Protesting the Dixie Chicks Trailer

YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW to start some #!@%? Ask Dixie Chicks singer, Natalie Maines. Her infamous one-liner attacking the President ignited a fire-storm of controversy, enraging their fan base, inspiring a nationwide corporate ban of their music, and ultimately turning country music into one long episode of professional wrestling. In Christopher Fleeger's funny, and frequently ominous film, PROTESTING THE DIXIE CHICKS, country music fans reveal their quirky conceptions of freedom and patriotism, as well as the anger and violence which accompany the impulse to defend them. Here, we discover a distinctive American discourse on discourse itself. When and where is criticism acceptable? And by whom? If you think you've heard it all before, you've never been to a Dixie Chicks concert.

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• Natalie
• Maines
• Ashamed
• President
• Texas
• George
• W.
• Bush
• Toby
• Keith
• DixieChicks
• Dixie
• Chicks
• Freedom
• speech
• Documentary
• South
• Carolina
• Gov
• Mark
• Sanford

[debbie178]

I love the Dixie Chicks and I totally agree with them. Bush is insane and so are those freaks protesting against them. They have a great carreer and should keep singing. I`m glad America has a new president!

[OswegoKayaker]

The Dixie Chicks are GREAT!

As you can see GWB is a liar, and a murderer -- sending our kids to fight a war that dropped the bead on Osama, dropped the bead on all the people really involved in 9/11. He made a country that was a wedge against Iran, into another training camp for them. People who were sending the Chicks terroristic death threats for being American enough to speak out for their country against this mad man in the white house, are the ones who should leave. God bless the Chicks.

[johnnypocketable]

forgot how fucking funny super patriotism was in 2003

WOOOOOOOOOOO FREEDOOOOOMM

[cyborgbunny1]

informative thank you

[Stephyy0706]

@ChrisHill991...Please refrain from speaking without thinking as it really makes you sound like an idiot! =)

[addicted2luv87]

just heard this dixiechick/bush drama.its gd 2 hav sm1 finally goin against this jakass jerk(major understatment bt i'll hold my tongue)they risked their fame 2 say wat ppl were afraid 2 evn mention:GW told a twisted lie tht iraq's a threat 2 US wen it was US just stealin oil from iraq.i knw GW fans will reply 2 this coment horribly but its true,so b4 cursin me.do ur h.w. on wat a poor contry like iraq rich in oil has much 2 threaten a rich country like america??thumbs up if u agree with me

[DunklenHerzen]

@Therealmensa

Yes, good for you.

[Therealmensa]

@DunklenHerzen So too for the ex-fans. End of discussion.

[DunklenHerzen]

@Therealmensa

They're Americans. Freedom of speech. End of discussion.

[Baylorfan27]

ChrisHill991 AMEN!!!

[ChrisHill991]

DIXIE CHICKS FUCKING SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! THOSE GIRLS ARE ABOUT AS COUNTRY AS TAYLOR SWIFT. COUNTRY IS BLAKE SHELTON, TRACE ADKIN, TOBY KEITH, MIRANDA LAMBERT, JUSTIN MOORE, DARRYLE WORRLEY, CHARLIE DANIELS, GEORGE JONES, AND HANK WILLIAMS JR.

[Therealmensa]

Artists who think so highly of themselves that they think they can decide who defines the audience that is allowed to respond to their art don't deserve to have an audience at all. And in the face of that fact, the DC's decided they would advertise and propagandize any and all dissent against them, using each as yet another nail in the cross they toted around on their promotional rounds. They ceased being about music, and boarded a sensationalist agenda train. The agenda is gone. So are they.