Dixie Chick Manager Blames FR for Trouble

Newsmax ^ | March 19th 2003 | Newsmax Carl Limbacher

[LowOiL]

Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:02 a.m. EST

'Blixie Chicks' Blame Conservative Web Site

A manager for the Country and Western group the Dixie Chicks is blaming the ongoing firestorm of negative reaction to anti-Bush comments by lead singer Natalie Maines last week on a vast right-wing cyber-conspiracy.

Dixie Chicks' manager Simon Renshaw has told radio stations currently boycotting the group's music that the uproar has been ginned up by the Web site FreeRepublic.com, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported Tuesday.

FreeRepublic has nicknamed the group "The Blixie Chicks," after Saddam-friendly U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix. Several posters to the cyber-forum have urged visitors to contact radio stations about the controversy.

"Your company is being targeted by a radical right-wing online forum," Renshaw complained in an e-mail distributed to radio stations by the Dixie Chicks' label, Sony Music. "You are being 'Freeped,' which is the code word for an organized e-mail/telephone effort attempting to solicit a desired response," he explained.

On March 10, lead Dixie Chick Maines told a London audience: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

After her remarks were reported, nationwide protests erupted in the U.S., with angry fans reportedly destroying their collections of Dixie Chicks CDs.

After four days Maines issued a semi-apology, saying her initial remarks had been "disrespectful."

"I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect," she added.

But Maines' statement did little to assuage angry Country and Western music fans, who are predominantly conservative and pro-Bush.</

[em2vn]

"Yes my client was at the scene of the crime and yes she had the smoking gun in her hand that was used in the assault. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, you must consider that it was only a crime because someone saw her do it and filed a complaint. Furthermore, those filing a complaint were conservatives. Based upon this fact alone my client must be found innocent since any thinking person knows what type of people are conservative."
Yes Simon the jury knows what type of people make up a country and western fan base. The same that makes up a NASCAR crowd. We are conservative.
Did you ever think about posting an apology on FR? We aren't radical lefties. We can forgive someone who is truly sorry.
Whatever you are being paid is too much.

[em2vn]

They have a right to free speech. Not a right to be heard. A very large difference a microphone jockey needs to learn.

[longtermmemmory]

there was already a case on this regarding chat rooms. You can't sue the carrier anymore than you can sue the maker of the telephone who carries the conversation.

Besides, this is political speech. This is the one sure area where the government is really loath to mix it up.

so use you free speech rights and let lipton know how much you dislike them sponsoring the Blixi Chix http://www.lipton.com

[PatrioticAmerican]

She said it, and is wasn't only FR that heard it.

What a spoiled brat!

[From The Deer Stand]

That's like saying, "I robbed the bank but it's the newspaper's fault because they reported it."

[bert]

.....suggested that all FReepers be sued for illegal constraint of trade......

Bring it on!!! When we split up the punative damages we can donate enough to Free Republic to keep it around for years.

[Phlap]

Just as Al Gore(the internet inventor) learned a hard lesson, so too have the Blixies. Unlesss you mean it, be very careful what you say out loud.

[Gargantua]

"All women deserve respect of men."

Do you mean that to include all women named Clinton, Pelosi, Boxer and Mosely-Braun? Surely you jest...?

[Freedom2specul8]

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[AFPhys]

This really gives me a feeling of POWER!

They really ought not encourage us this way... LOL

[songwrangler]

The Blixey Chicken Song

Http://www.beatboxer.com/dixchiks.html

[sonofatpatcher2]

[Michael2001]

Good coverage for FR.

[Joe 6-pack]

[solo gringo]

She did not have sex with that man President Bush and did not ask anyone to lie for her not one time.This idiot has a mouth bigger that a big mouth Bass.

[Harleys Mom]

It seems odd that the Dixie Chicks feel they have the right to freedom of speech, but what about us? We have the right to freedom of speech. MOVE TO BAGHDAD, MAINE!!!!

[GrandsonOfTheUSNavy]

hey how about the "Dixie Dips". its a good one but nothing we here can think up can compare to "Blixie Chicks" when you think about it.

[pnz1]

Yet another article
http://www.tennessean.com/iraq/tennessee/archives/03/03/30881205.shtml?Element_ID=30881205
Chick comment fires debate on patriotism, freedom

[SerpentDove]

[sandlady]

"...move to France with their new friends..."

I think you're right-and it is the trend....http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/879958/posts