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Dixie Chicks: ‘Boycott Sinclair’
Newsmax ^ | Oct. 19, 2004 | Newsmax

Posted on 10/19/2004 11:19:38 AM PDT by Novel

Dixie Chicks: ‘Boycott Sinclair’

In what they call a "Sinclair Media Alert,” the country group The Dixie Chicks have called for a boycott of Sinclair Broadcasting for using "their monopoly rights to the public airwaves ... to sway the election in favor of a candidate that staunchly allows media companies to get even bigger.”

The Chicks characterize radio giant Clear Channel as using "its power to promote a pro-Republican, pro-war agenda,” and then proceed to compare Sinclair with Clear Channel. "Now we have a giant television company that is making Clear Channel's antics look like a day at the beach,” the Chicks' Website declares.

The Chicks also provide some legal analysis for their fans, maintaining that Sinclair’s plans to air "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal” on its 62 stations constitutes a "clear violation of the spirit of the law.”

The Chicks punctuate their alert saying, "during the past week there has been a massive backlash, and Sinclair is on the defensive. They are on the ropes and we need you to help us keep them there.”


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KEYWORDS: boycott; dixiebitch; dixiechicks; napalminthemorning; sinclair; stolenhonor; treason
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To: Novel

It was obvious that the Dixie Chicks were on the radical left when they did "Goodbye Earl." ...nothing right about Thelma and Louise fantasies.


41 posted on 10/19/2004 11:36:30 AM PDT by familyop (Essayons)
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To: Novel
monopoly rights those dixie chicks been eatin some bad seed - I seriously doubt Sinclair has a monopoly on the airwaves
42 posted on 10/19/2004 11:37:16 AM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Novel

I haven't listened to those whores since their first screwup. They are a dead country group with nothing to offer country fans.


43 posted on 10/19/2004 11:39:57 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Pax et bonum!)
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To: Sola Veritas

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander...BUT they don't understand THEY all by themselves TURNED their "fans" away from them...no one orchestrated the "fans" turning their backs...what they don't understand is that the "individual" will always POST JUDGE a person, event or statement...and THEY wants us to PRE JUDGE a person, event or statement..just goes to show that a real Democart is "prejudice"....


44 posted on 10/19/2004 11:42:17 AM PDT by antivenom ("Never argue with an idiot, he'll bring you down to his level - then beat you with experience.")
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To: Novel

Hmmmm....Dixie Chicks......name rings a bell.......who are they again?


45 posted on 10/19/2004 11:50:13 AM PDT by Space Wrangler
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To: counterpunch

Remember...it all depends upon who is being boycotted!

Typical liberal hypocrisy...


46 posted on 10/19/2004 11:53:21 AM PDT by kdmhcdcfld (Any rebroadcast of this tagline without the express written consent of FreeRepublic is prohibited.)
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To: Mike Bates

The Dippy chips look more "used" with every new picture I see of them. I picture them slumped over a bar stool, waiting for a cheap ride home in a few years. . .


47 posted on 10/19/2004 11:53:31 AM PDT by hushpad
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To: Novel

If anyone would have experience with boycotts, it would be the Dixie Chicks...


48 posted on 10/19/2004 11:57:15 AM PDT by Born Conservative (20 years of votes can tell you much more about a man than 20 weeks of campaign rhetoric-Zell Miller)
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To: Novel

Well, it pains me to admit everything from Texas isn't great, but The Dixmocrats are our shame. I keep hoping they will move to California. Witches would fit right in there. Ooops did I hit W? Should have been B.


49 posted on 10/19/2004 12:00:11 PM PDT by Jarhead1957 (From deep in the heart of Texas)
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To: hushpad

Must be the price of celebrity.


50 posted on 10/19/2004 12:07:31 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Just in time for your Halloween gift giving needs: THE book.)
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To: Novel

There's a chill wind blowing...


51 posted on 10/19/2004 12:13:06 PM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
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To: trashcanbred
"...general Foods was not going to back out..."

You're thinking of General Mills, not General Foods.

52 posted on 10/19/2004 12:13:50 PM PDT by Bonaparte (twisting slowly, slowly in the wind...)
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To: Bonaparte

Duh uhhh... thanks sorry for misleading people.


53 posted on 10/19/2004 12:16:30 PM PDT by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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To: trashcanbred

Chick boycott NO LOSS.


54 posted on 10/19/2004 12:36:59 PM PDT by jocko12
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To: Novel

I thought they went back to waiting tables and walking the street for Johns.


55 posted on 10/19/2004 12:37:16 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
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To: My2Cents
Sinclair reaches only 24% of the US market. In California, they own only one station -- KOVR-13, the ABC affiliate in Sacramento. In Sacramento, there are six broadcast TV stations; an on cable, there are about 120 channels. So, I fail to see how Sinclair represents a "monopoly."

Not only that, it is against the law for any company to come anywhere close to having a monopoly on the radio or TV stations in a single market. The Ditzy Chunks are either idiots or liars. Or both.

56 posted on 10/19/2004 12:41:36 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (How important a Senator can you be if Dick Cheney's never told you to "go [bleep] yourself"?)
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To: peteram

Pretty funny that they now want to suppress someone's freedom of speech, wasn't that what the Drippy SLits were saying that was happening to them?


58 posted on 10/19/2004 12:48:08 PM PDT by weshess (Vegetarian is an Indian word for lousy hunter)
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To: Novel

If thought they were againts boycots, having cried about how mean everyone was for boycotting THEM.

Another example of libs wanting to dish it out but not wanting to take it.


59 posted on 10/19/2004 12:48:34 PM PDT by cyncooper (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: katdawg; JFC

If there's another thread, why don't you post the link instead of just saying it's so.

Thanks


60 posted on 10/19/2004 12:49:39 PM PDT by cyncooper (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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