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   From: doomella@hotmail.com   
      
   "Flash Bazbo"  wrote in message   
   news:j3k092t6k5d9t8rbnnn8hrd2ji3mop9c07@4ax.com...   
   > On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:48:28 GMT, "avery"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>All this fuss over what basically amounts to some countrified Spice Girls   
   >   
   > Now that is harsh.  The Dixie Chicks started as street musicians in   
   > Dallas.  They worked hard for a good 10 years  as a functioning band   
   > before gaining national recognition.  Regardless of the controversy   
   > they don't deserve to be put in the same category some   
   > industry-manufactured tarts.   
      
   That's where they are in *my* personal filing system, but I doubt that's   
   affecting their CD sales one iota. I'm sure that they have their fans, and   
   they may well have started out as street musicians in Dallas. The Spice   
   Girls may have started out as West Brompton corner hookers. I don't care for   
   the Dixie Chicks (my "country" tastes fall a lot more along the lines of   
   David Allan Coe, Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, June Carter and   
   k.d. lang. But my dismissing the *Chicks* as a trio of tarts, as you say,   
   has nothing to do with the *controversy* -- what bothers me is that there   
   even *is* a controversy. I don't believe that they should be vilified as   
   anti-American rebels *or* hailed as courageous, outspoken heroes. They   
   merely bleated out the very same opinion that most of Hollywood, most   
   high-school kids and the majority of the popular music industry espouses, so   
   it's really about as tame a rebellion as it gets. I just think they're   
   handling it in a silly way -- defensive, pointing fingers, making grand   
   statements about freedom of speech, blah blah blah, and acting like   
   vindictive sorority sisters.   
   When Susan Sarandon spoke out at the Oscars I also rolled by eyes, but she   
   somehow managed to handle the fallout (and defend her stance) without   
   looking like a twit.   
   And I despise Bush. I cringe with embarrassment whenever I hear him talk.   
   I'm not sure whether I addressed your point or merely rambled on here.   
      
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