The article reports on an e-mail sent by Sony Music and the Dixie Chicks manager blaming Freepers for their troubles.
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I'm impressed! Free Republic is beginning to reach Rovian status. Perhaps we will have our own weather machine soon.
Kristinn, the Cincinnati Enquirer linked article contains at the very least a few exaggerations if not outright lies.
In 2003, I posted research on the Dixie Chicks' spotted rise in the music business and my protests about their anti-American comments on the so-called entertainers' site through the time period their manager claimed in the Enquirer article that their website had been overrun and shut down.
If the so-called entertainers' site was ever shut down, it was only for an hour or two, and not the complete shutdown the manager claimed happened on Sunday (which would have been Sunday March 16, 2003) from the site being totally overrun.
The Dixie Chicks' comments against our American soldiers' Commander in Chief was motivated by their contempt for America.
The Dixie Chicks have no such contempt for the American Judicial system because they have spent much time in same judicial system hoping to get out of work and/or gain financial rewards with frivolous lawsuits.
At that time, I had researched and posted info on their site about the sham lawsuit the Dixie Chicks had brought against their record label, Sony Music, in response to Sony's suit against them for failing to record anything and failing to meet the terms of their record contract.
The Dixie Chicks also tried to force Coca Cola to sign an interim actors' agreement during the 2000 SAG/AFTRA Actors Unions strike. Coca Cola refused.
During the actors strike the Dixie Chicks demanded that Coca Cola sign an interim agreement paying the Dixie Chicks the increased rate in wages demanded by the Actors Unions at the beginning of the strike.
This interim agreement would have allowed the Dixie Chicks to be strikebreakers, film commercials for Coca Cola and enjoy many more pleasant trips to the bank.
The actors strike was over "fair wages" for cable television commercials.
The Dixie Chicks have a long history of trying to sue their way to riches, signing a lucrative deal with a company then later suing the same company for offering them what they would claim was an unlawful unfair agreement when the Dixie Chicks failed to complete the terms of the contract.
Their history is long and full of duplicitous comments, behavior and signed on the dotted line broken contracts.
It will be an incomplete, very shallow documentary if it covers only the time period from the Dixie Chicks' anti-American statements to today.