Natalie Maines Issues Defiant Presidential Quote on Website (How Sorry is she Really?)

Natalie Maines.com ^ | March 19, 2003 | Natalie Maines

[ewing]

amen!

[ewing]

And you could get some mean $6.99 Lasagna while listening to the Chicks at the same time!!

[el_texicano]

'To announce that there must be no criticism of the CELEBRITY, or that we are to stand by the CELEBRITY, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.'

Revised and resubmitted for repudiation of said celebrity.

Note to Ms. Maines: It cuts both way babe!!!!!

[ewing]

just dang. We crashed her site..

[rockinonritalin]

like a French Frog

[stuartcr]

Correct, one of the reasons they influence is because they are elected representatives of the people...entertainers are not, there opinions are meaningless, so why make such a fuss? Why deny them the right to make a living because you don't agree with them...how does what they have to say effect your paycheck? Should a liberal that makes auto parts not be allowed to work because you don't agree with them? I'm all for e-mailing them with our opinions, but to stop a persons income is not right.

[cincinnati65]

What counts, Teddy Roosevelt said, is not the critic, not “the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of good deeds could have done better.” What counts is the man or woman, said Roosevelt, “who is...in the arena.” The man or woman “whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming.” The man or woman who counts, said Roosevelt, is the man or woman who “actually strives to do the deeds...who knows the great enthusiasms; the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause.”

[q_an_a]

Hell this BLOND is proving the point of dumb blond jokes. She does not know what Mohammad Ali learned; "Keep quiet it will be old news in three days." I hope she keeps talking and explaining. The other two have repalced a singer before and they can do it again.

[pfflier]

She has her right to an opinion, nobody disputes that.

Her choice to express it for financial gain, for social acceptance or for hurting the country internationally is morally corrupt.

[robert0122]

Other quotes by Teddy Roosevelt that Natalie and the Ditzy Chimps might be interested in:

Speak softly and carry a big stick, and you will go far.

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

I would rather go out of politics feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I had acted as I ought not to.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

From http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trquotes.html

[mhking]

Oops!

[bmwcyle]

Good find!

[LADY J]

"I'm all for e-mailing them with our opinions, but to stop a persons income is not right."

In that case - do you vote for a RAT so that he does not lose HIS income?

[MaggieMay]

The Dixie Chicks need to call an ex-president,co-president and white house staffer they could be proud of Bill,Hill and James Carville. I'm sure these three could tell them how to spin this story and get great PR to boot. The Dixie Chicks are not doing so hot on their own,in fact I predict they will be ostracized for these comments, the rest of their short careers. The public forgives many things but not arrogant stupidity, initiated on foreign soil, against our president on the eve of a war.

[try phecta tom]

hubby #3 is an arab, what do you think he says?

[JBonvillain]

I totally agree with that -- it cuts both ways. I purchased six tickets to their upcoming concert on June 27 in Wash, DC, and after reading the article Saturday morning (while sitting in the rain at the in-field at Darlington raceway), was so disgusted with her gratuitous remarks that I told my husband that I want to sell ALL the tickets!! Just like she has the choice to say what she wants, I have the choice in our wonderful capitalistic society to spend my dollars where I chose. And, I chose NOT to support the Dixie Chicks anymore.

Think about it, she would NEVER had made those comments at a concert here in the U.S. Can you imagine if she did -- she would be booed off the stage!!! She has to go abroad to say that. Absolutely gratuitous!

[gridlock]

...what was the context of the Roosevelt quote...

TR was quite critical of Woodrow Wilson in the period leading up to the First World War. Defenders of Bill Clinton us TR's conduct during this period as a defense when people say that Bubba ought to sit down and shut up as we get close to nut-crackin' time. I would think that this TR quote is from this period, when everybody was telling him the exact same thing.

Moral of the story: Two wrongs don't make a right, even when one of the wrongs is TR.

[savedbygrace]

See Tennessee_Bob's post #11.

[EaglesUpForever]

The other two have repalced a singer before and they can do it again.

Now there's a nice thought...

[savedbygrace]

Oops, I didn't read your post very carefully.

If you butter a cat, you will require a blood transfusion.