Americans can be like elephants...
Posted on 09/25/2011 5:32:09 AM PDT by raccoonradio
They messed with Texas. Don’t do that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J0LAP24x6Q
“I don’t regret what I said about the President
And I will never say I’m sorry
(You know what they say?—Never say never, Natalie)
I will never apologize (we will)
I’ll never make amends (we will)
(We’d like to sell some tickets in our own country again)
“(We can’t play in our hometowns, we’ve been banned in the South. Come on people we can’t help it if the little one has a big mouth)
Even though my words may have ruffled some feathers
The Dixie Chicks are gonna stick together
And there are more words inside of me that might stir up a little controversy
I’m here to say that there is no God
And I support the radical Islamic jihad
Maybe you think I’ve gone bezerka
But I say every woman should be wearing a burkha
“(Now we have to apologize, she never spoke for us
We’re been waiting for the day to kick her off the tour bus
We’ll re-form as a duo once we say our goodbyes
She won’t bother us anymore once she’s been lobotomized)”
I never could fault them for speaking their mind.
Americans can be like elephants...
Yes.
>>You forget to mention they publicly called country listeners stupid and backward
And it mentions that they gave show passes to the CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio/Top 40) stations, not the country
ones. They turned their back on country. Biting the hand that fed them.
Nor can I but you also can't fault listeners and programmers from speaking their minds either. It cuts both ways but the DC apparently didn't like that part.
Yes though they may have found out the hard way that free speech has consequences—in other words, it can provoke more free speech from those who disagree (..or agree...) with you.
When the Chicks controversy erupted there was the expected
“oh, this is censorship! They have freedom of speech!” remarks. Censorship is when the government bans something.
This is the free market in action.
A radio station that puts on a conservative or liberal talk host gets the host’s opinions plus those of the callers.
When the ratings stink (as in liberal talk radio), the station has every right to can the host. Same with music.
If listeners object to content, the station can respond
by removing it. And if listeners wind up missing Chicks
songs, maybe they can tune to top 40 stations that may have
picked it up instead (they turned their back on country
radio/fans as it was).
Got an opinion? Great! But expect others to offer theirs
in response...
That is very true, free speech is a street that runs both ways.
I still remember them, not fondly, as the Blixie Chicks.
They have a right to say what they believe, but they don’t have a right for people to accept it. Words can have consequences. Faith Hill and Tim McGraw almost joined them on the shun list, but they had the smarts to discontinue their foolishness.
Exactly.
Here in Boston there’s only one country station, WKLB, which does do well in the ratings (but, no competition). At first they seemed to stick with the Chicks but the negative remarks they got caused the station to play them very infrequently
if it all...
Of course these girls not only put there foot, but there whole leg down their throats and to top it off told their cash paying customers to shut the hell up
I hope they are pariahs for a long, long, long time
Liberalism doesn't pay in to open market, only when it's gumbermint money feeding it...too bad they don't understand that dynamic
Ah, nice to know I am not the only one who still turns off the station when I hear the Vichy Chix.
Neither could I. But ultimately they must be aware of the commercial consequences of doing so. They're in the business of making country music. People who listen to country music tend to be socially and politically conservative. Therefore, it behooves them not to alienate their audience if they wish to be commercially successful. They want the free speech without the consequences to their careers. Too bad, it don't work that way.
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From a free speech pov, no, but from a business perspective, yes. They were a business and their spokesperson acted in her own interests, not the interests of her company and its employees. I saw it as an incredibly selfish act, but one of the first things I learned about business is that it's not against the law to destroy your own business--you are just as free to fail as succeed.
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