Waiting for the obligatory "Natalie Maines is fat" and "Their music is overproduced and stinks" comments, as well as the un-doctored magazine cover shot, the Natalie morphing into batboy, etc.
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For me it has nothing to do with Ms. Maines' physicla appearance or the group's music. I used to be a fan of their music. But when they bad mouthed our President and in effect this entire nation in a foreign land, that was it for me. Sure, they have freedom of speech. But what they did was not only insult the President of the United States, but every one of us...especially our military which is fighting these wars and protecting the Chicks' rights to do and say what they please. I refuse to be insulted and then pay for those insults by buying their recordings or attending their concerts. I'm not that much of a masochist.
Perfectly said!
It did tick me off to no end when they insulted our President on foreign soil, and I was done with them at that point. But I think what really did it for those "well, she does have a right to say what she wants, this is America" country folks is when she insulted country music listeners by stating they didn't want the kind of fans that had a Dixie Chicks CD in the changer with Reba and Toby Keith. I just shook my head and said "stupid, stupid woman - their goes what's left of your career".