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(Some Guy)   Dixie Chicks are past the anti-Bush comments and their careers are back on track, so they film a documentary in which Natalie Maines calls Bush a "dumb fark." In related news, Dixie Chicks scheduled to become historical footnote   (ew.com) divider line
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DeeKayOne
2006-09-12 11:23:35 PM  
Yep. Calling a pig a pig is a great way to end your career.
 
the_gospel_of_thomas
2006-09-12 11:27:23 PM  
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holy crap she's ugly.
 
7of7
2006-09-12 11:27:53 PM  
the_gospel_of_thomas: holy crap she's ugly.

When did Steven Tyler dye his hair?

/She's right though
 
Solid State Vittles
2006-09-12 11:38:45 PM  
In related news, Dixie Chicks scheduled to become historical footnote

Too bad we can't say the same for Bush.
 
The_Penguin_on_the_Telly
2006-09-12 11:39:15 PM  
Egads...I'll skip the other two and take the brunette for the win.

/beaten with a Louisville Slugger?
 
EnoMan
2006-09-12 11:39:45 PM  
Heh. Their concert in Indianapolis was canceled for lack of ticket sales.

Before they went on sale.
 
GrooveMonkeyZero
2006-09-12 11:44:37 PM  
I don't care how right they are, I pay musicians to play me music, not to use the stage as their own little soapbox.
 
Heroic Poser
2006-09-12 11:51:00 PM  
YOU"RE MUSICIANS! Face it. Your two steps away from wearing black face and dancing with a cane. Now shut up and sell your CD the old way. With good songs, not bad PR.
 
spinder
2006-09-12 11:55:28 PM  
two steps away from wearing black face and dancing with a cane

What's the inbetween step? Just curious.
 
EnoMan
2006-09-12 11:56:40 PM  
spinder: What's the inbetween step? Just curious.

Ted Danson?
 
Stompn_Tom
2006-09-13 12:02:08 AM  
GrooveMonkeyZero: I pay musicians to play me music, not to use the stage as their own little soapbox.


...and while you are at it tell Bono to SHUT THE FARK UP
 
Kyosuke
2006-09-13 12:10:53 AM  
Yes, who are they to think they are allowed to have opinions and actually share them???

Next thing you know, we'll elect an actor President!
 
truth_is_stranger_than_fishin
2006-09-13 12:15:55 AM  
Kyosuke: Next thing you know, we'll elect an actor President!

Unpossible!
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-09-13 12:18:50 AM  
DeeKayOne: Yep. Calling a pig a pig is a great way to end your career.

Calling a pig a pig when the vast majority of the people who buy your records are extremely patriotic and really, really LIKE the pig is indeed a great way to end your career.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-09-13 12:19:56 AM  
Kyosuke: Yes, who are they to think they are allowed to have opinions and actually share them???

They can share them all they like. Their former fans also have the right not to buy their CDs.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-09-13 12:22:00 AM  
GrooveMonkeyZero: I don't care how right they are, I pay musicians to play me music, not to use the stage as their own little soapbox.

I saw some comedian talking about this. He said he didn't understand why they were surprised to find out their fans considered them country artists given not only their name, but also that one of their biggest hits is about a woman living in a trailer who kills her husband Earl.
 
maRox
2006-09-13 12:33:57 AM  
I dismiss they're slant, but embrace their talent.
/ Somebody, any freebee ticks availabled?
 
BearToy
2006-09-13 12:38:11 AM  
In the Democratic party, the only ones with any balls are the women. In the country music scene, it looks like the same is true. These are Southern gals with Southern roots who are tougher than sellout pussies like Toby Kieth and use their time in the spotlight to speak their mind without cowering behind the politics of record sales. Come to think of it.. Southern women are known for their strength.

The Dixie Chicks are perfect representatives of The South, even if NASCAR bubba doesn't get it yet.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-09-13 12:41:36 AM  
BearToy: use their time in the spotlight to speak their mind without cowering behind the politics of record sales

Uh--if memory serves, they ducked, dodged and backpedaled, then tried to pretend it never happened, then started hemorrhaging money, then tried to repackage themselves as an alternative group rather than country, then records a real angry political album, THEN started speaking their minds after they'd more or less protected the cash flow.
 
the_gospel_of_thomas
2006-09-13 12:52:53 AM  
Pretty much, yeah.
 
zappaisfrank
2006-09-13 1:05:42 AM  
I laugh my ass off everytime the righties get their undies in a bunch because some "entertainer" is opining about politics.

When after all, their great white happy daddy figurehead was a washed up Hollywood actor....

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Yea, those "entertainment" types should stay the hell out of politics, eh?
 
BearToy
2006-09-13 1:06:44 AM  
The CraneMeister: Uh--if memory serves, they ducked, dodged and backpedaled

And if your memory continues to serve, they apologized and repented of that.

