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KC Radio Stations Dump Dixie Chicks
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| March 14, 2003
Posted on 03/14/2003 4:32:18 AM PST by PJ-Comix
If you tuned in to any of Kansas City's country music stations Thursday, you did not hear the Dixie Chicks.
Several stations in town have dumped the group's music over the lead singer's controversial comments about President Bush, KMBC's Jeremy Hubbard reported.
At a concert in London earlier this week, Natalie Maines, the band's lead singer said, " Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
The Guardian, a London paper that reported the comment, said Maines' remark got the crowd cheering.
Many local residents, however, were not excited about the singer's point of view.
"If you guys play another Dixie Chicks song, we'll never listen to you again," one country music fan told KBEQ.
The station logged nearly 700 phone calls Thursday, denouncing Maines' comment.
The reactions from listeners were enough for programmers at all three big Kansas City country radio stations to pull the Dixie Chicks from their playlists, Hubbard reported.
But some Dixie Chicks fans didn't appreciate the ban.
"There are some artists that I like that have said things I don't agree with, but it doesn't stop me from listening to their music," said radio listener Shawn Peterson.
One radio station is even taking the boycott a step further.
Friday morning, one local station will take the ban a step further. They have invited their listeners to come to the station's studios and dump their Dixie Chicks CDs in a big trash can, Hubbard said.
The Dixie Chicks are scheduled to play to a sold out crowd in Kansas City next month.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Kansas; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: dixiechicks
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To: PJ-Comix
There are some artists that I like that have said things I don't agree with, but it doesn't stop me from listening to their music," said radio listener Shawn Peterson>>
Sorry Shawn, but the station has to look out for their business and if people start banning them, they are in deep doo doo. Nobody is stopping you from listening to them--their CD's are still in stores.
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:13:40 AM PST
by
glory
To: PJ-Comix
Good! Maybe they can replace that air time with Patsy Cline.Yes indeedy! Patsy was a true icon. Beautiful voice.
Prairie
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:14:38 AM PST
by
prairiebreeze
(I'm wearing my full FReeper uniform 24/7 these days, and remain alert and ready with shields up!)
To: PJ-Comix
I agree. Patsy had one of the sharpest and clearest voices I've ever heard. My leading female singer of alllll time. Her voice defined the term "clear as a bell".
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:18:18 AM PST
by
ladtx
("...the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country." D. MacArthur)
To: Flurry
the air belonged to France and the US was paying a royalty to France based on how much we useWasn't that one of the main provisions of the Kyoto Treaty? Now I can see why they're so upset we won't sign.
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:19:11 AM PST
by
katana
To: Steve0113
ping.
Can you call WFLS? As of last night they were still playing Blixie Chicks - I switched over from WTOP hoping to hear "Have You Forgotten?" but heard their stupid little soldier song instead.
I sat in the parking lot in Wally's listening to the whole thing, hoping there'd be anything but the overdone trite soldier-dies/girl-sad ending, but that's what it was.
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:19:37 AM PST
by
nina0113
To: PJ-Comix; alfa6; barker; kcpopps; KC Burke; KC_Conspirator; Free State Four; lagamorph; ...
I heard about this yesterday on KMBZ at the top of the hour news.
To: katana
PS: These Fonda-wannabees are in the wrong end of the music business. The next time I hear "and the landslide brought me down" there will be a toilet flush sound at the end, such is their CW career.
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:22:32 AM PST
by
katana
To: PJ-Comix
More proof that Hollywood has hijacked Nashville. These morons are trying to suck up to California based producers. The cost.....flyover country fans.
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:23:52 AM PST
by
Archie Bunker on steroids
(DNC is funding & organizing international and national antiwar movement)
To: katana
That is correct, there is always some truth in fiction.
To: PJ-Comix
Maybe they will have to have a public expulsion of the Fat Chick to make amends with the public. I recently saw a "history of the Blixie Chix" program, and trust me, the chix are ruthless. I suspect the expulsion real soon, after the cash flow slows.
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:28:35 AM PST
by
Cboldt
To: No More Gore Anymore
If you are not familiar with many of their songs, how can you describe them as man-bashing?
Yes, "Goodbye Earl" was satirically homicidal. But surely, you do not equate with revenge on a serial wife beater as man-bashing.
That said, I think Nathalie's comments were stupid and ones which she will commercially regret. Frankly, I think her Daddy needs to call her back home and reeducate her on keeping your political opinions to yourself if you want to be successful in public life.
To: PJ-Comix
![](http://civilwarclipart.com/Clipartgallery/images/poulettes.jpg)
"Les Poulettes Renduées" (The Surrender Chicks)
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:30:09 AM PST
by
Alouette
To: PJ-Comix
Where's Earl?
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:30:38 AM PST
by
Martus
To: PJ-Comix
POLITIX CLIX DIX CHIX
To: prairiebreeze
Patsy was a true icon. Beautiful voice.I miss her terribly.
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:35:19 AM PST
by
Marauder
(They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.)
To: Living Free in NH
"These celebrities just don't get it. They're losing more and more fans each day when they open their mouth"
All of these celebs, sponsors, etc. that people complain to have a standard comeback, like, "They have the same free speech rights as anyone...blah, blah, blah".
Well, that's true. but
The freedom of speech is the prohibition of the government stifling free speech...but what these brain-dead celebs don't get is, it doesn't mean we have to listen to it, or SUPPORT them in any way, if we disagree. They really don't get it. Do they expect us to say, "Oh, well your anti-Bush, anti-American bullsh*t is PROTECTED by free speech...well, why didn't you say so, I'll start buying your records/movies again then." (sarcasm off). And as one post said, many of those claiming to be "country", are garage rock bands who couldn't make it in the rock world, so they water down rock songs and call them country. Sort of reminds me of some liberals who run as "Conservatives" to get elected.
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:35:44 AM PST
by
FrankR
To: rabidralph
Glad to see that it was not only me that despised their Landslide remake...now if we could just get CMT from playing their stupid videos as well...
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:35:58 AM PST
by
grumple
To: PJ-Comix
That was a cheap shot that the bimbos took against President Bush overseas. Well, now word's out and they should've known that many people will not bother to listen to them anymore.
To: PJ-Comix
Personally, FYI...I destroyed all of my Dixie Cicks CD's. (Only one) but it was symbolic.
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posted on
03/14/2003 5:42:14 AM PST
by
vannrox
(The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
To: PJ-Comix
Maybe they will have to have a public expulsion of the Fat Chick to make amends with the public.Can they replace members like Menudo?
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