Nader: The Gospel According to the Dixie Chicks

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Published on Saturday, June 10, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
The Gospel According to the Dixie Chicks
by Ralph Nader
 
Who would have thought when the Dixie Chicks were selling more than 10 million copies each of "Wide Open Spaces" (1998) and "Fly" (1999) that they would become the most controversial band in America?
Even more improbable was the likelihood that three young women would have the strength of character and personality to stand their ground after the continuing uproar against them by scores of radio DJs and many of their fans.
What provoked the furor was a single sentence by their lead singer-Natalie Maines-uttered onstage in London ten days before Bush's illegal, unconstitutional and fabricated invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003.
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In composing their songs, the remarkable Dixie Chicks told their record company that "We need to approach everything like not one radio station is going to play one single song."
Conviction triumphed over commercialism. Ms. Maines, when asked about country radio, retorted "Do you really think we're going to make an album for you and trust the future of our career to people who turned on us in a day?"

more:
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0610-27.htm

[Eric J in MN]

1. conclusion of Nader article:

Retired Generals, diplomats and national security advisers have spoken against this boomerang war imperiling our national security. But the carnage continues...

Compare all these cruel Bush deeds to the mild words of the Dixie Chicks. Compare all this, plus the Bush corporation's refusal to stand for the rights of workers and consumers-their health, safety and economic well-being, as he cuts taxes again and again for the wealthy and himself.

Compare the huge taxes that will be paid for the massive Bush deficit by the children of those music fans angry at the Dixie Chicks.

While they keep standing up for George W. Bush, does it ever occur to them to demand that George W. Bush stand up for them?

[rzemanfl]

2. Nader ignores the fact that if he had told his supporters to vote for

Gore in 2000 the Dixie Chicks probably would still be packing concert halls in the red states and Natalie Maines would not be retroactively "born middle finger first."

[ulysses]

3. predictable as a fart after beans.

:eyes:

[rzemanfl]

4. Nader should begin everything he writes with the words "I'm

sorry."

[The Magistrate]

5. And After Saying That, Sir

He should sit down and shut up....

[ulysses]

8. which would represent a cumulative loss for progressives

but then we knew we disagreed here. ;-)

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[ulysses]

10. try to be original. n/t

[DainBramaged]

11. Try to wake up, Nader was history before he destroyed the US

If you think someone born in the age of black and white TV is progressive then ask him how much the Thugs paid him to ram his stupid name onto the ballot in 2000.

Wake up.

[ulysses]

12. ?

What does his age have to do with it?

[DainBramaged]

13. Nader and Bush, gluded at the lips

[ulysses]

15. his age has what to do with what?

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[ulysses]

18. wtf?

and I GUARANTEE he doesn't understand blogs, Ipods, or Anime.

What the fuck do Ipods and anime have to do with politics?

Now answer my question or post in the Nader thread.

What question, and how about you check yourself before you go making demands?

[DainBramaged]

20. Ahem

how much did the Thugs pay him to ram his stupid name onto the ballot in 2000.

Do you even know how many states the Right supported his "petition efforts" so as to inject him into the race and steal votes from Gore? Were you even involved in the 2000 campaign?

Google it, you may discover Nader is not the saint you believe him to be.

Oh, I'm done, got to go out. Cya.

[ulysses]

22. you told me to ask him that.

You didn't ask me. Damned literal understanding of English.

Oh, I'm done, got to go out. Cya.

Take care. Call a cab.

[WhollyHeretic]

19. Most nonsensical post of the night

Good job! :thumbsup:

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[rzemanfl]

28. It's not his age, it's that black and white TV, apparently. n/t

[ulysses]

30. bad news for, say, Joe Hill

if a progressive can't have been born before the advent of color TV.

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Kinda like that old reactionary Gaylord Nelson, no doubt.

He was born before commercial radio. He was in his 90's when he died a few months ago.

This comment is not in any way intended as a defense of Nader. It's not his age that's the problem.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

25. snore

if it hadn't been for clinton/gore listening to dick morris' 'advice', triangulating, going corporate, passing NAFTA and welfare reform and selling us all out-ralph nader wouldn't have needed to run

[dsc]

27. Morris didn't advise Gore

that is totally false. He was working for FOX by then. Check your facts, then post not the otherway around.

[WhollyHeretic]

29. Why don't you try reading what the person posted again

"Clinton/Gore" as in when they were president/vice president. It's not that hard.

[dsc]

32. Morris was gone by 1996

which it should be noted is 4 years before 2000. Gore had nothing whatsoever to do with Morris. Most accounts stated that he opposed Morris' influence.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

31. really, i seem to remember gore being in the white house from 93-2001

-when dick morris was there. he was part of the ticket that followed dick's '96 advice.
i stand by my statement.

the old gore sucked.
however, i would totally vote for the post-2000, back-to-his roots gorte of 'inconvenient truth' and he's my top pick for the nomination

[dsc]

33. Morris didn't arrive until 95 and left before 96

which is one year. Every account states Gore wanted nothing to do with Morris. Morris certainly had nothing, nada, nihil to do with Gore's campaign.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

6. Fuck Nader n/t

n/t

[LittleClarkie]

24. Thank you, no

Not even if he bought me dinner.

[DainBramaged]

7. Fuck Nader let him eat shit forever, his opinion is useless

[Ivan Sputnik]

14. Ralph shouldn't be calling anyone "pig-headed"

even you-know-who, IMO.

[mdmc]

17. God Bless Nader

and all progressives

[StellaBlue]

21. Unabashed Nader lover. K&R

Stick it.