THE DIXIE DICKS:
In 2003, the right-wing brought out all the heavy artillery to give it to the Dixie Chicks when Natalie Maines spoke up against George Bush soon before the start of the Iraq war. Many radio dj's around the country urged people to stop buying and playing their music. Many radio stations stopped playing their music - Cox Radio and Cumulus Broadcasting, two large owners of country music stations, instructed their outlets to drop the Dixie Chicks’ music. Their records (cd's) were destroyed in public demonstrations. And not be left out of the fun, #1 frenzy-fuck, right wing attack-asshole himself, Sean Hannity, blasted them for weeks. SO, what was the big deal? They criticized America and George Bush while on foreign soil. "How DARE they," they said, "be critical of the U.S. on foreign soil." 'What happens in America, stays in America,' was the gist of it
Now we have George Bush who took the American elections to Israel and injected political jabs at Obama into a speech given to the Israeli Knesset meant to celebrate Israel's 60 anniversary. To top that, he compared Obama's willingness to have a dialogue with our enemies to Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler in his ceding half of Czechoslovakia in 1938 to Hitler. What a piece of shit we have for a president.
Unfortunately, there's not much to do to Bush since we stopped buying his bullshit a while back. The real appeasers here, and the main reason I'm supporting Obama over Hillary, are the media and the vast majority of Democrats. The press, in the way they gave away any pretense of objectivity in acting as the set-up people for the war in Iraq (and then served as it's biggest cheerleaders), and in its failure to expose the attempts to destroy the Bill of Rights, in exchange for access and invitations to the annual White House Christmas party. And the Democrats who failed to fall on their swords prevent an unnecessary and illegal war when they could have made a difference and - all in exchange for the security of their own Congressional seats.
At least the Dixie Chicks went on to win some Grammy's for their following (anti-war) album. Bush will not as well.
In 2003, the right-wing brought out all the heavy artillery to give it to the Dixie Chicks when Natalie Maines spoke up against George Bush soon before the start of the Iraq war. Many radio dj's around the country urged people to stop buying and playing their music. Many radio stations stopped playing their music - Cox Radio and Cumulus Broadcasting, two large owners of country music stations, instructed their outlets to drop the Dixie Chicks’ music. Their records (cd's) were destroyed in public demonstrations. And not be left out of the fun, #1 frenzy-fuck, right wing attack-asshole himself, Sean Hannity, blasted them for weeks. SO, what was the big deal? They criticized America and George Bush while on foreign soil. "How DARE they," they said, "be critical of the U.S. on foreign soil." 'What happens in America, stays in America,' was the gist of it
Now we have George Bush who took the American elections to Israel and injected political jabs at Obama into a speech given to the Israeli Knesset meant to celebrate Israel's 60 anniversary. To top that, he compared Obama's willingness to have a dialogue with our enemies to Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler in his ceding half of Czechoslovakia in 1938 to Hitler. What a piece of shit we have for a president.
Unfortunately, there's not much to do to Bush since we stopped buying his bullshit a while back. The real appeasers here, and the main reason I'm supporting Obama over Hillary, are the media and the vast majority of Democrats. The press, in the way they gave away any pretense of objectivity in acting as the set-up people for the war in Iraq (and then served as it's biggest cheerleaders), and in its failure to expose the attempts to destroy the Bill of Rights, in exchange for access and invitations to the annual White House Christmas party. And the Democrats who failed to fall on their swords prevent an unnecessary and illegal war when they could have made a difference and - all in exchange for the security of their own Congressional seats.
At least the Dixie Chicks went on to win some Grammy's for their following (anti-war) album. Bush will not as well.
posted by Edward Keating at 7:35 PM
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