Y'all remember the hoopla over the Dixie Chicks? How they went over to London and said onstage that they were the teensiest bit embarassed to be from the same state as old G.W.? And then there was back lash and people started burning their CDs and radio stations stopped palying their music and they got death threats and so on?
I have three words... Freedom. Of. Speech.
Not Ready to Make Nice
Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting
I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep paying
I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should
I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it
I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over
I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should
I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should
Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting
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Soap Box.
Just because a lot of men and women are willing to die so that Freedom of Speech is one of those 'rights' we all enjoy doesn't mean that it's one we should exercise any chance we get. Over the last few years I has started feeling like that 'right' is being abused by both sides of the political spectrum. Going over to a foreign country and bad mouthing our President isn't something I'd be proud of doing, no matter who was in office or how I felt about them. Yeah sure I've made plenty of jokes about Clinton and the fact that a blow-job isn't adultery or even considered sex for that matter....so said my Commander-in-Chief at the time. Yea him for setting the example. I've made jokes about 'W' too because, well lets face it, he's done a lot of joke worth things.
BUT
You know what I don't do - I don't go over to another country and make a statement that was meant only to incite and get their names in the papers.
I'm tired of Hollywood and all the other 'entertainment' types using their popularity to make their political views known. Use that status to help needy causes - that's great. Using their status to show the world how divided our country can be during a time of war? Bad for us and bad for the world.
I don't care if you like this party or any other - I've said it before having that ability is one of many things that makes this country great but you know what - use some brains before you engage your mouth. There is a place and time to use that 'right' of Freedom of Speech. We need a difference of opinion, our nation requires it but just as you don't go sharing your families dirty laundry with everyone, well our country is our family.
Let's argue amongst ourselves but when it comes to the world, we need to show a unified front and a lot of the issues we have today will be solved. Divide and conquer, that's what our enemies are watching....we're dividing ourselves and they're standing by to conquer.
As for the Dixie Chicks, they knew what their fan base was and that it probably wouldn't go over to well but they sure did get a lot of press out of that. In the long run it may have even paid off for them who knows... To me personally, it's not what they said, it's where they said it. All of us that pay our hard earned money to see movies, go to concerts and what not are paying to be entertained, I could care less what the Dixie Chicks think of Bush just as little as I care about what Hollywood thinks. I and everyone else PAYS our elected officials to do their jobs - if we don't like the job they're doing, we elect someone else. That's our country and our family's way of doing things.
My vote is my voice and mine alone. It's sad but I know there are people out that so enamoured with 'stars' that just because Baby Dale likes Bud, well they've got to drink Bud....and just because Babs doesn't like the Republicans, well then neither do they. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I'm so tired of 'stars' thinking we care about theirs.
OK,OK, I'm off the Soap Box. Don't know where that came from but oh well....does that count as another post?? :)
The type of fans the Chicks are looking for...are you one or do you not care what they think and just happen to like some of their songs??
Seriously, longest comment ever!
I had a feeling that post was going to draw you out of the wood work Shawn! :)
And no - I'm not any kind of rabid fan... I do like their music and perhaps my political views run a tad left of center... But I think you may have picked up on that before!
That being said. I think the back lash against them was completely unacceptable! I don't think what they said was said as a planned insult to the country... More an off the cuff frustration of how things are being run. It was a mistake. It happened.
But for people to react the way they did? Death threats? Parents teaching their children to scream obscentites at them on the streets? How rediculous does that look? Don't we have more important things to be fighting about if we're going to be fighting amongst ourselves?
It's not like they went over to Iraq and sat on missles and published their pictures all over the free world like Jane Fonda in Vietnam. THAT was extreme no? Even *I* feel strongly about that.
Death threats and all...yeah I have to agree that was the other side going to far. Yes Tiff, I know you lean a bit to the left but I still like you! :P
I still feel that she should have kept her comments inside our borders but she knew what the reaction would have been had she spoken like that here.
I'm not Fonda Jane either.
Not sure where that Soap Box above came from but I think you know me well enough that what ever we may disagree on will never stop me from gladly sharing a frosty beverage with you.
:^D
I know. As do you. :)
Just curious if you've heard any of the backlash over last night CMA awards and the release of the new Chicks CD yesterday? I take it you're not a country music fan... :)
And I'm taking you up on that frosty beverage. I just hope it won't be DC next spring before that happens!
nope, not really a country music fan...got used to it in Colorado but that's where the girls were so there wasn't much choice.
As for the beverage, well it WILL be before next spring as we have an event to attend in October....might have been before that but you and Liz are going someplace else instead. :P
(still jealous)
:)
Oh yes! Shh... Don't tell your sister I forgot!
Bad Tiffy! Geez!
And yeah I heard... I'm bummed I'm missing Donner (and you) but you know... Maui!
You know there aren't a whole lot of excuses I'd accept for not coming up there....lucky for you Maui is up towards the top of the valid ones. You two are going to have a great time, make sure you eat lots of pineapple for me!!! (the fruity beverages that come with the pineapple are good too!)
;)
Deal!
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