Comments on: Grammy Vindication for the Dixie Chicks http://www.iamspencer.com/2007/02/12/grammy-vindication-for-the-dixie-chicks/ music, politics, sports, etcetera Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:55:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: grace http://www.iamspencer.com/2007/02/12/grammy-vindication-for-the-dixie-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-9223 grace Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:49:43 +0000 http://www.iamspencer.com/?p=521#comment-9223 So Dee, your solution to maintaining our open democracy (the one that keeps the public informed and gives each of us the right to criticize and change our government) is to keep our mouths shut, especially in front of other countries and especially the mouths of those in the public eye? Makes sense. Here's a list of other countries where such attitudes and laws were adopted and the citizens within obeyed, past or present: Cuba, Nazi Germany, Communist China, North Korea, USSR, Libya, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, etc., etc., etc. Foreigners don't think our country is weak. Maybe you don't watch the news or read any foreign press, but the U.S. is referred to as the "last world super power." And other countries certainly don't laugh at us because we speak out about our own government... for that, we are envied. They have other reasons to laugh at us. Sounds like you respect a strong, authoritarian, centralized style government? You might like Russia right now. If they were citizens under Putin, the Dixie Chicks would probably have eaten uranium on their breakfast cereal years ago, and you could feel at ease. So Dee, your solution to maintaining our open democracy (the one that keeps the public informed and gives each of us the right to criticize and change our government) is to keep our mouths shut, especially in front of other countries and especially the mouths of those in the public eye? Makes sense. Here’s a list of other countries where such attitudes and laws were adopted and the citizens within obeyed, past or present: Cuba, Nazi Germany, Communist China, North Korea, USSR, Libya, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, etc., etc., etc.

Foreigners don’t think our country is weak. Maybe you don’t watch the news or read any foreign press, but the U.S. is referred to as the “last world super power.” And other countries certainly don’t laugh at us because we speak out about our own government… for that, we are envied. They have other reasons to laugh at us.

Sounds like you respect a strong, authoritarian, centralized style government? You might like Russia right now. If they were citizens under Putin, the Dixie Chicks would probably have eaten uranium on their breakfast cereal years ago, and you could feel at ease.

]]> By: Alan http://www.iamspencer.com/2007/02/12/grammy-vindication-for-the-dixie-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-9202 Alan Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:22:56 +0000 http://www.iamspencer.com/?p=521#comment-9202 The real issue I see in the Dixi chix drama, is one I find a bit disconcerting. The "press" just kept beating the drums day in and day out, never faultering in the image they painted of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq, they just kept flooding the minds of those americans who subsist on a diet of TV and "People magizine" until slowly but surely they changed the opinion of roughly 40% of the public. There have been no new facts added to the drum beat, nothing that should have changed peoples opinions. What cause is next to be molded into the minds of the media adicted masses? who will be the next leader or cause celebrai choosen by the "press"? The real issue I see in the Dixi chix drama, is one I find a bit disconcerting. The “press” just kept beating the drums day in and day out, never faultering in the image they painted of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq, they just kept flooding the minds of those americans who subsist on a diet of TV and “People magizine” until slowly but surely they changed the opinion of roughly 40% of the public. There have been no new facts added to the drum beat, nothing that should have changed peoples opinions. What cause is next to be molded into the minds of the media adicted masses? who will be the next leader or cause celebrai choosen by the “press”?

]]> By: Dee http://www.iamspencer.com/2007/02/12/grammy-vindication-for-the-dixie-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-9196 Dee Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:41:12 +0000 http://www.iamspencer.com/?p=521#comment-9196 I originally got tired of the Dixie Chicks when I felt they were men-bashing in their songs. I didn't burn the one CD I have, but I later became turned off by their refusal to admit that maybe, just maybe they were out of line when they criticized our President overseas. Foreigners think that our country is weak (and are laughing at us) because some of our own big-mouth citizens hate our country and leaders. We have it better than ANYWHERE in the world. What a shame that Gore put our country in an economic tailspin by contesting the election. I haven't forgotten how Gore put aside American interests to pursue his own. I'm not liberal, and I get tired of liberal celebrities who assume that everybody who doesn't agree with them is stupid. Dixie Chicks, ya'll just go ahead and sing your li'l hearts out, but I won't be contributing to your paychecks! I originally got tired of the Dixie Chicks when I felt they were men-bashing in their songs. I didn’t burn the one CD I have, but I later became turned off by their refusal to admit that maybe, just maybe they were out of line when they criticized our President overseas. Foreigners think that our country is weak (and are laughing at us) because some of our own big-mouth citizens hate our country and leaders. We have it better than ANYWHERE in the world. What a shame that Gore put our country in an economic tailspin by contesting the election. I haven’t forgotten how Gore put aside American interests to pursue his own. I’m not liberal, and I get tired of liberal celebrities who assume that everybody who doesn’t agree with them is stupid. Dixie Chicks, ya’ll just go ahead and sing your li’l hearts out, but I won’t be contributing to your paychecks!

