"Freedom Of Speech" - Dixie Chicks - Page 2

hypgnostic · 07-26-07, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Blue Collar Joe

No one ever stopped, or does stop, the Ditzes from flapping their lips. That is their option. I've seen people get up and walk out of a restaurant because they started a chicks song.
Now? Good luck. The manager is a friend of mine and stated it is a lot easier to not play a song and keep a customer than to play it and lose one. (The customer in question was a loyal one. Still hasn't returned.)
Yes, they have the right to say what they please. Fortunately, we, the citizens, do as well. The chicks are in a service industry. If they make their fans happy, they sell more records and sell out concerts. Piss them off, and then the country fans will simply quit buying your products.
One thing about country fans. They are very patriotic, by and large. And have long memories. They crossed a line, that is not going to be easily bridged.
I still haven't heard a chick song on the radio around here, because it is a money decision, and the radio stations are not willing to lose listeners, as that costs them money.

But in this case, losing their foolish country fans was the best carreer move they could have ever made -- which just makes them that much better in terms of business women. HAHA! I'm glad the fool who decided to take his whining frustrations out on a business owner stays at home now. I can tell you that if I were there and saw a person throw a tantrum and walk out because of a SONG on the jukebox, I would forbid him from ever entering my business again and tell him GOOD RIDDANCE! That can only help business by keeping such infantile customer's away from sane and rational customers. If the business owner has a brain in his head, he'd put a lot MORE Dixie chicks songs on the jukebox to weed out the idiots. I certainly would!

Rick · 07-26-07, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Glenn

I know this is an old subject but i just picked it up when i was watching an old show from Oprah concerning Dixie Chicks and how one of the members had said some things about how she disagree with Bush's decision sending the army to Iraq. After that concert in Great Britain and Dixie Chicks returning to the U.S. they received a letter threatning one of the members that she will play on their next concert. Also many people came to demonstrate telling them that they had no right to talk freely about the war epsacially not on foreign soil! Now I have always herd that America is a country where everybody can speak free, also called "The Freedom Of Speech"... My concern is why so many people got so angry when it is okay for them and for all american citizens to say what they think...! And now when Dixie Chicks got big and made an international hit I was wondering if people are still angry with them, or íf nobody is??

Glenn

The main problem people had was they criticized their own country in a foreign country, pandering to anti-american sentiment in the UK. Many people in the US took the way they did it as unseemly, self serving, and cowardly.

chevydriver1123 · 07-26-07, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by rathi

Freedom of speech is about being legally protected when you talk. The public can hate you all they like and deliver as much social backlash as they please. The dixie chix had the legal right to say whatever they wanted, and their fans had the legal right to say whatever they wanted back. Frankly, I think that getting angry at an artist for political views is stupid, as I listen to their music and not their opinions.

I just simply amazes me how some get their panties in a bunch when a celebrity gives their opinion. Does anyone in their right mind take celebs seriously?

Captain America · 07-26-07, 10:41 PM

I take Barney seriously.

hypgnostic · 07-27-07, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Rick

The main problem people had was they criticized their own country in a foreign country, pandering to anti-american sentiment in the UK. Many people in the US took the way they did it as unseemly, self serving, and cowardly.

That's because the people who took it that way are shallow and ignorant. Because the Dixie Chicks didn't ONLY insult our village idiot in the UK, they also insulted him in America too, which proves they didn't do it at all to 'pander' or to 'self serve'. I respect their patriotism by saying what is on their mind and sticking to it no matter how unpopular an opinion it might be. The problem is that too many Americans are just blind conformists, who've never had an original thought in their entire lives, and have bought the BS that the media has painted about Bush and his miserable administration. If an American is PATRIOTIC, he will stand up to the tyrannical Bush admin who's nearly cost us our entire country!

hypgnostic · 07-27-07, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by chevydriver1123

I just simply amazes me how some get their panties in a bunch when a celebrity gives their opinion. Does anyone in their right mind take celebs seriously?

EXACTLY! I always wondered what in Gods name was going through an Americans head who would sit and WHINE about which celebrity had which political opinion! Idiots with that much time on their hands need to GET A LIFE (or at least a JOB).

