The Ditzy Twits Dixie Chicks still don’t get it as they continue to annoy country music fans and question the patriotism of their fellow Americans:
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 [Emily] 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,” [Natalie] 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.”
Methinks the Chicks can pick a better country and leave if they hate America — and the people who love it here — so damned much. Let’s see how “ready” they are to “make nice” in another land where speaking ill of anything carries a criminal penalty (unlike that crazy, jingoistic U.S. of A., where freedom and tolerance for words we don’t like are actually guaranteed by some plain sheet of paper called the Bill of Rights!).
It’s one thing to bad-mouth the leader of your country on foreign soil and move on with the remnants of your career. The Chicks have a right to free speech just like every other American citizen. But with the right to free speech comes the responsibility to handle whatever criticism that may come as a result of that very same speech. The last time I checked, Maines, Robison, and Martie Maguire weren’t exceptions to the rule, as much as they would like to be.
However, it’s another thing to piss on the fans and musicians in your genre who helped pave the way for your success. While many “rebel” country musicians manage to speak their minds without alienating their fanbase in the process, the Chicks have become the judgmental elitists they claim to hate.
And the suggestion of switching over from country to rock will also lead to further disappointment for the Chicks, being that a lot of rock-n-roll rebels happen to be patriots too.
(link via Michelle Malkin & Sister Toldjah)
Update: Tammy Bruce explains to the Chicks (if they’re so inclined to read) why “we goofballs so love this country”. RTWT.
In Comments: An angry Chickista vents (ooh, I’m so scared! :-D). Being the “heartless S.O.B.” that I am, I thought I’d make mention of it…
Don’t you think they have been punished enough? What kind of heartless son-of-a-bitch continues to torture someone for a stupid mistake after this long? honestly it sounds a little eccentric to continue to bitch about something someone you don’t even know said over three years ago. Get over yourself and get a real life!
Madam, I suggest that you follow your own advice first. — DCT (aka Heartless S.O.B.)
I have to agree with Ariana,It has been three years and the trashing of the chicks is getting a little old.
I admit I was a little harsh and hypocritical, but regardless, don’t you think its time to end chick hating?
I personally don’t hate the Chicks.
As a matter of fact, I own two of their CDs.
However, there’s a big difference between expressing civil, reasoned dissent and “spittin’ on those that brung ‘ya.” Maybe if the Chicks would stop trashing Country music fandom and their country in general (on foreign soil, no less), audiences would receive them once again.
The Chicks are not immune from negative criticism. Telling the critics to “shut up and forget about it” only adds more fuel to the fire. Any good publicist working to turn a negative situation into a positive would tell them that.