If you boycotted the Dixie Chicks...

[SwedishMeatball]

If you're not whining, then who is and why do you consider it whining?

I was responding to shortbun about calling people whiners. I'm not interested in whining and I don't consider people having a difference of opinion whining, but that's just me. If you want to know what shortbun meant, ask them.

 

[salmoneous]

I used to like Toby Keith,

Note that Toby says he is against the war in Iraq, and always has been

 

[wvrevy]

Note that Toby says he is against the war in Iraq, and always has been

Of course he does...now that the national mood has shifted. But that sure didn't stop him from sopping up all that blood-soaked money he was making from his previous tirades against both the Chicks and anyone that would dare say something negative about the genius in the white house, now did it?

Toby shouldn't have been a cowboy...he shoulda been a politician. He and John McCain would have all kinds of things to talk about, I'm sure.

 

[SwedishMeatball]

I think it's short-sighted to assume that people who don't stand behind the DC's now are doing so based on some misguided sense of patriotism. That's as ignorant as saying people who don't support the war, don't support the troops. They are separate.

 

[bimshire]

Well somebody isn't boycotting them anymore - obviously.

Are you guys still boycotting French stuff too?????

The idiots that we elected to the House of Rep. changed French Fries in the House cafeteria to Freedom Fries during the whole patriotic brouhaha. Now it's back to French Fries.
Guess they found a little common sense.

As for those who are still up in arms about the Dixie Chicks, it is a little like someone still carrying a "torch" for their Ex.

 

[UrsulasShadow]

I probably would never have listened to them if they hadn't taken a political stance, and now I have their songs on my ipod. In general, I don't do country music.

I'm with you there.

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

I can't stand them and yes, I am a republican....but it has NOTHING to do with their political stance. My favorite musical artists are John Couger Mellancamp and Bruce Springsteen...so there ya go. I dislike them for being so very immature and having the "FKUTK" on their clothing during a concert "which meant **** you Toby Keith"......please....I'm not in middle school and I won't listen to a bunch of whiney *******s that still are....

I think it's short-sighted to assume that people who don't stand behind the DC's now are doing so based on some misguided sense of patriotism. That's as ignorant as saying people who don't support the war, don't support the troops. They are separate.

Well, that pretty well sums up my stance. Thanks for saving me the typing time.

 

[auntpolly]

I think it's short-sighted to assume that people who don't stand behind the DC's now are doing so based on some misguided sense of patriotism. That's as ignorant as saying people who don't support the war, don't support the troops. They are separate.

Well I've been saying I wanted to understand it - I wasn't kidding I really do. For it to be a topic in so many threads for so long there has to be some real hatred and rage there - so what's that all about then?

 

[SwedishMeatball]

Well I've been saying I wanted to understand it - I wasn't kidding I really do. For it to be a topic in so many threads for so long there has to be some real hatred and rage there - so what's that all about then?

That's fine, but part of the problem is that some people aren't going to want to step forward and express themselves if others will portray them as being all "up in arms" if they discuss their disapproval. I mean sure, there are some people on both sides that get way worked up over the issue, but don't you think it's sort of funny when people start generalizing everyone with a certain viewpoint?? I sort of see it as a way to silence people from speaking out for fear of being lumped in with the rest of the radicals. I don't know about any other DC threads, and the one I see that's been resurrected to the front page is just too many pages for me to be interested enough to go read through.

 

[cardaway]

As for those who are still up in arms about the Dixie Chicks, it is a little like someone still carrying a "torch" for their Ex.

 

[Mrs.Toad]

About that time, a doctored photo of Maines and Saddam Hussein together popped up on a giant video screen, and the crowd cheered as Keith launched into his self-penned song his wrote for his father, "Courtesy Of The Red, White & Blue (The Angry American)."

I've never liked country music, I don't listen to it. Probably would have had no idea who the Dixie Chicks or Toby Keith were if it weren't for the controversy. I don't really care what a musicians politics are, I just listen to the music I like.

