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Questioning Patriotism
Natalie Maines is from Texas and so is President Bush. If you live in Texas or if you are from Texas, I would like to hear from you. Are you ashamed of either one of these dynamic figures, and if so, which one?
Via Telegraph.uk, via Coalition of the Swilling which I’ll be watching very closely, via Malkin:
How the Chicks survived their scrap with Bush
Adam Sweeting assesses how the Dixie Chicks have weathered a political stormWill it be the salmon teriyaki with organic greens, or asparagus tempura and tuna sashimi? As the waiter hovers with pencil poised, the Dixie Chicks debate the menu with the practised air of professional restaurant critics. The Chicks have traditionally been branded a country band, but clearly it’s some time since their diet consisted of ribs, tacos and pancakes.
Sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire project a polished Fifth Avenue elegance, and vocalist Natalie Maines is a vision of sculpted cheekbones and smoky eye-shadow.
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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.
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“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.”
Ultra-patriotism, huh? Well, I find Coalition of the Swilling’s headline to be ultra-appropriate: “Am I Allowed To Question Her Patriotism Now?”
If not, then what in the hell does it take?
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Although I’m docked in Portales, I carry a Texas driver’s license. Do you *really* have to ask whether I think it’s The President or Natalie Dear who deserves a swift kick in the a$$?
🙂
Thought not…
- Buck Pennington | 06/18/2006 @ 18:05Just conducting a poll in the only way I possibly can right now. Results so far, one-to-zero.
Of course it has not escaped my notice that you’re airing your “shame” toward Ms. Maines from within our borders, whereas she made her original comments safely from a whole ocean away.
- mkfreeberg | 06/19/2006 @ 00:16