Rick · 07-27-07, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by hypgnostic

That's because the people who took it that way are shallow and ignorant. Because the Dixie Chicks didn't ONLY insult our village idiot in the UK, they also insulted him in America too, which proves they didn't do it at all to 'pander' or to 'self serve'.

OK - give a reference to a credible source that shows they publicly did it before they went to the UK.

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If an American is PATRIOTIC, he will stand up to the tyrannical Bush admin who's nearly cost us our entire country!

He cost us our entire country??? What???

hypgnostic · 07-28-07, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Rick

OK - give a reference to a credible source that shows they publicly did it before they went to the UK.

He cost us our entire country??? What???

They have bad-mouthed Bush in just about every show, according to your OWN sources! What difference does it make which country they're slamming the monkey in office? How does that make it any worse or better? If I were them, I'd slam the president in front of EVERY audience -- you see, in the US there is an ideal called 'FREEDOM OF SPEECH' -- if you would like to read about it, read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, if you have a problem with the Dixie Chicks exercising their freedom to bitch about Bush, DON'T BUY THEIR RECORDS.

Bush is the worst president in our nation's history -- and though that is my opinion, several Pulitzer prize winning authors AGREE. He's declared more war than any other president in history, we've had more terrorist attacks under his watch than any other president and still with no end in sight, Americans are dying in his blood for oil charade at an exponential rate. We've lost the entire city of New Orleans under his watch, one of our greatest engineering monuments when his goons destroyed the WTC, and even after that, not a SINGLE one of his extended family has even set FOOT in the military -- except for his grandfather who had the 'Trading with the enemy Act, named after him when he funded the Hitler's rise in Nazi Germany.

Bush SHOULD be imprisoned and eating 3 square meals a day in GITMO, where he SHOULD have been sent after getting the A$$-kicking he SHOULD have got after his THIRD, DUI. If you can't see that we've got a man guilty of treason running our country, then you've got a lot more to worry about than the DIXIE Chicks -- you need your head examined!

Rick · 07-31-07, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by hypgnostic

They have bad-mouthed Bush in just about every show, according to your OWN sources!

Answer the question - when/where did they do it before the UK?

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What difference does it make which country they're slamming the monkey in office? How does that make it any worse or better?

Because it's cowardly pandering to an anti-american audience for commercial gain. Why can't you get it? I would NEVER criticize any dem president in a foreign country.

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If I were them, I'd slam the president in front of EVERY audience -- you see, in the US there is an ideal called 'FREEDOM OF SPEECH' -- if you would like to read about it, read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, if you have a problem with the Dixie Chicks exercising their freedom to bitch about Bush, DON'T BUY THEIR RECORDS.

Also in the US, there are the concepts of cowardice, backstabbing, and pandering.

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Bush is the worst president in our nation's history -- and though that is my opinion, several Pulitzer prize winning authors AGREE.

Oh, you form your opinions around votes by "authors"?

Fascinating!

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He's declared more war than any other president in history,

Nooooooo.........

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we've had more terrorist attacks under his watch than any other president and still with no end in sight, Americans are dying in his blood for oil charade at an exponential rate.

Noooooooo............

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We've lost the entire city of New Orleans under his watch,

Hurricane Katrina was a neocon plot, right?

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one of our greatest engineering monuments when his goons destroyed the WTC, and even after that, not a SINGLE one of his extended family has even set FOOT in the military -- except for his grandfather who had the 'Trading with the enemy Act, named after him when he funded the Hitler's rise in Nazi Germany.

Bush SHOULD be imprisoned and eating 3 square meals a day in GITMO, where he SHOULD have been sent after getting the A$$-kicking he SHOULD have got after his THIRD, DUI. If you can't see that we've got a man guilty of treason running our country, then you've got a lot more to worry about than the DIXIE Chicks -- you need your head examined!

OK, psychotic rant, time for me to tip toe to the exit....

rhinefire · 07-31-07, 09:49 AM

One problem with the multimedia world we live in is we the viewers are subjected to everyone's political opinions. For me I could care less about veryone elses opinions if I don't know them. The rock music world and the hollywooders are two sections of our cultrue that are at best are an embarrassment if not a disgrace in some cases. Their opinions should be muted.