Dixie Chicks Explain Anti-Bush Comment (They're feeling the heat)

Yahoo News ^ | (3/13/03, 5 p.m. ET) | Margy Holland, Nashville

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3/13/03, 5 p.m. ET) -- The Dixie Chicks are stirring up controversy with a recent negative comment about President Bush while overseas promoting their current album, Home.

The trio performed a live show in London on Monday (March 10th) night, and Natalie Maines (news) told the crowd, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."

That statement prompted all kinds of reactions from the American public, causing the group to further explain their stance on their official website. "We've been overseas for several weeks and have been reading and following the news accounts of our government's position," the group explains. "The anti-American sentiment that has unfolded here is astounding. While we support our troops, there is nothing more frightening than the notion of going to war with Iraq (news - web sites) and the prospect of all the innocent lives that will be lost."

Maines also says, "I feel the President is ignoring the opinions 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 perform another live show in Munich, Germany on March 19th.

-- Margy Holland, Nashville

[tomahawk]

The "Dixie Chicks" can go to Hell.

[TADSLOS]

Yeah, right. The little twit probably hade her manager draft a response while she took a powder.

[zip]

I just caught this on another thread - The mouth's husband is the son of an Iranian, they are friends with Sean penn, etc so ............

[tessalu]

Dixie Chicks can now claim fame. They have made it to the "Traitor" list.

[Purge Thunder]

The word "Traitor" is dead-on. These liberal twits need to realize that there are consequences to their actions. I hope the Dixie Chicks' popularity and pocket book are most effective.

It seems I may be getting my wish.

[Sir Sidney Reilly MC]

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!