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Dixie sluts fight on with naked defiance
http://news.google.com/ ^ | Friday April 25, 2003 | Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles

Posted on 04/24/2003 8:41:13 PM PDT by 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."


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To: Paleo Conservative
You've seen Clueless the movie, now see Clueless the Country Western group. The Ditsie Chicks strike again.

They have a first ammendment right to freedom of expression, but if we exercise our right to ignore them, they have a fit. Love it!

I watched the interview this evening. Some of the statements were mind-numbingly shallow. I wouldn't spend a dime on their products.

81 posted on 04/25/2003 1:03:00 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Zebra
Her figure is a perfect 58-58-58 (from top to bottom) (also from right to left). Her face......... well, good character would be more important than good looks, if she had either, right? I'll guess that in a few years she'll be almost as cute as Helen Thomas or Bella Abzug or Betty Friedan. And that gown -- by Mr. Duracell? I doubt that it's ever been to a dry cleaner. She probably just uses Brasso.
82 posted on 04/25/2003 1:22:34 AM PDT by T'wit
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To: strela
I think we can safely discard the theory that the other two DCs (the skinny ones) were unwillingly dragged into this disgrace and/or silently disapproved of Maines' comments.

You're right about that. If anything, they seemed MORE leftist than Maines.

83 posted on 04/25/2003 1:39:49 AM PDT by laredo44
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To: Zebra
No way is that Natalies body naked!! There was some serious photo editing going on in that picture!
84 posted on 04/25/2003 2:09:41 AM PDT by blondee123 (Prez Bush Rules; Our military Rules! God Bless America!)
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To: winner3000
Can they at least make up their mind? Are they apologizing or "fighting back"?

Precisely!

March 10: Maines unveils her true passion: She trashes the president on foreign soil on the eve of war

Early April (reported April 4): Margy Holland in Nashville (Launch News) reports: "Maines, however, has reacted more flippantly to the situation, according to reports. The singer said, 'The more flack I get for it, the prouder I am.' "

Google News (posted article here), April 25: Nataline Maines: "People think this'll scare us & shut us up & it's gonna do the opposite. They just served themselves a huge headache."

Asked to address President Bush by Diane Sawyer on 4/24 interview--should the President be watching, Maines' eyes revealed a glint of "I'd tell him off" and told Sawyer: "Your show's not long enough."

85 posted on 04/25/2003 3:48:54 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Wil H
I think this will also hurt them with their fellow CW artists. Let's see - Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Reba, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Travis Tritt, Alabama, Billy Ray Cyrus, Sawyer Brown, plus dozens of new artists over the last five to ten years have had nothing to do with the resurgence of country music? Stupid, stupid, stupid. I believe people on this board are correct - they will either disband by the end of the summer or go totally pop. Like Sean Hannity said yesterday - doing covers of Fleetwood Mac was already an indication of their careers going down the tubes. This coincides with a theory of pop music that I have had for years. When an artist or group start to do cover songs, than their career if about over. Certain people can get away with it - Johnny Rivers, Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart. But as a general rule, when a person or group that has had a string of hits for a couple years, you hear them do a cover song, you can just about bet that it is over for them.

I remember a song by Alan Jackson a couple years back - Gone Country. He sings how other artists, at the end of their careers, go country to jump start their life and careers. A subtle putdown of those in CW who were not really country.

86 posted on 04/25/2003 4:03:02 AM PDT by 7thson
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To: luv2ndamend
Sounds like Toby Kieth is a Freeper.
87 posted on 04/25/2003 4:10:34 AM PDT by ewing
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To: Porterville
ABC must own stock in these girls...research underway

ABC's hour-long free commercial for the 'Sluts {their own tattoed moniker!} on 4/24 was certainly subtle at times:

Did you note the graphics used three times of Maines (twice) and another celeb w/tape over their mouth? Oh, sure, the real problem is with conservatives who want to silence others, not with folks who think they can compartmentalize character & consequences from their behavior. The real problem is w/liberals who think there's a protective condom for every illicit sex act; an abortion for every "infringement" on their deluded "right" to parental sovereignty; and an escape hatch they call "protected free speech" for every bumble that flies out of "Wide Open Spaces."

Diane Sawyer at times framed the issue as "uncontrolled rage" {those conservatives are getting uppity again!) and "real questions about free speech" (sorry, freedom ALWAYS has a cost to it; 'tis called responsibilty & accountability).

Right before Sawyer's "encourage the enemy" question of the Chickidies, Sawyer meandered, "they say don't even normal people have a right to wonder...doubt" {the President)? Several times during the interview, "the right to question" came up. I'm sorry, Natalie, where again was your question mark in your original March 10 15-word statement?

And, finally, one of the other chicks (not Natalie) said toward the end of the Sawyer interview: "I will not let someone tell me I'm unpatriotic." Really, you mean, you'll censor us?

So our President can't tell Natalie, "I will not let someone say they're ashamed of me on foreign soil on the eve of war"; but tis OK for the Chix to ordain a solemn oath that "I will not let someone tell me I'm unpatriotic."

89 posted on 04/25/2003 4:18:03 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: wardaddy; longtermmemmory
Don't see how anybody could think that the bodies (or body - quite likely) displayed belongs to ANY of these three girls (especially the, er, zaftig one). If you look at other pictures, the proportions of shoulder to hip, body to leg, etc. are just wrong. Also, the dark-headed girl's other photos show unusually broad shoulders with very prominent shoulder joints. No sign of that in the pic.
91 posted on 04/25/2003 4:20:52 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: JoJo Gunn
Were those really the Dixie Chicks' nekkid bodies on the cover of that magazine? I'm sure that they used a fake body for Maines.
93 posted on 04/25/2003 4:21:46 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (A Person With No Sense Of Humor Is Someone Who Confuses The Irreverent With The Irrelevant)
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To: annieokie
Mike Gallagher
94 posted on 04/25/2003 4:25:03 AM PDT by ET(end tyranny) ( Deut.32:18-Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.)
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To: klute
sarandon bared a lot in the film Joe.
96 posted on 04/25/2003 4:29:48 AM PDT by RWG
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To: kcvl
Yes, it's ALL about them! Did you catch one of the sisters talking about "my brother went to the funeral (of a Texas soldier killed in Iraq)and I just kept thinking they might say he shouldn't be there because of us..." They really think they're the center of the universe. Very dense.
97 posted on 04/25/2003 4:29:58 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: ewing
{With mucho crocodile tears, Maines mourned the following statement during the Sawyer interview}: If you don't like who I am, I'm not going to change. And I like who I am. I do believe we're role models and that's what I want young, impressionable girls to hear and walk away with.

Oh, you mean, Natalie, the impression that it's OK to pose nude for mag covers even if it's only some other nude body to make a statement? Or even if you lead thousands of other girls to think it's your body and that's OK to flaunt for the sake of a career boost in a time of crisis?

There ya go, FREEPERS: Natalie Maines says she a "role model" for your daughters. Are you going to agree with her by not freeping her web sites or by not calling her concert sponsor, LIPTON TEA--1/800/697-7887? (Lipton is a product of Unilever, traditionally a corporation that tends to year in, year out have one of the worst marketing discernment problems in terms of which TV programs they sponsor, according to the American Family Asso)

98 posted on 04/25/2003 4:33:30 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian
1/800 # for Unilever FREEPER gave me is wrong

I'll post true # later

99 posted on 04/25/2003 4:38:20 AM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Colofornian
I can't believe Lipton is still sticking with these numbskulls.
100 posted on 04/25/2003 4:40:48 AM PDT by ewing
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