They were coerced into a whorish situation where they were apologetic for money. Later they gathered their wits, aligned their priorities and remembered their roots.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-09-13 1:09:00 AM  
zappaisfrank: Yea, those "entertainment" types should stay the hell out of politics, eh?

Nah. But they should stay in or out. You go into politics, like Reagan, Da Guvernator, or that guy in Minnesota whose name escapes me, either you can do the job or you can't.

I don't have my personal panties in a wad over the Dixie Chicks except for the way they want to snipe at politicians they don't like in the guise of free speech, then when fans and radio stations start rejecting their music under the very same First Amendment rights, they get Al Gore and John McCain to call it censorship and threaten to sic the FCC on ClearChannel.
 
DaCricket [TotalFark]
2006-09-13 1:14:41 AM  
GrooveMonkeyZero: I pay musicians to play me music, not to use the stage as their own little soapbox.


I'd stay away from any Toby Kieth venues if I were you.

/just saying
 
TommyymmoT
2006-09-13 1:20:03 AM  
This should be interesting.

The film, is called "Shut Up And Sing".

"Shut Up And Sing", is already a book by Anne Coulter wanna-be, Laura Ingraham, and re-hashes all the usual neocon bullsh*t you would expect it to.
 
zappaisfrank
2006-09-13 1:22:27 AM  
The CraineMeister

I have no love for the Dixie Chicks, but I get a kick out of how celebs bashing Bush gets the rightsiders all wound up. It amuses me the way someone like Moore gets those people just frothing!

Anyone can say anything they want about anyone they want in the US (at least for now) but I agree with the concept that they shouldn't stand there with jaws agape in astonishment that not everyone agreed with their particular perspective.

AFA Dixie Chicks go, they kinda made their bed. While the outrage does have the aroma of being "manufactured", it seems to be having an effect on their careers nonetheless.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-09-13 1:23:22 AM  
BearToy: They were coerced into a whorish situation where they were apologetic for money.

Free speech ain't always free. No one can stop you from saying whatever you want but it doesn't mean you can snivel and expect not to suffer any consequences if you bite the hand that feeds you.
 
TommyymmoT
2006-09-13 1:26:11 AM  
Heroic Poser
"Now shut up and sell your CD the old way. With good songs, not bad PR."

Problem is, many many " artists " are selling their stuff, in every medium, with bad PR.

They may not sell out arenas forever, and few do, but I doubt they'll ever really lose their core fan base.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-09-13 1:36:58 AM  
TommyymmoT: I doubt they'll ever really lose their core fan base

That's just their problem--they HAVE lost a lot of their fan base.

Me, I don't much like country so I never cared. My SO is/was a fan; she couldn't care less about their political remarks on stage, but hates their new CD. She says she like their older stuff; it was funny and carefree, but this new one is all dark and angry and nasty. Doesn't work for her.
 
TommyymmoT
2006-09-13 2:27:52 AM  
The CraneMeister

Yup, yer right. Gotta admit, when they formed, they were supposed to be, "just fun".

By their own account, it was started as a good time band, just for the fun of it.

Things have just gotten too ugly lately, all over the world.
 
leperboy69
2006-09-13 2:43:23 AM  
the_gospel_of_thomas:holy crap she's ugly.

Is this the new "Michael Moore is fat"?
 
Executive Monkey
2006-09-13 3:07:13 AM  
Know what's funny? No one in this thread has defended Bush's intelligence, not even TGOT or the other people who are attacking the Dixie Chicks. The truth of Maines' statement is undisputed, people are only arguing over whether or not it was appropriate to say it.
 
Executive Monkey
2006-09-13 3:11:27 AM  
TheCraneMeister

Calling a pig a pig when the vast majority of the people who buy your records are extremely patriotic and really, really LIKE the pig is indeed a great way to end your career.

How do you know the vast majority of Dixie Chick fans like Bush?

/LOL at my double entendre
//and weren't their careers supposed to end after the last time they criticized Bush? Funny how that didn't happen...
 
KernLead
2006-09-13 3:37:57 AM  
She's consistent. You have to give her that.
 
DirtySanta
2006-09-13 4:02:42 AM  
Luckily, our founding fathers were unpatriotic enough to publicly question their leaders. Agree with em, or disagree with em.. that no problem, hell, thats good, debate makes us stronger, but calling them unpatriotic is just foolish and narrowminded.
 
Delawheredad
2006-09-13 4:20:45 AM  
If Bush is so dumb why is he president while Natalie is just a singer in a soon to be forgotten band? Betchya Natalie couldn't graduate from an Ivy League School in ANY subject. Yeah Bush is a moron all right. Bush is no where near as dumb as he seems. He is often very inarticulate but that does not necessarily indicate a lack of intelligence.

