Dixie Chicks feel backlash at CMT show

The Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 4/8/03 | Craig Seymour

[Gothmog]

Sometimes forgiveness is hard to come by, as the Dixie Chicks learned Monday night during CMT's annual Flameworthy Video Music Awards.

The trio, currently experiencing a heated backlash for criticizing President Bush during a London concert, didn't attend the event, which is like country's MTV Awards. But at least one presenter tried to put in a good word for them.

"We're in the South, a place of sin and redemption and hopefully forgiveness," said comedian Brett Butler. "So maybe in a couple of weeks, we'll just all try to forgive the Dixie Chicks."

Her words were met with a wall of boos.

Not only that, but the Chicks, one of country's all-time top-selling acts, failed to win any of the four awards for which they were nominated. This is especially significant since the Flameworthies are voted on by fans on CMT's Web site. (Voting closed April 5.) The group/duo category served as an especially biting example of anti-Chicks sentiment.

Though the Chicks' latest album, "Home," has sold more than 3 million copies, the group was beaten by country boy band Rascal Flatts, which has moved less than 500,000 units of its current set, "Melt."

The debate over the Chicks' comments is just one example of how country has emerged as the genre most immediately impacted by the war in Iraq. The current No.1 country song is Darryl Worley's pro-war ballad, "Have You Forgotten," which he performed to a standing ovation during the show. The tune plays like a Bush administration policy paper in linking 9/11 with the situation in Iraq. "And you say we shouldn't worry about bin Laden/Have you forgotten," Worley sang to the cheering crowd.

Others seemed to deliberately avoid commenting on the war. Sheryl Crow, who has worn anti-war clothing and accessories at other award shows this year, simply donned a black Johnny Cash T-shirt when performing "Picture," her hit duet with Kid Rock.

Predictably, the most outspoken artist on the war was firebrand Toby Keith, who co-hosted the program with the seemingly inflatable Pamela Anderson. Early in the evening, he struck a subdued, conciliatory note: "Whether you're for it or against it, let's support the guys and girls who are over there."

But by the end of the night he was performing a medley of Merle Haggard's "Fightin' Side of Me" with his own chest-thumping 9/11 anthem, "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)," amid blazing pyrotechnic blasts and showers of confetti.

When "Courtesy" won best video, Keith said, "I'd like to dedicate this great award to Mr. Rumsfeld [Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld] and [General] Tommy Franks and all the people putting it down for us over there. . . . God bless the USA, baby."

[CyberCowboy777]

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[Stultis]

I doubt she said that.

You may be right. I don't have Lexus-Nexus, but a Google search didn't turn up anything, except stuff like a reviewer at Amazon saying he'd rather walk across broken glass than reread one of the bespectacled one's books.

[CyberCowboy777]

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[pnz1]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83365,00.html

Very last paragraph- a statement that resembles it.

[winodog]

Those two dumped their friend and original member of the group for the anti bush ditz. They deserve what they get.

[wku man]

Okay, I'm no country fan, but I was raised in Kentucky, so I know this for sure:

Toby Keith, Dwight Yoakum (sp?), David Alan Coe, etc. = country music.
Kid Suck, Cheryl Crow, Ditzy Chunks, etc. = NOT COUNTRY!!

And what's this "country boy band" S**T?!?

I imagine Toby Keith, Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt and a few others would love to get hold of that bunch of little dancing queers and give 'em a big ol' a**-whuppin' lesson on what's country and what isn't.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[billhilly]

"Yeah, but aren't the chx going around referring to their fans as "radical right wingers?"

Maybe they are being advised by fellow Texan, Paul Begala.

[wku man]

"I remember my disbelief when my father told me that the tune of a Beastie Boys song was stolen from a Led Zeppelin song."

You shouldn't be. The Beastie Bitchboys are just another in a long line of (c)rap acts that has to steal what others have done before them, otherwise they'd never have any ideas. Hip-hop/(c)rap is another fine example of what H.L. Mencken meant when he said no one ever went broke underestimating the tastes of the American public.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Gothmog]

Thanks, I especially liked:

"Superstar trio The Dixie Chicks was lustily booed by the crowd at each mention,..."

Ha ha ha, once again, thanks for posting the link.

[Gothmog]

I'm not a country & western fan, I would guess it has something to do with barbecue? I do like barbecue.

[Gothmog]

You have many questions, but I don't have the answers, ha ha ha.

[showme_the_Glory]

" "So maybe in a couple of weeks, we'll just all try to forgive the Dixie Chicks."

Yeah, but aren't the chx going around referring to their fans as "radical right wingers?"

Rad Right Winger - They can complement me all they want and I still won't support them :-)

[Mr. Thorne]

She said it. On O'Reilly. They went back and forth, and as one of his last questions, he asked (paraphrasing) "WHAT IF we go in there, and there are WMD's found? Will you apologize?"

That's when she gave the 'I'll crawl across broken glass to apologize' quote.

[Anamensis]

Jeanene Garofalo is going to crawl to the White House over broken glass on her knees if/when chem weapons are found in Iraq.

Actually, she DID promise to send Bill O'Reilly flowers, IIRC, if WMD were found.

[FreedomPoster]

Yes, both FM modulation and with line level XM outputs, pick your poison.

I went with the Pioneer because the control unit would fit in my ashtray. It can go either way, FM modulator or line level if your head unit has the inputs (mine didn't). My install looks just this, I duplicated this guy's install:

http://forums.audiworld.com/other/msgs/1026684.phtml

[little-e]

I was watching Cavuto the other night....at the end of his show, he reads letters from viewers....someone from Australia wrote that the dumbie chicks were there giving a concert and still said they stood by Natalie's comments....they still don't get it....

[Libertys Kid]

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