Great column. Pat Boone just keeps getting better with age.
MSM has been working extra-hard to help get the Ditzies back on track. They've made several appearances on GMA, there's the "60 Minutes" interview, they were reported on "The View" more than once, and prime time programs like "Medium" on the networks feature not only their music, but display the CD cover afterwards.
The people who are supporting them now have no real love for them or their music--they regard the Chicks as backward hicks (you can tell by the interviews) and their music as proof of it. Once their usefulness is over, they'll be dropped like hot potatoes. Dixie who?
They even blew off their support from "The View" gals recently by dissing them. Joy Behar was really steamed and announced they won't be invited back. When I read these stories about the incredibly stupid things these girls do, I'm always reminded of this line from Robert Heinlein:
"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."