Browncoats and Blue States... Oh, and I think I mention the Dixie Chicks

POSTED BY: Terri
UPDATED: Thursday, October 26, 2006 01:26
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KANEMAN

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:43 PM

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Originally posted by babywiththepower:
You bleeding heart liberals make me want to vomit as much as you right-wing conservatives. We're in a one party system nowadays, they just have certain 'key' points to keep them devided (i.e. gay marriage, abortion, etc.) and anyone that thinks otherwise is daft. Same as anyone that thinks the Democrats will do any better running this country (into the ground) than the Republicans. And Terri, who are you to restrict what people will or will not say on this thread? If someone wants to slam the Dixie Chicks, it's their gorram right to do so.

On topic. This was a blog I posted when I heard about the Dixie Chicks 'documentary'. Please read the whole thing. It starts off pretty anti-Chicks and makes me sound like a staunch conservative, but I'm not. I make my point further down.

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Shut Up & Sing?

Are you kidding me? This has got to be a joke right?

I get ahead of myself, for those of you that don't know, Shut Up & Sing is a movie coming out by the Dixie Chicks that is nothing but 90 minutes of Bush bashing masquerading as a documentary about free speach.

Here's the thing ladies, the public's response to your statement about Bush had nothing to do with free speach. You said it, people in the audience either cheered you or booed you, and there were those that said you were un-American and stopped listening to your music. You know what that is ladies? It's the public exercising it's freedom of choice.

I have no problem with the Dixie Chicks badmouthing Bush, hell, even I don't agree with most of the things he's doing, but their reaction to the whole situation is laughable at best. I don't know what they plan on accomplishing with this movie, but it's going to be the same kind of shit that fucktard Michael Moore force feeds this country at every outing. Interviews are going to be paraphrased to give a certain slant, and the only qotes you're going to see in their entirety are the ones that make the speaker look stupid and ignorant. It's a common ploy that's been used by the media for decades.

I'm not saying the Dixie Chicks are un-American. One of the key things we have to remember in this country is not to confuse dissent with disloyalty. They feel the way they do, and I commend them for having more taste than Streisand or Midler did when voicing their disapproval of Bush. The dissent is a form of checks and balances. When the masses do not agree with what's going on, it's a sign that things need to change. It is too often though that celebrities voice their opinions thinking that we should care or be influenced because of their 'vaulted' status. I personally don't think that's what they had initially intended by their statement, and I feel bad for them that they feel it's come to the point that they need to release this trash.

And as for the people that stopped listening to their music because they had the nerve to speak their mind, I say you're pig-headed. I didn't stop listening to R. Kelly when he pissed on a teenage girl, I didn't stop listening to Tupac when he starred in 3 movies and released 5 albums after he "died", and I won't stop listening to the songs by the Dixie Chicks I like (though there are very few, I hate country for those that don't know). The music released by these artists is no less powerful now after the scandal than they were before it. If you liked it then, there is no reason not to like it now.

To the broadcasting companies that forced their radio stations to stop playing the Dixie Chicks' music, I say you are the worst form of filth out there. The minute we start penalizing people for what they think or believe, is the very moment we destroy one of the very things that make this country so great.

I end my rant as I go to get some grub in my belly.

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I'll be in my bunk.
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Very well stated blog. Cheers!

YINYANG

Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:46 AM

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I'm sorry, but until those three girls get up on stage and confess their undying love for Joss Whedon and the Firefly 'verse, they aren't Browncoats.

Steve Irwin wasn't a fan of Firefly (at least to my knowledge), but some people chose to make him an honorary Browncoat.

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Terri says message makes no difference, its the struggle that matters. On 9/11 a bunch of people believed strongly that crashing planes into buildings was a good idea. They struggled and died for that belief. Terri is knitting them Browncoats even now. I disagree. I think crashing into buildings is wrong. Because their belief was wrong, what they did is meaningless and counterproductive.

Browncoats can be knit?

(No offense meant on my part).

But, I will concede that I do not agree with the notion of ignoring the message. However, just because many people disagree with the Dixie Chick's message, doesn't mean it's necessarily a bad one.

"This is a free country; they have the right to say what they want; they didn't attack anyone physically, or insinuate that they wanted to kill Bush; so, it's all good."

Now I remember why I usually lurk in RWED.

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"What the world needs now is love, sweet love - it's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love. No, not just for some, but for everyone."

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MISBEHAVEN

Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:26 AM

Originally posted by yinyang:

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Another reason there needs to be better mental care in the USA...

LOL!

I love that dry humor.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.
-Charles Bukowski

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