Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing documentary opens tonight at the Toronto Film Festival.
Pride yourselves, you'all, but these gals were ahead of the most of you by years. Then they put everything on the line to lay out these fascist bastards best they could.
All shrub had to say:::
''The Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind,'' Bush told Tom Brokaw, ''They shouldn't have their feelings hurt just because some people don't want to buy their records when they speak out. You know, freedom is a two-way street.'' -- losing votes all over the South:::
Dixie Chicks Rule at VH-1 and get RED STATE Votes
There's more below the line....
Think Natalie Maines had some nasty words for President Bush in London, wait till you hear what she has to say using the camera.
Maines saw news footage of shrub being interviewed about her on-stage comment that she was ''ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas,'' which resulted in the group being dropped from Clear Channel radio.
After watching shrub with Brokaw, Maines repeats the president's comment about how the group shouldn't have their ''feelings hurt,'' incredulous, and then says, ''What a dumb f---.'' She then looks into the camera, as if addressing Bush, and reiterates, ''You're a dumb f---.''
Sounds middle-of-the-road for kossacks.
The documentary, directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck.
Maines is seen being interviewed by a foreign journalist a few days after the 2003 anti-war incident, describing her comment as ''a joke... made to get cheers and applause.'' Band members and their manager subsequently banter back and forth about the drafting of the two apologies that were issued on Maines' behalf.
Maines says ''Now that we've f---ed ourselves, I think we have a responsibility to continue to f--- ourselves,'' amid gales of laughter.
When it comes to country radio, most of whose stations stopped playing the group at least temporarily in 2003, Maines says at the time, ''The people that abandoned us, I'm never gonna talk to again. The people that supported us are gonna get more love than they've ever seen.''
Taking the Long Way: ''Wouldn't kiss all the asses that they told me to.''
One of the band proposed adding: ''Gave a lot of suck, but wouldn't kiss the asses!''
The album hit #1 and holds #1 on the biggest poll in the country, the VH-1 Top 20 Countdown. Longer we help keep DCX at the VH-1 #1 slot, the bigger the impact. With the movie coming out everybody's going to know what's going around with DCX and the shrub.