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Dixie Chicks, dissent, and "whacked" paranoia
Townhall.com ^ | February 13, 2007 | Jon Sanders

Posted on 02/13/2007 7:25:24 AM PST by EveningStar

"I think people are paranoid" was how former Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart's comments to Reuters began. Hart was speaking about this year's Grammy Awards and the Dixie Chicks. Then he provided a sterling example of that very paranoia...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dixiechicks; paranoia; phonyheroism
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To: popdonnelly
First we had the myth that Joe Wilson was persecuted. Now we have the myth that the Dixie Chicks are persecuted.

Meanwhile, pretty soon the only ones being persecuted will be Global Warming skeptics.

61 posted on 02/13/2007 8:36:04 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: rawcatslyentist

My favourite for putting conservative jabs in music is Leonard Cohen. If the Hollywood types actually listened to any of his lyrics they wouldn't fawn over him so much ;-D


62 posted on 02/13/2007 8:36:05 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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To: EveningStar
"Their "naked" cover on Rolling Stone seems to have started a new fad: the Multimillionaire Artist As Suffering Figure of Persecution.

The only suffering the dickie chicks suffered was a lack of sells and a portion of the public who no longer sucks up to them, and instead disdains them. Get used to it.

The USA is one of the few places in the world where you can say what you want and not be punished by the government. Western entertainers have always pretended they suffer for their art. But the fact is they have it better than anyone else in the world. People like the dickie chicks have lives that most people, even in America, can only dream about. I just can't take people like them pretending and whinning about their so-called suffering. Makes me sick.

They want to be compared to people in countries where artists actually do suffer for their art. They want to be martyrs without actually being one. They are like someone who stubbed their toe, and then believes they have suffered just as much as someone who broke their leg.

63 posted on 02/13/2007 8:38:31 AM PST by Mona Lisa2 (Oliver Stoned: "We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people..."!!!)
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To: JFC

Yeah, according to my sister, most people do just "attend" Berklee because it is more about getting the connections than getting a degree. My parents pulled my sister out after one semester because she became anorexic. (My sister still wants to go back there.) I don't pay attention to American Idol, but apparently one of those starlets attended Berklee and got anorexic, too. I gather that wasn't an issue for Maines!


64 posted on 02/13/2007 8:39:12 AM PST by soccermom
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To: gate2wire

"Bloody Peasant!"


65 posted on 02/13/2007 8:40:27 AM PST by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
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To: redstates4ever

See post 55 for more details.


66 posted on 02/13/2007 8:40:32 AM PST by soccermom
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To: Squawk 8888
My favourite for putting conservative jabs in music is Leonard Cohen.

Now you're talking greatness.

67 posted on 02/13/2007 8:41:40 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: Mona Lisa2

Good points.

Ann Coulter, in her great books 'Slander' and 'Treason' discusses this very subject with respect to "McCarthyism".

McCarthyism is the "Trail of Tears", the "Potato Famine" and "The Holocaust" for liberals. It is their way to imply they have suffered.

I agree with you, it is pretty disgusting. They should read 'The Gulag Archipelago' or 'Night' to get some perspective, but I suspect it would be lost on them.


68 posted on 02/13/2007 8:46:58 AM PST by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

That`s exactly what it is. Another thing is what someone told me last year, the industry move away from music to more of an image based way to sell CD`s. The music took a back seat to liberal idealogies, they made the women dress and act like skanks because according to liberals being a skank is cool, made the blacks criminals because being a criminal is cool (when rap started it wasn`t at ALL like that!), make the guys drug crazed psychopaths with tons of tattoos because that is cool. Meanwhile the music is absolute s**t. And they wonder why it isn`t selling? It`s pretty pathetic when I can go to any small dive here in NYC and see a band made up of normal people blow away anything on the radio today yet they can`t get anywhere because they don`t fit the liberal requirements of being multiple pierced, multi-tattooed, multi-criminal, commie loving, skank promoting, women hating musicians.


69 posted on 02/13/2007 8:47:52 AM PST by Screamname (Guinness world records reports that the record for youngest living person is constantly being broken)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

True statement. As such, these same "important" people are considered to have intellect surpassing the norm, but in actuality are one hamburger short of a Happy Meal.


70 posted on 02/13/2007 8:51:07 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: Screamname
"I can`t believe these Dixie Bims won for "album of the year" and song of the year for "Not ready to Make Nice”...On the other hand I can believe it, it just absolutely reaffirms my belief that the Grammys are nothing more than one more ego massaging clown show for liberals and their know-it-all idealogies. To think that this pretentious crock of self absorbed garbage is the best song ever written all year is so laughable it`s just makes it more obvious to me why these Grammys have nothing at all to do with music."

Agreed.

71 posted on 02/13/2007 8:51:10 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Conservatives protect Americans from terrorists. Liberals protect terrorists from Americans.")
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To: TC Rider
I thought Firesign was around before Cheech and Chong. I remember listening to the "Its me, Dave; Dave's not here," routine in 69 or so on the Firesign Theatre LP.
72 posted on 02/13/2007 8:53:15 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: soccermom

And upon graduation they are condemned to play on the platform at the Park Street T Station. A friend of mine is on staff there. It is filled with the idiot children of the idle rich.


73 posted on 02/13/2007 8:54:25 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: EveningStar

Of course they want to believe that the government is oppressing them. It gives them some sense of importance for doing what is basically a mindless job.


74 posted on 02/13/2007 8:57:23 AM PST by keepitreal
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To: Squawk 8888
Back in the mid 1970's, Alice Cooper actually played a couple of rounds of golf with former Prez. Nixon. Both had a big golfing "jones".
75 posted on 02/13/2007 9:01:31 AM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: R. Scott

Everyone has an opinion but not everyone gets their face in the news whenever they fart sideways. And hollywood does have an influence on our cultural with their movies and their lifestyle. Especially over the young people.


76 posted on 02/13/2007 9:02:53 AM PST by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: JFC

I owe Natalie an apology. I thought she didn't graduate from high school. Seriously.


77 posted on 02/13/2007 9:04:08 AM PST by popdonnelly (Conservatives must have their own long march through the institutions.)
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To: JFC

But we keep them in business. And so many people adore these people. It makes me sick.


78 posted on 02/13/2007 9:05:07 AM PST by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Like a friend of mine was saying; "Why do we call them 'celebrities'? What is there to celebrate about them? They are foolish overpaid bums. Aren`t they the opposite of what we should celebrate in people? Shouldn`t we use the antonym of "celebrities" and call them "nobodies"?


79 posted on 02/13/2007 9:07:16 AM PST by Screamname (Guinness world records reports that the record for youngest living person is constantly being broken)
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To: popdonnelly

I owe Natalie an apology. I thought she didn't graduate from high school. Seriously.


I really don't think she did graduate from High School. I think she has her GED....that is why she got in at a Jr. College (South Plains College). They take anyone!


80 posted on 02/13/2007 9:07:37 AM PST by JFC
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