I sent this one to every country station I could find. No answers. Now I will listen to elevator music before I listen to a non-DC radio station.
Banning the Dixie Chicks from country music stations explains why a lot of Americans don’t listen to country music. Narrow thinkin’, I’m thinkin’! And the funny part is that all these stations say they support what our troops are fightin’ for.
I love that! They obviously don’t support what I fought for in Vietnam and what my son is fightin’ for in Iraq. America’s freedom was and is not threatened then or now. We served and serve to make sure that people in other countries are free and can think and speak their minds with no thought of retribution. The same things that we all should experience here.
The Dixie Chicks are a great fresh young country band. Stone talented, innovative, intelligent, and controversial even before Natalie’s comments in England. What fan could not or did not like them?
Big Questions for Radio Stations and Fans: How can serious country music fans allow the Chicks to be banned on radio stations for the very reason we love ‘em in the first place? They are what they led us to believe! They are sassy! They are edgy! Hell, they ‘Killed Earl’, and all us ‘Bubba Earls’ out here in radio land never called for a Chick ban! They sang from the heart, and somehow we stomached Ole Earl’s demise, because it made damned good sense!
And what would we expect them to say about a comin’ war, that a bunch of powerful and highfalutin’ folks in this country were seriously opposed to? Are they allowed to question what we as a country are doin’ or not? Do celebrities have fewer rights than the rest of us because they might have more influence? Did any serious DC fan think they would just go along with the crowd? So why have folks been so quick to cut em out of the pack?
That “BUSH’ comment was simply a pure Dixie Chick shot off a nice hip! The Chicks are obviously not anti-military. Evidence of that is the song they did about a guy in my war. Have I “forgotten about Bin Laden”? Hell no I haven’t, but I will forget that song, lyric, and whoever sang it long before I forget a single Dixie Chick note!
Threats against the Dixie Chicks and their families are way the hell over the line. The people that made those threats should have joined our troops in Iraq if they are such bad asses, but it seems they are really better suited to safe and idle threats against American women and their families!
If you ‘radio folks’ really love this country, then love the people who dare to make it great! If you really support our troops, then stand up for what they really fight for! Play the best country bands and if somebody doesn’t want to hear the Chicks, then tell ‘em to change the station or turn off the radio. That is their prerogative. You radio folks need to make sure all country fans get to hear what we want to hear. That’s the true American way!
Continue banning the Chicks from your country music station and reinforce all those tired assed country music stereotypes. Is your music for the whole country or just part of it? Are you in the music business or politics? You know, if I wanted somebody to censor what I hear on the radio, I would have moved to Iraq years ago.
Ban the Chicks and they will just ‘crossover’ and you guys will be out a lot of damn money! And even worse, ban the Chicks and you will probably never hear the best ‘country’ song ever written and sung about this present war in Iraq!
Sincerely,
Flatline Hutchison
Louisville, KY
7:22:59 PM 
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