]]> By: sightseer56 http://www.iamspencer.com/2007/02/12/grammy-vindication-for-the-dixie-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-9094 sightseer56 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:20:51 +0000 http://www.iamspencer.com/?p=521#comment-9094 My only gripe with the Dixie Chicks was that they made their comment in a foreign venue and then simply to stir up a crowd. Only cowards run overseas and criticize because they know they will get a positive reception. I never cared for their music so I didn't buy it, but I would not suggest to others not to if they liked them. The Grammys, however had nothing to do with talent but was purely the left wing flushing their political toilet in public again. It was so transparent they had to admit it themselves. If they feel good about it fine. No one with even a scrap of a life really gives any credibility to any awards shows anymore. As far as the 2000 election is concerned, the media studies done after the election showed no voter fraud. Anything prepared for Conyers and supported by him must immediately be put into the fiction remand bin. In reality Gore was his own worst enemy in Florida. First he demanded a selective recount rather than a statewide recount that the Republicans wanted. It turns out that he would have had a better chance if he accepted their demands. Second he had the debacle of idiots in Palm Beach not knowing who they voted for (even though democrats designed the butterfly ballots for the lowest common denominator) and idiots elsewhere who apparently couldn't figure out how to use a punch card. Typical democrats and liberals. Someone wasen't holding their hand and doing it for them so they were incompetent. Good little goosesteppers, just don't ask them to think. As far as Gores integrity in the election was concerned, consider two things. First he tried to exclude absentee ballots from the military. Even though they were certified as received prior to election day, because they were not postmarked he wanted them thrown out. He knew very well that deployed units that got theough FPO's and APO's do not place postmarks on letters. He know his vote would be lower among the military and tried to stop them. Real honorable but typically democrat. I know you all feel the military should not vote. Convicts yes, military no. As as far as minorities being turned away, the Voting Rights Commission found not one credible case of that happening. They may have had to wait in long lines and get to the right polling place (poor babies) but if they were properly registered they could vote. Second he cried about how unfair the electorial college system was when he won the popular vote but lost the college vote. Not that many of you would bother to find out, but less than a month before the election when people throught it might be the other way around his campaign manager was asked it Gore would have any problem serving if he lost the popular vote and won the electorial vote. His answer was absolutely not as that was what the Constitution provided. Finally the one who probably lost Gore was the media that called the election while polls were still open. Both Republicans and Democrats in the panhandle didn't both to vote. Why waste your time when the election is already decided? Was it a ploy to help Gore? Who knows, the only thing we can be sure of is that it affected the election to some degree. Whether that degree was sufficient to change the outcome is purely guess work. Has Bush made mistakes? Absolutely, but nowhere to the level you whiners claim. Clinton gutted the military, ran in the face of terrorist attacks and basically set us up (after Somalia) as a perceived paper tiger. Bin Laden has told us that himself. Was he a terrible president? Not really but he fell into the common trap of ignoring foreign policy while trying to satisfy the bread and circus demands of the american left. Was the Iraq war a good idea? No, in reality we should have come to terms with Saddam, set up a most favored nation status for him (I assure you he would accept it as his only priority was survival) and tell the rest of the world to screw themselves. We really do need to stop involving ourselves in foreign nations problems. We should adopt a simple concept. If you are our friend we will work with you and provide you assistance. If you are some third world sewer that condemns us, fine. No assistance including no food, no medicine, no humanitarian assistance. Nothing, zilch, zero. If you can't get help elsewhere and simply cease to exist, oh well, it was your call. No coersion either way. You make the choice and then