she sings this "It's a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger" When in fact she
she's teaching her own kids to hate President Bush by her own words and actions?
2007-03-02 02:15:10 · 7 answers · asked by julia4evert 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
How can you not see the obvious? LOL
2007-03-02 02:25:26 · update #1
Explain intelligently if you see otherwise without insults or Bush bashing
2007-03-02 02:26:40 · update #2
I do agree, however this shouldn't surprise you. After all it was alright for her to use her celebrity and position to criticize the President. But when country music listners voice their displeasure, by no loner buying their CDs and requesting that they no longer be played on the radio, they people were called rednecks and dumb by her.
Don't think for one second anyone was fooled by the 5 Grammys. That was nothing but the Hollywood left rewarding them for attacking the President. The CD was so good they had to cancell half their shows or move them to a smaller venues.
2007-03-02 02:25:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
Natalie was refering to an incident that was broadcast by a TV News channel where a Mother is holding her little girl in her arms and saying "say I hate the Dixie Chicks" just as a Mother will say "say hi to the nice people". I doubt if Natalie Maines children are old enough to even know who President Bush really is and I don't believe that she is a woman who wants to help hate grow in the world.
Fact is Natalie Maines never said anything about "hating" anyone, let alone the President. What she said was "we're embarassed the President is from Texas" and that was blown into a reason for a lot of people to threaten the lives of the Dixie Chicks and call them all traitors and treasonists.
I really don't think anyone needs to be taught to have at least a poor opinion of President Bush or his Administration at this point but I think there is absolutely a wonderful lesson in the beauty of the Constitution and what America stands for that we can speak our minds without fear of punishment or torture or public condemnation......oops wait, the President did say that maybe Natalie Maines will learn a lesson before she opens her mouth again and people, Americans, have threatened to kill her.
Well no matter what we have the right to speak freely and I don't think Natalie Maines is a hypocrite because she is standing by her words and actions and really, isn't it a sad sad story?
It worries me when something so simple and harmless makes people with brains get so angry and unforgiving.
2007-03-02 10:32:25 · answer #2 · answered by Robert B 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Not at all. The president is not a perfect stranger....everybody knows who he is and what he does.
I guess the song means not to judge people you know nothing about. But if you see someone, particularly an elected official, who's ruining everything they touch...then you should speak out about that.
2007-03-02 10:37:04 · answer #3 · answered by rob1977nc 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Teddy Roosevelt, 1918.
There is a HUGE leap from "We are ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas" to "Hate this person because she said this"
Its ridiculous to call yourself American and then to mail death threats to someone for practicing thier AMERICAN right to voice thier opinion.
Doesn't matter if you agree with it or not, it matters that those troops are over there fighting for all of us to say what we want to say WITHOUT fear of persecution. And to threaten her or hate her for it, is un-American. Period.
2007-03-02 10:37:42 · answer #4 · answered by babygyrl_nyc 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, I wouldn't agree.
He isn't a perfect stranger. He's a fellow Texan who, in her opinion, is making a mockery of the office he holds, and she stated that she's *ashamed to be from the same state* as he. She didn't say she hates him.
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2007-03-02 10:34:43 · answer #5 · answered by Jane D 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
no she isnt, get over it, hating the Dixie Chicks wont win you any elections anytime soon
President Bush gets people to hate him all on his own
2007-03-02 10:23:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
no, she's not a hypocrite. get over it.
2007-03-02 10:18:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