[joesnuffy]

Add TWA flight 800 and the Murrah Building in Ok City, OK And tell me how much more time need we waste as our enemies grow stronger in their ability to kill those soldiers and kids you say you are so fond of........ The real reason for your so called apology of course is M O N E Y and you dont have the courage of your convictions regardless....imo

[b4its2late]

Clear Channel is NOT issuing any orders regarding the Saddam Sluts.

Not yet anyway......Soon, very soon, they will be.

Anyone that bought a CD recently should return it for a full credit. The heck with destroying it. They get the money anyway that way....

Returning it will get their record companies attention.

[aynrandfreak]

Does anyone have a list of radio stations that are boycotting the Vichy Chicks?

[the_doc]

One of America's freedoms is the right of its citizens to give his or her opinion without fear of reprisal - in this case the removal of an artist's music from the airwaves.

This is stupid. There is no such "right" of protection against economic retaliation for offensive statements.

Citizens boycott sponsors of offensive TV programs. The Leftists have tried to get advertisers to drop conservative talk shows. This is completely within their rights as citizens to strenuously object to what someone says in the exercise of his own right of free speech.

WTCR's careless misconstrual of the rights contained in our First Amendment is un-American trash.

(Timesink, why don't you send them this post as a reply?)

[Future Useless Eater]

The Dixie Chicks are soon to be history, unless they do some serious backpeddling and A$$ kissing really soon.

Thats because, by my estimation probably 80% of the C.W. listeners are pro-Iraq-liberation, and turned OFF by their hate speech.

I base this on:

• the Opinion Dynamics poll that shows 71% of America is for the war, and 9% undecided. I split the undecideds assuming half of them leaned each way.
• C.W. fans live much more in Bush Country, than in Gore Country, so lets say the percentage pro-liberation crowd is even higher.
• C.W. fans have been hearing Darryl Worley's song "have you forgotten?" every hour or two on the radio, thus even MORE of them are fired up for the liberation.
• Dixie Chicks record sales will drop to near zero. Stores that monitor their inventories nightly will be able to prove this.
• Truck Stops, bars, etc... that play C.W. will have riots if anyone dares play the Chix, especially starting next week when the heavy shooting starts.
• By contrast, Worley's record sales will hit heights not seen since Elvis (especially if his slow record-house can get their a$$es in gear)
• The Chix won't be welcome back even in Texas.
• The Chix's chances of making another album will be lower than Pee Wee Herman replacing the late Mr. Rogers.

[the_doc]

...and their perception of world opinion of the U.S.

I should also point out that this language is a smarmy misrepresentation of the controversy. C&W music fans are not complaining about the Dixie Chicks' perception of world opinion. Rather, we are angry at Maines's personal, public maligning of the President of the United States.

Texans are especially angry. Since her group is specifically identified with Texas--which fact she also brought forward when she maligned our President-- MANY of us Texans are now ashamed that the Dixie Chicks are from Texas.

Far too many jet-setting celebrities are speaking against their homeland just because it seems the cool thing to do overseas (where a lot of anti-American sentiment is found, of course). Well, if they can't take the pressures of representing the United States and Texas in a more noble way, they should stay off the world stage--and maybe stay off the stage altogether. We Texans demand that they stand up and represent the United States and Texas with real pride, not just toss out the sniveling, thoughtless complaints which have become so common from bleeding-heart types.

We furthermore maintain that it is people like the Dixie Chicks who are manifestly so unpatriotic as to speak without bothering to notice that they are giving add and comfort to Sean Penn's buddy Saddam Hussein, who is one of the worst monsters in world history. And by playing directly into the hands of the anti-American spirit which they have seen in their travels, the Dixie Chicks are ultimately even endangering our own troops--not supporting them.

WTCR needs to re-think the whole thing.