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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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.

[anncoulteriscool]

*****Gary Chapman still lives in the Nashville area. Gary is still involved in the gospel music business. I had met Chapman several years ago. He is a genuine nice guy. I sat next to him at a Dick Cheney campign rally stop in the Nashville area in 2001 and had a great conversation with him. There is a lot more to the Vince/Janis Gill and Gary Chapman/Amy Grant stories than most people know. Maybe it is best kept that way foor everyone involved. Let the good people in this heal.****

I kinda tuned out christian music for most of the 90's so I missed alot of this stuff. I had always heard that Chapman was on Coccaine and that was the reason for the break-up. I saw Amy Grant at the Ohio State fair in 1985 and one other time in 1986 I think it was. Glad to hear that Chapman is doing better.

[2nd Amendment]

I wish she would join the Madonna/Ozzie Osburn crowd. Country music would be better off with these taitors on the other side.