“Look at country music,” he said. “You go back to Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, through George Jones, maybe through Waylon Jennings — there was an element of danger and trouble that came right out of life, life that was lived by people in the South. Country music now is mall country, it’s clever, it’s based on skill, three or four guys sitting around the golf course writing country hits. It works, and it has about as much soul as that table over there. I’m the big dumb guy from the Midwest yelling: ‘This is wrong. This is wrong. Our lives should be funkier and more dangerous and more fun.’ That’s my job.”

And by the way? I’m a conservative.

And an atheist.

I believe in freedom. I believe in Patriotism; however, Blind Patriotism does not make you right.

If your intention was to show us rednecks that speaking our mind is simply hatred and not the Constitutional waving, Bill of Rights shaking, I still care about the world even though I bash America feelings that the Liberal Press, Hollywood, phony “artists” and you so warmly feel you need to express, well then ‘Good Job’.
If on the otherhand you simply said something you maybe shouldn’t have, you now have our permission to apologize

But you keep right on demanding silence of those with whom you disagree: I’m sure that Hitler, Himmler and all the boys would be proud of you. As for me, I’ll stick with holmes!

I am an American, and I’m damn proud to be one. I believe in the ideals of our founding fathers. They settled here to start a new life away from the opression forced upon them by their governing bodies. They fought, and died, for that freedom centuries ago. Are we supposed to forget that and move back to a society where you’re told how to think and act? Are you hoping to make the national motto “Fall in line or else”?

Whether or not you agree with the comments that Natalie Maines made, she is supposed to be granted the right to be free from persecution from a narrow-minded “majority” for making whatever comments she makes.

Anyhow, what difference does it make what she says? If you don’t like what she says, turn off the radio/tv/internet. It’s not your job to police what I can listen to. What’s next? Burning books; is your ultimate goal to burn the Constitution, and rewrite it with a tyrannical theme?

I’m saddened by the fact that you use the term “patriot” to mean “oppressive hatred toward those that aren’t exactly like me”. I believe in America. I believe in freedom. I believe in Patriotism; however, Blind Patriotism does not make you right.

Gotta run! I hear the Constitution calling out to be saved from the “Patriots”…

If I’m to know anything about the entertainers the whose products I consume, I’d rather it be their intellectual/social (including political)/spiritual views than what they buy/where they eat/who they have sex with.

I stumbled across this site by accident while researching something unrelated. to get that out in the open upfront, no, I’m not a dixie chicks fan and am neither republican nor democrat, nor do I belong to any other party.
I vote what my heart tells me is the right thing to do and not what popular opinion or a party tells me to.

reading this thread makes me sad. it’s all that is wrong with the US today. say something unpopular (meant in the true sense of the word) and you get fined, oppressed, excluded, ruined or just conformed. (where have we seen that before….hmm)
this kind of “segregation” and arrogance is what makes others hate your guts.
look where it’s gotten you in the last couple of years. think you dont need the rest of the world, the US is an island? let’s talk again when your social system did collapse, the oil prices made it impossible for more than 70% of the americans to be mobile and you’re busy waging a war somewhere to reverse this.

dont get me wrong. I still love my family and friends in the US. it helps when you try to stop to understand them. a bad sign though.

guess am just not ready to make nice. now bash away.

ps: am not an american, own an american passport because of my father, lived in dallas for 15 years, have a phd in economics, lived on 4 continents, speak 5 languages fluently and have seen enough to know, I dont know what’s right for others

Reminds me of an old song about another Red Stater who loaded up the truck and a-moved to Beverly. (Hills, that is.) Just hope she’s ready for the chilly reception she’ll get from Mrs. Drysdale.

Oh. C.P.O. Sharkey.

CPO = Chief Petty Officer, Navy.

ahem

I thought Rickles’ show was somethingorother Sharkey, or was that just his name on the show?

Oh, and what I was going to say about the Dixie Chicks or at least the whole “thing” about offending people unnecessarily… I’m unpublished but even just hoping that someday I *will* be published makes me consider the wisdom of some of the political commenting I do and is probably the reason I can’t make up my mind about starting my own blog and why I’ve started to use a psedonymn (though finding my real name would be absurdly easy.)

I don’t think that people go around searching for reasons to not watch or read or listen to their favorite authors and artists but they *do* like to *like* the person who’s art they admire. No point in shooting a hole in your own foot.