It wasn't the Chicks antiwar stance that screwed them, it was the ad hominem nature of their comments. Also, I think being antiwar was an afterthought. They were merely pandering to an Anti-American Brit crowd. When the heat came, they tried to dress up their overseas gutless pandering by spewing boilerplate antiwar bs (basically reading off the average Hardball transcript.) I think they probably even had a Dem consultant tell them what to say, the big guns were probably called in. I suspect they will be appearing at the DNC convention in Beantown next year. They are clearly being advised to go totally Left--they figure they lost their base and the Republicans (oddly they didn't know that there is a large overlap there).
The anti-Schwarzenegger comments are a hint of what's to come-- washed up performances at DNC functions in an attempt to get the Norman Lears of the world to bulk buy their CDs like they did Franken's incopherent, unhinged
book.
by the way, and I'm not blaming the poster for this, but this article is false and misleading.
It's not true that "The Dixie Chicks say they don't want to be a country music band any more."
I looked up the original interview, and it's pretty clear that the Chicks were saying that the country music scene abandoned them - that they don't have a home there anymore (no news there).
They did say that they consider themselves part of the "rock & roll" community, though I'd have to assume that what they were refering to would be better described as the "pop music" community (no news there also - Shania Twain, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes and other country artists also have wide cross-over appeal.)
In other words, this article is, well, a piece of crap. As usual, I'm disappointed that I often seem to be the only Freeper who doesn't beleive everything he reads. Again, I'm not blaming the original poster for this - but I would like to see a little skepticism once in a while in those replying. This is the internet, you know, and you can't believe everything you read - I'd like to think we all would know that.