She didn’t also try to sell you a bridge, by any chance?
If Ms. Mains wants a bridge, I’ll steal her one! I’d even be willing to risk the feared and dreaded “four hour limit”!
Que?
I hate to admit it, but you’re over my head with this one.
And besides, I asked if she tried to sell him a bridge…not buy one. A not so insignificant point, this.
You are cranked up, aren’t ya?
So, we’ve established that he’s not Cindy Sheehan.
I don’t see why that stands in contrast. None of those statements, as wishy-washy as they might be, could be called “support” for the Iraq war. If he had said he had been an outspoken opponent of the Iraq war from the beginning, then I’d agree. But all he’s saying is that he didn’t support the war. Shit, it was just an off-the-cuff line he gave to an interviewer for God’s sake. Should he have said: Gee, let me go back and check all the statements about the war I’ve ever made and see if I can accurately reflect the general impression I’ve given.
It’s Dixie-speak. After Keith pulled his bullshit with the Natalie Maines/Saddam Hussein poster, Maines wore a T-shirt to one of her concerts with “FUTK” on the front, in glitter even.
I love that woman!
FUSA
Btw, to anyone who’s not a brain-damaged right-winger (leaves you out Starving Artist) I’d highly recommend the documentary Shut Up and Sing. My favorite part is when they’re sitting around watching Bush on TV and he says some fuckheaded thing like ‘She [speaking of Natalie] shouldn’t have her feelings hurt because some people don’t want to buy her records’ and Natalie says something like ‘feelings hurt, what a fuckhead’ then turns to the camera as if she’s speaking directly to Bush and says “You’re a fuckhead!”
Imagine if THAT had gotten out at the time! That really would have given the yokels something to bray about.
Figures.
She panders to a foreign audience, says/does provocative things to get attention (like the t-shirt), and lies about what she said (like the meaning of the t-shirt). What’s not to love? She’s a leftie through and through!
Fuck the USA? Sounds about right…you know, considering the source and all.
Wow! What class! I can see why she’s your hero!
Yeah! Imagine! Her career would have been totally toast instead of barely slogging along like it is now while she and her unfortunate bandmates try to keep their chins up and pretend that it’s all worth it.
Pride goeth before a fall, and all that. What a dumbass!
Hell yeah. That idiot should have sold out. Cashing in your principles is what’s done these days. Screw that ethics crap. Yeee ha.
(barf)
Slogging along, eh? According to Amazon, the Dixie Chicks’s most recent album (2006) has a sales rank of #36 for music. Toby Keith’s latest (also released 2006) has a sales rank of #1,451. I’m not a fan of either, but it seems the Dixie Chicks are doing pretty well with the buying public.
I think it’s a lame rant. luci, if you are reduced to ragging on artists/bands because of perceived political stances, perhaps you should stop eating food, because those eeeviil corporations produce and bring it to your table. Or stop driving a car because the eevil oil companies produce the gas you use. And so on ad nauseum…
Dude, I don’t disagree with a good bit of your bullshit, but you have plenty of real targets out there, and posts like this make you sound like a whiny little bitch who spends all fucking day looking for stupid shit to post.
Lately, you sound like what the Dems are trying to get away from, saying “Waaa, those sowwy wight wingas, even Toby is a war-mongering bastard!”
You have the torch now, quit whining and be somebody." Your Reederish shit is getting old and won’t win you any converts.
Dude, you ain’t as good as you once was… :dubious:
How do you like me now? 
Bonus points if you get the Toby quotes.
Like I said, what a dumbass!
Keeping your stupid mouth shut isn’t selling out! Who the fuck appointed that dingbat to deliver assessments of GWB or his presidency? She wasn’t on some noble mission, she was sucking up to what she already knew was a sympathetic audience in a stupid and transparent attempt to gain their approval and make them like her even more than they already did. It backfired bigtime and rightfully so.
People work and struggle and suffer and sacrifice for years and years just hoping against hope that someday they can achieve the success in the entertainment business that that silly dipshit already had in hand, and just because her own opinion of her own opinion is so high she threw it all away…and she continues to drag her band down because she’s too stupid and too prideful to keep her mouth shut now.
Can you say Don Quixote? Can you say foolishly tilting at windmills?
Yeah…I thought that you could.
:rolleyes:
Who knows? There a lots of variables to consider, like when the albums were released relative to each other, how good the actual material was, who’s having to cancel concert after concert cough The Dixie Chicks in my hometown and others just this last year cough and who’s selling out concert after concert. Given that I don’t have factual answers to these questions, you may be right in that the Dixie Chicks are doing better than Toby Keith right now, but I doubt it very, very much.
Amazon my ass, Toby is kicking the Dixie chicks ass these days. I like the Dixie chicks, but if they want to be a 'political" band, fine, but Toby is still filling up every place he plays at.
Why do bands have to take a fucking stance? Just play the fucking music. If Natalie wants to talk shit, she can hang out with Bono. I care as much about Natalie Maines political opinions as I do George Clooney’s. I just like the music, both the Chicks and Toby.
Actually, I like the Wreckers better than the Chicks these days.
‘Only thing necessary for evil to prevail’ and all that. Sure, you can shuffle your feet and pretend that you don’t notice what your bozo president is doing to your nation, another nation, and the rest of the planet (i.e. be a coward) or you can say something. That gal became one of my heroes the day she stood up and spoke out.
Apparently the concept of ‘free speech’, ‘freedom’ and all that blather that I keep hearing so fervently proclaimed only applies to people who ‘shut up’ when their views aren’t popular. Oh that’s really worth fighting for, that is.
Nothing I love more than people who can read minds and who therefore can be trusted to ascribe motivation with deadly accuracy.
And poor little Billy Gates worked and struggled and sacrificed and lived in a garage just to make his tens of billions of dollars and that moron’s going to throw it all away!!! On poor folks!!! Sick black ones at that!!! The horror!!! When he could keep his lovely dollars all to himself. :rolleyes:
“It is only with the heart that one sees rightly”.
So one of your heroes is some country music chick because she said Bush was an idiot?
And Toby is the anti-christ because he said some vague "pro war shit?
Man, you need to get out more.
Okay, it’s also a little bit funny. I don’t know why you’re so nauseated. Since when have you been averse to people being belittled by token attempts at humor?
Natalie Maines cost the Chicks millions over her remarks in London. Whats the fucking point? :ots of people are against the war and Bush. She fucked up. Do you go to your job every day and scream “Bush Sucks”?
She wanted to score cheap points at the expense of her band and probably a couple hundred people who work for her and her band. We all know how people think Bush and the war sucks. Why did she do that? She’s a fucking idiot.
I should think not, seeing that his own attempts at humor are beliitleable.
What?
Embelittleable, dammit.