Dixie Chicks' Saga Isn't Over
There's going to be an interesting documentary premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in september. Called "Dixie Chicks - Shut Up And Sing", it's going to expose what the band had to live through after standing up for what they believed in by criticizing Sockpuppet in the lead up to war in Iraq.
"DIXIE CHICKS - SHUT UP AND SING travels with the Chicks, from their peak of popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment, and on through the days, months and years of mayhem. The film follows the lives and careers of the Chicks through the writing and recording of their first album since "the incident" - and three years of political attack, making music, birthing babies, bonding, death threats, and laughter. At the end, the film presents a complete reconsideration of who people think they are, who they want to be and who, ultimately, they really are as women, as public figures, and as musicians."
If it's released widely before the Diebold Selection Process this november it could help energize the administration's opponents in a way Karl Rove won't like at all.
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Well, it was bound to happen. With the airports making people dump all kinds of liquids as they pass through checkpoints it was only a matter of time before something or a combination of somethings made people sick. Trouble is, no one knows what did it.
"Shortly before 11 a.m., Transportation Security Administration officers, or security screeners, complained about irritation to the eyes, nose and mouth, said Patrick Hogan, spokesman for the Metropolitan Airports Commission.
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Sixteen officers and three employees at US Airways' ticketing station were taken to three hospitals. All were treated and released by late Tuesday afternoon, said TSA spokeswoman Carrie Harmon and airline representatives."
"DIXIE CHICKS - SHUT UP AND SING travels with the Chicks, from their peak of popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment, and on through the days, months and years of mayhem. The film follows the lives and careers of the Chicks through the writing and recording of their first album since "the incident" - and three years of political attack, making music, birthing babies, bonding, death threats, and laughter. At the end, the film presents a complete reconsideration of who people think they are, who they want to be and who, ultimately, they really are as women, as public figures, and as musicians."
If it's released widely before the Diebold Selection Process this november it could help energize the administration's opponents in a way Karl Rove won't like at all.
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Well, it was bound to happen. With the airports making people dump all kinds of liquids as they pass through checkpoints it was only a matter of time before something or a combination of somethings made people sick. Trouble is, no one knows what did it.
"Shortly before 11 a.m., Transportation Security Administration officers, or security screeners, complained about irritation to the eyes, nose and mouth, said Patrick Hogan, spokesman for the Metropolitan Airports Commission.
(...)
Sixteen officers and three employees at US Airways' ticketing station were taken to three hospitals. All were treated and released by late Tuesday afternoon, said TSA spokeswoman Carrie Harmon and airline representatives."
posted by nolocontendere at 8:51 PM
2 Comments:
i always felt if the dixie chicks had been the dixie dudes (all male band), this backlash wouldn't have happened and the media would not have exploded it all over the place. bands like pearl jam, green day and even neil young have been equally as outspoken if not more so. and could be the crowd too--c/w bands draw lots of suthern style rednecks who still support waving the confederate flag. 'hi muh name's bubba. meet muh wife daisy who is also muh cuzin. we duz support our prezident. he got ridda dat seedom cuz he gots the weapons of massive instruction.' (sorry about that--i have a good friend in tennessee and she swears this mentality really is quite strong down there. kinda sad and scary.)
Probably right - that and they were at the top of the country genre which made the crackers' heads explode. Also the troglodytes need to focus their rage a la France.
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