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February 12, 2007
Dixie Chicks' Moonbattery Awarded With Five Grammies
In what you might call a declaration of war on country music's fan base, the entertainment establishment granted five Grammies including Best Country Album to the abominable Dixie Chicks, quite obviously for the sole purpose of rewarding their screechy vocalist Natalie Maines for loudly advocating moonbattery.
Country music is a refuge for those fed up with the decadent anti-American sewage produced by the entertainment industry. This is one reason the folks in charge of passing out Grammy Awards clearly hate it. It is also a reason that few country fans listen to the Dixie Chicks, who rightly no longer regard themselves as a country band.
Natalie Maines effected a divorce from country music in 2003, when she denounced the President in Europe at the beginning of the war in Iraq. In the movie "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing," which lionizes the band for its moonbattery, Maines calls President Bush "a dumb f***." She has also publicly inveighed against the concept of patriotism.
Unsurprisingly this cost the Dixie Chicks their fan base. But as Maines assured her fellow band members, "I think this is better for our career." As for country music, she said, ''I just feel like, let country music rest." Their alleged "Best Country Album" of the year was produced by rock/rap veteran Rick Rubin, and according to AP has "more to do with southern California rock than country."
Sure enough, her deal with the Devil paid off with the cover of Time Magazine and now five Grammies. The band has new fans, who will buy their CDs to make a political statement and then never bother to play them.
Absurdly, Maines continues her attempts to pass herself off as a martyr to free speech:
I think people are using their freedom of speech here tonight with all of these awards. We get the message.
It's as if she expects people to pretend that country music fans award the Grammies, not left-wing elitist suits in the entertainment establishment who honored the Dixie Chicks specifically because they loath country music and the mentality of those who listen to it.
We get the message too, Natalie.
Hat tip: Blogmeister USA
Posted by Van Helsing at February 12, 2007 10:25 AM
Comments
A bunch of commie liberals slobbering all over their own - the Grimmies is nothing but a liberal circle jerk.
The Ditsy Twits are still not heard in Texas. If a radio station plays their music, sponsers pull their ads. Captialism works.
Posted by: Jimbo at February 12, 2007 12:20 PM
Validating Jimbo's "commie liberal" thesis, Dhimmi Carter got a Grammy, too.
Posted by: V the K at February 12, 2007 1:25 PM
And still further validating the "commie liberal" thesis: "The other nominees (in Dhimmi Carter's category) were comedians Bob Newhart, Bill Maher and Al Franken."
Posted by: V the K at February 12, 2007 1:27 PM
Won't be long until they rename their group
CHICKS WITH DICKS
Hollyweird will looooove it!
Posted by: Doug at February 12, 2007 3:06 PM
The truth is that the awards committee didn't vote for the (No longer Dixie) Chicks, instead they voted AGAINST President Bush. There is a diffrence.
A lady who attended the awards was on the radio today. She said that there was plenty of aplause for the Chicks for the first award, but when the second award came out, people started walking out "in bunches". According to her, as each of the five(!!) awards were presented, the applause was less and less enthusiastic, becoming half-hearted by the fifth when less than HALF the audience remained.
Could it be that SOMEBODY "smelled a rat"?
Posted by: KHarn at February 12, 2007 3:22 PM
But, will the Grammys revive concert sales?
Posted by: allen at February 12, 2007 3:25 PM
Seems the Chicks are turning the corner. They have gone from concert after concert with sold out seating to not having a concert tour this year at all. Can't say I don't understand why. After all, they covered the north, north east, Canada and Novia Scotia last year.
I don't exactly see the country fans rushing out to buy their concert tickets. Maybe that is why they had to cancel so many concerts last year.
Someone forgot to tell the Twits that if something ain't broke, don't fix it.
Posted by: Anonymous at February 12, 2007 5:21 PM
who are these chubby girls?
Posted by: nanc at February 12, 2007 6:32 PM
"And that fat one... Natalie Maines? She should just keep her mouth shut. If it wasn't for them other two Dixie Chicks, she'd be selling clothes at a Lane Bryant in Nashville."
-Larry the Cable Guy
Posted by: The Panday at February 12, 2007 8:22 PM
Chicks with Dix? Is anyone really suprised? Green Day got all kinds of awards with their America/Bush bashing songs hack in 2004/2005 for American Idiot - which was a pretty good description of that group.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at February 13, 2007 7:35 AM
The Drudge Report headline on this was "Dixie Chicks are vindicated by Grammy's".
Vindication? There was none. The Grammy's themselves have become irrelevent! They use the presentation strictly as a left-wing political platform! The show has little, or nothing to do with musical excellence. Validity of an artist is nonexistent. If I were a country singer I would bypass the fascade completely. To win an award puts your artistic legitimacy in question. People then might think you got it for a political statement instead of your talent.
Entertainers and actors would be better served by staying the hell out of politics. Sometimes I wonder if the real motivation behind their displays are to gain parts and favor from the power brokers in Hollywood.
Posted by: Starlifter at February 13, 2007 8:39 PM
I’m interested to see what this adds to the dialog. Curious stuff in this independent film! :
http://www.protestingthedixiechicks.com
http://myspace.com/protestingthedixiechicks
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Posted by: about at February 23, 2007 4:09 AM
It's precisely because the Country Music industry made such a big deal about those flippant comments in the first place that the issue is where it is today. If the country music industry had not reacted with such judgemental, myopic lunacy over th whole thing you wouldn't be here bitching today. In short, the redneck agenda backfired here so dust yourselves off and learn from it. People have a right to say what they want and when you try to police thoughts, it often backfires.
Welcome to the home of the FREE and BRAVE. Love it or leave it!
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