Drudge Sirens: TEARS ON TV: DIXIE CHICKS EXPLAIN BUSH BASHING

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[Exigence]

What more do you want me to do.

Stop jumping on those of us who don't want to offer forgiveness for a phony apology. That's where our conversation started, remember? I said "don't forget" and you came unglued about what it would take for the DC's to earn our forgiveness.

In short, you stepped in it and now you can't figure out how to get your shoes clean.

I'm tellin' ya, pal, time to admit you're backing an indefensible position. Is that the tones of "Retreat" wafting through the cyberwaves? Maybe you should listen... carefully.

[Ichneumon]

My antennae first went up with the "Earl" song and video...straight out of "women's studies" and only slighty funny...

I saw more as a very true to C&W song. In Texas, for example, there's the unwritten "he needed killin'" defense to a murder charge.

[honeygrl]

"Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire -- who finally speak out about controversial comments "

Finally?? It doesn't seem like they've shut up about the whole thing trying to defend what was said or half-heartedly trying to take back what was said since she made the comments. I would have a lot more respect for her if she would decide one way or the other and just stand by what she really thinks instead of trying to make everyone happy.

[razorbak]

As Dennis Miller noted:

The Dixie Chicks found out that criticizing your President on foreign soil during time of war, surprisingly, dosen't go over well with the NASCAR crowd.

[CyberCowboy777]

what super-imposed saddam photo are you talking about

[CyberAnt]

She's only sorry she got caught!!

[Hildy]

After reading what she said, about Bush not acting like he has compassion, I take back every single thing I said in her defense. what an ass.

[FITZ]

but I really doubt she supports Hussein

Do you have any actual evidence she doesn't support Hussein? Many of these radical leftists hate the President and the USA so much they actually wished Iraq would defeat the US.

[VRWC_minion]

People wouldn't have had to post doctored, childish pictures if she hadn't "acted the way she did". =s false dillema

[FITZ]

But I doubt any of us would get up in front of an audience in a foreign country, and announce that we were "ashamed that Bill Clinton was from Arkansas," or whatever.

Oh now that's a tough one! I'd have to say I was ashamed he was from the US. But it's an entirely different case because Clinton made a fool of himself many times. His ex-girlfriend still makes a fool out of him everytime she shows her face on tv and now she's got a silly reality show to keep making a fool of him.

[VRWC_minion]

Now I know you aren't being serious, or this is your first "Dixie Chicks" thread.='s false dillema.

[VRWC_minion]

All I did is simply ask what she could do to make it right, all the while knowing the answer would pretty much be "nothing".

=s' Variation of false dillema.

[VRWC_minion]

But lets be adults and not make some childish comment(not saying "you") at every mention of their name.

='s false dillema.

[wardaddy]

I doubt "she needed killin" would have elicited the same innocuous sensibility from those who feel as you do.

Imagine Travis Tritt does a whoop it up and holler song with his buddies about killing his wife and then disposing of her body cause she was being mean or cheating....lol...I can see CMT really playing that one up.

No, in reality...men singing about killing their women is usually more somber like Hey Joe or Down by the River.....songs about anger and despair.....and sadness. Nothing remotely like that with Earl....it was more like the Timothy song of lore from the 60s...a joke...only for some.

[Congressman Billybob]

Maybe I am the first person on this thread to acknowledge that I really like the singing of the Dixie Chicks. Heck, I'm a sucker for close, three-part harmony. I still like the Andrews Sisters' rendition of "The Boogy-Woogy Bugle Boy of Company B."

With that said, I thoroughly agree with the comments on this thread that Maines is a ten-watt bulb who doesn't get it, and is making things progressively worse with her lame attempts to deal with the backlash. And this snip from the interview with Sawyer does show that the other two Chicks are supporting her ignorance.

Performers who "get above their raisin" are fools. Ultimately, their success depends on our patronage. It's called biting the hand that feeds you.

I deal with this subject in my latest column now up on FR. (First link, below.)

Congressman Billybob

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

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

[eleni121]

"...no, that's redneck music, no, those people are so backwards and conservative and closed minded and this and that. And I'm always saying to these people, no, just give it a chance, give it a chance"

The ditzy chick is doing exactly what was said by Steve Austin. First, she is making assumptions about the fans of the music and second she is saying to those she is trying to "convert" that yes, they may be that but the music transcends them...Got it?

[Congressman Billybob]

I agree with you. That was a TERRIFIC rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner that they did. Can't remember where it was, but I do remember being very impressed.

I hope that the Chicks can get wise, and get straight with their fans. But continued cluelessness and inability to understand their core of (former) fans will not get them there.

Congressman Billybob

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

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

[muskogee]

For me, it comes down to this. Texans and Texas stations made the Dixie Chicks (they have acknowledged this). Everybody with a brain knows that Bush is our (Texans) president. Saying what she said to an anti-Bush crowd in another country on the eve of war was a cheap shot. Who will defend the president from this cheap shot? We the consumers will.