Cups Or Chicks!!

Lipton Tea sponsors and pays for the Dixie Chicks, time to send all over the Internet to every american to take their Lipton Tea and donate it to Homeless Shelter and buy another Brand other than Lipton.

Lipton has clauses in the contracts that lets them remove the Dixie Chicks should they violate Public Relations tsndards that hurt the Company or Product.

I say Boycott Lipton until they drop the Dixie Chicks!

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