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Fifth Column
Dixie Chicks Booed at the CMA Last Night
2003-05-22
The following is from NRO's blog - The Corner:
THE CMA 411 [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
The wonderful Melissa Moskal from the Young America's Foundation e-mails me on how it went down at the Country Music Awards last night:

"The important thing to note about last night's ACMs CMAs wasn't covered in the wire reports...
(I am shocked, aren't you? You would think the NYT would have been all over this.)
The Chicks were nominated for several awards. When their names were announced for nominations pre-performance, the audience clapped for them. It was only AFTER the performance, when whatsherface wore the "F*** You Toby Keith" shirt, and their name was read for "Entertainer of the Year," that the audience booed. And, poetically, Toby Keith beat them out for that award.
Hah!
People might have started to forgive them for the anti-Bush remarks. But picking a fight with reigning country badass Toby Keith has just gotten them totally ostracized from the country community.
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Another take from Fox underscores the deep and simmering resentment among CM fans toward the Chicks: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,87503,00.html
LAS VEGAS — Many country music fans aren't ready to forgive the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines for comments critical of President Bush: Voters rejected the group's nominations for three Academy of Country Music Awards and the audience booed the mention of their name.
The problem is that I truly think the Chicks' music is awesome and probably deserving of an award based on merit. Just can't stand their politics.
Presenter Vince Gill urged the audience at Wednesday night's show to "Stop it, stop it." He added: "You know who gets blessed when you forgive — you."

The Dixie Chicks were a late addition, performing by satellite from their hometown of Austin, Texas. Maines sat silently (sullenly?) as Emily Robison briefly introduced the song. The boos erupted when Gill named the Dixie Chicks among nominees for entertainer of the year. Gill said afterward that the reaction was more subdued than at last month's Flameworthy Awards. "It was a pretty volatile crowd that time. This one wasn't so bad," he said.

It didn't seem that way to host Reba McEntire. "It was a pretty big negative response. I don't think it's over," she said after the program.

"Everybody here loves to gamble," she said during an opening monologue. "They're backstage right now checking the latest odds on the Dixie Chicks playing the Bush family reunion."
Posted by:ColoradoConservative

#7  Hey myron, just heard this one on the radio. "Remember the Alamo Motel"
Posted by: Lucky   2003-05-23 11:16:21  

#6  One must remember, Maines said that she "wuz uh-shaimd that President bush wuz from Texis". Well, I'm from Texas and I'm more than ashamed of the cowardly Democrats who went AWOL on the constitutionally mandated redisticting vote. Democrats have been jerrymandering redistricting votes for decades in formerly Dim-dominated Texas, and no one ever walked out on a redistricting vote that favored them to win. Dims have chosen anarchy in this latest state level temper tantrum. Some 200 bills will have to be submitted for vote again. Thanks commies, you stinking criminals belong in prison; if you spent some time there you might actually aquire that which you have none, namely, Character. see:Charles Colson
Posted by: myron   2003-05-22 11:39:10  

#5  Did anyone see anything about the show's ratings? I wonder if it was down from the year before. I thought that highlighting the Dixie Chicks' performance in the commercials was either a very stupid or very smart move (stupid in that you turn off potential viewers from the start, smart in that people would tune in to see any controversy....)
Posted by: Baba Yaga   2003-05-22 11:25:05  

#4  The "Hate America" crowd is crowing that the ruckus hasn't hurt their career or sales. My conclusion is different. Americans care so little what entertainers like Maines say that it just doesn't matter. In other words, her statements and t shirts have less than no effect. If an entertainer says something stupid in the forest, and no one cares, did they say anything?
Posted by: Chuck   2003-05-22 11:19:20  

#3  I'm glad the audience had the opportunity to exercise their freedom of speech. Many fans of CW music have exercised their freedom of speech by selecting music from those who have not made politically motivated statements overseas like Natalie Maines.

The Dixie Chicks have made several bad decisions since that night in London. One of their worst decisions was to sit for an interview with Dianne Sawyer. Natalie Maines came off very poorly with a stupid laugh after almost every sentence she uttered. It is clear when it comes to foreign policy and national security, she doesn't have a clue. I could understand her cluelessnes if she read the New York Times or Los Angeles Times every morning, but I don't even think she would put out that much effort.

What has yet to seen is if other CW artists are equally ignorant and motivated to make statements at concerts.
Posted by: VRWC Colorado Chapter (Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)   2003-05-22 10:46:12  

#2  I think their music sucks, fake twangy crap, and could care less about their politics. But from what I can tell, they favor peace, justice and whatever is cool. And were they really to Dixie chicken to go to the awards show?
Posted by: Lucky   2003-05-22 10:36:28  

#1  Postscript (also from The Corner):

"Cowardly Chicks"

"One last note on the Dixie Chicks: They actually didn't even show to the CMA event: They performed via satellite, from their hometown, in front of their own, presumably friendly, audience. The booing was in Las Vegas, where the award ceremony was actually held.
Posted by: ColoradoConservative   2003-05-22 10:25:27  

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