Posted on 06/17/2006 5:54:37 AM PDT by veronica
Well stated!
Just a moment here ... to point out that since these Chicks are all of 30, there is no way that they could know anything about the McCarthy days.
Who or what are these "Dixie Chicks" they refer to? /ignore
Somebody tell Adam "De Nile" is in Egpyt.
Thanks goodness for the internet. People do know what is going on despite the Lefties rewriting of reality.
A parallel article titled :"The Chicks Never Recovered from Their Brush with Bush" is what the ticket sales prove.
I can't take credit for that phrase. It was coined by Matt Gottlieb in Industry Week (1/18/06). I have found it sooooo fitting to the elite of our times.
(How the Chicks survived their scrap with Bush)
Funny thing that Bush himself did nothing to the Chicks. This should have said "How the Chicks survived their scrap with their own fans!"
There is no question in my mind that without their big mouth they would have done so much better than they are doing today. I'm still very glad that that they do open their mouth and tell us what kind of people they are, the kind who think their success and freedom is free, and it has nothing to do with the country where they live.
"They probably hired people just to download their songs a million times on ipod".
This technique is used a million times a second on the stock market.
So instead, let's take a stand and be un-patriotic. You gotta stand for something.... she made her choice.
That is because she is a self-indulgent child who got rich before she had a clear understanding of what wealth is.
Patriotism is the philosophy of giving genuine thanks where thanks are due for having the privilege and good fortune of being an American citizen.
We genuinely do not have to worry about being dragged out of our beds in the middle of the night and disappearing into the maw of some totalitarian hell, never to be seen again.
If we want to write a scathing letter to the editor of some paper somewhere, denouncing our elected officials and/or their policies, we can do so with complete safety and impuinity. The papers can print those same letters with safety and impunity.
You can make it in life here, and that is not an accident. You have the freedom as an American, to do anything you want with your life. If you want to become a nuclear physicist, nobody will deny that to you, but you will be asked to pay for it and earn it. If you want to be a rock star, the only thing holding you back is yourself. If you want to hang out at intersections of roads in cities like Cambridge, MA, Madsion, WI or Berkeley, CA and beg money from people in cars by holding up handwritten cardboard signs, that is your choice and nobody is going to have you shot. (A good description of this type of unique freedom we enjoy can be found in Dinesh Desouza's book What's So Great About America?".
The point is, this immature, self-centered bitch (and the rest of her so called band, as well as Liberals and Democrats everywhere) mistakes Patriotism with Jingoism.
Patriotism is defined as: The action of vigorously supporting one's country and being prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
If someone can explain to me why that is a bad thing, I am all ears.
Jingoism is defined as: Extreme patriotism, chauvinism, extreme nationalism, xenophobia, flag-waving; hawkishness, militarism, belligerence, bellicosity.
I guarantee you, Liberals, Democrats and the Dixie Chicks all think Jingoism is Patriotism. And they do not have a clue as to how wrong they are.
As I understand it, the record company makes money off the Cd sells and the bands make money off the concerts.
Looks like the Dixie Tricks will be poor in no time and comnplaining about the unfair record companies!
We need to be nicer about Maines because she is obviously an IDIOT and can't help it.
"survived their scrap with Bush"
President Bush wasn't involved in any scrap with them.
What a stupid headline.
White trash with bad attitudes
Who?
More proof that the modern music industry is clueless
The British papers have a compulsion to "explain" what goes on in the US
even though they don't have a clue.
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