Strategy: How to respond to Dixie Chick Manager's comments

Cincinatti Enquirer ^ | 3/18/2003 | jagrmiester

[Tigercap]

I'm in.

[doug from upland]

I'll respond with a parody song. I've written one to BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA and will post it tomorrow morning.

[Mr_Magoo]

Well, My LTE is a place to start getting ideas.

[DiScOx]

count me in

[DiScOx]

btw......your nick is all too kewl.....LOL

[gortklattu]

I have registered my disgust with that group of unprincipled country sluts who traveled abroad and criticized a president who has the guts to take on a ruthless dictator.

Those chicks are too stupid to understand WHY they were wrong. It is not a matter of politics, it's a matter of principles. Bar sluts don't have principles, they just have an insatiable need for attention and money.

I will no longer give them any business.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

It's simple. We were upset by Maines's comments. We organized, using the Internet to coordinate ourselves in expressing our displeasure, just like any other group of people, left-wing, right-wing, or center-wing are free to do.

[swheats]

Does FR really have that much political power to sway the world into a particular way of thinking? If that be true 2004 elecions will be a cakewalk in getting rid of dim liberals.

Mr. Renshaw once again has belittled his base, in making statements that Chick fans are not able to make up their own minds of what's offensive and out of line. He must be a liberal.

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[Huck]

Other than the "weasel" comment, I thought he described us pretty well. Organized? active? Right Wing? Radical? Someone let me know when he says something insulting.

[Porterville]

What can our Cabal do to conquer these brainless twits? She we bring in the Rothchilds and Bildebergers or just the folks in the Skull and Bones??

[Porterville]

What can our Cabal do to conquer these brainless twits? Shall we bring in the Rothchilds and Bildebergers or just the folks in the Skull and Bones??(excuse me)

[usastandsunited]

"Your company is being targeted by a radical right-wing online forum," Renshaw says in the e-mail. "You are being `Freeped,' which is the code word for an organized e-mail/telephone effort attempting to solicit a desired response."

Uh. ok. I've been living under a rock the last week and wasn't aware all of this has been going on. As the husband of huge fan of the Dixie Chicks, I will pass this little "cute" comment over to my wife, along with the original comments made be one of the Dixe Chicks.

[jagrmeister]

I'm glad to see the interest. If any of us gets Renshaw's email address or the appropriate contact information for the person to reach at Sony Music, let's post it here so that we can communicate with them en masse. It's important to put the heat on Sony Music- after all they sent out that memo to the radio stations on their letterhead. They should feel the criticism in two ways:

1. Concerned Customers: Who are angry that Sony Music has dismissed them as "radical" malcontents operating as part of some "conspiracy". The request should be for Sony to renounce its characterization of the millions of patriotic Americans who have expressed their point of view about the Dixie Chicks to radio stations nationwide. I am not going to mention I am conservative, Republican, or a member of Free Republic as that would only undermine the message.

or

2. Concerned Conservative: Objecting to the way Free Republic was described and how conservatives were depicted by their memo. Challenge them to renounce their criticism of the largest mainstream conservative community online.
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I think we'll be more effective if we communicate respectfully and make a clear request. Let's avoid digressions about other perceived unfairness and name-calling.

As a separate matter, would it be useful for Free Republic to issue a memo to radio stations countering the propaganda by Sony Music and clarifying what the organization is about. Something along the lines of: "We are simply being scapegoating for the outpouring of criticism that Natalie Maines' comments have created. Furthermore, the organization is a mainstream community for patriotic Americans and we object to being labeled [fill-in-blank]. It is important that radio stations do not accept Sony's defamation of conservatives as a justification for their band's own behavior."

[jagrmeister]

Celtjew- you raise a very good point. There is no reason to be ashamed that we are organized. Any citizen group is organized. But I do think it's important for the radio stations to know that the outpouring of criticism they've been getting from the Dixie Chicks isn't from what Renshaw the termed the "radical right" and it's some sort of conspiracy that, due to our organization, are giving a inflated sense of outrage at the Dixie Chicks. How would you deal with that?

[HAL9000]

If you absolutely have to have a Dixie Chicks album - don't buy one.

Instead, borrow a CD, put it in your computer and burn your own bootleg copy.

And burn free copies for your liberal family members and friends so they won't need to buy it either.

Renshaw would have a stroke if this tactic caught on.

[jagrmeister]

Sorry, really bad grammar on my part. Let me try again.

Celtjew- you raise a very good point. There is no reason for us to be ashamed that we are organized. Any citizen group is organized. But I do think it's important for the radio stations to know that the outpouring of criticism they've been getting against the Dixie Chicks isn't strictly from what Renshaw termed the "radical right" and that it's some sort of conspiracy which, due to Free Republic's organization, is giving them an inflated perception of outrage at the Dixie Chicks. How would you deal with that?

[JoJo Gunn]

Their "manager" is an incredible idiot, and has done more damage now. I've heard about this all across the spectrum. It's mind boggling to lay the blame on this site. What of Limbaugh, Hannity, the Black Avenger, Liddy, Laura Ingraham, Larry Elder, (all I've personally heard make comments), comments from radio personalities on a local level, the countless media articles relayed here, etc?

Am I to assume this memo retracts Maines' "apology"?

[ppaul]

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