That thing happens when someone really does not know the truth ahead of time.
It is what it is, but obviously 13 years later it doesn’t look like they, or at least Natalie, has learned any life lessons about it yet.
They are planning a tour, enough time has passed that nostalgia could bring them some renewed success, and seems like she hasn’t learned a thing.
Politics isn’t what brought them down, at the end of the day, ego did. There are plenty of entertainers I disagree with politically, but most are smart and humble enough to realize they get paid very well to entertain, not to proselytize their opinions to their fans, or be confrontational with them over it.
The stupid thing that was said could have gotten past, but to continue on insisting it and then calling your fans names etc etc etc, was just moronic.
Here’s a parody I wrote and posted after their little incident back in 03.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/866982/posts