Dixie Chicks launch full-frontal attack - "not...standing their ground...pushing it even farther"

The Dallas Morning News ^ | April 25, 2003 | By TOM MAURSTAD / The Dallas Morning News

[MeekOneGOP]

I've been away from my computer for a couple of days. This article appeared in the Dallas Morning News yesterday and I had to post this.

These idiots are looking to commit suicide with their predominately Conservative audience. It's hard for me to believe they don't see that OR they think think this is a principled stand. Dolts, ALL of them for this stunt, imho. The statement made my Maines apparently is held/believed by ALL of them based on their action here.

If they wish to continue a career in entertainment, they may have to get away from C & W. I hope they suffer a fatal career meltdown after their statement and now this ! . . .

Unlike other outspoken celebrities, such as rocker Sheryl Crow or activist director Michael Moore, whose anti-war comments have generally been applauded by their fans, the Dixie Chicks' comments play against country music's bedrock fans.

"You could write off the comment that started all this as something said in the excitement of the moment," says Leo Braudy, author of The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and its History. "But what's going on now is the result of calculation.

"It's a pretty striking strategy. Rather than backing down and appearing on the cover waving a flag or dressed in military uniforms, they are not just standing their ground, they're pushing it even farther."

[NetValue]

They're finished.

[jos65]

SHOOT SELVES IN FOOT ONCE AGIN, SO TO SPEAK!!!!<P.

[annyokie]

There was a guy on Fox last night who said he was waiting for Maines to proclaim that Dale Earnhardt wasn't "all that" and that NASCAR was stupid. Thus, TOTALLY alienating their fan base.

[Chi-townChief]

Great advice for women everywhere: When in doubt, take your clothes off !
Works for me.

[MeekOneGOP]

Dixie Chicks launch full-frontal attack -
"not...standing their ground...pushing it even farther",

Unlike other outspoken celebrities, such as rocker Sheryl Crow or activist director Michael Moore, whose anti-war comments have generally been applauded by their fans, the Dixie Chicks' comments play against country music's bedrock fans.

"You could write off the comment that started all this as something said in the excitement of the moment," says Leo Braudy, author of The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and its History. "But what's going on now is the result of calculation.

"It's a pretty striking strategy. Rather than backing down and appearing on the cover waving a flag or dressed in military uniforms, they are not just standing their ground, they're pushing it even farther."

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Texas or General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL !

[MeekOneGOP]

Yep ! bttt . . .

[dwilli]

an Entertainment Weekly spokeswoman asserts: "That's them, their bodies. There were no computer tricks, no airbrushing.</>. Natalies Maines husband would kill his dog if it would make that body hers.

[FITZ]

"That's them, their bodies. There were no computer tricks, no airbrushing."

Sure. Even the chubby one? And they all are the exact same shade of tan and not one has a single tan line anywhere? It's at the very least airbrushed but is probably even more fake than that.

[annyokie]

Natalies Maines husband would kill his dog if it would make that body hers!

No lie! I said that pic was photoshopped the first time I saw it. That or Natalie has lost about 40 pounds in ten days!

[Bonaparte]

"If they wish to continue a career in entertainment, they may have to get away from C & W."

That's exactly what I believe they are trying to do. Their first response was to try to make this go away. It wouldn't. So after the non-apology apologies predictably fell flat, they shifted to an attitude calculated to appeal to the left. I foresee a change in their style, repertoire and concert venue.

[FITZ]

Maybe her clothes just make her look fat ----if the picture is real, then she should just stay naked.

[gg188]

When they shoot themselves in the foot, they empty the clip.

[annyokie]

Only on magazine covers does the camera lie. Watch one of their videos. If that's her on that cover, I'll eat my hat.

[Bonaparte]

"Natalies Maines husband would kill his dog if it would make that body hers."

Exactly. The EW spokeswoman is lying in her teeth. You compare that photo to every existing candid shot of Maines and there is no way that is her body. IMO all of their bodies have been altered in the cover shot.

[Paul Atreides]

I'm getting so tired of the people in the media whining about people who don't like what the Chicks have said. If Rush Limbaugh's or Bill O'Reilly's fanbases got insulted over something they said, and started burning their books, those same people in the media would be hailing it as free speech on the part of the American people. And, I don't for a second believe that it was an off-the-cuff remark.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Well, a celebrity has free speech, just like you and me. And just like you and me, they can speak anonymosly as in FR--or they can use their own names and take the consequences to their reputations and their celebrity status. But a celebrity cannot simultaneously

employ her fame to amplify her voice and

insulate herself and her reputation from the reaction of the public to what she says.

[usastandsunited]

They probably have been thinking about moving over to pop in the future anyway. But they seem to be spitting in the face of the crowd that got them this far. Unappreciative, selfish people. This whole thing will not end up good for the group in the long.

[SkyPilot]

Courtesy of Registered.