reap the results. That is the real world, not some crap sprouted to you by a sixties retread in Sociology 101. You all have a nice day. My only gripe with the Dixie Chicks was that they made their comment in a foreign venue and then simply to stir up a crowd. Only cowards run overseas and criticize because they know they will get a positive reception. I never cared for their music so I didn’t buy it, but I would not suggest to others not to if they liked them. The Grammys, however had nothing to do with talent but was purely the left wing flushing their political toilet in public again. It was so transparent they had to admit it themselves. If they feel good about it fine. No one with even a scrap of a life really gives any credibility to any awards shows anymore.
As far as the 2000 election is concerned, the media studies done after the election showed no voter fraud. Anything prepared for Conyers and supported by him must immediately be put into the fiction remand bin. In reality Gore was his own worst enemy in Florida. First he demanded a selective recount rather than a statewide recount that the Republicans wanted. It turns out that he would have had a better chance if he accepted their demands. Second he had the debacle of idiots in Palm Beach not knowing who they voted for (even though democrats designed the butterfly ballots for the lowest common denominator) and idiots elsewhere who apparently couldn’t figure out how to use a punch card. Typical democrats and liberals. Someone wasen’t holding their hand and doing it for them so they were incompetent. Good little goosesteppers, just don’t ask them to think.
As far as Gores integrity in the election was concerned, consider two things. First he tried to exclude absentee ballots from the military. Even though they were certified as received prior to election day, because they were not postmarked he wanted them thrown out. He knew very well that deployed units that got theough FPO’s and APO’s do not place postmarks on letters. He know his vote would be lower among the military and tried to stop them. Real honorable but typically democrat. I know you all feel the military should not vote. Convicts yes, military no. As as far as minorities being turned away, the Voting Rights Commission found not one credible case of that happening. They may have had to wait in long lines and get to the right polling place (poor babies) but if they were properly registered they could vote. Second he cried about how unfair the electorial college system was when he won the popular vote but lost the college vote. Not that many of you would bother to find out, but less than a month before the election when people throught it might be the other way around his campaign manager was asked it Gore would have any problem serving if he lost the popular vote and won the electorial vote. His answer was absolutely not as that was what the Constitution provided.
Finally the one who probably lost Gore was the media that called the election while polls were still open. Both Republicans and Democrats in the panhandle didn’t both to vote. Why waste your time when the election is already decided? Was it a ploy to help Gore? Who knows, the only thing we can be sure of is that it affected the election to some degree. Whether that degree was sufficient to change the outcome is purely guess work.
Has Bush made mistakes? Absolutely, but nowhere to the level you whiners claim. Clinton gutted the military, ran in the face of terrorist attacks and basically set us up (after Somalia) as a perceived paper tiger. Bin Laden has told us that himself. Was he a terrible president? Not really but he fell into the common trap of ignoring foreign policy while trying to satisfy the bread and circus demands of the american left. Was the Iraq war a good idea? No, in reality we should have come to terms with Saddam, set up a most favored nation status for him (I assure you he would accept it as his only priority was survival) and tell the rest of the world to screw themselves. We really do need to stop involving ourselves in foreign nations problems. We should adopt a simple concept. If you are our friend we will work with you and provide you assistance. If you are some third world sewer that condemns us, fine. No assistance including no food, no medicine, no humanitarian assistance. Nothing, zilch, zero. If you can’t get help elsewhere and simply cease to exist, oh well, it was your call. No coersion either way. You make the choice and then reap the results. That is the real world, not some crap sprouted to you by a sixties retread in Sociology 101.
You all have a nice day.

