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'Blixie Chicks' Blame Conservative Web Site (That's us, folks)
NewsMax.com ^
| 3/19/03
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 03/19/2003 7:08:11 AM PST by kattracks
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.
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KEYWORDS: activistactors; antibush; chicks; ditzichicks; dixie; dixiechicks; fr; freerepublic; vichychicks
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To: SerpentDove; Admin Moderator
I think this article may need a link and description on the FR front page..
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posted on
03/19/2003 7:17:44 AM PST
by
ewing
To: Mamzelle
Wouldn't it be something if no one showed up.
42
posted on
03/19/2003 7:17:44 AM PST
by
P8riot
(Looks like Deja Vu all over again)
To: kattracks
They do not know who buys their product. Rich and stupid is no way to go through life.
43
posted on
03/19/2003 7:17:53 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Semper Gumby - Always Flexable)
To: kattracks
Let's hear it for the First Amendment!
It truly does work both ways--too bad the Dixie Chicks' manager isn't aware of that fact; must've spent too many years exposed to the likes of Dan Rather and Peter Jennings.
-Regards, T.
44
posted on
03/19/2003 7:18:11 AM PST
by
T Lady
(.Freed From the Dimocratic Shackles since 1992)
To: kattracks
BTTT
45
posted on
03/19/2003 7:18:42 AM PST
by
PianoMan
(Liberate the Axis of Evil)
To: kattracks
If Freerepublic can motivate that many people then perhaps these liberals who rely on the conservative movement for their income should remember Freerepublic.com in the future before opening their big mouths?
46
posted on
03/19/2003 7:18:52 AM PST
by
smith288
("The reason I am not a liberal is because im not as certain about my guesswork" -Dennis Miller)
To: kattracks
He MUST BE related to Hilary!
47
posted on
03/19/2003 7:18:53 AM PST
by
maeng
To: kattracks
..........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. I don't know about you but this brings tears-of-pride to my eyes!
48
posted on
03/19/2003 7:20:08 AM PST
by
DoctorMichael
("But I am a Liberal, in the 19th century sense". ~DocMichael)
To: kattracks
49
posted on
03/19/2003 7:20:41 AM PST
by
unixfox
(Close the borders, problem solved !)
To: kattracks
Well I guess you shouldn't pi$$ off the Freeper Anti-Communist Task Force. The only thing that you can blame Free Republic for is helping spread the truth, sometimes the truth hurts doesn't it?
50
posted on
03/19/2003 7:20:46 AM PST
by
chuknospam
(Help fight the War On Terror!! www.operationmilitarypride.org)
To: kattracks
That chunky Blixie Chick and her two back-ups are learning what it is like to pay the Grim FReeper.
To: kattracks
Enjoy the double edge sword, sweetie!
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posted on
03/19/2003 7:22:24 AM PST
by
hope
(The rats and Saddam are swapping talking points.)
To: kattracks
I saw this thread and now have to clean coffee off my monitor and files. ROTFLMAO. Proud to be a FReeper!
To: kattracks
Okay ... so when does the Freep of CMT start? They're showing Blixie Chicks video after video on that channel.
54
posted on
03/19/2003 7:23:04 AM PST
by
al_c
To: kattracks
Chuck the Fixie Dicks
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posted on
03/19/2003 7:23:47 AM PST
by
camle
(no camle jokes, please...OK, maybe one little one)
To: kattracks
Last night Simon Cowell took a shot at them on American Idol. I really doubt he's a freeper.
To: grobdriver
How about 'You have now entered the Freep zone'.
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posted on
03/19/2003 7:23:48 AM PST
by
duckman
(ta ra ra boom de ay, lets bomb SADDAM today.)
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To: Blennos
Now I am the proud member of at least conspiracies: (snip)
Maybe I can quit my day job. Have you been getting your paychecks?
To: All
I get a kick out of this... The Blixie Chicks can appologize in writing through their spokesman and (sort of) say they made a mistake but conservatives have to slice open their belly's and bleed on several major TV networks only to have their appoligies rejected.
Absolute BS.
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posted on
03/19/2003 7:24:22 AM PST
by
BFM
(Clinton IS a rapist)
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