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Diane Sawyer to Interview Dixie Chicks
ABC13.COM ^ | 4/22/03 | AP

Posted on 04/22/2003 3:21:35 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay

New York — If one off-hand remark got The Dixie Chicks international response, imagine the buzz that will come after Friday's one-hour exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer. Natalie Maines, Emily Erwin and Martie Seidel will be the sole guests on a special edition of "Primetime," on ABC Friday night.

Meanwhile, despite the supposed outcry, people are snapping up Dixie Chick concert tickets. Their agent, Rob Light, tells Billboard that despite some backlash at radio and retail after that "we're embarrassed he's from Texas" comment about President Bush, the Dixie Chicks are flying high. Light says that of 59 shows, only six have seats left, and those are all 85-90% sold-out.

The Chicks' tour kicks off May 1 in Greenville, South Carolina, and concludes August 4 in Nashville.


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Their agent, Rob Light...people are snapping up Dixie Chick concert tickets

Some would pay the price just to protest, perhaps? Time will tell. Maybe the Sawyer interview is the stage they are using to 'apologize' or try to redeem themselves before the kickoff of their tour.

1 posted on 04/22/2003 3:21:36 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay
Gee I hope the air time doesn't conflict with Monica Lewinski's new TV show. </sarcasm>
2 posted on 04/22/2003 3:23:07 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: fight_truth_decay
The sad thing is people will forget what they said.
There careers will go on
3 posted on 04/22/2003 3:23:46 PM PDT by since1868
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4 posted on 04/22/2003 3:26:21 PM PDT by happydogdesign
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To: fight_truth_decay
Tickets for the concert series went on sale before Maynes openned her trap and put her foot in her mouth.

So to say that people are snapping up tickets is a blatent lie - most of the tickets were already sold
5 posted on 04/22/2003 3:26:42 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (God bless the coalition troops and their families)
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To: fight_truth_decay
As has been mentioned before, most of those tickets were bought before they made their remarks about Bush.
6 posted on 04/22/2003 3:26:50 PM PDT by speedy
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To: fight_truth_decay
Maybe the Sawyer interview is the stage they are using to 'apologize' or try to redeem themselves before the kickoff of their tour.

In that case, they had better put a muzzle on Nattering Natalie.

7 posted on 04/22/2003 3:26:53 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: fight_truth_decay
I dont watch ABC but thanks for the warning!~!
Diane Sawyer and Natalie Maines!! Yikes!! I Think I'd end up bustin' the TV!
8 posted on 04/22/2003 3:27:03 PM PDT by mylife
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>>>only six have seats left

That's cuz they only had six seats to begin with.
9 posted on 04/22/2003 3:27:29 PM PDT by 4mycountry (Anyone can be average---it takes something special to be weird. I am honored to be weird.)
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To: So Cal Rocket
Looks like the So Cal Rocket beat New York Speedy by seconds!
10 posted on 04/22/2003 3:28:06 PM PDT by speedy
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To: mylife
LOL! That is a lot of blonde airhead in one sitting, isn't it?
11 posted on 04/22/2003 3:28:11 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: fight_truth_decay
Gee whiz… imagine ABC promoting someone who said "we're embarrassed he's from Texas" about President Bush. Who'da thunk it?
12 posted on 04/22/2003 3:28:56 PM PDT by auboy
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To: fight_truth_decay
So, Diane Sawyer is going to give "the whole hour" to the Dixie Chicks and no time to anyone with the opposite point of view? I guess "freedom of speech" is just for the rich and famous. For the rest of us, we have the "freedom to sit down and shut up."

I deal with this subject in advance in my latest column, "Who's Next?" (First link, below.)

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, now up on FR, "Who's Next?"

Latest book(let), "to Restore Trust in America."

13 posted on 04/22/2003 3:29:41 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob ("Saddam has left the building. Heck, the building has left the building.")
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To: speedy
I certainly bought my tickets to the Salt Lake concert before Maynes opened her mouth. I have asked both Ticketmaster and the tour sponsor about a refund, to no avail. I could probably sell the tickets on e-bay, but that wouldn't send a message to these stupid broads. I haven't yet decided what to do. The concert is in July.
14 posted on 04/22/2003 3:29:49 PM PDT by lady lawyer
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LOL! That is a lot of blonde airhead in one sitting, isn't it?

Yup!! I Think The sight of it would cause my head t explode.

15 posted on 04/22/2003 3:29:58 PM PDT by mylife
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To: 4mycountry
WHOOPS!!! "six" and "have" should be inverted, sorry.....

God, I have been messing up my posts all day WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!?!
16 posted on 04/22/2003 3:30:07 PM PDT by 4mycountry (Anyone can be average---it takes something special to be weird. I am honored to be weird.)
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To: lady lawyer
Why don't you go to the concert and disrupt it... and tell whoever tries to stop you that you're just practicing your right to free speech.
17 posted on 04/22/2003 3:31:06 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (God bless the coalition troops and their families)
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To: since1868
Never Forget.
18 posted on 04/22/2003 3:32:10 PM PDT by 4mycountry (Anyone can be average---it takes something special to be weird. I am honored to be weird.)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Diane: (she's a in-tell-ekh-shoe-all, doncha know): "What kind of trees would you like to be?"
19 posted on 04/22/2003 3:32:13 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Subvert the conspiracy of inanimate objects!)
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To: since1868
We never forgot Hanoi Jane! Not that what the Chick said was as bad as her!
20 posted on 04/22/2003 3:33:33 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Liberate Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, NK, Cuba...; Support the Troops!)
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