Posted on 09/10/2003 8:08:45 AM PDT by jonefab
LONDON (Talon News) -- The Dixie Chicks have broken their promise that they would not speak out politically during their current European concert tour.
"This is our first time back in Europe since the 'incident,'" said Natalie Maines to the concert crowd, referring to the statement she made in March before the war in Iraq began. During the March concert, Maines said, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
However, Maines has since offered what she describes as an apology for her previous remarks after a host of country music radio stations stopped playing the Dixie Chicks music.
In an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, Maines attempted to explain what she meant to say.
"No, I'm not truly embarrassed that President Bush is from my state," Maines admitted. "That's really not what I care about. It was the wrong wording with genuine emotion and questions and concern behind it."
Now that the Dixie Chicks are back in Europe for the first time since the controversial words were first spoken, Maines promised that the group would not say anything political this time around in Europe.
Yet, she left the door open that something might be said again.
"But you never know what we might say," Maines joked before the beginning of the concert tour across Europe.
As it turns out, Maines was not kidding.
Their latest target of criticism is for California Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Dixie Chicks member Emily Robison told German newspaper Abendzeitung that a movie star should not be the next governor of California.
"He (Schwarzenegger) is a great film star," said Robison, the group's banjo player. "But I find his idea to run for governor absolutely insane."
Offering her opinion about the intelligence of actors and her own political ideology, Robison was unreserved in her comments about Schwarzenegger running for governor.
"America should be governed by people who have a clue," she expressed. "I hope he doesn't win."
Maines explained in the ABC interview that most of their on-stage comments they make are impromptu.
"We don't plan the things we are going to say and sometimes it backfires. ... In the long run we always feel that it makes the show fresher and more genuine," Maines told Sawyer.
The Dixie Chicks will be in Europe until September 22, performing in Sweden, Germany, Britain, Ireland, and Scotland.
The group then travels to Australia September 28 through Oct. 4 and heads back to the United States on October 12 for a concert on behalf of the Recording Artists Coalition in Washington, DC.
Copyright © 2003 Talon News -- All rights reserved.
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Oh well...
Never mind Hanoy Jane (Fonda). Clinton did the same when studying in the U.K., and the country elected him president. This issue, had not even been brought up in the campaign.
Ditsy Chicks are doing the same. As if they wait to go abroad to unload their half-penny worth of wisdom. It does not matter what I think of their music: even if I loved it, I would never buy another CD of theirs for as long as I live.
But the pleasures are nowadays more important than principles for most people...
Naturally, she has never met or spoken to Arnold, so she once again pulls an opinion out of her rectal orifice.
Natalie epitomizes the acronym for "can't understand normal thinking."
In one fell swoop, Reagan exposed all the ideals, philosophies, and heros of the Leftists as the empty craven images they are.
Even if Robinson has heard of Reagan (which I doubt), in her mind he is one of the greatest evils to befall America.
Good observation.
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