Dixie Chicks - Just So You Know

[jwdeeming]

I have sent the following letter to both CMT, GAC television channels, and two local radio stations. I've had enough of this!

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To Whom It May Concern,



At the Dixie Chicks concert in London Monday, March 10th, Natalie Maines told the crowd, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas. "



As a country music fan, and as a listener/viewer of your programming, I am asking you to cease playing any of the Dixie Chicks music until the band publicly retracts that statement and apologizes. Just so you know, any time I hear Dixie Chicks music played, I will turn your station OFF, and begin notifying your advertisers they are supporting an anti-American broadcasting station.



Thank you.



Jim Deeming



-- email address removed --



Berthoud, Colorado.

 

[RankRam]

Just one more reason to not listen to them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I will stick with Chris Ledoux and George Strait thank you.

 

[loncray]

Alright - I gotta ask - if not supporting the President is Anti-American, what nationality do you suppose all those people who detest President Clinton to this day are? It is the essence of our freedom that we have the right to be against our government, our President, our policies.

 

[lschultz]

Makes me ashamed she is from Texas. I was going to say something else but I best keep my mouth shut I heard that on the radio to work this morning. Mr Bush needs to give them girls a whooping.



You sure know how to ruin a persons day mentioning that word

clinton:{



http://www.kase101.com/script/headline_newsmanager.php?id=128626&pagecontent=musicnewscountry

 

[onestackdram]

It is one thing to disagree with the President, that doesnt make you anti - American. However, being in the public eye, as The Dixie Chicks are, they should not ever publicly critize the president in the manner they did. It would have been o. k. with me if she had simply said that she doesnt agree with him or his actions. But what she did say is an outrage and in my view

anti-American. For that I say have no pity or mercy on her or the band.



Russell



Edited by moderator : Please refrain from skirting around the word filter.

 

[loncray]

How does being in the public eye take away someone's right to criticize the president? If that were the case, Rush Limbaugh (and many, many others) would STILL be rotting in a dark jail someplace.

 

[RustyJC]

Any public figure in the entertainment industry has the right to say what they want. I, however, also have the right to boycott their "products" if I so choose. The Dixie Chicks and a number of other entertainers already have or soon will learn that actions have consequences.



Rusty

 

[jwdeeming]

We have a quarter million boys and girls half a world away, literally hours away from laying their lives on the line.



Getting up on stage in a foreign country that is having second thoughts about remaining our ally, and trash talking our Commander In Chief is pathetic and cowardly.



If that's "free speech", then let's see them bring that speech back to a stadium full of red-blooded Americans in the heart of Dixie and see how well that dog hunts...

 

[loncray]

Dixie Chicks

Sorry - but it's that very right to say whatever you want about the President, America, the government, etc. , that makes it great to be American. There sure were a lot of people spending 8 years saying a helluva lot worse things about our President.

 

[RustyJC]

As I said, actions have consequences. As of today, KILT-FM, Houston's largest country music station, has suspended any airplay of Dixie Chicks material for an indeterminate period. I'm sure they're not the only radio station in the USA to have done this.



Rusty

 

[dresslered]

I hadn't even heard of this....

I've always changed the station whenever they came on the radio anyway.

 

[Sled Puller]

Re: I hadn't even heard of this....

Originally posted by dresslered

I've always changed the station whenever they came on the radio anyway.

DITTO.

They suck.

Trash Country.

And I don't want to see pregnant chicks on videos, neither.

 

[Wayno]

If the chicks are so ashame of the President being from Texas , then they must not be happy with his polices and must not be happy that the U. S. might go to war with Iraq . I bet old Charlie Daniels wont be handing them any awards on TV any time soon either but he might put her over his knee and give her a good old fashion country @ss woopen .

 

[Champane Flight]

Darn

Darn, does this mean all I can to listen to is washed up no talent hillbillies?

 

[Sled Puller]

CF, I expected you listened to Michael Jackson,Yawnie, and Lionel Ritchie, anyways.

Maybe a little ganster rap thrown in.....

 

[Wayno]

:-laf Oo. :-laf Oo. :-laf Oo. :-laf Oo. :-laf Oo.

 

[bmoeller]

Wayno-

Originally posted by Wayno

If the chicks are so ashame of the President being from Texas , then they must not be happy with his polices and must not be happy that the U. S. might go to war with Iraq . I bet old Charlie Daniels wont be handing them any awards on TV any time soon either but he might put her over his knee and give her a good old fashion country @ss woopen .

They're still getting air-play here. Give me Strait, Jones, Gosdin, T. E. Ford, Willy, Waylon, LeDoux, Dolly and Patsy Cline any day just to name a few... .

 

[Hammerhead]

CF, I think I have you figured out. Your the guy who likes to start fights and then go to the sideline and watch. :-{} I have to hand it to you, the way you've mastered the art of the sucker punch is astounding

 

[Wayno]

Personally I think he (CF) is a ex - CB radio Agitator and I bet he was the number one Agitator too.

 

[TomGolden]

For one very important thing, Komrade Klinton was *never* "our" president. He may have been your president, or someone's president, but absolutely never mine or ours. Remember, the President of the United States is not and has never been directly elected by the citizens of the U. S. , but rather by the Electoral College. Because of that method, a President can, and has been elected to office when he did not actually receive the majority of the popular vote. It is a common misconception of many uninformed, or blatantly deceitful people, that the current President of the U. S. was so elected, and that he did not receive the majority of the popular vote. Such however, is false information. In late 2000, CNN and other major media sources stated several times that George Bush had in fact received the majority of the popular vote all across the US, but of course that didn't place him in the White House. I do not claim to know the actual numbers but I would easily bet my truck that at least in 1996 Klinton received far, far less of the popular vote than Mr. Dole did, he was re-elected by the Electoral College.



The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances is guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, as it freedom of speech. No one will deny the peace protesters and pacifists that right. However, it is truly disgusting and treasonous for any one, public figure or lowly individual citizen alike, to condemn and ridicule the President and his policies as such upstanding people as Sean Penn and Alec Baldwin have done in recent years. The reason it is so much worse for these types of public figures to espouse their extreme viewpoints publicly, is that due to their fame and the media's eagerness to give them a national spotlight, their statements and views therefore reach a much greater audience than anything you or I might say on this, or any subject. This still does not mean they have to remain silent, but rather that they should exercise more care in what they do say.



I personally think that on September 12, 2001, President Bush should have unleashed every nuclear missile in the US inventory against the entire Middle East and rid the world of the evil of Islamic inspired terrorism forever. If I were President, World War 3 would have already been fought and finished.



End of my rantings... .



By the way, this weekend I will be burning my 2 Dixie Chicks CDs and deleting all their MP3s from both of my computers. God bless Alan Jackson, Darryl Worley, Aaron Tippin and Mr. Charlie Daniels! They represent the true spirit of the origins of Country music.



Tom