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Dixie Chicks Flick Is A Good One -- If Free (FR Mentioned)
U.S. News and World Report ^ | 10/25/06 | PaulBedard

Posted on 10/25/2006 8:55:50 PM PDT by conservative in nyc

Talk about cajones: FreeRepublic.com's Kristinn Taylor's got 'em. How so? the conservative website led the outcry against the once popular country band Dixie Chicks when singer Natalie Maines screeched how she hated that President Bush hailed from Texas. Well, last week at the Washington première of the Chicks' decidedly anti-Free Republic documentary, Shut Up and Sing, Taylor showed up. But he wasn't kicked out, reports our Elizabeth Green. The hosts at the lefty Center for American Progress invited him to join the group discussion, where he told the director the movie was a good one.

Why go? "This was a chance," he tells us, "to see it for free."


TOPICS: Extended News; Free Republic; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ditzychicks; dixiechicks; freerepublic; kristinn
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To: kristinn; Jim Robinson

This thread's a good one. You or management want to bump the thread to Breaking or Front Page?


41 posted on 10/25/2006 9:53:19 PM PDT by CedarDave (The only way you can compare Iraq to Viet-Nam, is to LEAVE before the job is done.)
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To: conservative in nyc
The pattern of cluelessness about FR is displayed once again in the Center for American Progress' synopsis of the panel discussion when they make reference to "Christian Taylor":

Christian Taylor disagreed with most of these remarks. He denounced what he called “the elitist attitudes” expressed by the band, arguing that their criticism of President Bush does not appeal to the average country music fan. He also denied that the band’s members received a disproportionate amount of criticism because of their gender. When his fellow bloggers [FR is NOT a blog, maddoggit!] were accused by audience members of bias, he said that “politics has been rough and nasty well before FreeRepublic.com.”

42 posted on 10/25/2006 9:53:48 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Dixie Chicks: "We're Not Ready To Make Sense!")
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To: conservative in nyc
Free Republic You Magnificent Bastard!

apologies to Carl Rove

43 posted on 10/25/2006 9:55:39 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: lesser_satan
Karl's MinionNet

Do you have to actually have "Minion" rating to get an account? I've been missing meetings lately and was downgraded to "Shill". (If I don't make by African-American voter suppression quota this November I'm apt to be dropped to "Dupe".)

44 posted on 10/25/2006 9:55:56 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: Shion

Well, I only made it ten minutes in.

Too much postmodernism and emotional bids for me. The audience behaved though, as far as I saw, good for them.


45 posted on 10/25/2006 9:59:01 PM PDT by Shion (Bring Back John Galt)
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To: L.N. Smithee

They were close!


46 posted on 10/25/2006 9:59:28 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: Shion
Good god, the announcer is awful. She screwed up every other word.

She's not ready for prime time. But she IS pretty doggone cute.

47 posted on 10/25/2006 10:02:24 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Dixie Chicks: "We're Not Ready To Make Sense!")
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To: kristinn

How a bout a one line movie review?

Wuz it Fair and Balanced?


48 posted on 10/25/2006 10:04:56 PM PDT by woofie (If not this war then which one?)
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To: kristinn

Beautifully done, as always an excellent spokesman for the right....


49 posted on 10/25/2006 10:05:21 PM PDT by Tamzee ("Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. "..... George Orwell)
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To: conservative in nyc

"to see it for free."

LOL!! Great job Kristinn!!


50 posted on 10/25/2006 10:07:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: Shion
I got the video to work.

What app or client it playing it? When I just open the webpage they link it's a Real Player imbed, but it seems to be trying to play a Quicktime file and I get a message that a Real Player update to handle the media is not available. The direct link seems to be:

http://quick21nj.audiovideoweb.com/nj21quick1503/events/2006/2006_10_17_Shut_Up_and_Sing/ShutUpandSingPanel.mp4

51 posted on 10/25/2006 10:09:55 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: WOSG

"Rovian Mind Control (TM)."

Woo hoo!! I've GOT to get me one of these!


52 posted on 10/25/2006 10:10:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: woofie
They're not going to win back many fans with this film, but as a documentary it's a good film. It's not totally fair and balanced, but it's not a total puff piece either.
53 posted on 10/25/2006 10:11:15 PM PDT by kristinn
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To: conservative in nyc

And the article on the U.S.News and World Report website links directly to Free Republic, and goes to this thread below... be prepared for more trolls outraged that their beloved twits are dissed so thoroughly.



Not Ready to Make Nice (Dixie Chicks in Australia, STILL Whining About Free Republic)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715532/posts


54 posted on 10/25/2006 10:11:23 PM PDT by Tamzee ("Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. "..... George Orwell)
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To: Gordongekko909

'...on a DUFU thread three times, or IB4P once.'

What are these acronyms please.


55 posted on 10/25/2006 10:11:51 PM PDT by Sarah
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To: ElkGroveDan; Gordongekko909; lesser_satan; WOSG; VOA; AmishDude; FlingWingFlyer; SmithL
If you want in on the Rove-cabal, go to this location. We meet there on Saturdays for brunch.

It is located on the 331/3 block of Tinfoil Ave.

When you go in, go to the cash register manned by the guy who looks like this...

and order the Bohemian Grove Combo -- Large -- With a Dr. Pepper.

Further instructions will be on your receipt.

56 posted on 10/25/2006 10:13:31 PM PDT by uglybiker (Don't look at me. I didn't make you stupid.)
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To: kristinn

Thanks


57 posted on 10/25/2006 10:13:44 PM PDT by woofie (If not this war then which one?)
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To: VOA
"ROVE! You magnicificant bastard!"
58 posted on 10/25/2006 10:15:10 PM PDT by carlo3b ("Leave the gun, take the cannoli")
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To: Stultis

For me, it opens in Quicktime. I don't use the bloatware/adware/spyware Real Player.


59 posted on 10/25/2006 10:15:27 PM PDT by CedarDave (The only way you can compare Iraq to Viet-Nam, is to LEAVE before the job is done.)
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To: Stultis
I was downgraded to "Shill" for a while too, but through a combination of swindling old people out of their meds (usually by trading them for cheap canned dog food), knocking over Keith Ellison yard signs, and trolling at DU I regained my coveted "Paid Shill" status. I was then upgraded to "Minion" automatically when I joined Sam's Club.

I'm saving my money so I can open a sweat-shop in Sri Lanka (where cheap plastic land-mines will manufactured for third-world dictators) in the hope of being upgraded to "Corporate Parasite". In the meantime I'll be working closely with Diebold in their effort to disenfranchise minorities and the poor.

60 posted on 10/25/2006 10:16:54 PM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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