FULLY CLOTHED OR TOTALLY NUDE, CHICKS STILL WHISTLING DIXIE (chiclets obit)

NY POST ^ | April 26, 2003 | letters column

[Liz]

THE ISSUE: The Dixie Chicks' posing nude to respond to their critics.

[Liz]

Fully clothed or totally nude, the verdict is in....the chiclets are fully and totally stupid.

[Northern Yankee]

I'm with you, Liz.

Just listening to their comments from Thursday night's interview with Diane Sawyer, it seemed they had no clue as to what was going on in Iraq.

Odd... and then they want to spout off how embarrassed they are of President Bush?

Now that's embarrassing!

[snopercod]

Rush Limbaugh is running spoof advertisements on the Dixie Chicks. "Hole in my Head", and "We're So Stupid"...

[NYpeanut]

Next venue...democratic convention.

[ricpic]

It's over chickies. You're splattered all over the dixie highway. Roadkill.

[Liz]

That would truly be schadenfreud.

[Liz]

And clueless, arrogant Dixie Sluts conveniently undressed for the occasion.

[sit-rep]

It been said, but not enough... It is not what they said, it is where they said it and why they said it is WHY most Americans are turned off. It is interesting how they leave this part out of the equation all the time.

[Liz]

I hear that b/c of interest in all things Texas, CBS-TV's "Survivor" is considering a local version tentatively called "Survivor - Texas Style!"

Contestants will start in Dallas, travel to Waco, Austin, San Antonio, back to Houston and down to Brownsville on the border. They'll proceed up to Del Rio, on to El Paso then to Midland, Odessa, Lubbock and Amarillo. They turn back east to Abilene, Fort Worth and Dallas.

Each person will be driving a pink Volvo with a bumper sticker that reads: "I'm gay. I'm a vegetarian. I voted for Al Gore. I love the Dixie Chicks. I want Hillary in 2004, and I'm here to confiscate your guns!"

The contestant that makes it back to Dallas, alive, wins.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I guess it could be worse......it could have been Janeane Garafalo naked on the Entertainment Weekly cover...

[kcordell]

You're splattered all over the dixie highway

I think they will cross the road into "Pop Music Land".

They don't care who their audience is as long as they have one.

[Liz]

As hard as they try to minimize their hateful words, the Dixie Sluts spoke volumes with their statement. In a few words, they demonstrated that they and their ilk hate president Bush and they assume everybody hates him as much as they do.

The Sluts hastened to assert their hatred of Bush b/c they didn't want the industry to think they were like those horrible right-wing conservatives who are buying all their records.

The self-serving, stuck-up Sluts still don't get it. They showed an elitist and utter contempt for Americans, the president, patriotism, and what it means to be an American, and for this they will pay dearly.

[Liz]

Janine who? LOL.

(Her? Nude? Blech. What a disgusting thought. Yuck.)

[SamAdams76]

As much as many of us detested Bill Clinton - and many people from Arkansas were genuinely embarrassed to have him from their state - nobody ever went overseas and made a gratuitious comment to an audience to get a cheap cheer. I'm sure there were plenty of country recording artists who detested the Clintons. But none of them as I can remember ever interrupted a concert to say how much they hated them, especially on foreign soil. It's called class and it's also representing America. No true American would go overseas and air our dirty laundry to an audience of foreigners who only showed up to hear you sing, not spout off about American politics of which they know practically nothing about.

[Meglos]

[GailA]

I didn't watch the Blixie Chicken Strips, couldn't stand to be made that sick. I did watch our local news ABC 24 Memphis' report on the interview. In that report ms maines said she was ASHAMED OF HER FANS

They are ashamed of a good and honest man trying to protect ALL of America for generations to come. BUT NOT ASHAMED TO TAKE OFF THEIR CLOTHES and pose NUDE for MILLIONS including CHILDREN to see?

Goes to show you how much more ILLOGICAL and BRAINLESS they truly are.

When GOD handed out Brains, they must have thought He said TRAINS and said No Thanks.

[TrebleRebel]

...or Michael Moore...

[JohnEBoy]

I believe the Public Relations textbooks will use the Dixie Chicks as THE example of how not to respond to a PR failure. Years ago, the New Coke introduction was considered a badly handled advertising campaign until Coke figured out they needed to re-introduce Classic Coke.

So far the Ditzes and their handlers have done everything wrong and nothing right:

1. Made a business decision to put down President Bush in London, in order to sell records in the UK.

2. Immediately down-played and underestimated the effect on the US public.

3. Whined and complained their right to free speech was somehow being curtailed.

4. After seeing records thrown out and no-plays on the US radio stations, made a lame "apology" about the need to respect the office of president without actually saying anything.

5. Seeing that 4. didn't work, went nude on the cover of a magazine in a attempt to distract from the troubles.

6. Seeing that 5. didn't help, talked to Diane Sawyer in a meandering blab-fest that settled nothing.

7. Besides the nudity thing, always appeared transparent that any half-hearted "apologies" were made only because of lost radio play, down CD sales or upcoming concert tours. Never actually seemed sincere about any "apology".

If people with pre-paid tickets show up to their concerts, they may delude themselves that everything is fine, but I believe they will be the textbook case of a PR nightmare.

[Hidgy]

Each person will be driving a pink Volvo with a bumper sticker that reads: "I'm gay. I'm a vegetarian. I voted for Al Gore. I love the Dixie Chicks. I want Hillary in 2004, and I'm here to confiscate your guns!"

The contestant that makes it back to Dallas, alive, wins.


...........do not drive through NEIDERWALD..........

[jrg]

There ain't no way that the body on the middle one is really hers....She's not called "fatalie" for nothing, and that chick ain't PHAT...