So?
The Dixie Chicks would get more listeners if I played their music in my attic.
'Sir,
As a veteran who just spent 20 years on active duty in the Navy, I can say that I am appalled at your support of the Dixie Chicks after their remarks about my Commander in Chief. This shows that your organization is one of those leftist outfits that tried to undermine this great nation while hiding behind its rights guaranteed to you by veterans like myself and many others. If you want to live in a socialist state, just head 90 miles south of the tip of Florida, there is a socialist paradise just tailor made for you. You are the useful idiots that Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin spoke of for his plan of global communism. Lenin predicted that prediction that liberals and other weak-minded souls in the West could be relied upon to be "useful idiots" as far as the Soviet Union was concerned. I know you definitely support Saddam's regime by your views. To put it bluntly sir, you suck, your station sucks, your beliefs suck. And I regret spending 20 years of putting my life on the line to protect losers like yourself.'
Guess that sums it up for me.
I can not say the same for at least a good 40 to 60% of her former fans (myself included) who were rightly offended and disappointed by her dissing President Bush, along with American servicemen & women whether or not she realized that at the time, in front of cheering anti-American, pacifist Euro-weenies. Yeah, she apologized, but I'll bet if there hadn't been such an uproar, she would be giving an interview on KPFT and standing next to Martin Sheen at a "peace" rally in a nano-second.
"I just heard about it an hour ago from a caller who said there is some kind of boycott against the Dixie Chicks," said Wendy Schroell, KPFT administrative assistant. "That is the craziest thing I have ever heard. We are going to be playing them all the time. If people are calling them un-American, how American is it to boycott someone for something they think?"
That is the beauty of living in this country, my dear: You can say anything you like, but you cannot force people to listen or spend their money on you.
Try that in a place like Iraq, and see how far it gets you.
The exact contents of my e-mail to her.
I find it rather amusing however how she is implying bashing your Prez and his (which just happens to be your own) home state is American, but boycotting them for saying it is not.
Again I ask, does KPFT violate their tax free status?
Michael Corcoran
American-Statesman Staff
Add Lyle Lovett to the Natalie Maines critics, though the Houstonian did call the outspoken Dixie Chicks singer "a sweet girl" at his one-on-one interview with Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith at the Convention Center Saturday. "There are appropriate times for appropriate people to speak out," Lovett said when Smith brought up the controversy Maines has caused by telling a London audience she's ashamed President George W. Bush is from Texas.. "But just because you have the forum doesn't mean you should speak," Lovett said. Maines' sentiments no doubt had greater support at the big anti-war march that turned an already packed downtown area into a crush of pandemonium. I've never seen it so crazy so early downtown during SXSW.