Not Ready to Make Nice (Dixie Chicks in Australia, STILL Whining About Free Republic)

AdelaideNow ^ | Sunday, October 8, 2006 | Kirsten Heyson

[prairiebreeze]

I gotta get back and read this thread later.

entertainment ping

[Bat_Chemist]

An all she-can-eat-buffet

There would have to be an additional freepathon just to pay for it!!!

[I'm ALL Right!]

"For the Free Republic we were a dream come true; they made it their mission to take us down. Apparently we were not supposed to think like this because we play country music."

Still missing the point entirely, Natalie. You have every right to believe what you want to believe. You chose to dis our Commander in Chief overseas during wartime. That's just WRONG. (Had you had the guts to say it in front of a TEXAS audience, you may have garnered some respect, but your actions were cowardly and traitorous.) We, as free Americans, choose to keep our money, instead of giving it to you. We have the right to do that. Don't forget, you called your listeners idiots, and said you don't need them. It's YOUR fault you're a failing act now, not FR.

[I'm ALL Right!]

It's a Ding Dong in a foil wrapper.

[I'm ALL Right!]

....with half our brain tied behind our backs.

[fanfan]

It's not ignorance, it's good taste.

;-)

[F.J. Mitchell]

FreeRepublic: Designate whipping boy for the Dixie Chicks blowing their career away, like suicide bombers.

Cluck on.

[Fintan]

Y'know what really steams my beans about all of this is none of you sent me the memo about going after Ellen DeGeneres.

[sayfer bullets]

If we'd only know of this power to stop careers in their tracks...

Couldn't we have prevented THIS?

[MayflowerMadam]

"petite" = troll-esque

[MarkL]

Maybe you're in the Opus Dei division, like I am. We don't get paid, we just do it for the joy of it.

But I'm Jewish! We ONLY do things for the money! I know that from my special, original, members' edition of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

Mark

[MayflowerMadam]

Can't believe she forgot to mention Dan Rather.

[MarkL]

a Fierce snake would be nice, or box jellyfish or a blue ring octopus. Man it seems like everything in Australia can kill you.

And don't forget the Sydney Funnel Web spider. I recall seeing a special on them on Discovery, or some such channel. They're extremely aggressive, and tend to roam around. The show said that people had been bitten, trying to swat them with brooms. They will actually dodge the swat, leap onto the broom, run up the handle, and try to bite the swatter (if you don't get it first)!

Mark

[musicman]

"Damn right, b!tch. All Your Base Are Belong to Us. Got it? "

Allegra, these are for you.!!(...spend them wisely!!)

[greyfoxx39]

That's really funny, lol.

[MarkL]

I still don't understand why the antiwar dummies haven't been protesting Kosovo or our involvement in the Balkans that is still present today. I guess selective outrage allows them to sleep when a Democrat attacks an ally but get their panties in a wad when a Republican attacks a group that has threatened an end to our way of life.

Ann Coulter said it best when she said (paraphrased) that the only wars the left support are those that are not in the interest of the US. When a war is in the interest of the US, the left opposes it. And that's NOT something new. Looking back in history, the left was vehemently against US participation in WWII. Only after Hitler attacked Stalin and the Soviet Union did they come on board. Of course, once Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, they supported the war, but again, only because The Soviet Union had been attacked beforehand.

Mark

[wolfey1]

About the time TOBY KEITHs song The angry American , came out the DIXI CHUNKS made these dumb comments. thats when they went in the sh*t can! AS they should.

[Psycho_Bunny]

It's sort of sad, how stupid Maines is.

[MarkL]

The Chicks appear, annoyingly, on the Sesame Street Video, "All Star Alphabet" (they do the letter "B"). And I've seen enough music, and played enough myself, to understand the dynamics of playing together; there's a dynamic among the people that is palpable, although hard to explain. It's totally missing with the Chicks, at least on that video. Although the music was technically well executed and sounded good, I got the sense that the other two chicks do NOT like Natalie AT ALL.

I predict a band breakup. The other 2 will dump Natalie someday.

I can't speak to the video you mention, but a few years ago, before the "incident," CBS did a special on the Dixie Chicks, where (I think) Mike Wallace interviewed them) and they broadcast a DC concert. That show made me run out and buy the trio's CD, and I really liked it. They're very talented, and they were really terrific in concert.

But, as has been mentioned more than once here, "if you find yourself in a hole, you might want to quit digging." It seems that Natalie just can't shut up - sort of like Bill Clinton. And each time she opens her mouth, she reopens old wounds. You're probably right that the sisters are getting fed up with Natalie. But they probably also realize that had they never dumped their original singer/bassist Laura Lynch and brought in Natalie, they never would have enjoyed the success they had over the next 5 years or so.

So, they're sort of between a rock and a hard place.

Mark

[Liberty Valance]

I am sorry to hear that Natalie has fallen
off the wagon again. We wish her the very best.