Poor Dixie Chicks, they just don't get it (1 Viewer)

[Stinger]

NBC REFUSES ADS FOR DIXIE CHICKS MOVIE
Thu Oct 26 2006 21:21:10 ET

**Exclusive**

In an Ironic Twist of Events, NBC and The CW Television Network Refuse to Air Ads for Documentary Focusing on Freedom of Speech

NBC Claims that the Network “Cannot Accept These Spots as They are Disparaging to President Bush”

The CW Television Network that the Network Does “Not have Appropriate Programming in which to Schedule this Spot”

http://drudgereport.com/flash4.htm

They just don't get it, the government never tried to interfer or deny them thier free speech rights. It has nothing to do with free speech. They can keep on saying what they are saying in public if they want to and the government will do nothing.

But we don't have to listen to it either. We don't have to buy their music. We don't have to attend their concerts. Companies don't have to sponsor them. Nobody has to pay so they can spout thier political views. And seems most don't want to either.

They ought to take the advice of Laura Inghram from who they stole the title of the show and "Shut-up and Sing", we don't care what you think.

 

[Stinger]

Geeez

they don't even get any sympathy here!

 

[hipsterdufus]

NBC REFUSES ADS FOR DIXIE CHICKS MOVIE
Thu Oct 26 2006 21:21:10 ET

**Exclusive**

In an Ironic Twist of Events, NBC and The CW Television Network Refuse to Air Ads for Documentary Focusing on Freedom of Speech

NBC Claims that the Network “Cannot Accept These Spots as They are Disparaging to President Bush”

The CW Television Network that the Network Does “Not have Appropriate Programming in which to Schedule this Spot”

http://drudgereport.com/flash4.htm

They just don't get it, the government never tried to interfer or deny them thier free speech rights. It has nothing to do with free speech. They can keep on saying what they are saying in public if they want to and the government will do nothing.

But we don't have to listen to it either. We don't have to buy their music. We don't have to attend their concerts. Companies don't have to sponsor them. Nobody has to pay so they can spout thier political views. And seems most don't want to either.

They ought to take the advice of Laura Inghram from who they stole the title of the show and "Shut-up and Sing", we don't care what you think.

The Dixie Chicks are getting more publicity from NBC's refusal to air their add's then any add could do.

Yet ABC/Disney runs "The Path to 911" Mockumentary without commercials ??? I wonder who paid for that?

 

[Stinger]

The Dixie Chicks are getting more publicity from NBC's refusal to air their add's then any add could do.

Oh don't you think so for a minute. Versus primetime audiences, nope and what they are getting isn't doing them any good, they STILL come off as shrewl and spoiled with that whinny "I have freedoms of speech" baloney.

Yet ABC/Disney runs "The Path to 911" Mockumentary without commercials ??? I wonder who paid for that?

What on earth does that have to do with anything?

 

[hipsterdufus]

What on earth does that have to do with anything?

It has to do with the fact that the corporate media will run a four hour commercial for the Bush administration without commercials, while another refusing to run a paid add for with a dissenting point of view.

The corporate media will also air political adds that are totally baseless without hesitation. They'll run an add with jungle music against Harold Ford. The corporate media will also gladly run an add claiming that Ron Kind in Ohio "paid for phone sex" when in actuality his staffer misdialed an office # by one digit and cost the good taxpayers of Ohio a whopping $1.25.


Liberal Media my a -s -s

 

[Stinger]

I think you're right. This whole Dixie Chicks thing's ridiculous because it has nothing to do with freedom of speech............that's what life is, you do something that you're free to do, and then you live with the consequences of those actions.

They seem to forget that it is they are hired by the venue producer to do a show so that they can sell tickets and make money. And people come to see them to be entertained. Most people could care less what they think about anything bit most assuredly don't want their views ridculed or insulted nor the things they believe in. I used to do clubs, you didn't do or say anything that would po the owners customers. Rule number 1.

That being said, I find it pretty mother****ing ridiculous how pissed off people got about this.

Just "shut up and sing" and don't think so much of yourselves. Don't say things that insult your audience else look for a different audience.

 

[Stinger]

It has to do with the fact that the corporate media will run a four hour commercial for the Bush administration without commercials, while another refusing to run a paid add for with a dissenting point of view.

Liberal Media my a -s -s

Again other than trying to change the subject I don't see what that has to do with anything. Let's see do I care to compare what the Dixie Chicks think or what the 9/11 Commission had to say. Nope?

The subject is the Dixie Chicks still don't get it, people don't care what they think, don't want to hear what they think, and won't pay to find out.

