Every single Drive By Media article wailing about the Dixie Chicks "conveniently" fails to mention the other reason country fans don't want to hear them. That reason, of course, is that the Chicks never pass up an opportunity to bash their fans as ignorant, racist, flag-waving hicks.
But mentioning that wouldn't fit into the the victim template they've created for the Dixie Chicks, now would it? Besides, the media attacks its customer base the same way, so to them, what's the big deal? And then they wonder why their stock prices tank and their newsrooms shrink.
When the Chicks are playing the Holiday Inn lounge circuit (soon) the MSM will still cover them as some kind of "greats" and not ignore them as has-beens who opened their foolish mouths to comment on things about which they know nothing. I don't know any of them personally, but a neighbor of mine from a few years back worked for them and, following the oft-proved rule that you can see what people are like by the company they keep, I assume that they are arrogant, dimwitted buttholes.
If they did that they would have to admit the cluckers made this mess themselves, and continue to keep digging the hole deeper as they go. They try to blame everyone except the ones responsible. So people have to be reminded why they are in the spot they are in.
The Dixie Chicks say they don't want to be a country music band any more.
Violinist Martie Maguire told Spiegel magazine: "We don't feel part of the country scene any longer, it can't be our home any more."
Dixie Chicks lead singer and Lubbock resident Natalie Maines has spoken out once again, this time attacking her hometown instead of the president ...
The lead singer spoke to the Vancouver Sun recently, saying, “but if you live in Lubbock, Texas, where I’m from—you just have one paper and one radio station and unless you’re savvy on the Internet, that’s it for you. If Bush said get a gun and kill an Arab, they would do that."
"I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it," says Maguire, "who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do."
Natalie's new motto is, 'What would Bruce Springsteen do?'" says Robison, laughing. "Not that we're of that caliber, but 'Would Bruce Springsteen do The View?'"
"A lot of artists cashed in on being against what we said or what we stood for because that was promoting their career, which was a horrible thing to do," says Robison.
"A lot of pandering started going on, and you'd see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism."
"The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism," Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don't see why people care about patriotism."