Welcome, N00b! With a statement like that, you won't last long around here.
Bush didn't have it wrong, even if every Brit in Britain thinks so. Having lived in your country and others on the continent, I take a jaundiced eye at anything Europeans say about Americans. Many of you are a just a jealous bunch.
If then the Dixie Chicks are allowed to criticize (note the Z, it's on purpose) the President, certainly we can criticize the Dixie Chicks.
Country music fans are "Red Staters". This means they have an almost zealous love for this country and anyone slamming her in wartime deserves their disgust. It's our way. Country music fans overwhelmingly voted for Bush. We don't like to see others go out of their way to put him down. Also, a lot of the reasons we so dislike the Chicks is due to their response to our criticizing Maines original statement. Basically, she said "Y'all are a bunch of dumb hicks to vote for Bush, so I ain't taking back nothing. If you don't like it, don't listen!" Fighting words. Bad mouthing your fan base is no way to keep them.
When that happened, fans didn't want to listen to them any longer. They demanded radio stations stop playing them. The radio stations had every right to continue playing the Chicks, or not. Those that chose to continue, lost a lot of revenue. That's the way the market works. To suggest, as certain Hollywood liberals did, that this was persecution of the Chicks is simply absurd. More accurately, it was the relentless stereotyping and ridiculing of white, Anglo-Saxon, Christian Southern Americans that finally caused so many to stand up and shout "Stop it!" The anger directed at the Chicks was part of this. They're a lot of American cultural issues in play here. You Brits don't understand them. But believe me, the Chicks insulted us and stupidly continue to do so, so they are history.
'We already knew he had it wrong, so no embarrassment for you there.
Welcome, N00b! With a statement like that, you won't last long around here.
Bush didn't have it wrong, even if every Brit in Britain thinks so. Having lived in your country and others on the continent, I take a jaundiced eye at anything Europeans say about Americans. Many of you are a just a jealous bunch.
If then the Dixie Chicks are allowed to criticize (note the Z, it's on purpose) the President, certainly we can criticize the Dixie Chicks.
Country music fans are "Red Staters". This means they have an almost zealous love for this country and anyone slamming her in wartime deserves their disgust. It's our way. Country music fans overwhelmingly voted for Bush. We don't like to see others go out of their way to put him down. Also, a lot of the reasons we so dislike the Chicks is due to their response to our criticizing Maines original statement. Basically, she said "Y'all are a bunch of dumb hicks to vote for Bush, so I ain't taking back nothing. If you don't like it, don't listen!" Fighting words. Bad mouthing your fan base is no way to keep them.
When that happened, fans didn't want to listen to them any longer. They demanded radio stations stop playing them. The radio stations had every right to continue playing the Chicks, or not. Those that chose to continue, lost a lot of revenue. That's the way the market works. To suggest, as certain Hollywood liberals did, that this was persecution of the Chicks is simply absurd. More accurately, it was the relentless stereotyping and ridiculing of white, Anglo-Saxon, Christian Southern Americans that finally caused so many to stand up and shout "Stop it!" The anger directed at the Chicks was part of this. They're a lot of American cultural issues in play here. You Brits don't understand them. But believe me, the Chicks insulted us and stupidly continue to do so, so they are history.'
Well stated and I agree!
Thanks for taking the time to explain your point of view and that of the 'Red Staters' as you put it.
And thanks for the noob! welcome.