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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.

Wrongo!

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

For Northern liberal Democrats, they are.

Northern liberal Democrats caused the fiasco in Vietnam. I lost a cousin and a friend. And another walks around with only one leg.

The Chicks as well as other artists who USE their celebrity to push their agenda, deserve everything they get. They were MADE by the public, and can quickly be UNMADE by the public.

BTW, who are the Dixie Chicks? (/sarcasm)

Kid Rock said it best when he said that he "supports our troops and our government, but is not entitled to give political opinions." Celebrity status does not give one the right to use that status to push political agendas.

We pay them for entertainment, not their high-scool/college drop-out opinions!

This "reporter" needs to be FReeped! I sent this to the Hollywood reporter email site.

To Tamara Conniff

Your ignorance of what freedom of speech really means is astounding. You claim that Ms. Maines' freedom of speech was violated by radio stations and country music fans who burned her CD's and refused to buy and more. *They* violated Ms.Maines's freedom of speech when they told others not to buy her records or attend her concerts?

The truth of the matter is you are the one insulting the free speech rights of thousands, even millions of Americans stating such leftist, liberal babyfood.

Ms. Maines still has her freedom of speech but the Constitution doesn't guarantee freedom from having to pay the consequences of stupid speech in the market place (or the ballot box, for that matter). Ms. Maines made her bed, now she and her fellow Chicks have to lay in it.

I will also express my freedom of speech by refusing to read any publication that runs your pablum. I don't live in a fascist state like Iraq where people have to put up with paying for speech they don't like. I earn my money, I have the right to spend it where I want. I don't need any liberal pansy to "violate" my freedom of speech by telling me that to be a good American, I must buy the records of people I loathe.

Give me a break.

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

Of course, now anti-Chicks activists are claiming the trio didn't actually write Travelin' Soldier. How could they -- anti-American heathens that they are?

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."

That's because most Southerners like nothing better than a good fight. The Ditzy Chicks are as country as that maggot Michael Moore IMHO and should be treated with equal amounts of disgust.

Yep, she has a right to speak her mind, and we have a right to not buy her product. It's amazing how the limp wristed maggots on the left cry freedom of speech right up until you disagree with them, then they want to shut you up.

Freedom of speech has a price tag. Natalie is now paying the price.

Semper Fi

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst was received with cheers when he said, "This war has got to go away as soon as possible"

Actually people laughed when Fred Durstbag said, "I just really hope we're all in agreeance that this war should go away as soon as possible."

Seems someone cut the quote down so he didn't look like a dumbass. They save slips of the tongue for harassing the sitting President.

Of course, there was this rebuttal:

Fred Durst's 'agreeance' OK

But it turns out that Durst has some heavy linguistic hitters on his side. The North American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary told the New York Observer newspaper that "agreeance" is, in fact, a word. "It's in the OED," editor Jesse Sheindler told the paper. "He did use it correctly.
Sheindler said that "agreeance" was an obsolete word, having passed out of circulation by about 1714, but noted that it was still used occasionally -- especially in Australia.

None of the dictionaries sources on Dictionary.com recognized it (in the online capacity). Anything to defend their position. He made a slip of the tongue.

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.

No, no, no, no, no. The author of this spittle-piece doesn't understand freedom of speech. The same freedom that the Ditsy Cluck expressed is the same freedom that people all over the country expressed in saying, "No, we don't want to buy your music, or listen to it."

If the federal govrenment had told he she couldn't say what she said, that would be a violation of her freedom of speech.

While the northern part of the United States continued to industrialize during the early 20th century, the South remained agricultural and politically conservative. Country music then became a reflection of Southerners' desire to preserve their culture and core values: love your country, love God, love your family.

So is she admitting that liberals are antiAmerican, antiGod, and against the family structure?

Used to be these were American values, not just for conservatives or Southerners.

The easy argument to make is that country music fans are patriotic because they're uneducated, poor, white rednecks and hillbillies who don't know any better. This stereotype is justified for some, but not all.

Taken in concert with her previous statement abour Southerners politics, it is a veiled way of making the Houston Comical's favorite point that Liberals arrive at their positions because they are smart and consider the issues (which coincidently is why they dominate the media and teaching professions) and that Conservatives are dumb as dirt (and racist). The Comical doesn't get any of my money.

I'm of the mind that crappy pop music dominates the charts because the public at large are mindless sheep who don't know better and don't seek out better musical selections from the past century of recorded sound.

The same people that seek out entertainment options based on "Top 10" charts don't formulate their own political positions and are more likely to be swayed by poll numbers and riots in the streets.

Sheryl Crow wore a white T-shirt emblazoned with "War Is Not the Answer" when she accepted her American Music Award in January. Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst was received with cheers when he said, "This war has got to go away as soon as possible" during the Grammy telecast. But when Natalie Maines of the country music trio the Dixie Chicks said from a London stage that she was "ashamed" that President Bush was from Texas, the result was quite different.

The reason for that Tamara, you idiot, is because Natalie's inane comments were a personal attack on a man with more integrity in his stool than she has in her whole body.

Natalie Maines did not just come out against the war. She said that she was ashamed that the President was from Texas.

Now, many of you may not know this, but I am not from Texas. However, if I were from Texas, you would all know this the very first time I posted. For some reason or another, people from Texas find the fact that they are from Texas very important. For a Texan to say you are ashamed that the President is from Texas is like saying that you are ashamed that he is the same species. It is the worst thing a Texan can possibly say.

Given that, I think the ensuing uproar is completely predictable and appropriate.

You will always hear Liberals re-state Maines' comment as "She said she was ashamed that he was from the same state as she was", leaving out the fact that the state involved (a Republic, actually) is Texas. That fact changes things completely.