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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Oh I totally agree artists, like anyone else, have the right to say whatever they want. My pet peeve is when people think people have no right to react to what an artist says about politics; that somehow artists are immune from any backlash for piping off about political opinions (not that you were saying that ) - I was just noting that we all judge people for that - granted some harsher than others

As for the Dixie Chicks, I think what happened to them was a total lynch mob mentality. I think the conservative media saw the outrage some people were having over it in the highly conservative country music medium and then the media fanned it into a frenzy. As I noted then, and I still think this way, the DC were scapegoats - pure and simple and I think that is ashame. I mean the conservative media asserted with a straight face that the random comments of some singer in a band actually aided and abetted OBL as well as SH and his evil regime I mean come on I also note that they media picked on some IMO silly girl instead of say, The Boss - once again sexism knows no limits

Anyway - this is now a ramble

Admittedly sometimes it is more fun to disagree, but on this stuff, we agree! Holy smokes!