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Dixie Chunk Natalie Maines—currently touring Australia with her audience-alienating band—rails against conspiratorial right-wingers:
Aware she may sound “bizarre”, the 31-year-old believes the vitriol directed at The Dixie Chicks was part of a right-wing conspiracy.
An organised group known as the Free Republic set out to bring the band down.
The organisation’s power, she says, comes through the internet. The site has thousands of subscribers, all of whom were encouraged to destroy the band’s music and boycott the radio stations that played it.
"It’s scary how much power they do have,” she says. “They can take down someone singlehandedly and I don’t think Americans are aware of that.
"It’s the same group that went after (former US president) Bill Clinton and (gay actress) Ellen DeGeneres."
It’s called free speech, Natalie. You know, the same free speech you used to attack Bush:
The outspoken country music singer is sticking to her comments that she’s ashamed Bush was from her home state of Texas.
"I am disgusted with him (Bush) and his people,” Maines told AAP in Sydney ...
"We used free speech ... we are very proud of our controversy,” said Maines.
Poor Natalie. Denied Free Republic’s global power, she’s only able to get her message out via minor players like the Associated Press, the New York Times, the LA Times, The View, CNN, TIME magazine, and 60 Minutes.
(Via Ripclawe and Florida Cracker)
Yes Rebecca. But as I mentioned at the last meeting *, Karl likes Natalie speaking out. When 99% of the people listen to her spout off her dodo head statements, it makes them consider that maybe George Bush is right all along. And we don’t even need to pay her. Like we do you and your biweekly stipend. And company car. And clothing allowance. And ammunition.
* Nice bonfire by the way. The kids loved the hayride to the pumpkin patch and the weenie roast afterwards. And allowing the little ones to torch the effigy of Natalie was really sweet.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 08 at 02:17 PM • permalinkYeah, whatever happened to Clinton and Degeneres? I guess the all-powerful Free Republic made them go away forever.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 10 08 at 02:21 PM • permalinkNatalie, you’re free start up a blog similar to Free Republic any time you want to. There are likely thousands of people like you, itching to take on the VRWC. Organize them, and take back the country!
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be out back, laughing my ass off.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 08 at 02:54 PM • permalinkThere’s over a thousand sites devoted to Ellen; she’s hosting the 2007 Oscars; her daytime tv show is running hot; she’s got her own blog (!); her gf is the luscious Portia DiRossi; she did the voice of Dory in FInding Nemo, a children’s flick; and everybody except Natalie Maines knows all this already.
Ah! Ellen, we hardly knew ye.
Yes, Rebecca, I’ve been buying tons of their CDs just to burn them. BTW, is “the Free Republic” anything like the Tim Blair?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 10 08 at 03:16 PM • permalinkIt’s always the same with these crybabies. Free speech for me but not for thee.
Criticism and disagreement ‘stifle dissent.’
Whatever I disagree with is ‘hate speech,’ and should be heckled, shouted down, silenced.
Vandalism and interfering with the free assembly rights of others constitutes free speech expression on my part; any attempt at curtailing it a form of oppression.
This reminds me of former CBS news producer Mary Mapes’ astonishment that sites such as Free Republic and Little Green Footballs existed, when the RatherGate scandal came crashing down on her.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that she and Mapes never heard of the Freepers before: one woman is an effete, out of touch creator of disposable entertainment who lives in an impenetrable ideological bubble; the other is a pop musician.
Posted by Ed Driscoll on 2006 10 08 at 03:48 PM • permalinkJust wait till she starts blathering about the International Jewish Conspiracy.
Natalie darling, you’re an airhead. Be content with your millions and don’t try to pretend you understand anything about what is going on in the world; you don’t. Just stick to songs about how it hurts to lose your Montanan boyfriend to a sheep.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 10 08 at 04:27 PM • permalinkWho are these ‘Clinton and Ellen DeGeneres’ that Ms Ditsy Shit speaks of? I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of either one of them, and I’ve been reading newspapers, watching television, and listening to the radio (including NPR) for nigh on 60 years.
That ‘the Free Republic’ must make former Stalinsts jealous if they can so airbrush history as to so totally remove these (evidently) formerly well’known personages.
I swear, I’ve never heard of either one of them, and I can’t find anything on Google. Damn! Those ‘the Free Republic’ types are good.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 08 at 06:12 PM • permalink"It’s scary how much power they do have,” she says. “They can take down someone singlehandedly and I don’t think Americans are aware of that. It’s the same group that went after (former US president) Bill Clinton..
Sure, chick, and how much are YOU ‘aware of’?
As much as Clinton when he had his head firmly in the ‘line in the sand’ - and other places?"Natalie darling, you’re an airhead.”
‘Nuff said.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 08 at 08:05 PM • permalinkNatalie, you’re free start up a blog similar to Free Republic any time you want to. There are likely thousands of people like you, itching to take on the VRWC. Organize them, and take back the country!
I bet Jane Hamsher could come up with an important-sounding position for Natalie. Firedoglake Cultural Attaché, perhaps?
"It’s scary how much power they do have,” she says.
Sure is.
The Free Republic is so powerful that they are currently raising money to stay online, with around 21% of a US$70,000 target met so far.
The Dixie Chicks’ Wide Open Spaces sold more than 12 million copies, and is one of the 50 best-selling albums in American history (see here).
I hear you, Natalie. It’s just plain scary.
# 11 Nu? Michael, Bist meshugeh that you wanna spoil the whole thing, already? That klaperkeh lump of flanken has been doing just as she’s been told—don’t be a plyotkenitzeh mossik! Gevalt!
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 09 at 12:38 AM • permalinkwell, crud. i knew i forgot to do something, and now it’s too late. (strokes beard) hmmm...... maybe not.
seeing as how maines and band have been beshat upon fair oz just now, could one of you aussie blokes kindly smack the loudmouth little sow in the kisser with a cream pie of some sort? or maybe arrange to have her set upon by a gang of.....oh, i dunno.....a gang of marauding presbyterians, say? think of the fun you could have with the headlines: ‘squallerin’ heifers asswhupped down under!’
in return i’d be more than happy to....uh....play naked twister with elle macpherson or something.
much obliged!
Posted by jimmy quest on 2006 10 09 at 03:13 AM • permalinkVast Right Wing Conspiracy - meet Vast Left Wing Conpsiracy, Vast Left, Vast Right. Are we all ready now? Then action!
Good grief, are these juveniles still talking of a VRWC? It’s called the conservative movement. And what is the lefty movement .. if not a conspiracy to subvert Western values?
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Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 09 at 09:02 PM • permalink
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Well, in my town, we hold monthly meetings to discuss how we can bring down the Ditzy Chippies. We always end the meetings by bulldozing piles of their CDs in the parking lot. We use a Caterpillar, just in case one of the Chippies stops by to do a Rachel Corrie on us.