Audience Boos Dixie Chicks at ACM Awards!!

[jonalvy44]

YES! This only illustrates the point that Americans are no longer tolerant of those that bash America!! This is awesome news! They can't just sneak back into our hearts, as much as they would like to.

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©JOE CAVARETTA/AP

Audience Boos Dixie Chicks at ACM Awards May 22, 7:05 AM EST

Many country music fans aren't ready to forgive the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines for comments critical of President Bush: Voters rejected the group's nominations for three Academy of Country Music Awards and the audience booed the mention of their name.

Presenter Vince Gill urged the audience at Wednesday night's show to "Stop it, stop it." He added: "You know who gets blessed when you forgive — you."

Maines has been in the country music doghouse since she told a London audience on March 10, before the start of the war in Iraq, that "we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

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The Dixie Chicks were a late addition, performing by satellite from their hometown of Austin, Texas.

Maines sat silently as Emily Robison briefly introduced the song.

The boos erupted when Gill named the Dixie Chicks among nominees for entertainer of the year. Gill said afterward that the reaction was more subdued than at last month's Flameworthy Awards. "It was a pretty volatile crowd that time. This one wasn't so bad," he said.

It didn't seem that way to host Reba McEntire.

"It was a pretty big negative response. I don't think it's over," she said after the program.

[sarasota]

I thought Sorkin quit the show?

[Sonny M]

I was under the impression he would stop writing, and distance himself but would choose his own replacement.

[sarasota]

The VP resigned due to an affair and the pres took the 25th because he didn't feel he could make executive decision based on his daughter's kidnapping. So #3, Speaker of the House/Goodman, stepped up. He plays a Republican who knows how to play hardball with terrorists--and the Democrap staff. New writers next season, so who knows where it will go--hopefully to the conservative right so more people watch the show. It's tanking in ratings. Dems have become a lot less popular these days.

[sarasota]

Yes, there he is. Where'd you find the pic?

[sarasota]

I just hope we get a shift to the right. Goodman's character blew me away. No nonsense, hardball kind of guy.

[Charlie OK]

bump! That is very interesting. Thanks, Sloth.

[wardaddy]

Google images. He's Rhodesian or South African I think...I did not know that.

He "found" her by seeing her earliest videos....I didn't know that either.

Interesting...lots of folks said there's was a professional marriage....I'm not so sure.

[sarasota]

The story of their meeting is quite sweet. He appeared at an autograph signing and she didn't know who he was. Asked him how to spell Mutt (one t or two). Afterward he set up a date, they dated for 6 months and married in the dead of winter in Canada to keep the press away. Her lyrics speak to her love for him--From this Moment, is a good example. They are crazy in love, I think. And yes, of course he put her name on the "map", but that's what he does. He's very well connected with the music biz and knows how to get the job done. Her vidoes (all a single CD) are beautiful.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Harry Nilsson passed away some years ago. 1999? His son lives in NH, or used to a couple of years ago. He (the son) was big into hopping-up little Civics. Both of them were as far to the left as you could go, and poor Harry was a hell of an alcoholic. I think his son doesn't drink.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[blackdog]

What a shame on both problems for Harry.

His songs "Without You, Gotta Get Up, Spaceman, Here's Why I Did Not Go To Work, Jump Into The Fire, and Joy were as good as it gets.

His stuff was unique during a time of endless hair bands. His collaborations with Ringo Starr were pretty funny too.

[Bernard]

It's "youse guys". Please use the proper terminology.

Completely in keeping with, "dem guys', dose guys", and dese guys".

Thanks.

[zip]

And then there's that FUTK t-shirt thing too

That was one of the low class actions that keeps her in trouble with real Americans. Talk about no class!!! That t shirt was totally inappropriate for a family oriented show. Country and Western music fans are among the most patriotic, honest groups around so her actions can only be called self destructive. What is she thinking or is it a family thing i.e. husband is Iranian (Pasdar)? It's a shame.

[freekitty]

I believe you.

[Criminal Number 18F]

then again Streisand identified so strongly with Cleopatra that she circulated close-up publicity photographs of herself all dolled up as the Egyptian queen of the Nile.

Heh. So did Boy George.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Criminal Number 18F]

I loved Harry and the Ringo album particularly (the '73 one). My brother had tickets for Ringo's all-star tour as a welcome home from Afghanistan. Should be a fun night.

One of my Nilsson favourites was "The Lottery Song." What a melody! When I was in high school, I had a buddy who turned me on to this music, and I still write songs for a hobby, thanks to the Beatles, Harry Nilsson, and the Kinks.

A songwriter whose work I enjoy is David Wilcox of Asheville, NC. He's in a weird border zone of rock, pop and folk, so he hasn't gotten the success I think he deserves. He doesn't do "Christian" music but he has said in interviews that his Christianity is quite important in his life. An interesting guy, and a talented one.

One of the songs you mentioned, "Without You," was a hit for Nilsson (quite high... I have the billboard book around somewhere, I could look it up...) but was written by Pete Ham of Badfinger. Unfortunately he also is no longer with us (suicide). :( Check out the Badfinger version sometime. Very good but very different (their hits in the USA were "Come and Get It" (a McCartney song) and "Day after Day").

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[pepsionice]

I think as time goes by, and we find out more about Ms. Maines...she appears to be a person who speaks candidly and straight from the gut...and yes, she meant her statement when she said it. Her episode with Toby Keith is an indicator of her independent state of mind and belief that she is always right. I doubt seriously that she has ever apoligized to anyone in her life for anything she has done. She has the typical Austin, Texas mentality. While one appreciates the Dixie Chicks singing ability...they probably have milked this cow for as much milk possible, and are sliding downhill.

[LenS]

Mexico didn't take heat for opposing the Iraq war for three reasons. First and most important, Mexico wasn't running around the world in a very public campaign to stop the US as was France. Fox's opposition was rather muted to a few statements.

Second, France is considered to have an unpaid debt to the US for WWII (WWI balances the Revolution). Mexico does not (unless one wants to argue that we didn't annex Baja when we should have in the Mexican War *g*). Nor is there the rebuilding debt issue that comes up with Germany since we didn't occupy and rebuild Mexico after our victory (no need to do so). No GI's died liberating Mexico from a foreign conqueror as they did for France. Also, Mexico wasn't directly threatened by the Soviets so there's not a Cold War debt either. That makes a huge difference.

Finally, Mexico skates because, in the end, there wasn't a vote to make it's opposition crystal clear.

[LenS]

Sorkin is gone. So anything is possible -- not likely, but possible.

[radiohead]

i hear you. i first heard 'pop' when i went to college in michigan. i thought the kids were joking. being from dc, i figured that the only people who said pop were hicks. no one could call soda pop and consider themselves an educated human being. (ah, callow youth)

by the end of the first semester, i'd gotten everyone on my dorm floor to say 'soda.'

apologies to anyone who says pop. i realize now it's a regionalism and not a sophistication indicator. i still don't like it though.

[Sonny M]

The new writer was an executive producer on the show, he's been behind E.R., and some other NBC show with a liberal bent (not law and order but some cop show). He seems like Sorkin non crackhead lite.