Normally at this point I’d say “film at eleven… and nine, and six thirty, and at four o’clock for the after-school education shows”, but I suspect they’ll go ahead and create a documentary series about it—with nudity of course.
In a Time magazine article to appear Monday, she says she’s taking back the apology she made after saying in 2003 that she’s ashamed the president comes from Texas.
The original remark, made at a London concert just before the Iraq invasion, drew an immediate outcry from fans and commentators. Dixie Chicks album sales plummeted and many radio hosts refused to play their music. They even got death threats.
Maines was forced to deliver an apology in which she said: “As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect.”
But in an article titled Time 100: The People that Shape Our World, she says she’s changed her mind.
“I don’t feel that way anymore,” she said. “I don’t feel he is owed any respect whatsoever.”
Maines joins a growing chorus of artists such as Neil Young in taking a stance against the Iraq war.
Time calls the Dixie Chicks “Defiant Darlings,” saying “They’ll sing, but they won’t shut up.”
[…]
Well as long as conservatives shut up.
I wonder if the venerable Time magazine or the state-run CBC tried to find any massive celebrities like “The Dixie Chicks” who are in support of President Bush. I’ve never seen that in Time or the state-run CBC. That’s strange.
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