[conservativecorner]

The Ditzy Chicks can forget about their careers, as people will not forget Maines remarks and tepid apology.

[VRWCmember]

Reba got her digs in as well. When she was introducing Penn and Teller, who were there to present one of the awards, she said something to the effect of: "Penn is the one with the big mouth who says whatever he wants no matter how outrageous. Teller is the one who keeps his mouth shut and never says anything. Guess which one is the new coach for the dixie chicks."

[Ipse Dixit]

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."

And then there's that FUTK t-shirt thing too, by while Fatty Nat decided to diss Toby Keith and all of his fans too. It's just another shark jumping moment in the old entertainment biz.

[Huck]

Brutal career mistake that girl made. Her remark was really vitriolic and personal. I believe she might have slid by with a more general statement desiring peace or some such thing, but she really went after the President. The fact that it occurred in Europe was really offensive, too. On home soil, a less personal attack might not have prompted this response.

[dirtboy]

Those "country" music fans who still like the Dixie Chicks are RINOs - Rednecks in Name Only...

[YourAdHere]

Now if only we could get some decent Freeper turnout at their concerts.

[TomGuy]

The Dixie Chicks booed.
Hillary booed.
Bill booed.
Dannie Glover booed.
Tim Robbins booed.
Susan Sarandon booed.
Alex Baldwin booed.
And President Bartlett forced to turn over power to John Goodman.

Life is good.

[bandleader]

As far as I'm concerned,Ms.Maines made TWO mistakes!The first was critcizing OUR PRESIDENT while we have combat ops in progress,and the second(and most egregious)was to have done this whilst on foreign soil!!

[blackdog]

Being on the Boo list is not being on a Black list.

Someone clue in the entertainment industry.

[SerpentDove]

WOOHOO!

Bump!

[SerpentDove]

>>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." <<

Vince Gill just went down a notch in my book. And that's saying a lot.

[lilylangtree]

Yippee!

[SerpentDove]

>>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." <<

I can't understand this. I always liked Vince Gill. But here he adopts the elitist, "parental" tone that the libs always have, like they know what's best and nobody else does.

Strange.

[Joe Hadenuf]

What bull sh*t this is.

We have thousands of illegal aliens pouring into our country routinely, at will, as the President and his party stand in stone silence in the face of this ever escalating epic attack on our borders and our sovereignty.

But if a stupid celebrity says something bad about the President, or their party, the Republicans are outraged..

This is so damn pathetic, and should be a real eye opener to anyone with a brain.

[Redwood71]

"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."

________________________________________

Vince, you forgive someone that made a mistake and wishes forgiveness. She didn't, and isn't.

[BibChr]

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."

Where did this idea come from, that we're obliged to forgive impenitent people? It isn't Biblical, certainly.

Beyond that, it is in a way dishonoring. Forgiveness means saying this isn't on your record. But if a person is clinging to something, like a position, behavior, deed, then it is his choice and desire that it BE on his record.

So to "forgive" Mains for saying she was ashamed of President Bush on foreign soil at wartime means saying she has decided that was an immoral thing to do, and has changed her mind on every particular.

Where is the record of that? Where do we see anything much beyond regrets that bad consequences followed her deliberate actions and words?

I respect her moral responsibility enough that I DON'T forgive her.

Dan

[chuknospam]

I for one hope that the F.U.T.K. message is death kneal for the Twits. Shame T.K. didn't take his moments to tell the Twits what they could shove.......... Also intersting to note that they keep the place dark so you couldn't see all the empty seats at the Twit concert.

[chuknospam]

I'd say the Dixie Twits have alot to be thankful for.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3045263.stm

Saddam's singer shot dead

An Iraqi singer whose fervently pro-Saddam Hussein songs made him a well-known face on Iraqi television has been killed, his family says. Daoud al-Qaissi, a Baath party member, was shot by gunmen outside his home in central Baghdad, his brother told Reuters news agency.

Videos of his songs were played constantly on Iraqi state television even as the coalition-led bombing campaign intensified over the Iraqi capital.

His son told Britain's Guardian newspaper that he was certain his father had been killed because of his connections to the ousted Iraqi leader's regime.

"My father was one of the president's supporters. He believed in him," his son said.

"This [the killing] is a natural consequence of the lack of security in Baghdad. Now all his friends are scared, some of them are too frightened even to come to the funeral."

'Growing lawlessness'

The singer's death also follows reports of similar attacks on other former members of the Baath regime in the city.

Qaissi had reportedly feared for his safety.

"We advised him to move to a relative's house and stay there until the restoration of law and order," his brother told Reuters.

However he had stayed less than one month before returning, depressed and uncomfortable, he added.

Qaissi held a relatively senior rank in the Baath, having been a member since 1963.

By profession, he was a singer and head of the Iraqi artists' union, and was responsible for propaganda during the first Gulf War and the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

His family said his murder was indicative of the growing lawlessness in the city following the ousting of Saddam Hussein, and the Guardian reported that the incident had taken place only two miles away from an American patrol.