Dixie Who? The Handwriting Is on the Wall

CMT.com ^ | 2/15/07 | Chet FLippo

[wastedyears]

How about something that's fresh and revolutionary in music?

[mainepatsfan]

They've become a cause rather than a musical group.

[beansox]

they are pawns.

[big'ol_freeper]

Ping

[mainepatsfan]

Ten years from now when the left no longer has any use for them it'll really sink in how much they bleeped up.

[Old Grumpy]

"The knee-jerk vote by liberal Grammy members wanting to send the White House and Nashville and country radio a large middle finger about the alleged persecution and martyrdom of the trio . . . "

That was my reaction when they won the awards. It was a Brokeback Mountain kind of thing.

[bigbob]

and the horse they rode in on...

[TNCMAXQ]

Gee these poor gals have suffered so much. I guess they could be put in jail, according to Charlize Theron. LOL.

As far as being persecuted though, read the article about Michelle Malkin that was posted here earlier. She and her family have been through far worse harassment.

[weegee]

No they will be trotted out again and again on VH-1/MTV "top 50" lists (like Top 50 Most Outspoken Musicians, etc.) and celebrated as the culture historians hold up the Smothers Brothers' Vietnam War era broadcasts.

[gate2wire]

"That was my reaction when they won the awards. It was a Brokeback Mountain kind of thing."

Can you imagine if they were lesbians. They would have also swept the oscars, tonies(sp?), espys, opies, etc. All in the same program.

[El Laton Caliente]

I've quit watching any of the awards programs except maybe the country music awards. They have politicized them to the point they aren't even entertaining anymore.

[wbill]

Ten years from now...

Try ten minutes from now. Here today, gone later today...

[ConservaTexan]

They've become a cause rather than a musical group.

I keep waiting to hear that they have decided to become a quartet and are going to add Cindy Sheman to their lineup.

[Brad from Tennessee]

There is nothing courageous about the Dixie Chicks. They actually apologized to Bush when all the furor came down on them the first time. Then two years later when Bush was down in the polls and they thought it was safe they trashed him again. They are sheep like 99 percent of all celebrities. People in Vermont and San Fransisco can cheer them but they alienated their best market as the article above demonstrates.

[Preachin']

I never watch one minute of any TV, film or music awards shows.

They serve no other purpose than for the participants to flaunt their arrogant "importance".

I have better things to do.

[wideawake]

The Dixie Chicks proudly take their place among other towering musical greats who have won Grammys for best record or best album - like Michael Bolton, Phil Collins and Milli Vanilli.

What an incredible achievement.

Too bad Grammys aren't edible.

[Sherri-D]

I can't remember CBs username

[Leg Olam]

Five Grammys with asterisks.

[RobRoy]

Over at harmony-central, someone posted a thread saying the chicks were "vindicated" at the grammys. I responded that it was the equivalent of Ted "Chapaquidic" Kennedy being vindicated at a democratic convention.

That is how I see this. And the article brings up the valid point that when you pass over valid candidates to "knight" someone else for political reasons, you create some powerful AND MOTIVATED enemies.