another defeat for the Bushies
POSTED BY: NewOldBrownCoat
UPDATED: Thursday, February 15, 2007 06:50
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Originally posted by Geezer:Quote:
Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
In a stunning reversal for the GOP , NeoCons and Bushites everywhere, the Dixie Chicks won 4 grammy awards tonight.
..... And if "the Queen" wins Best Picture, we really want the return of monarchy?
"Keep the Shiny side up"
What makes you think we want you back?
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Originally posted by walkerhound:
They did alienate a lot of there fans and it show's in record sales and especially in the domestic concert biesness. Some of the fan's in question were more affected than others and i assume thay picked up at lest a few replacement’s form non-country-listening people.
i call it a draw as to who won this one.
I don't see it as being a competition. Someone expressed a personal opinion and other people expressed theirs. I think that's a good thing. It's the death threats and the radio blacklisting that I have issues with.
There was recently a documentary about John Lennon's infamous "bigger than Jesus" comment where the folks involved in starting off the record burning and blacklisting essentially admited that they kept it going because it was good for their ratings.
So what was the radio blacklisting stuff about? Where the radio shows doing it to "punish" the Chicks for expressing an opinion the owners of the radio station disliked? Did they do it in the belief that continuing to play Chicks songs would loose them market share? Or was it a way to do the stupid country trick of wrap yourself in the flag to sell product?
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Originally posted by SignyM:
Wow. I wondered where the Bushies have been hiding. But just look at 'em swarm when their beloved leader is snarked. It's kind of comical, like watching a stirred-up ant nest. Thanks for the show NewOld. It's always a pleasure watching those folks make fools of themselves.
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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.
You're welcome, Syg.
I especially loved ShinyEd's post above , where he's accusing someone of being a Bush Hater. I never mentioned El Prez by name, but only his partisans. Says more about Ed than about us Chix fans, don't it?
And Finnn, with his " turn for the worst" ( sic) , that's not a defeat. It usedta be " turn for the worse", not "worst" , and that certainly ain't a victory.... OH, except maybe if yer bringing democracy to the Iraqis
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Originally posted by Geezer:
[ ..... And if "the Queen" wins Best Picture, we really want the return of monarchy?
"Keep the Shiny side up"
What makes you think we want you back?
Well, not your monarchy, of course.
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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So what was the radio blacklisting stuff about? Where the radio shows doing it to "punish" the Chicks for expressing an opinion the owners of the radio station disliked? Did they do it in the belief that continuing to play Chicks songs would loose them market share? Or was it a way to do the stupid country trick of wrap yourself in the flag to sell product?
Or it was because the chick's were no longer as popular with country listeners as thay once were. When they were red hot ya heard them all the time, but once they stopped being a strong selling point (amongst that target audience) ya didn't. it happens for all sort’s of reasons. In the chick’s case it just happened to be an unlucky combination of a political statement not terribly compatible with the majority of there fan base and frankly unfortunate timing with regards to news’s coverage.
I would point out that the wrapping in the flag is not ipso-facto a "trick". In other words quite a lot of people in that target demographic are genuly patriotic and like that sort of stuff.
As to the competition that was really a play off of the thread header with the whole bushies loss agine thing
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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
I especially loved ShinyEd's post above , where he's accusing someone of being a Bush Hater. I never mentioned El Prez by name, but only his partisans. Says more about Ed than about us Chix fans, don't it?
And Finnn, with his " turn for the worst" ( sic) , that's not a defeat. It usedta be " turn for the worse", not "worst" , and that certainly ain't a victory.... OH, except maybe if yer bringing democracy to the Iraqis
You and your smartass smugness can kiss my muscular buttocks any time you want. Admit it...I'm right about you and your ilk...yer life is dominated by Bush....you're obssessed with all he does..you can't wait to attack him at every corner, or throw praise at his enemies in relation to every single aspect of your limited world.....why else come up with such an absurd topic trying to tie the Ditsy Jerks Grammy wins with anything to do with Republicans.
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Well I covered that in the "market share" comment, if they were genuinely unpopular then obviously you would play them less. However, would you not play them at all? I mean they will still be popular with some fraction of your audience and so long as you were not the "all the Chicks, all the time" station a reduced play list would not be a big deal.
And it is a ploy, I'm sorry but in basic terms it's pandering to sell product. I have no problem with folks being patriotic but some of the stuff the "bidness" pulls is commercialism first and patriotism second.
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duplication
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