Dixie Chick Watch: Natalie Maines – “I Don’t See Why People Care About Patriotism.”

Dixie Chicks, from left, Emily Robison, Natalie Maines and Martie Maguire, perform on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ summer concert series in Bryant Park on May 26, 2006 in New York. While the Dixie Chicks’ record sales are soaring, tickets for their Accidents and Accusations Tour are failing to take flight in some cities. ‘I think before it’s said and done the entire tour will be, at the very least, reorganized,’ Ray Waddell, senior editor of touring for Billboard magazine, said Friday, June 9, 2006.

Telegraph.Co.UK: How the Chicks survived their scrap with Bush

When Maines made her comment on March 10 2003, 10 days before Operation Iraqi Freedom unleashed “shock and awe” over Baghdad, the Dixie Chicks were probably the biggest act in country music. Yet within days, their music vanished from the charts and the airwaves, apoplectic rednecks crushed piles of their CDs with tractors, and the FBI was feverishly monitoring death threats against the trio. It was the most heinous pop-star outrage since Ozzy Osbourne urinated on the Alamo.

“The reaction was as if Natalie had said ‘Death to the President’ or something,” says violinist and vocalist Maguire.

“It was the bullying and the scare factor,” shudders banjo and guitar player Robison. “It was like the McCarthy days, and it was almost like the country was unrecognisable.”

The level of debate can be gauged from the way Maines was compared to “Hanoi Jane” Fonda, who was photographed manning a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun at the height of the Vietnam war.

The Chicks can’t hide their disgust at the lack of support they received from other country performers. “A lot of artists cashed in on being against what we said or what we stood for because that was promoting their career, which was a horrible thing to do,” says Robison.

“A lot of pandering started going on, and you’d see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism.”

“The entire country may disagree with me, but I don’t understand the necessity for patriotism,” Maines resumes, through gritted teeth. “Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don’t see why people care about patriotism.”

Well, cancel a few more American show dates.

Sony Music must be seriously evaluating the commercial viability of the Dixie chicks. Natalie Maines is simply a MORON who cannot keep her YAP shut.

She can sing but if she continues to “PISS” people off by questioning their love of their country and patriotism…..Say good Night Gracie on your career…….

And this certainly won’t help their air play or sales in Memphis or other Red State locations where they have cancelled concerts.

Take That, Dixie Chicks

This just in from radio station 94.1 the Buzz: a press release stating that the station removed Dixie Chicks songs “NOT BECAUSE OF THEIR CONTROVERSIAL STANCE TOWARD THE PRESIDENT” (emphasis theirs). Rather, the girls got dumped because they removed the Memphis date on tour, even though they added more dates in Canada.

Michelle Malkin has DIXIE CHICKS QUESTION YOUR PATRIOTISM

Here are country singers who aren’t sickened by their country.

Support “ultra-patriotism” through Project Prayer Flag.

The Dixie Chicks arrive at a pre-Grammy party in Beverly Hills, February 7, 2006. The country music trio, still taking heat for criticizing President Bush, are weathering sluggish ticket sales in several cities for their upcoming U.S. tour, industry watchers reported on Thursday.

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