Dixie Chicks Find Home Not So Sweet (Update)

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You can take a cheatin' man down a peg or two but don't go knocking on the President the Dixie Chicks have learned.

Lead singer Natalie Maines, who criticized President Bush's plans for war with Iraq earlier this week, has since apologized after music fans complained and radio stations took the Chick's music out of rotation

"As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful," she said in a statement released on Friday. "I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect."

Speaking before an English concert audience earlier this week, Maines told the crowd, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."

The Texan trio are on a European tour promoting their Grammy-winning album Home--the number one country album in the U.S. The group also has the number one country single "Travelin' Soldier," about a soldier in Vietnam.

The remark elicited a barrage of friendly fire from irate listeners who demanded a boycott of the Chicks music. Radio stations across the country responded: two Dallas stations took Home off their playlists while one station in Kansas City, Missouri, held a Dixie "chicken toss" party, where protesters trashed the group's CDs.

Speaking from Europe on Friday, Maines said they were "witnessing a huge anti-American sentiment as a result of the perceived rush to war" during the tour.

"While war may remain a viable option, as a mother, I just want to see every possible alternative exhausted before children and American soldiers' lives are lost. I love my country. I am a proud American," added the performer.

The Chicks aren't the only high-profile activists criticized as unpatriotic for their peacekeeping opinions. Martin Sheen, who says NBC big-wigs are very uncomfortable with his vocal antiwar stance, may have lost money because of his views.

According to an article in the New York Post earlier this week, Visa canceled a humorous check card commercial starring papa Sheen and son Charlie at a video store after viewers called the credit card company to complain about the TV prez.

Visa, which pulled the ad March 11 after four months on air, denies there's anything sinister about the move. " Visa does not use its advertising to make political statements, and neither the spot nor the conclusion of its run should be interpreted as one," said a statement released by the company on Wednesday.

Nevertheless, the Screen Actors Guild has issued an online plea on their Website, www.sag.org, to Hollywood producers asking that they avoid a return to the infamous blacklisting practices of the McCarthy era when even a whiff of dissent could cost an actor his future.

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According to an article in the New York Post earlier this week, Visa canceled a humorous check card commercial starring papa Sheen and son Charlie at a video store after viewers called the credit card company to complain about the TV prez.

I'm glad VISA stood up to the plate.

[dinok]

I wouldn't do the Dixie Chix with a French man's ______.

I think Texas is ashamed that THEY are from Texas.

[Bulldogs22]

Speaking before an English concert audience earlier this week, Maines told the crowd, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas



Saying whatever it takes to please who is listening. boycott the fame whores.

[speekinout]

Now will Lipton cancel their Dixie Chick ads? They should!

[n1f2ns]

saw this on a poster: "Dixie is ashamed of the 'chicks'"

[T. Jefferson]

Nashville is 90% Republican. Rest assured, this will change their future.

[hillsborofox]

Iced tea season is year-round in the American southeast. Or "country" country. Bigelow is a very nice alternative to the ubiquitous Lipton. (California wine, even better)

[Mr. Mulliner]

Nashville is 90% Republican.

Nashville isn't even 50% Republican according to the way they vote. But the music industry does have some good business heads who know that it's the fans who butter their bread.

[avg_freeper]

"...she said in a statement released on Friday. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect."

I do not. The occupant of that house, like anyone else has to earn my respect. He did so before I voted for him. With the exception of a few issues he has continued to earn my respect during his presidency. The former occupant, the great stain-maker did not. I loathed Clinton.

I do respect, without hesitating, the ideals that built the republic that the President represents. A limited government. A free people. Let the young lady pledge her respect to those ideals.

[schaketo]

A new kind of Freep? I’ve been over at Amazon and Barnes and Noble this evening writing one-star reviews on all Monkey Chicks CDs. Below is what I’ve been putting in. Takes a couple of days to show up, but it’s a slow evening. Worked well for Al Gore’s recent published masterpieces. Really upsets the natives. Have fun!

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Dixie “pork rind” Chicks are not Country Artists

The Dixie Chicks and especially lead singer Natalie Maines are not country music artists. They are shallow anti-American trained monkeys. I'm throwing this CD and all other pork rind music in the trash can today. I will never purchase another CD from these fat low talent loudmouths again.

[elbucko]

This is a bell that cannot be unrung.

[The Wizard]

The Dixie Chicks slamed the President on foreign soil and you couldn't force me to buy or listen to them now

[basil]

"As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful," she said in a statement released on Friday. "I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect."

So why was she disrespectful if she "feels that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect"?

Sorry--apology not accepted by this Texan.

[way-right-of-center]

Why don't you send Lipton an email and tell them how you feel?

letters.liptontusa@unilever.com

Then go to:

http://www.nataliemaines.com/

Scroll down to the guestbook and leave Nat a "love note"

[petitfour]

I watched the Saturday version of CMT's Most Wanted Live, and the DCs had the number one video. Prior to the announcement, Cletus(sp?) read the "apology." It's fairly obvious that country music fans were not the predominant voters for this. Then again, CMT is more like MTV Lite with an occasional country music video minus trashy-looking women.

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Priceless!

[Orangedog]

I've got two words for the Dixie Trollops...Bill Maher...ask him how well his carreer has done lately.

[petuniasevan]

Uh oh -- apology? I think not.

More like damage control.

Not buying!

[farmer18th]

I do not. The occupant of that house, like anyone else has to earn my respect

I'll echo that. GWB wasn't conservative enough for me in the last election, but I have come to respect him for what I think he's trying to do. I don't believe in imperial government of any persuasion, which is why I was bothered the other night by a Hannity & Combes (sp?) appearance of a couple of Army (Ranger?) sergeants who were injured in Afghanistan recently. I respect what they did for our country, but when one of them was asked about Afghan citizens, one of the soldiers responded something like this: "for the most part they are like good citizens anywhere. They do what they are told." (Even if that's a slip, for a U.S. soldier that's a little scary.)

The Dixie Chicks, in other words, aren't wrong because they don't have respect for the office. They're wrong because they don't appreciate the depth of human evil.

[Smedley]

Banned from Dixie Chicks website

My crime? I'm not sure, but it was probably something to do with my defense of GWB and critique of his lord bubbaship, Bill clinton.