I think the Dixie Chicks got a bad rap

[Sava]

Sorry Slowwhand. This is America. And people are allowed to say what they like regardless if people pay them.

Also, people have every right to call for a boycott, because I've said before, stupidity is a freedom. But when a corporation that leases public airwaves decides they are blacklisting the Dixie Chicks, that violates the spirit of freedom in America. The people that want to live in a country like that can build a time machine and move to Nazi Germany.

[MRT144]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Right. So pay money and go listen to Bush sing.

thats what fundraising dinners are for

[SlowwHand]

And concerts are not for political dissertations.
What's so difficult to understand?

[MikeH]

I'm going to boycott Bush 'cause Gavin Rossdale's banging Gwen Stefani.

[Jac de Molay]

And concerts are not for political dissertations.

So no music acts should write political songs? Or express anything remotely controversial between songs?

As usual, your logic is dazzling.

[MikeH]

Yeah, tell that to the entire decade of the 60s.

[SlowwHand]

Oh piss off. Don't tell me about the 60's.

And you people don't even listen to the damned Dixie Chicks anyway, or didn't until one ran her mouth.

[MikeH]

Best publicity stunt they've ever done then.

[SlowwHand]

And Sava, you're treading on extremely thin ice.
I have nothing better to do today than come north and kick your smart ass to the curb.

[MikeH]

He has a point though. You don't want to go down the route of having your media excluding opinions that disagree with your government, even if it's by their own choice. That's not a good way to be going.

[SlowwHand]

Yeah, yeah.
Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Joan Baez.
Bob Dylan.

I know, I know.
But the Dixie Chicks? Come on.

[MikeH]

That's why it's even more ridiculous that people even care about it.

[SlowwHand]

Forget "when pigs fly"; look at the little oinker, and think "when pigs have political thoughts".

[Sava]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
And Sava, you're treading on extremely thin ice.
I have nothing better to do today than come north and kick your smart ass to the curb.

BWAHAH I love you Slowwy. But you'd be unsuccessful. And plus, I don't fight the mentally challenged.

Seriously though, I don't agree with Ted Nugent's politics, but I'm not boycotting him. In fact, I enjoy his music. The fact that so many people care about the Dixie Chicks' politics is hilarious. Why do people care what celebrities think?

[SlowwHand]

I don't. I like to argue.