CNN.com - Radio still uneasy with Dixie Chicks - Mar 27, 2006: "'I think a lot of people are in a wait-and-see mode,' said Wade Jessen, director of Billboard's country charts. 'The next couple of weeks are really going to tell the tale.'"
The fact that there's a de facto boycott against an entertainer simply because of her opinion, smacks of McCarthyism to me. The hardliners are going to say that it's because Natalie Maines made her comment in England. As if it would have made a difference if she said she was ashamed of Bush in the U.S. It's not like they don't have modern technology in England. They would have found discovered her comments anyway. Bush's disapproval ratings are at 66% so the Dixie Chicks are now in good company.
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The Dixie Chicks were right....and they knew it long before most American's knew it.
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Your or you family have every right to not enrich a person or corporation with whose philosophy you disagree. But there's a big difference between an individual boycotting a product or a performer and a company that's licensed by the U.S. government engaging in a boycott. If you or your family owned a record store, you would have every right to not carry Dixie Chicks records. Radio stations and groups of radio stations are another story entirely.
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