 

[hipsterdufus]

Just "shut up and sing" and don't think so much of yourselves. Don't say things that insult your audience else look for a different audience.

Michael J. Fox said this much better than I can here when commenting on Limpdick. Basically it was the hypocrisy of celebrities like Rush or Laura Ingram telling other celebrities to "Shut Up".

This is America my friend. The Dixie Chicks have just as much right to speak up as any other American.

 

[hipsterdufus]

Again other than trying to change the subject I don't see what that has to do with anything. Let's see do I care to compare what the Dixie Chicks think or what the 9/11 Commission had to say. Nope?

The subject is the Dixie Chicks still don't get it, people don't care what they think, don't want to hear what they think, and won't pay to find out.

The subject to me is freedom of speech, and corporate media's squelching of dissenting opinions.

 

[RightinNYC]

It has to do with the fact that the corporate media will run a four hour commercial for the Bush administration without commercials, while another refusing to run a paid add for with a dissenting point of view.

Did you actually watch that movie? It was certainly not a commercial for Bush.

The corporate media will also air political adds that are totally baseless without hesitation. They'll run an add with jungle music against Harold Ford.

The claim that that ad was racist is a joke.

The corporate media will also gladly run an add claiming that Ron Kind in Ohio "paid for phone sex" when in actuality his staffer misdialed an office # by one digit and cost the good taxpayers of Ohio a whopping $1.25.

This isn't actually true.

1) It was Mike Arcuri, not Ron Kind
2) It was in NY, not OH
3) The local stations DECLINED to air the ad, and it was pulled.

 

[jamesrage]

People sometimes believe that in providing freedom the government must also make us free from all of the consequences for exercising that freedom. This is ridiculous.

Those words almost do not sound like something a liberal would say.

That being said, I find it pretty mother****ing ridiculous how pissed off people got about this. So they ragged on Bush. Oh my GOD! Musicians?

A lot of people consider bad mouthing a president to bunch of foreigners disloyal to this country.A lot of people who listen to country music are not disloyal liberals.

 

[Cremaster77]

People have every right not to listen to their music or buy their albums. But I think people are dismissing that happened to them after their statement as Bush would say as "getting their feelings hurt". They weren't just booed at concerts. They received death threats in an attempt to force them to cancel concerts. If threats on their lives or their children's lives in an attempt to prevent them from carrying on their livelihood is not a violation of their freedom of speech, I don't know what is. So let's stop pretending that someone just called them some names and they started to cry. Some threatened to shoot them in the head if they didn't cancel shows.

 

[Stinger]

Michael J. Fox said this much better than I can here when commenting on Limpdick. Basically it was the hypocrisy of celebrities like Rush or Laura Ingram telling other celebrities to "Shut Up".

Limbaugh and Ingram aren't trying to sing are they.

This is America my friend. The Dixie Chicks have just as much right to speak up as any other American.

:rofl THANK YOU for proving my point. YOU just don't get it either.

 

[Stinger]

The subject to me is freedom of speech, and corporate media's squelching of dissenting opinions.

And you prove my point, it has nothing to do with freedom of speech or a corporataion squelding a dissenting opinion, it's about what they are paid to do. You and them just don't get it, no one cares or wants to hear what they think about politics. Shut up and Sing.

 

[Stinger]

People have every right not to listen to their music or buy their albums. But I think people are dismissing that happened to them after their statement as Bush would say as "getting their feelings hurt". They weren't just booed at concerts. They received death threats in an attempt to force them to cancel concerts. If threats on their lives or their children's lives in an attempt to prevent them from carrying on their livelihood is not a violation of their freedom of speech, I don't know what is. So let's stop pretending that someone just called them some names and they started to cry. Some threatened to shoot them in the head if they didn't cancel shows.

They claimed to have recieved them but I have never read anything about any veracity to the claim. And then famous people get such threats anyway. But again your freedom of speech is between you and your government. If you say things that po people...................

 

[Cremaster77]

They claimed to have recieved them but I have never read anything about any veracity to the claim. And then famous people get such threats anyway. But again your freedom of speech is between you and your government. If you say things that po people...................

You are correct that the government was not the ones to threaten them, so technically their freedom of speech was not violated. But I find it odd that I have not heard a single Republican speak out against these death threats. Instead, they respond as you do with doubt that they actually occurred. I am absolutely sure that if this was Keith Urban saying he hated Bill Clinton and then saying he was receiving death threats, you would have no doubt that he actually received them. Funny how the threats are only called into question when it's someone criticizing the party you support.

 

[Stinger]

You are correct that the government was not the ones to threaten them, so technically their freedom of speech was not violated. But I find it odd that I have not heard a single Republican speak out against these death threats.

