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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: 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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