Natalie Maines, better known as The Hamburgler.
Posted on 03/16/2015 7:46:46 PM PDT by Army Air Corps
I’ve broached this subject before, but it’s the anniversary of Natalie Maines speaking out against President Bush. She was, in effect, actually speaking out against the war in Iraq, which at this point pretty much everybody agrees was a bad idea. That was TWELVE (12) years ago last Tuesday, March 10.
It would be one thing if everyone gave the office of the President the proper respect, but it’s completely another when I see the same people who were critical of Natalie say much worse things about the current president EVERY SINGLE DAY.
The strongest word she used in reference to President Bush was “embarrassed.” That’s all. With our current president, I’ve heard every horrible thing possible, including racial slurs. Where’s the rage and the bans now?
Lubbock traded away what could have be an incredible opportunity from being in the reflected Dixie Chicks spotlight for the chance to hate on Maines. You have no idea what her influence could have brought us and what her influence has cost us. Thankfully, she’s less vengeful and vindictive than her hometown.
Even more embarrassing is the holier than thou, hypocritical, backward-ass country folks who claim to embrace god, guns and country, yet can’t even grant her some Christian forgiveness. That forgiveness should have started right here at home a long time ago. But it’s not Natalie Maines who needs to be forgiven; Lubbock itself needs to be asked to be forgiven for throwing one of its best and brightest – a member of a family legacy of Lubbock musicians – under the bus.
I don’t know a single person who would send a kid of theirs into exile for 12 years, but that’s what’s been done here.
Guess what? Natalie Maines doesn’t need Lubbock. She doesn’t need small minds, busybodies and judgmental jerks. She’s doing just fine putting Lubbock in her rearview mirror. Until this town makes nice with Natalie, she’s an example to every single person who grows up here that thinking and having an opinion is a bad thing.
Over a decade has passed. That’s an entire career for many country artists. The fact is, there’s a pretty big chance that the Dixie Chicks music would have faded away by now even if it had never been banned. Still, folks carry a grudge and most don’t even know why.
As rockers, it’s easy for us to write this off as “not our business,” but something is wrong when it’s so much easier to hate somebody than to make amends. I don’t expect that this feud will go away until many years from now when someone will approach her grown grandkids about putting together a memorial.
It is a complete shame that it won’t happen in our lifetimes.
Yikes. Mylie Cyrus, this is your future...
You noticed that, eh?
Cry me a river Natalie
Looks like they wrote a nasty song about Lubbock called “Lubbock or leave it”. And its nothing but hating on religion and believe it or not, Buddy Holly.
Who the -hell- could have disdain for Buddy Holly?
Artists of all stripes should learn to leave politics out of their public persona. As soon as they reveal themselves they lose 40% of their potential audience.
But libs can’t help themselves. They feel a deep inner need to use their power to communicate with people to try and tell them what they should think.
Natalie Maines didn’t have to get political but she chose to..no one else. She has to live with the consequences.
I no longer watch movies with Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, and a whole host of others who decided to promote godless socialism at the expense of Americanism.
Where’s the ‘Leave Natalie Alone!’ homo photo?
Never heard much for Natalie when Hussein Obama bombed Libya. She never spoke out when obama was going to bomb Syria.
She can rot.
Natalie once said that she’d rather be the queen of country than be a nothing in rock and roll.
He slithers from her comment about being "embarrassed" to an all inclusive comment about Bambi. Not only is this a major error in argument but if he thinks "embarrassed" captures all the venom displayed by the Left when GW was President, he's been living on some other planet.
And I loved how Lubbock is supposed to bask in the reflected glow of Maines spotlight. Lubbock and its utterly rich musical history. Paul McCartney deliberately started his world tour there out of sheer respect.
Paul honored Lubbock. This dude thinks Lubbock needs to honor Maines.
Lubbock has no shortage of musicians going on.
Natalie Maines, better known as The Hamburgler.
letting it's inner dyke shine through i see
Forgiveness? Has she shown, not merely “expressed” any real regret? As for worse things being said about bammy - he has earned every single one Of them.
Barf alert is right in her case!
Thanks, AAC! Good to see you, BTW! :)
Ping!!
She’s a public figure who made the comment to an audience in London.
To hell with her.
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Even some of her own family have expressed the view that her mouth would get her in trouble.
Dead on.
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