Dixie Chicks Shut Out at AMC Awards

[musicman]

You're babbling now.

 

[jasendorf]

We were past it some time ago. You just can't stop playing "wishing makes it so" long enough to face the truth.

Fifth best selling country tour of 2006.

End of story.

Your predictions of their "demise" are proven false.

 

[musicman]

Fifth best selling country tour of 2006.

End of story.

Your predictions of their "demise" are proven false.

Fifth-best selling tour OVERALL in 2003. You are willfully blind.

 

[trobinett]

Fifth best selling country tour of 2006.

End of story.

Your predictions of their "demise" are proven false.

"Demise" is in the eye of the beholder, in MY eye, the "Chicks" have reached their demise.

OPINIONS may vary........

 

[jasendorf]

Face it... you'll make excuses for Toby Keith and have nothing but sour grapes for the Dixie Chicks.

Like I've been saying all along... you have nothing but, "WAAAAAHHHHHH!"

 

[musicman]

Face it... you'll make excuses for Toby Keith and have nothing but sour grapes for the Dixie Chicks.

Toby Kieth is a record executive and the Dixie Chicks are the darlings of the Canadian tour circuit. Oh - and =shudder= Grammy winners.

Like I've been saying all along... you have nothing but, "WAAAAAHHHHHH!"

You're a sad case, my friend.

 

[jasendorf]

I'm sorry, my computer seems to be malfunctioning, all I see in your posts anymore is "WAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!"

I'll take it to the shop and see if they can fix it.

 

[red states rule]

U.S. networks reject ads for Dixie Chicks doc


Two American television networks — NBC and CW — have rejected advertising for the documentary Shut Up & Sing, a movie about the Dixie Chicks' controversial statement against the U.S. president and the invasion of Iraq, according to the company that is distributing the film.

Officials at NBC say they were in talks about the television ads and were prepared to negotiate what could be included in the ad, when Weinstein Co. decided to send out a press release about it.

"There was no attempt to come back and have a conversation," said Alan Wurtzel, head of standards and practices at NBC. "There are times when some advertisers get more publicity for getting their ad rejected."

Wurtzel said his company has a policy not to accept commercials on issues of public controversy, such as the Iraq war or abortion.

He said NBC had the same conversation with the distributors of Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit 9/11.

Paul McGuire of CW said a Weinstein representative was discussing the ad with a low-level network official.

"It was the beginning of a dialogue … and it didn’t get beyond when they decided to go to the media about it.”

The documentary, directed by Barbara Kopple, had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

It chronicles the frustrations and experiences of the three-member country band after singer Natalie Maines commented at a concert in London, England, in 2003 that she was ashamed U.S. President George W. Bush was from Texas.

Her statement sparked a storm of protest from Americans, CDs were burned, radio DJs refused to play their songs and hundreds of people swore they would not attend any Dixie Chicks concerts.

The film opened in various North American cities, including Toronto, this weekend.

'A sad commentary'
The ad includes footage of the Iraq war, a thumbnail sketch of the 2003 comment and a shot of Maines dismissing a 'dumb' comment by Bush.

Weinstein Co. released a statement late Thursday that included quotes it claims were from NBC and CW executives about the ad.

According to the release, NBC said the network "cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush," while CW remarked the network "does not have appropriate programming in which to schedule this spot."

"It's a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America," Weinstein’s co-chairman, Harvey Weinstein, said in the release.

With files from the Associated Press
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2006/10/28/dixiechicks-documentary-ads.html

 

[musicman]

I'm sorry, my computer seems to be malfunctioning, all I see in your posts anymore is "WAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!"

I'll take it to the shop and see if they can fix it.

Save yourself a shop fee, jasendorf - I've spotted your problem already.

You see only what you want to see.

 

[red states rule]

Libs are all for boycotts and speaking out against conservative voices - it is free speech, but if conservatives boycott and speak out against libs it is McCarthyism