[My] State legislator wants Bush impeachment "on the table"
This guy ran as a "moderate" and the voters here believed him. He's anything but.
Posted on 02/21/2007 3:45:34 PM PST by beansox
While the commonness of awards has contributed to diminishing their status, far more damaging is the blatant politicization of the process. Filmmakers, musicians, journalists and statesmen alike are all too often awarded prizes based not on merit but on political affiliation. Invariably, that affiliation tends toward the left side of the political spectrum.
The Dixie Chicks' sweeping of the Grammys this month was a glaring example of this trend. Their new album, Taking the Long Way Home, won all five of the Grammys for which it was nominated, including best song for the petulant anthem "Not Ready to Make Nice" -- even though sales were much lower than their earlier albums. But the Dixie Chicks' win was less about music than about politics.
One can hardly claim censorship while appearing on numerous media outlets, including "60 Minutes," "Larry King Live" and not one, but two Time magazine covers, all the while whining about suppression of free speech -- not to mention the group baring it all for the cover of Entertainment Weekly in a calculated effort to appear risque. Then there was the Dixie Chicks' 2006 documentary, "Shut Up and Sing," in which the trio further employed the London episode to boost their careers. In the end, the Dixie Chicks' victimhood marketing paid off. The Grammy judges certainly fell for it.
Maines, of course, chalked the victory up to "people using their freedom of speech with all these awards," but in actuality it was people using their position of power to reward those with whom they share political viewpoints. It was hardly an endorsement of freedom of speech, or even music, for that matter.
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thanks.
They should just give a "Most Pure Socialist" award to kick off the awards. Think how unhappy the people that went up against the Ditsy Chicks must have been to know they had to take one for the team.
Hard to believe this is in the SF Chronicle.
Good article. Some of the locals in SF must be apoplectic after reading this.
[My] State legislator wants Bush impeachment "on the table"
This guy ran as a "moderate" and the voters here believed him. He's anything but.
Odd...coming from a SF fish wrap.
Maybe they're beginning to figure it out.
Whenever the Seattle Slimes or the Seattle P-U (Post-Unintelligencer) "graces" my newspaper slot with a freebie copy... it goes straight to the landfill unopened and unread.
Maybe I'm the King of New Zealand too.......
Media comes together when a liberal group is boycotted. They're desperate to prove that the boycotts don't work.
The democratic party always relies on the sheeple to put them in power. The media is to the democratic what staff is to the shepard.
I have blooged on this subject since it started. When this album was released countless people were blogging that htey bought multiple copies as a protest. Natalie would even urge people to buy the album as a means of protest in interviews.
Code Pink has even had a hand in in urging their followers to support the chicks. And quite frankly, people who are low enough to harrass our War wounded outside Walter Reed are not above spending a couple hundred dollars each to prop up the sales of a trio of pawns as yet another form of retribution to those that support those very soldiers.
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