February 13, 2007
The awards amounted to vindication for the Dixie Chicks, who found their career sidetracked in 2003 after the singer Ms. Maines told a London concert audience shortly before the invasion of Iraq that the band was “ashamed†that the president hailed from their home state, Texas. In the furor that followed, country radio programmers pulled the multiplatinum-selling trio’s music from the airwaves and rallied listeners to destroy their CDs.ABC News claims that Grammy night marked the Dixie Chicks' "comeback":
The Dixie Chicks won all five awards they were nominated for, sweet vindication after the superstars' lives were threatened and sales plummeted when Maines criticized President Bush on the eve of the Iraq war in 2003. Almost overnight, one of the most successful groups of any genre was boycotted by Nashville and disappeared from country radio...So, the entertainment industry, which is dominated by hard left-wingers, gives an award to some chicks who gave the middle finger to a Republican President overseas in the middle of a war, and this represents some huge "change" in the political climate? Are y'all buying this?The standing ovations the Chicks received Sunday illustrated how much the political climate has changed regarding the Iraq war, and even Bush.
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Leftards live in their own bubble and use the MSM to pass that off as reality.
Standing ovations and awards by like-minded Leftards doesn't equal sold out concerts and record sales.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at February 13, 2007 11:31 AM (8e/V4)
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at February 13, 2007 11:52 AM (p52Ne)
Everybody knows why they were handed these empty awards. The hard left entertainment industry and "news" media aren't fooling anyone with their partisan crowing disguised as zeitgeist reporting.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at February 13, 2007 01:08 PM (Dt3sl)
Nah.
Posted by: slug at February 13, 2007 01:08 PM (z/oJX)
Posted by: greyrooster at February 13, 2007 01:11 PM (E0zAj)
Posted by: Fred Fry at February 13, 2007 01:20 PM (JXdhy)
Posted by: John at February 13, 2007 02:05 PM (qiTAx)
Spoken like a true infant.
Idiots like you should be used for human shields for iraqi civilians. The terrorists should have to work their way through some trash to reach their innocent victims.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at February 13, 2007 03:11 PM (Dt3sl)
www.princeton.edu/culturalpolicy/workpap26.html
“Through analyzing airplay from a national sample of radio stations, this paper finds that contrary to prominent allegations grounded in the political economy tradition of media sociology, this backlash did not come from owners of large chains. Rather, I find that opposition to the Dixie Chicks represents grassroots conservative sentiment, which may be exacerbated by the ideological connotations of country music or tempered by tolerance for dissent. †Spring 2003
Posted by: Beansox at February 13, 2007 06:33 PM (gFtE6)
Posted by: DAT at February 13, 2007 07:04 PM (KPQyo)
I think you Chick haters think that if you keep telling the same lies over and over that it will somehow become true.
Natalie Maines was right. By the way, it was the best album of 2006. THat is why nashville's top critics voted it "Country ALbum of the Year" TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE GRAMMY'S.
You all might want to shut Limbaugh, Hannity, and O'reilly, off for a while and get a grip on reality.
Posted by: Davis H at March 14, 2007 10:20 PM (vS3MS)
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