im from england and saw on the net shes had death threats!!! what did she do so bad!
2007-02-09 07:43:51 · 11 answers · asked by katy c 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
so i take it people cant have freedom of speach anymore??
2007-02-12 00:41:50 · update #1
I don't hate Natalie from the Dixie Chicks. I think a lot of people got angry because of the remark she made about Bush at some concert in England. She said that she was ashamed that he was our president. A lot of people didn't think she should have said that, especially on foreign soil. Some people take their feelings to the extreme, and some people are crazy. The death threats are responses from lunatics. But no, all Americans don't hate her. They just don't all particularly agree with her. As an American I believe that she had the right to express her own beliefs, and I wasn't insulted nor enraged by her comments.
2007-02-09 07:50:02 · answer #1 · answered by true blue 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm American and I absolutely do NOT hate Natalie Maines or the Dixie Chicks. They rock!
What did she do? She exercised her (U.S.) Constitutional right to freely express herself and criticized U.S. President George W. Bush for invading Iraq. And the result was offended Americans burning and banning Dixie Chick CDs and issuing death threats. (Not unlike when the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie for his book The Satanic Verses...only Iran didn't purport to be a democratic country.)
2007-02-09 16:04:05 · answer #2 · answered by pat z 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
During a foreign concert Natalie said she was ashamed that President Bush is from her home state of Texas. I think for almost any popular American figure (outside of the political arena) that would have been in very bad taste. But for a country music artist that was a VERY big no-no. From my experience, the vast majority of country music fans are fiercely loyal Americans. Most of their brothers, sisters, fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers have served in the military during some of our darkest days - including WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf War and now Iraq and Afghanistan. To so publicly turn on your President, and in a sense your own country, in a foreign venue no less, it was seen to be on par with treason. I admit that I was a HUGE Dixie Chick fan until that time. Now, I don't own any of their music and don't intend on buying any in the future.
2007-02-09 15:54:14 · answer #3 · answered by HomeGrown 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
She was in another country doing a Dixie Chicks concert and During the show she told the crowd that she was ashamed of our President George W. Bush and the fact that they are from the State of Texas. And continued to dis America about the war in Iraq.
2007-02-09 15:49:12 · answer #4 · answered by wjb 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not so much that Americans hate her, it's when a celebrity makes Anti-American comments it makes us not want to buy her CD's. She's entitled to her opinion. I always wonder though, when these celebrities make disparaging remarks about America, why are they always overseas? They won't do it here.
2007-02-09 15:51:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Please allow me to correct you. Americans do not hate her. Some Americans hate her. Generalizations can be dangerous. Many very conservative citizens here (I am not one) dislike her because she spoke against President Bush while in England.
2007-02-09 15:48:59 · answer #6 · answered by toff 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't, I love them and their probably going to win a Grammy Sunday and they had the longest number one hit on VH1 last year so I only think very extreme Conservatives hate them! Please don't lump all Americans in one group its in poor taste to over generalize like that. Cheers!
2007-02-09 15:50:00 · answer #7 · answered by firecracker 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because she is a fat country hick who said some deragatory statements about our president...
...no matter if she is right or wrong, nobody cares about her opinion. Her big mouth got her in trouble (typical of women w/ fame)
2007-02-09 15:47:58 · answer #8 · answered by Ted Arcidi 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
well shes a country chic, country folk are the main supporters of idiodic bush and his propaganda,at the time these tards were still in denial,theyll get over it,its pretty apperant that iraq was a total failure now
2007-02-09 15:51:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Talked sh!t about our country and our President while we were at war, that is a big no-no, those girls have no class anyway.
2007-02-09 15:48:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