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]]> By: Dr BLT http://www.iamspencer.com/2007/02/12/grammy-vindication-for-the-dixie-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-8981 Dr BLT Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:46:07 +0000 http://www.iamspencer.com/?p=521#comment-8981 I make a living out of dissin' the Dixie Chicks First, it was this song: Merle Hasn't Lost His Fightin' Side Dr BLT words and music by Dr BLT (c)2007 http://www.drblt.net/music/MerleVeryLast.mp3 then it was this one: Playin' Politics with the Dixie Chicks Dr BLT words and music by Dr BLT (c)2007 http://www.drblt.net/music/DixieChicks.mp3 and now, last, but not least, it's: Not Ready to Make Rice Dr BLT words and music by Dr BLT (c)2007 http://www.drblt.net/music/MakeRice.mp3 I make a living out of dissin’ the Dixie Chicks

First, it was this song:

Merle Hasn’t Lost His Fightin’ Side
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT (c)2007
http://www.drblt.net/music/MerleVeryLast.mp3

then it was this one:

Playin’ Politics with the Dixie Chicks
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT (c)2007
http://www.drblt.net/music/DixieChicks.mp3

and now, last, but not least, it’s:

Not Ready to Make Rice
Dr BLT
words and music by Dr BLT (c)2007
http://www.drblt.net/music/MakeRice.mp3

]]> By: Joey http://www.iamspencer.com/2007/02/12/grammy-vindication-for-the-dixie-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-8817 Joey Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:58:57 +0000 http://www.iamspencer.com/?p=521#comment-8817 Sufficient evidence is the speculation of just about every major news source in this hemisphere. There have been mountains of articles written about it. This isn't a liberal stance, either. I am sure the website that Stanford has dedicated to the history of that election would be a good place to start. Stanford didnt make its name on publishing hearsay or libel*. This is "A Fifty-State Report Prepared for Rep. John Conyers, Jr. Ranking Member, House Committee on the Judiciary Dean, Congressional Black Caucus"*. I am sure its filled with half-truths and liberal jargon that would only confuse this issue. Right? Perhaps, the CNN documentation of the Florida recount is just made up, too. ** After all, that'st just a "hack" news source. The term liberal is the word Republicans use to marginalize people with any opinion that doesn't agree with their own. I just want what's right. There is nothing pseudo-educated about me. My assertions only come into play after I have educated myself on the topic at hand. You can blow all the fetus talk out of your ass, too. The word fetus shouldn't even escape your lips. It's not your issue. That's a pseudo-religious issue, if you ask me. The homosexual issue is a non-issue, too. I have had enough of people who can't understand the all people deserve basic human rights. And, if you think that's liberal, I feel sorry for you. I dont need any scientific evidence to tell me that people should just do what makes them happy....within reason. There is no science or religion in that. Just being alive tells me that is a righteous stance on those issues or any other "moral" issues that Republicans cling to when they sling mud at the rest of the world. You are all a bunch of phonies. The worst part is...you know it. * http://election2000.stanford.edu/electionreporthouse.pdf ** http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/13/got.here/index.html Sufficient evidence is the speculation of just about every major news source in this hemisphere. There have been mountains of articles written about it. This isn’t a liberal stance, either. I am sure the website that Stanford has dedicated to the history of that election would be a good place to start. Stanford didnt make its name on publishing hearsay or libel*. This is “A Fifty-State Report Prepared for Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
Ranking Member, House Committee on the Judiciary
Dean, Congressional Black Caucus”*. I am sure its filled with half-truths and liberal jargon that would only confuse this issue. Right?

Perhaps, the CNN documentation of the Florida recount is just made up, too. **
After all, that’st just a “hack” news source.

The term liberal is the word Republicans use to marginalize people with any opinion that doesn’t agree with their own.

I just want what’s right. There is nothing pseudo-educated about me. My assertions only come into play after I have educated myself on the topic at hand. You can blow all the fetus talk out of your ass, too. The word fetus shouldn’t even escape your lips. It’s not your issue. That’s a pseudo-religious issue, if you ask me. The homosexual issue is a non-issue, too. I have had enough of people who can’t understand the all people deserve basic human rights. And, if you think that’s liberal, I feel sorry for you. I dont need any scientific evidence to tell me that people should just do what makes them happy….within reason. There is no science or religion in that. Just being alive tells me that is a righteous stance on those issues or any other “moral” issues that Republicans cling to when they sling mud at the rest of the world.

You are all a bunch of phonies.
The worst part is…you know it.

* http://election2000.stanford.edu/electionreporthouse.pdf
** http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/13/got.here/index.html

]]> By: grace http://www.iamspencer.com/2007/02/12/grammy-vindication-for-the-dixie-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-8765 grace Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:10:20 +0000 http://www.iamspencer.com/?p=521#comment-8765 Michael, I tend to forget that. But you're so right. Michael, I tend to forget that. But you’re so right.

]]> By: michael http://www.iamspencer.com/2007/02/12/grammy-vindication-for-the-dixie-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-8683 michael Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:29:18 +0000 http://www.iamspencer.com/?p=521#comment-8683 Grace, the right wing zealots have an amazing ability to ignore or distort any facts that get in the way of their argument. i see it every day on the Dixie Chicks message board at CMT. Grace,

the right wing zealots have an amazing ability to ignore or distort any facts that get in the way of their argument. i see it every day on the Dixie Chicks message board at CMT.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.iamspencer.com/2007/02/12/grammy-vindication-for-the-dixie-chicks/comment-page-1/#comment-8658 Ryan Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:08:45 +0000 http://www.iamspencer.com/?p=521#comment-8658 Well played. I give credit when due. That was funny. Well played. I give credit when due. That was funny.

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