Posted on 03/16/2015 7:46:46 PM PDT by Army Air Corps
I’ve broached this subject before, but it’s the anniversary of Natalie Maines speaking out against President Bush. She was, in effect, actually speaking out against the war in Iraq, which at this point pretty much everybody agrees was a bad idea. That was TWELVE (12) years ago last Tuesday, March 10.
It would be one thing if everyone gave the office of the President the proper respect, but it’s completely another when I see the same people who were critical of Natalie say much worse things about the current president EVERY SINGLE DAY.
The strongest word she used in reference to President Bush was “embarrassed.” That’s all. With our current president, I’ve heard every horrible thing possible, including racial slurs. Where’s the rage and the bans now?
Lubbock traded away what could have be an incredible opportunity from being in the reflected Dixie Chicks spotlight for the chance to hate on Maines. You have no idea what her influence could have brought us and what her influence has cost us. Thankfully, she’s less vengeful and vindictive than her hometown.
Even more embarrassing is the holier than thou, hypocritical, backward-ass country folks who claim to embrace god, guns and country, yet can’t even grant her some Christian forgiveness. That forgiveness should have started right here at home a long time ago. But it’s not Natalie Maines who needs to be forgiven; Lubbock itself needs to be asked to be forgiven for throwing one of its best and brightest – a member of a family legacy of Lubbock musicians – under the bus.
I don’t know a single person who would send a kid of theirs into exile for 12 years, but that’s what’s been done here.
Guess what? Natalie Maines doesn’t need Lubbock. She doesn’t need small minds, busybodies and judgmental jerks. She’s doing just fine putting Lubbock in her rearview mirror. Until this town makes nice with Natalie, she’s an example to every single person who grows up here that thinking and having an opinion is a bad thing.
Over a decade has passed. That’s an entire career for many country artists. The fact is, there’s a pretty big chance that the Dixie Chicks music would have faded away by now even if it had never been banned. Still, folks carry a grudge and most don’t even know why.
As rockers, it’s easy for us to write this off as “not our business,” but something is wrong when it’s so much easier to hate somebody than to make amends. I don’t expect that this feud will go away until many years from now when someone will approach her grown grandkids about putting together a memorial.
It is a complete shame that it won’t happen in our lifetimes.
Meh.....
Howdy, LV!
I’m pretty sure Natalie ate Lubbock.
Natalie Marines doesn’t need Lubbock? I can’t speak for Lubbock but I doubt Texas needs a fat-assed lib has-been.
“Sweathog” look to be exact.
Always good to hear from the free speech is a one way street crowd. /sarcasm
People were considering forgiving them. She then opened her big fat mouth again and called them all morons. They didn’t like it to the surprise of only leftists.
Until then she'll just have to settle for being a stupid, but genius musician.
She's that good. And bad.
Amen
Natalie Maines, poster child for epic dumbass fail! I wonder how the other two chicks feel, I mean really, not supporting Natalie in front of the press, behind closed doors feel, ruining the great thing they had going just ‘cause she couldn’t keep her fat mouth shut. I bet they’re pissed.
I actually liked the Chicks until Natalie let her politics out of the bag. Just another Hollyweirdo type freak that I’ll never listen to or watch again.
When you go overseas...and criticize our President and what the American people believed at the time to be in their best interests...
you are dead to them. Too badddddd sooooooo saaaaaaaaaddddd... ( ; )
BTW...the Dimocrap leaders like Hillary and others voted for the war.
58% of Democratic senators (29 of 50) voted for the resolution. Those voting for the resolution are:
Sens. Lincoln (D-AR), Feinstein (D-CA), Dodd (D-CT), Lieberman (D-CT), Biden (D-DE), Carper (D-DE), Nelson (D-FL),\\
Cleland (D-GA), Miller (D-GA), Bayh (D-IN), Harkin (D-IA), Breaux (D-LA), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Kerry (D-MA),Carnahan (D-MO),
Baucus (D-MT), Nelson (D-NE), Reid (D-NV), Torricelli (D-NJ), Clinton (D-NY), Schumer (D-NY),Edwards (D-NC), Dorgan (D-ND), Hollings (D-SC), Daschle (D-SD), Johnson (D-SD), Cantwell (D-WA), Rockefeller(D-WV), and Kohl (D-WI).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution
Maines commented that the Dixie Chicks were “ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.”
If Hitlery gets to run for President...I will be waiting for Natalie to go overseas and say that she is ashamed of ....youknow...doncha?
,,,I will NOT be holding my breath!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Maines ...Natalie who?
IIRC, the other two finally came out on a “Sixty Minutes” interview as supporting her. It was real late in the game and their support for Maines seemed lukewarm at best.
just an aging old fossil of a DJ on a dinosaur radio station that hasn’t been popular in Lubbock since the 80s ....
But how do you REALLY feel? ;-)
Who pulled your string, Chatty Cathy? Not me, I hope.
I doubt this spoiled rotten brat will ever understand why America turned a cold shoulder to her and her two friends who supported her big mouth!
I’ve never owned another ‘Chicken Dix” cd since and never will!
He’ll have his little panties in a wad.
Take a cue from Jane Fonda, and don’t wait until you’re near 80 to confess you did wrong.
“I no longer watch movies with Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, and a whole host of others who decided to promote godless socialism at the expense of Americanism.”
You should take it one step further as I did in 1970. I have never been inside of a movie theater or paid to see a movie since then.
My rationale: Even though the so-called ‘star’ may be conservative, somewhere in the cast or crew is a diehard, communist b*tch! I refuse to help pay for their exorbitant, out-of-control salaries.
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