Yeah, but I figure that whoever put them up to it knew exactly what they were doing. They are playing for Hollyweird now. They will probably win a bunch of Grammy's for their new songs and even an oscar for their performance in the movie. Then they will win an Emmy for a show on PBS.
After that they will go on all the talk shows and the new congress will even give them a medal or some special recognition for speaking out against the President.
Then we'll see pictures of them with Jesse Jackson and Cindy Sheehan at some rally somewhere complaining about the war.
This is soooooo predictable.
A friend used to send me tapes of a folk show from WKSU
in Kent, OH; for some reason, the host started playing some Dixie Chicks songs right around the time the controversy
came out. The same guy (Jim Blum) was doing a show on the day Clinton was impeached and he referred to "...on this dark day in our history"...
This comment was in the San Francisco Chronicle:
"The Dixie Chicks get WAY too much credit for the whole Bush remark. Yes, it was a cool thing to say in the first place, but am I the only one who remembers all the gutless backpedaling and damage control they subsequently engaged in? Their Diane Sawyer interview/apology was a giant butt kiss of Bush and the record buying public. Now everyone makes them out to be a bunch of 'tell it like it is, consequences be damned' beacons of free speech. It's simply not true."
I hope you're wrong. I hope to God you are wrong.