Dixie Chicking of Faith and Tim

This might be the beginning of "Dixie Chicking" Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. The two appeared at a news conference over the weekend to romote their tour, but they used the opportunity to blast the Bush adminstration over the lack of progress in cleaning up the Gulf area. I wonder if radio stations will boycott their records as they did the Dixie Chicks when Natalie Maines expressed her opinion of President Bush at a London concert I guess maybe it's okay to criticize the president at home but not in London. As if they don't have TVs in England so if the Dixie Chicks expressed their opinions over here, they wouldn't find out over there. Maybe it's like the Bush foreign policy: fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here.

First Draft - When you've lost country music....: "From the Times Picayune

You know it's bad when country music stars turn on the President. But that's exactly what happened yesterday when Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, both natives of the Gulf Coast, met with reporters to talk about their upcoming tour, but ended up venting their frustration with the cleanup efforts along the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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When asked by reporters during Wednesday's round table about the government's slow progress, Hill, 38, said, 'It's wrong. It's embarrassing. It really gets us fired up. That's our homeland.'

McGraw blamed state and federal politics for hampering efforts to get adequate shelter, food and supplies to victims.

The 38-year-old country singer also criticized President Bush, who visited the devastated Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans on Wednesday.

'There's no reason why someone can't go down there — who's supposed to be the leader of the free world — and say, `I'm giving you a job to do and I'm not leaving here until it's done. And you're held accountable,'' he said.

Later in the news conference, McGraw let out a stream of frustration, growling, 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.'

The couple were married in 1996.

When asked what their fans could do to help, McGraw said: 'Vote.'"

Tim McGraw couldn't be more correct. And he doesn't mean "vote for American Idol" or "Survivor."