'Blixie Chicks' Blame Conservative Web Site (That's us, folks)

NewsMax.com ^ | 3/19/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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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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[b4its2late]

Ditsy Chicks.....

[HumanaeVitae]

The Karl Marxie Chicks.

[rapture-me]

Thank You!

I'm PROUD to be a Freeper!

[Semper Paratus]

Glad we were of some assistance.

[Bikers4Bush]

Yeah, it's just us. Not all those people actually calling the radio stations.

Sheese, they should just shut up already and stop digging their hole deeper.

[rellimpank]

--Chicksey Dicks--?

[NewYorker]

Love your headline. That's us - "the vast right wing conspiracy." Rant on!

[Portnoy]

Methinks Free Republic membership numbers will be going up soon...!

[scooby321]

Just Like Clinton Blame somebody else

[Hitlerys uterus]

Way to go fellow FREEPERS!!! That'll learn em.

[grobdriver]

"You are being 'Freeped,'

BWAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha!!!!! *snort*... *giggle*...

[freedomcrusader]

I'm conflicted - I'd love to think that Free Republic has that level of influence but I also would like to think that the backlash is bigger than just us. How big are we?

[Blennos]

Now I am the proud member of at least conspiracies:

1. the VRWC -- vast right-wing conspiracy

2. the GZC -- the global zionist conspiracy

3. and now the RWCC -- the right-wing cyber conspiracy

Maybe I can quit my day job.

[Mamzelle]

Just to remind--Ditsy Twits kick off their American tour May 1, Greenville SC.

[blastdad51]

Blastdad's 1st rule of holes.

When you find yourself stuck in one, stop digging.

[exnavy]

Three blind mice.AKA the blixie chicks.

[dirtboy]

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.

As much as I would love for FR to get all the credit for this, IMO this isn't much different than Hillary blaming the VRWC conspiracy for the stupidity of her husband. The Ditzy Chicks are trying to blame FR for that fact that Maines managed to say something so stupid as to alienate her core fan base, and the uproar against them is way too broad-based and organic to have been orchestrated by anyone.

[Blennos]

correction

Now I am the proud member of at least conspiracies: should be

Now I am the proud member of at least 3 conspiracies:

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