Antiwar celebrities: Good career move

Dixie Chicks tickets are also apparently not being returned at the rate that was originally predicted:

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1870469

 

TBS showed Bull Durham the other night.

 

That war thing was soooo last week.

 

As a political thinker and strategist, she's a good comedienne.

That about sums it up.

However, going on the O'Reilly Factor took a lot of....dare I say it?....balls.

 

Janeane - what's with the unwashed skank look? It's sooooo 1992. Get with the decade already.

 

Except that those tickets were sold before their idiot comments. Tickets are non-refundable.

 

Garafalo has been around and reasonably well-known for years, I remember she guest-starred as Jerry's girlfriend on a few episodes of Seinfeld. She also had a show on HBO in the mid-90s.

 

Looks like their "striking back":

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=antiwar_movement

...although it would have been better revenge to take this picture back when the short one was much heavier.

 

The airbrush artist is a magician!

 

No matter what our thoughts on the Iraq issue, I believe we can all agree with this.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2003-04-24-chicks_x.htm

"The song Travelin' Soldier, which was No. 1 on Billboard's country charts around the time Maines made the remark, tumbled completely off the charts afterward"


"And sales of the group's latest CD, Home, plummeted, although sales have rebounded slightly, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks music sales."

"Most of the shows on their tour had already sold out before Maines' comments."

As for the "naked" pics, whose body did they put the fat ones head on? Thank god Martha Burke did not resort to the same tactics when put behind the 8 ball

Andy

 

People in Hollywood (or Dollywood in this case) get so upset when consumers exercise THEIR 1st Amendment rights by ripping up Dixie Chicks tickets or not buying their CDs. "It puts a chilling effect on the rights for actors/musicians to speak their mind." Well, didn't they consider the possible repercussions of their actions ahead of time? We'd all like to tell the boss/wife/girlfriend/policeman to shove it sometimes, but we know that there might be adverse consequences in doing so. Some in Hollywood haven't learned this at an advanced age.

 

I don't fault anyone who decides to not buy a record because they don't agree with the artist's political views. But that's not the end of the story -- ClearChannel has become the national arbiter of opinion by banning airplay of the band, and CC's talk hosts have run with this as the second coming of OJ. And in several major media markets, you literally cannot avoid it if you turn on the radio. This is really proof that concentrated ownership of media can limit public expression.

 

The Dixie Chicks can still go out on the corner and peddle their pathetic music. No one is stopping them. Hence, public expression is not limited. You do know that radio stations and record companies make decisions every day about who gets airplay and who doesn't, right?

 

Opinions have consequences eh? Does that apply just to celebrities or to anyone?

If I write a letter to the editor critisizing the president...or any Republican for that matter, And my boss reads that letter and decides that I'm "unpatriotic and unamerican", Well then, I guess by today's logic, he would be perfectly entitled to fire me......

Let freedom ring!!!!

 

Translation: If the country's largest radio station chain by fourfold refused to carry Rush's program on any station, it would be a vast left-wing conspiracy. When the country's largest radio station chain by fourfold refuses to air Dixie Chicks songs, it's free enterprise. Thanks for explaining.

 

I'd just like to extend a big thanks to the CD-steamrolling, kneejerk-boycotting, America-Love-It-Or-Leave-It, Iraq-and-I-Roll crowd for this.



Thanks again - it couldn't have happened without you.

 

Translation: Rush Limbaugh is on the airwaves because fans want to hear him and would flood the stations with angry letters if they tried to keep him off. The Dixie Chicks are off the radio stations because the listening audience flooded the stations with angry letters to get them off. Country music fans are largely very conservative and supportive of the President. Blame the Ditzy Chicks for being too stupid to realize that their core base would protest against them. That's what freedom of expression is all about. You're welcome.

 

You are very, very, very welcome.

 

Dixie Chicks: Getting naked to regain market share

Record sales are down 40 per cent since Dixie Chicks' singer Natalie Maines told a London concert audience last month that she was ashamed President Bush came from her home state, Texas.

So what are the vexed vixens going to do to smooth over the rift with former fans?

In an apparent effort to restart fan demand, the trio has taken a very aggressive public relations tack that has not, so far, done any good for sales. But their latest move is certain to sell a few magazines, even if it doesn't generate radio play.

The trio are featured nude on a forthcoming cover (above) for Entertainment Weekly, among America's most-read entertainment titles.

Emily Robison, left, Natalie Maines, center, and Martie Maguire (Natalie's sister), are on the cover of the May 2, 2003, issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Will it ultimately work? Maybe if they stop talking.