Hold on I'll post all the replies this post will generate to save you all the time.

Bush only got into Yale because of his daddy, he never would have made it on his own.

Bush ia moron and proves it everytime he saya "nuclear"

Bush is the product of Carl Rove. He's a robot who does what they tell him to do. He has no orginal ideas of his own.

Bush's sucess as governor of Texas was all smoke and mirrors.

The neocons control the White House he just rubber stamps them.

Bush failed to prevent 911 or was complicit in the conspiracy.

Have I missed any? if not than THREAD OVER!
 
Howie_Feltersnatch
2006-09-13 5:36:16 AM  
DirtySanta: Luckily, our founding fathers were unpatriotic enough to publicly question their leaders. Agree with em, or disagree with em.. that no problem, hell, thats good, debate makes us stronger, but calling them unpatriotic is just foolish and narrowminded.

I'm not a huge fan of country music, but she has no reason to be ashamed of her opinion. Americans still have the right to express their opinion in public, right?

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Walker [TotalFark]
2006-09-13 6:49:02 AM  
I'd rather be a historical footnote that says "Criticized the President" than a historical footnote that says "Worst President Ever".
 
farker_diego
2006-09-13 7:30:55 AM  
All the Dixe Chicks fans I know like them even more for what Natalie has said about the President.
 
thedarkshadow
2006-09-13 7:34:55 AM  
I'm hoping we're finally growing a pair as a country. When did it become fashionable to agree with everything your goverment does, never question authority, and blindly follow what other tell you to do?
America lost it's way of the past 5 years, and I'm hoping we're finally waking up to the realities of this so called goverment.
The Dixie Chicks are Heros in my book, for speaking out against Bush, taking it on the chin when everyone would rather be a bully, and standing their ground on an unpopular subject.
I was shamed to be an American the last couple of years. I don't have time for spineless wimps. Bush is not a good president, the Republicans are not an honest, decent party for America.
I'm looking forward to a change. Any change from our present goverment.
 
No Such Agency
2006-09-13 7:41:09 AM  
The CraneMeister:
Calling a pig a pig when the vast majority of the people who buy your records are extremely patriotic and really, really LIKE the pig is indeed a great way to end your career.

Funny... they still seem to have a career... and this is years after first denouncing Bush. Maybe not ALL country fans are a homogenous hooting "patriotic" mob of good ol' boys? (Though I imagine the "patriots" ensure that most dissent is quickly buried under shouts of "USA! USA!", as they usually do elsewhere)

That's just their problem--they HAVE lost a lot of their fan base.

My SO... says she like their older stuff; it was funny and carefree, but this new one is all dark and angry and nasty. Doesn't work for her.

Hehe, "Goodbye Earl" was one of the most darkly funny songs evar. I guess it wasn't really "nasty" though...
 
Leishu
2006-09-13 7:50:44 AM  
The CraneMeister: That's just their problem--they HAVE lost a lot of their fan base.

Really?

Billboard Charts #1, May, 2006.
2.54 Million albums sold this year, so far (#5 sales total this year of any album).
#7 first week in album sales this year, with 583 thousand units sold that week.

Would you like ketchup or mustard with that foot that you're inserting into your mouth?
 
EnoMan
2006-09-13 7:52:38 AM  
Wrong underused appendage.

Wrong overused oriface.
 
Leishu
2006-09-13 7:57:20 AM  
Hand and rear, then? But foot (and small middle-american state) oral insertion is a national sport, these days...

(And yeah, the Chix are one of its best teams)
 
mblue
2006-09-13 8:42:29 AM  
Who's the dumb fark? He's still the President and your career is sliding further into the crapper.
 
Mr. Clarence Butterworth
2006-09-13 8:54:23 AM  
Do not insult Der Fuhrer Bush!
 
wolfzr2
2006-09-13 9:22:22 AM  
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If you're not mad, you're not paying any damn attention. Should we all be sheep that just fall in line with whatever Washington tells us???
 
INeedAName
2006-09-13 9:35:14 AM  
What's up with people in the public spotlight having opinions?
 
bananahammer
2006-09-13 9:46:10 AM  
What's up with people on the internets having opinions?
 
Dumb-Ass-Monkey [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-09-13 9:48:08 AM  
thedarkshadow: The Dixie Chicks are Heros in my book, for speaking out against Bush, taking it on the chin when everyone would rather be a bully, and standing their ground on an unpopular subject.

I've been saying it, many agree with me, and yet most of Fark seems to ignore it anyway - It's not what they said, it's where they said it. And idiot can get in front of a sympathetic crowd and say something that'll get over with the fans. Hell, Mick Foley made a career out of cheap pops. Actual balls would be to get in front of a crowd of patriotic rednecks and talk shiat about the president.
 
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