Posted on 12/05/2008 6:24:06 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Los Angeles (E! Online) – Another Dixie Chicks cause, another angry reaction.
A man whose 8-year-old stepson was killed in 1993 has sued all three members of the country-pop group for defamation, singling out frontwoman Natalie Maines for her comments suggesting that he played a role in the boy's death.
Maines, whose outspokenness has won her lifelong friends and mortal enemies alike, appeared last December at a rally in Little Rock, Ark., for the three men, tagged the "West Memphis Three" by their supporters, who were convicted as teenagers of killing the plaintiff's stepson, Steve Branch, and two other 8-year-old boys.
According to the six-page complaint filed Nov. 25 in Pulaski County Circuit Court, the "Not Ready to Make Nice" singer told the crowd that new DNA evidence from the crime scene implicated Steve's stepdad, Terry Hobbs, and that Hobbs' behavior following the boys' death was suspect.
Her comments resembled those written in a letter about the case that was posted on the Dixie Chicks' website and obtained by various media outlets, including People, the Huffington Post, FreeRepublic.com and ABC News.
Maines' statements were "so extreme in degree as to be beyond the pale of decency and to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society," Hobbs' lawsuit states, per the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
"Defendant's repeated libelous publications concerning the involvement of the plaintiff in the murders of Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore were not based on fact and, in fact, were false and reckless at the time of publication."
Hobbs is alleging defamation, libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress by outrageous conduct and false-light invasion of privacy. He is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, claiming the Chicks caused him embarrassment, humiliation,"severe" psychological and emotional trauma, loss of income and injury to his reputation.
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Amazing how having a few hit records makes you all-knowing.
Dixie Chick Urges Donations to Defense Fund for Murderers - December 03, 2007
Natalie Maines joins LR protest for imprisoned 3 - December 20, 2007
This reminds me of how the leftwingnuts insisted back in 2003 that the Dixie Chicks wouldn’t suffer any career related consequences to their ill timed comments in London just before we dumped Saddam and Son’s into the dustbin of history.
As usual, history proves liberals wrong.
I hope this guy takes MILLIONS from these idiots.
Sadly, Maines can afford it on her husbands salary from ‘Hero’s’.
It only takes an opinion, a computer and an internet connection to make someone all-knowing.
Having fame makes them think their opinion trumps everyone else's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v8e6vwMP0Y
The DChix w/ Sandra Bernhardt - Deck the Halls
Barf.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Thomas Tusser
Natalie Maines... the “little” piggy one.
I’m sorry, I can’t read about someone named “Narlene.”
Is there an Executive Summary? How strong is the evidence against the three guys?
About as good as that against the Duke Lacrosse Three
Why don’t the Dixie Chicks stick to something they are good at? Like MARRIAGE!
OOPS! That was just a tad on the large side, sorry!
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