Dixie Chicks:
So the Dixie Chicks have a new CD out “Taking the Long Way”. It is their first new material since the controversy of 2003. If you are not aware of that then search Google and you’ll find plenty on it. The new album is sparking controversy of it’s own. The Dixie Chicks are not ashamed of what they have done, and they should not be. The United States of America gives its citizens the right to speak whatever they want about whoever they want. I found a couple of quotes about this and wanted to share them.
Conservative Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly wrote an essay about the group in Time Magazine’s recent feature “Time 100: People Who Shape Our World.” In his piece, quoted in a story on CMT.com, he wrote that Maines’ “primary mistake” was criticizing Bush on foreign soil. He calls “Not Ready to Make Nice” “a pretty good song. There is no reason not to play it.” “Natalie Maines has paid the price for her remarks. Her life has been threatened, and she remains under siege. That is wrong as well. The woman has the right to believe what she wants to believe. You have a right to reject her beliefs and not to buy her stuff. But to punish her further is not in the spirit of America.”
Country legend Merle Haggard not only defended the Dixie Chicks, but has also sung and spoken critically about the president and the conflict himself. Haggard, who sang pro-America, Vietnam-era songs such as “Okie From Muskogee” and “The Fightin’ Side of Me” 35 years ago, has a new tune called “America First” which includes the line, “Let’s get out of Iraq and back on track.”
(source: http://www.cushingdaily.com/opinion/cnhinsall_story_143111507.html?keyword=topstory)
How about them apples?
1 comment:
Get over it. Let people say what they want.
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