But holy shmoly! For all the whining and complaining about the FKUTK shirts, I'm amazed that I have never heard of TK doing this until right now! After a stunt like that, I think the Dixie Chicks could have responded with a lot more than the T-shirts, which seem subtle in comparison.

 

[va32h]

Note that Toby says he is against the war in Iraq, and always has been

And yet he keeps writing those crappy jingoistic songs.

 

[Fitswimmer]

And yet he keeps writing those crappy jingoistic songs.

because he makes $$ doing it. When it comes to entertainers, I'm of the mind that most of them do and say what they do and say because it will be economically profitable for them. Who knows that the whole DC thing wasn't planned? It certainly paid off for them! (I know, I'm a hopeless cynic) People hate Rush, Sean, Ann Coulter et al, but they are all laughing their way to cash their big checks. They say what they say because it brings them a boatload of money. They could be laughing just as hard at the "dittoheads" as the people on the left are, they're just making $$ off them.

 

[Cool-Beans]

He did more than call them unAmerican. He flashed a giant, photoshopped picture of Natalie Maines embracing Saddam Hussein on the jumbotrons at all his concerts that year.

No, he didn't.

He didn't show it in Clevleand. I have been to every Toby Keith concert in Cleveland (ok, general Cleveland area) for I don't even know how many years before the Unleashed album was out. And I was there for that concert tour, as well as the ones since.

I've never seen him mix his political stuff with his concerts. Even when he campaigned for a guy running for governor in Oklahoma (guy won), we didn't hear about at the concert.

I don't know if he ever actually did that, but I know for certain, 100%, that it wasn't done at all of his concerts.

 

[Cool-Beans]

This whole thing reminds me of a grade school playground where the kids are pressured by a bully to ignore the kid they liked and played with the year before.

Flat out wrong.

What this should remind you of is a kid saying, "I don't like you, you're all rednecks, I want you to ignore me!" Then, when everyone does, he whines, "Everyone ignores me! That's not fair!"

 

[Cool-Beans]

Well, I can't find any link to it. Tried last night and then again today. So my orignal stands, where did they say it and when? Otherwise, I don't beleive it. So there.

If you read the thread, someone else posted you where, when, and a link.

But you can not believe it if you choose. You can also believe that the Earth isn't round. Who cares. The fact that you don't believe it doesn't mean it isn't so.

 

[PghLybrt]

I really do not see the Dixie Chicks complaining about their new audience. What I do see is them upset at some of the vicious acts people have done to them. I also can not understand how wanting a progressive audience is a bad thing. Norah Jones has said the exact same thing (it was on 60 minutes this week), An audience like that allows an artist to grow so that they are not left making the same music time and time again. Some artists like doing that, some of their albums are all the same, and that works for them. Some like making new stuff, and that works for them.

I like them. I like most of their music, which is saying a lot about it coming from me. I do not even allow country music playing in my home or stores that is how much I dislike it. But I do like the Dixie Chicks and I liked them before all of this controversy. Now I like them even more!

Last night made me giggle! I loved it!

 

[Peter Pirate 2]

Dixie Chicks rule!!! Five Grammy's!!!! They are so much more than your average country artist which is fine with me!

Toby Keith is an opportunistc slug who'd sing anyway the wind blows if it made him money. JMO, of course.

 

[jimmiej]

Nope, can't enjoy them now at all. Wide Open Spaces was one of my faves but I don't even know where it is anymore.

I think it's a slap to country music fans that they took country album tonight. They left country behind by their own choice. I don't think they sound country now.

Ditto!

 

[AuntieM03]

I was never really a Dixie Chicks fan. I have Landslide on a compilation CD and I really like their version. I think Ready To Make Nice is an okay song and I don't turn it off when it comes on the radio. I do think that their fans have a right to be upset by some of the comments that were made and if they don't want to listen to them it is their right. I don't think it is okay to threaten the group and I think CD burnings are silly. More than anything I was surprised that their acceptance speeches weren't more articulate. I thought they were a bit childish in their acceptance of the Country award, I would have respected them more if they had been gracious. I do like Natalie Maines husband, so they have that going for them