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Bush Gets No Respect From Chicks' Maines
CBS2CHICAGO ^ | 21 MAY 2006 | AP

Posted on 05/21/2006 12:22:05 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

(AP) NEW YORK The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines apologized for disrespecting President Bush during a London concert in 2003. But now, she's taking it back. "I don't feel that way anymore," she told Time magazine for its issue hitting newsstands Monday. "I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever."

As war in Iraq loomed, Maines told the London audience: "Just so you know, we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas."

The remarks led to death threats and a backlash from other country stars, including a high-profile spat with Toby Keith. It also stalled what until then had been the group's smashingly successful career.

Bandmate Emily Robinson said she knew right away the remark wouldn't be taken lightly and got "hot from my head to my toes."

"It wasn't that I didn't agree with her 100 percent; it was just, 'Oh, this is going to stir something up,'" she told Time.

For band member Martie Maguire, the controversy was a blessing in disguise.

"I'd rather have a small following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith," Maguire said. "We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do."

The Chicks' hits include "Landslide," "Goodbye Earl" and "Wide Open Spaces." Their new album, "Taking the Long Way," is due out May 23. The first single is "Not Ready to Make Nice."


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1 posted on 05/21/2006 12:22:06 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Who is this Maines fellow?


2 posted on 05/21/2006 12:23:22 PM PDT by Tigercap
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Dixie who? Are they food vendors?


3 posted on 05/21/2006 12:23:48 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This is what passes in the AP for news....


4 posted on 05/21/2006 12:23:50 PM PDT by frankiep (Visualize Whirled Peas)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think this might have been posted once or twice

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1635887/posts


5 posted on 05/21/2006 12:24:37 PM PDT by Panerai
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Right. So then you don't mind Treason Chicks if Radio stations don't play your crap hmmm? I mean, they probably just play for all those unwashed peons out there not the "Cool people" you want as fans hmmm?
6 posted on 05/21/2006 12:24:47 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Conservative, The simple fact about DC is this . "There is more work to do"...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This just in:

Publicist announces the group, in a desperate publicity stunt, will be changing their name to the French Chicks.


7 posted on 05/21/2006 12:25:29 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Boycott Communist Citgo!)
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To: Panerai; Admin Moderator

Thanks. Mods, please pull or lock thread.


8 posted on 05/21/2006 12:25:32 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Conservatism is moderate, it is the center, it is the middle of the road)
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who cares what that fat bitch has to say, I don't!


9 posted on 05/21/2006 12:25:50 PM PDT by Perdogg
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I can't hurt em. I don't go to concerts. I only bought one CD long, long before they showed their true . . . faces. I hardly ever listen to music radio. There's nothing I can shun or boycott.

drats.


10 posted on 05/21/2006 12:26:27 PM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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I think Maines is attempting to endear herself to Hollywood. If she wants to be in pictures, he first step should be to find a real good plastic surgeon.


11 posted on 05/21/2006 12:26:50 PM PDT by BW2221
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"I'd rather have a small following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith," Maguire said.

Available now on late night TV.
Not available in stores.
The Best of the Dixie Chicks!
Singing their hit song.
"Una paloma Blanca"


12 posted on 05/21/2006 12:26:51 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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I quit reading Time a long time ago because it was so left leaning and biased. Putting the Ditsie Chicks on the cover of Time and letting the loudmouths rant just proves that the magazine is a MSM dying outlet of information that is not to be trusted.
13 posted on 05/21/2006 12:27:57 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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The DiXie Clucks


14 posted on 05/21/2006 12:29:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - "The Road to Peace in the Middle East runs thru Damascus.")
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The Chixie Dicks.....


15 posted on 05/21/2006 12:31:40 PM PDT by clintonh8r
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Music or colleges its just a matter of which one has the most treasonous individuals in it.


16 posted on 05/21/2006 12:33:56 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY
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It's always good to hear from one of the lefts' leading intellects.


17 posted on 05/21/2006 12:34:11 PM PDT by Ed_in_NJ (Who killed Suzanne Coleman?)
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To: frankiep

Yep...definitely THE story
of the day...almost as
important as Who IS
Bounced from American Idol!


18 posted on 05/21/2006 12:34:22 PM PDT by Grendel9 (u)
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To: Tigercap

Sally Struthers twin sister....


19 posted on 05/21/2006 12:34:30 PM PDT by misterrob
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To: All
TWINS

20 posted on 05/21/2006 12:37:11 PM PDT by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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