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.
Thank you for the *ping*, Dudess! ;-)
Don’t mess with Country.It was fun posting on their fan page telling them off way back when.
Sounds like the idiot who wrote this hates Texas and Texans. Time to hit the bricks and head for Than Franthithco.
Good riddance.
It is a rambling mess of fallacies, no?
I've talked with people about this. If she had had a little more wisdom, she would have just shut her mouth, and she would still be on tour and making a lot of money.
I think that what happened to the Dixie Chicks did sink in to a lot of other groups. On the other hand, groups like Zac Brown and Rascal Flatts are openly patriotic and they are still going strong.
She can say anything shr wants and others are free to respond. The author is either stupid or ... Really stupid?
Thanks
The Blixie Chicks
(Hans Blix)
The author rambles a great deal and conflates various issues. To better answer your question, he is a nitwit who possibly hopes that his article will gain for him entrée to Natalie’s knickers.
Lol
There’s plenty of comments on Facebook. Good battle going on between her followers and those who despise her.
https://www.facebook.com/GOFMX/posts/10152828542911551
That was one of the strangest requests for forgiveness from an audience I have ever seen. Looked at in a more positive way, she wants to be Hollywood, instead of country, and hasn’t figured out that Hollywood only wanted her for one shining moment that had NOTHING to do with her music.
Now she can’t make it in Hollywood, and Country really does not want her back.
It is not a marketing mystery, but her PR people...if she has any left...should let her in on the secret.
DK
Quite a few people reminding the Author that Lubbock offered an olive branch and that Nat promptly incinerated it.
Something tells me that she is too self-absorbed to listen to any advice that may actually help her.
Go to the site and check out the photo of Wes. Explains everything he wrote. Nice swim goggles, Wes. And the rest of the staff is equally wanna-be, too.
Oh, and this Deeeeeeeep Thinker weighs-in on the Letter to Iran.
Dude!
Anytime! :)
Author is apparently too lazy to even look up what she said.
Here’s the quote from a concert in England.
“Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”
The word “embarassed” is not used.
The statement is arguably as much an attack on Texas as on Bush. Which, reasonably enough, just might upset Texans.
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