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.</

[Balata]

Good luck checking all the threads. Friday night I had the feeling FR was getting overun with Dixie Chick threads so I counted them and at the time there were 52. LOL!

[Cosmo]

Thanks for the link. Glad I also got to read the lyle lovett thread I had missed -- glad to see a musician I deeply respect isn't an idiot.

[JoeSchem]

A review of the posts on this site will show that they have been called a disgusting list of names that no man should ever refer to a woman. Not a shinning moment in Freeper history.

I thought we were talking about women who sing about emasculating men and say they're ashamed to come from Texas because Bush is from there.

You want to be treated like a lady, act and talk like a lady. Otherwise we'll treat you like you're an obnoxious dwarf, and you won't like that.

[B4Ranch]

Don't you know the difference between high class hookers, (escorts) and street girls?

[Cosmo]

I get a kick out of the fact that the "search" function on DU is limited to "paying members' because "these things cost money" . I never woulda thunk redistributionist bleeding hearts would have played the "no free lunch" card...And they say this is the post-ironic era

Feel the gin

[Burkeman1]

Thankfully no- I am kinda good looking and never had to pay for sex.

[valleygal]

I'm pretty sure VOA posted it in the morning. Bobalu posted later that night.

[valleygal]

I think I was on the thread when it happened because people were giving out all kinds of names and discussing what the media were calling them...Dipsy Chicks, Dixie Sluts.

Someone here called them Vichy Chicks. Then came VOA's "Blix's Chicks" which then became, "Blixie Chicks".

I could be wrong but you can check out the thread. :)

[Balata]

Try this.

The Dixie Chicks Official Thread

[StarfireIV]

Couldn't happen to a finer bunch of...
Degenerate Ingrates!

[Bobalu]

I believe it was me that dubbed them the BLIXIE CHICKS :-)

I was telling registered he should have called them the blixie chicks when he made up that hillarious phony CD of their hits... the one with ChIRAQ on the accordion :-)

[supercat]

Your description doesnt even come close to some of the disgusting graphics and names they have been called on this site.

Well, since people here (unlike some other sites) are pretty good about bleeping explitives, one might question whether they were really called those nasty names.

I mean, really, given "Dixie c**t", wouldn't a dictionary search most likely fill in "Dixie-cRAt"? To be sure, Strom Thurmond would be dishonored by the association with the Blixie Twits, but AFAIC any more 'colorful' interpretations are purely the product of the reader's imagination. >:*3

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Ok, somebody's gotta say it...

Did he say to Natalie... "There's your Trouble"...???

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

Since Natalie isn't endowed, I'll call them... "The Dixie Cups" !

[Burkeman1]

You are the judge? What do you think?

[Burkeman1]

You are the judge? What do you think?

[_Jim]

"The Blixie Chicks,"

Ha ha ha!

That's good!

I also like "The North Dallas Rich-Chicks" as at least one of them went to a private school in north Dallas ...

[Rocko]

I'm voting for "Vichy Chicks."

[valleygal]

I agree, you may have said it also. But it was said first in the thread I mentioned above earlier in the morning.