If the Dixie Chicks had been rockin' babes ...(Choke on your vomit alert!!)

Houston Chronicle ^ | March 24, 2003 | Tamara Conniff

[hsmomx3]

If it wasn't for the song "Landslide," many would not know what the Dixies Chicks actually sing.

[MEG33]

No one shut her up. People simply expressed themselves. Free expression works for all sides.

[kjam22]

I always thought it was pretty telling that of all the classic country songs that could have been done as a re-make... that they made their big song on the country charts from a re-make of a Fleetwood Mac song.

[Sir Gawain]

By burning CDs and posters and throwing verbal stones at Maines, they are violating her most important right and the foundation of this country -- her freedom of speech.

Retarded reasoning. Anti-Blixie Chicks remarks are anti-American, but anti-Bush remarks by the Blixie Chicks are free speech?

[attydjv]

I'm STILL trying to figure out if Miss Piggy is talking about the space between her ears or her legs when she sings Wide Open Spaces...no one seems to know.

[boxerblues]

Landslide made it to pop rock stations, but were are quite popular before that. Their mistake was slamming Bush on foreign soil.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

By burning CDs and posters and throwing verbal stones at Maines, they are violating her most important right and the foundation of this country -- her freedom of speech.

If you truly don't understand a subject, it's best not to write about it in a newspaper.

[chiefqc]

She's still short, fat and stupid.

[steplock]

Another Northeaste leftwing radical reporter in the camp of the Houston Chronicle. There were some enlightning comments though, even if the reported didn't realize the truth when it struck him in the face!

"Aren't these antiwar songs? For Northern liberal Democrats, they are. But for Southern Republicans, dying for your country is patriotic; it's noble."

That, to the reporter, was meant to be derrogatory. Why? They have no idea of the meaning of HONOR, NOBILITY, MORALITY, RIGHT, WRONG.

[In God I trust]

Typical Houston Chronicle writer. One of the most leftist papers in all the land.

[an amused spectator]

Apparently, Tamara Conniff believes that the angry fans of the Dixie Chicks are Congress, and that the fans have made a law abridging the Chicks' freedom of speech... ;-)

[ElephantMan]

The Ditzy Chicks first entered the geopolitical commentary when they slammed Toby Keith's song, The Angry American, shortly after release.

Their fans gave them a pass on those comments, but this time is different. The main reason they're catching so much grief is that they've built a fan base of patriotic Americans feigning love of country and respect for the military with songs like Travelin' Soldier.

Country Music, as a sort of mainstream subculture, has always projected patriotism. Long before 9/11, fans jammed into concerts by the likes of country superstars Brooks and Dunn--waving flags and singing along with songs like Only In America...

The Chicks exercised their right to free speech, but in doing so, if nothing else, they violated a simple rule of business: Do not insult your customers. (In politics: Don't alienate your base.)

[zoyd]

By burning CDs and posters and throwing verbal stones at Maines, they are violating her most important right and the foundation of this country -- her freedom of speech.

I wish people who choose to talk about 'free speech' had ANY idea what it's all about. Conniff has demonstrated herself an ignorant dolt.

Word to Tamara -- customers burning and crushing Dixie Chicks CDs IS freedom of speech, and it doesn't infringe on Maines' free speech ONE IOTA.

Who gave this idiot a column in the first place? Ugh.

[G.Mason]

"Sadly, those who shun the Dixie Chicks have become exactly what they say they are not: anti-American. By burning CDs and posters and throwing verbal stones at Maines, they are violating her most important right and the foundation of this country -- her freedom of speech."

Sadly, this jerk has it wrong.

No Tamara Conniff, no ones violating the Dixie Chicks or Maines's "free speech".

She or they can say whatever bilge comes to their simple socialist minds.

Americans don't have to buy their albums, and should they own any, they may do whatever they like with them.

Now go take a bath. You're starting to smell bad.

[elephant]

Is there an e-mail where this person may be contacted?

[mhking]

[SkyPilot]

they are violating her most important right and the foundation of this country -- her freedom of speech.

Wrong--that would be freedom of worship.

[ElephantMan]

PS:

I should add, the article's author implies a double-standard that Fred Durst's comments were met with cheers. But remember, he was playing to his base, not alienating it.