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This is your band on drugs.

Laura I. But-Monkey alert: "But let’s not waste them earning a profit for Haliburton and Bechtel and whoever makes the tanks.”

>>a company I can’t mention

Clear Channel, I think he means, and they have maybe 1,400 stations not 14,000...and I believe more than a few of them run Scare America...

1 posted on 08/14/2006 10:47:55 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

By the way, as to the number of stations Clear Channel owns (if he means them), I did a quick websearch and turned this up, from no less a source than Rolling Stoned Magazine: "Clear Channel controls roughly 1,200 radio stations" (not 14,000, Mr. Crosby)

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6432174/inside_clear_channel/

From the same Rolling Stone(d) piece: "Critics say the company also has a political agenda, given Clear Channel executives' close ties to George W. Bush and the company's willingness to drop Howard Stern at a time when many media companies are fighting for free speech."
So maybe that's whom Crosby meant.

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2 posted on 08/14/2006 11:04:11 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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“We’ve never thought war was a good idea, and we still don’t. Those young people we sent to Iraq, God bless them, they’re the best we have. But let’s not waste them earning a profit for Haliburton and Bechtel and whoever makes the tanks.”

Yet more proof - as if any was needed - that David Crosby consumed way too many drugs in his time.

3 posted on 08/14/2006 11:05:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: raccoonradio
“Someone showed me that clip on YouTube and it knocked my head on the pavement.

That explains it!

4 posted on 08/14/2006 11:06:30 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: raccoonradio
"“Well, you know why that happened,” Crosby said. “The same people who are George Bush’s strongest supporters own a company I can’t mention, but you know who they are, and they own 14,000 radio stations. That one really slapped a lot of musicians in the face.”"

Yeah, keep telling your self that. Aren't you due for another liver, Dave?

9 posted on 08/14/2006 12:28:48 PM PDT by RabidBartender (an ex-fan of the Dixie Chicks)
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To: raccoonradio

I modified the lyrics from their song "Ohio":

Aging hippies and foolish pinkos
Like rats they live in a hole.

Kerry lost and it's time to get over it
We won in Ohio.


11 posted on 08/14/2006 1:08:47 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: raccoonradio; 537cant be wrong; Aeronaut; bassmaner; Bella_Bru; Brian Allen; cgk; ChadGore; ...
“Well, you know why that happened,” Crosby said. “The same people who are George Bush’s strongest supporters own a company I can’t mention, but you know who they are, and they own 14,000 radio stations. That one really slapped a lot of musicians in the face.”

BULL ZOGBY!!!

I did some research on this earlier today and see that the guy who booked the show and the 2 country stations in town that boycotted broadcasts for the Vichy Chicks all have NO Clear Channel ties.

Radio, promoter each blames other for cut in Chicks tour (Houston Chronicle 8-15-06)

The stations in question were KKBQ and KILT.

Clear Channel formerly owned KKBQ and was forced to divest (Cox now owns it).

KILT is owned by CBS/Viacom.

Clear Channel (through SFX, formerly PACE Concerts, formerly OWNED by Messina) had the contracts for concerts at most of the larger venues in town (Messina recently built his own large venue now that he is past the "no compete" period of his sale to Clear Channel).

I see that in 2005, Clear Channel split off the concert business from the main company.

So the Vichy Chicks were shut down by Viacom and Cox. And booked by Messina.

No Clear Channel involvement.

Anyone want to bet that CSNY has at least one Clear Channel Entertainment (severed from Clear Channel the radio and billboard company) show on their tour?

If Clear Channel was behind the Ditzy Chicks tour problems, why wouldn't they also hassle the more outspoken CSNY?

13 posted on 08/15/2006 12:52:22 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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I'll bet David Crosby owns Halliburton. Does he have any of his millions in an index fund or almost any diverse blue chip stock fund? He lends money to this evil war profiteering company, too, if he has a money market fund holding top grade commercial paper.

Crosby divest! Crosby divest! Crosby divest!

16 posted on 08/15/2006 1:04:41 PM PDT by SupplySider
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Sure, there’s a lot of people sleepwalking, but there’s an upswelling of anger and frustration in this country; people are sick of being lied to.

So anyone who supports the war is sleepwalking, and the only people who get it are the leftist idiots who support islamofacism.

What an arrogant, bigoted POS. Isn't he due for another liver?

17 posted on 08/15/2006 1:24:22 PM PDT by RepoGirl ("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
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So far, CSNY seems to be avoiding the backlash that hit the Dixie Chicks.

“Well, you know why that happened,” Crosby said. “The same people who are George Bush’s strongest supporters own a company I can’t mention, but you know who they are, and they own 14,000 radio stations

No, dumbass. It's about audience expectations. Fans of CSNY expect to hear protest lyrics and stuff. Maines and her mainstream C&W/bluegrass band mouthing off on foreign soil about politics was likely the last thing most Dixie Chick fans expected or wanted to hear.

20 posted on 08/15/2006 2:19:16 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: raccoonradio

What the hell do those dumb-ass old druggies know about war?!


24 posted on 08/16/2006 6:44:04 PM PDT by Cogadh na Sith (There's an open road from the cradle to the tomb.)
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kent state = a good start.


27 posted on 08/17/2006 9:33:08 AM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 ("Conspiracy theories are the products of feeble minds." - A. Horvet)
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To: raccoonradio

never listen to the sage of advice of anyone who has freebased cocaine.


28 posted on 08/17/2006 9:35:01 AM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 ("Conspiracy theories are the products of feeble minds." - A. Horvet)
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