Dixie sluts fight on with naked defiance

http://news.google.com/ ^ | Friday April 25, 2003 | Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles

[luv2ndamend]

They have been called Saddam's Angels and the Dixie Sluts, traitors and big mouths, all because they made a disparaging remark about President Bush at a concert in London last month. Radio stations stopped playing their new CD and invited listeners to dump their old albums in rubbish bins and there have been death threats and calls to boycott their upcoming US tour.

Now the Texas-based Dixie Chicks are fighting back. They have posed for the cover of next week's Entertainment Weekly cheerfully wearing nothing but the epithets they have attracted and vowing to continue to speak their minds.

It was Guardian critic Betty Clarke who reported that Dixie Chicks singer, Natalie Maines, had said on stage at the Shepherd's Bush Empire: "We're ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas." As Entertainment Weekly says: "If it hadn't been for one London critic - from the left-leaning newspaper the Guardian - approvingly quoting Maines's remark, the group might still have the No 1 country single and a top 10 pop hit instead of being all but banished from the nation's airwaves."

When country websites and radio stations picked up the Guardian review, the campaign began against the band, who have helped to revive the popularity of country music over the last five years, selling 25 million CDs.

They disappeared from playlists and became the object of abuse from talk show hosts and newspaper columnists. Maines apologised, say ing: "Whoever holds that office [the presidency] should be treated with the utmost respect." That has not been enough for some.

Now Maines needs 24-hour security outside her home. The other two members of the band have also felt the heat: trash has been dumped outside the home of Emily Robison and the tour driver of Martie Maguire has resigned. The rightwing country singer, Toby Keith, is using a backdrop of Maines and Saddam Hussein.

Maines said that "we have nothing but support for the troops". She had expressed her feelings because "I think of those little kids over there, just laying in their beds listening [to the planes] ... I don't hate people who are for the war. It seems unfathomable that someone would not want to drive us because of our political views. But we're learning more and more that it's not that unfathomable to a large percentage of the population."

Emily Robison said: "Everybody talks about how this war was over quickly and not that many people died. Tell that to the parents of people coming home in body bags." All the band supported Maines: "Natalie's comment came from frustration that we all shared - we were apparently days away from war and still left with a lot of questions."

Maines said that the US ambassador had come backstage after their concert in London, "so he must not have been offended".

When their US tour starts next month, they are bracing for more protests. But there are signs of a backlash against the backlash with sales of their CD, Home, bouncing back up in the charts last week.

"People think this'll scare us and shut us up and it's gonna do the opposite," said Maines. "They just served themselves a huge headache."

[Porterville]

ABC must own stock in these girls....research underway...

[Porterville]

Dixie Chicks contract is with Sony...is Sony tied with ABC or Disney???

[WKB]

You know I never thought of that

I can say I didn't like this bunch before all this came up!
By the way you have a friend out there!

[Porterville]

And the answer is that ABC, Disney, and Sony are tied together in business.....the interview is a puff piece

[noutopia]

Nothing better than a friend!

[zeugma]

These idiots have no idea who their fanbase is do they? I'd be hard pressed to think of a demographic more stoutly patriotic than C&W fans. (Note: I'm not into C&W)

Dig a little deeper girls, you'll make it to china yet.

[Texan4W]

It's Mike Gallagher who is having the "counter" concert in Spartanburg South Carolina.

The purpose of the concert is to raise money for the families of our troops... and anybody can help, no matter where they live.

A lot of his listeners -- even if they aren't in the area -- are buying tickets to help raise money, and sending their tickets in to be given to troop families who can attend.

See below for his website.

Unfortunately, he doesn't say a lot about the concert on his website... although he talks about it a lot on his show and he is very excited about how good it is going to be and how much money they are going to be able to raise for the families.

Anybody who wants to help... check his site for a link to a ticket seller.

http://www.mikeonline.com

from the website:

"If you've purchased tickets for our concert starring the Marshall Tucker Band in Spartanburg for May 1st and cannot attend, you can send your tickets to us. We'll give them to military families in South Carolina so that they can attend this patriotic event as your guests!

Send your tickets ASAP to:
The Mike Gallagher Show
Empire State Building
350 Fifth Ave. #1818
New York, NY 10118
Att: Concert Tickets

[TC Rider]

The future is going to be travelling with that dried up lesbian fest that tours the country every year

Labiapalooza?

[MissAmericanPie]

The mask, so to speak, is off and we can clearly see what a class act these gals are.

[longtermmemmory]

they hired ONE nude model to sit in each of the three posses. Three posses, three pictures, same naked woman.

The three individual posses were combined into one picture so it looks like three seperate naked women possing. It is in fact the same naked woman's body. Now you have one picture.

The now "tripplet" nudes' heads are removed and substituted with the individual dixie chix.

A little airbrushing and wala, there you have it. look at the hands they tell the tale.

[Rastus]

"People think this'll scare us and shut us up and it's gonna do the opposite," said Maines. "They just served themselves a huge headache."



Is she serious? I don't know about the rest of you, but watching them have their little meltdown has been great fun. Certainly no headache. It's entertainment until something else comes along.

[Cricket24]

I could only watch part of their PR interview. They're trying to save their a**e*!! They contradicted themselves throughout most of what I saw.
If they think there is backlash from this ignorant statement of Natalie Maines, wait until the fans they still have, find out that they are PETA supporters!! PETA has an offshoot goup called ALF (Animal Liberation Front) which is nothing but a terrorist group responsible for the deaths of animals that they "free". These animals die from starvation and exposure because they have never had to take care of themselves. The Dixie Chicks did a commercial for PETA (naked in a field) if memory serves me right. This was supposed to be in magazines around this time but they asked PETA to put it on hold for the time being. What are the chances that commercial will ever see the light of day now?

[Rastus]

Ethel Mertz looked "hot" in a couple of episodes...

Hmm. No offense, but I must have missed those episodes.

[wardaddy]

I agree...and the blonde's right knee does not line up with her calf after it extends behind her sister's ostensible leg.

[FITZ]

Wearing clothes makes the short one look about a size 18 ---but naked she's more like a size 12 ---amazing.

[FITZ]

I think it's obvious too because all three dixie chicks are the exact same shade of beige --the brunette and the blonds and not one has a single tan-line but all have nice tans.

[kcvl]

Pass the popcorn. ROFLOL!

[Rastus]

[jwh_Denver]

They have posed for the cover of next week's Entertainment Weekly cheerfully wearing nothing but the epithets they have attracted and vowing to continue to speak their minds.

Yep, like I'm going to go to go out of my way to go to the 6th row, 6th trailor on the left, and listen to some fat chick in polyester pants tell me what's on her mind.

[kcvl]

Check out this...lol

http://www.nataliemaines.com/guestbook.htm

Date:
24 Apr 2003
Time:
21:29:14
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career self-destruction could not have happened to a more deserving retard. good job chicks.