Because I'm not even sure they existed. Did they report them to the FBI and what did it find out?

But we can stipulate that no one should recieve death threats for thier speech. OK?

Instead, they respond as you do with doubt that they actually occurred. I am absolutely sure that if this was Keith Urban saying he hated Bill Clinton and then saying he was receiving death threats, you would have no doubt that he actually received them.

If he presented evidence but trying to find a moral equilvence to excuse them ain't gonna work. It's not the extremist, death threatening, crowd that is not going to see them or just wants them to "shut up and sing".

 

[hipsterdufus]

Did you actually watch that movie? It was certainly not a commercial for Bush.

I disagree.

The claim that that ad was racist is a joke.

Jungle music playing while Ford's name is mentioned - music is switched when Corker's name is mentioned. It wasn't even that subtle.


This isn't actually true.

1) It was Mike Arcuri, not Ron Kind
2) It was in NY, not OH
3) The local stations DECLINED to air the ad, and it was pulled.

Sorry, I saw the ad and got the candidates name wrong, my mistake. Ron Kind has the GOP opponent who's saying that Kind favors legislation for Federal funding of trans-gender Eskimos right?

Who thinks up these sicko ads anyway?

The GOP issued a statement standing by the porn phone call ad ,although it's a total lie.

 

[BWG]

But I find it odd that I have not heard a single Republican speak out against these death threats. Instead, they respond as you do with doubt that they actually occurred. I am absolutely sure that if this was Keith Urban saying he hated Bill Clinton and then saying he was receiving death threats, you would have no doubt that he actually received them. Funny how the threats are only called into question when it's someone criticizing the party you support.

Ahh, but let a couple of goofy college kids try to pie Coulter, then all of liberal America wants to do away with the First Amendment. :rofl

 

[aps]

That being said, I find it pretty mother****ing ridiculous how pissed off people got about this. So they ragged on Bush. Oh my GOD! Musicians? Ragging on President Bush? Say it ain't so! I think that more often then not when a celebrity open his/her mouth and something political comes out, everyone'd be better off if they had kept that **** closed, but so what. So a woman expressed her opinion, which wasn't extreme in the least. What kind of petulant brat gets worked up over that ****?

If the Dixie Chicks were rock or heavy metal singers, their comment about Bush would likely have had zero impact on them. However, country fans are mostly right-wing Christians who don't question what their Republican President says and how dare anyone say anything negative about this Christian President. It's rather pathetic, if you ask me. I was not a fan of theirs, but as a result of this, I have gone out of my way to buy their CDs to show them I support them.

 

[ProudAmerican]

Did you actually watch that movie? It was certainly not a commercial for Bush.

well, it didnt put forth favorable lies about Bill Clinton, therefor, it was "pro Bush"

:roll:

 

[ProudAmerican]

If the Dixie Chicks were rock or heavy metal singers, their comment about Bush would likely have had zero impact on them. However, country fans are mostly right-wing Christians who don't question what their Republican President says and how dare anyone say anything negative about this Christian President. It's rather pathetic, if you ask me. I was not a fan of theirs, but as a result of this, I have gone out of my way to buy their CDs to show them I support them.

whats pathetic is that you would stereotype southerners that listen to country music as "right wing Christians that dont question what their Republican president says"

is it fair for me to stereotype southerners that listen to soul music as "black folk that only vote democrat and would never question what their democratic president says"

?

 

[aps]

whats pathetic is that you would stereotype southerners that listen to country music as "right wing Christians that dont question what their Republican president says"

is it fair for me to stereotype southerners that listen to soul music as "black folk that only vote democrat and would never question what their democratic president says"

?

I don't have a problem with (1) your stereotyping southerners that listen to soul music or (2) your calling my assessment pathetic. I feel pretty darn confident that I am correct in my assessment. If that bothers you, I'm sorry.

 

[ProudAmerican]

I don't have a problem with (1) your stereotyping southerners that listen to soul music or (2) your calling my assessment pathetic. I feel pretty darn confident that I am correct in my assessment. If that bothers you, I'm sorry.

its ok aps. southerners are used to being stereotyped. we are also well aware that for some strange reason it is acceptable to do so.

 

[aps]

its ok aps. southerners are used to being stereotyped. we are also well aware that for some strange reason it is acceptable to do so.

Honestly, it never bothers me to be stereotyped. If it's true, fine. If it's inaccurate, no problem. I'm a lawyer, and the things that people say about lawyers does not apply to me, but the stereotypical remarks never bother me. I'm comfortable with who I am, what I stand for, and what I do for a living.