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看看美国社会是如何宽容对待不同政见者的吧！美国是一个没有希望的民族？
2003年美国“南方小鸡合唱团”（Dixie Chicks）公开声明反对美国入侵进攻伊拉克，歌迷马上宣布抵制她们的演出，当街砸烂她们的唱片，公开道了歉也不饶。乐队成员甚至受到死亡恐吓（death threats）。
当时一位美国妇女说：你有你的言论自由，但你必须为你的胡说八道付出代价。
Dixie Chicks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the band performed in concert in London on March 10, 2003, at the Shepherd's Bush Empire theatre. During this concert, the band gave a monologue to introduce their song Travelin' Soldier, during which Natalie Maines, a Texas native, was quoted by The Guardian as saying, "Just so you know, [...] we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas."[7] Though this is the official circulation of the comment, the full text of the statement Natalie Maines made was as follows:
“Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”
—Natalie Maines, [8]
Directly after Natalie's statements on stage, co-band member Emily Robison reportedly remarked that the band supported the American troops 100 percent.[9]
The comment about President Bush, who served as the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before his election to President of the United States, was reported in The Guardian's review of the Chicks concert.[7] Shortly thereafter, the U.S. media picked up the story and controversy erupted.[10]
Maines' remark sparked intense criticism; many Americans believed that she should not criticize George Bush on foreign shores. Maines insists, however, "I said it there 'cause that's where I was."[11]
The comment angered many country music fans and was financially damaging. Following the uproar and the start of a boycott of Dixie Chicks' music, Maines attempted to clarify matters on March 12 by saying, "I feel the President is ignoring the opinions of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world." [12]
The statement failed to quiet her critics, and Maines issued an apology on March 14: "As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect. We are currently in Europe and witnessing a huge anti-American sentiment as a result of the perceived rush to war. While war may remain a viable option, as a mother, I just want to see every possible alternative exhausted before children and American soldiers' lives are lost. I love my country. I am a proud American."[13][14]
While some people were disappointed that Maines apologized at all, others dropped their support of Dixie Chicks and their sponsor Lipton. In one famous anti-Dixie Chicks display, former fans were encouraged to bring their CDs to a demonstration at which they would be crushed by a bulldozer. The degree of hatred directed toward the Chicks - including death threats[15] - provoked concern among the band about their safety and that of their families. Bruce Springsteen and Madonna even felt compelled to come out in support of the right of the band to express their opinions freely.[16] (Although Madonna herself was pressured to postpone and then alter the April 1 release of her "American Life" video in which she threw a hand grenade toward a Bush look-alike, after witnessing the backlash against the Chicks.)[17]
M兄什麽时候学会了这种断章取义得勾当？^^ 下面是老兄不小心忽略了的部分。
另外，请M兄注意以下区别：
1。该乐队成员本来就是公众人物，而王不过是个学生；
2。该乐队受到的批评主要来自他们的FANS，而王居然劳动到祖国官方的CCTV大动干戈；
3。该乐队我行我素，却继续红遍美国；我想王在最近两年内不用作回国探亲的打算了。
"I’m not ready to make niceI’m not ready to back downI’m still mad as hell and I don’t have time to go 'round and 'round and 'roundIt’s too late to make it rightI probably wouldn’t if I could‘Cause I’m mad as hellCan’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should"
另外，美国也有的就是对的吗？美国有杀人，又抢窃，有校园枪击。是不是中国也必须向他们看齐？
有时候真的会生出如此的感叹：崇洋媚外的其实并不是少数人的专利。
Dixie Chicks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the first concert of their nationwide Top of the World Tour Dixie Chicks received a positive reception. The concert was held in Greenville, South Carolina on May 1, and was attended by a sell-out crowd of 15,000 (tickets for most of the shows had gone on sale before the controversy erupted[19]). The women arrived prepared to face opposition — and Maines invited those who had come to boo to do so — but the crowd erupted mostly in cheers.
Nevertheless, a Colorado radio station suspended two of its disc jockeys on May 6 for playing music by the Dixie Chicks.[20] On May 22, at the Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards ceremony in Las Vegas, there were boos when the group's nomination for Entertainer of the Year award was announced. However, the broadcast's host, Vince Gill, reminded the audience that everyone is entitled to freedom of speech. The Academy gave the award to Toby Keith, an outspoken critic of the group who had received criticism for displaying a backdrop at his concerts showing a doctored photo of Maines with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein[21].
In the fall (autumn) of 2003 Dixie Chicks starred in a broadcast TV commercial for Lipton Original Iced Tea, which made a tongue-in-cheek reference to the corporate blacklisting and the grassroots backlash. In the commercial, the Chicks are about to give a stadium concert when the electricity suddenly goes out. They continue anyway, performing an a cappella version of "Cowboy Take Me Away" to the raving cheers of the fans.
Dixie Chicks performing at Madison Square Garden on June 20, 2003 during Top of the World Tour.
In a September 2003 interview, Maguire told the German magazine Der Spiegel: "We don't feel a part of the country scene any longer, it can't be our home anymore." She noted a lack of support from country stars, and being shunned at the 2003 ACM awards. "Instead, we won three Grammys against much stronger competition. So we now consider ourselves part of the big rock 'n' roll family." However, in an open letter to fans on the Chicks' website, Maines said Maguire had been misquoted.[citation needed]
Also in 2003, the American Red Cross refused a 1 million USD offer from the Dixie Chicks. The organization did not publicize the refusal; it was revealed by the Chicks themselves in a May 2006 interview on The Howard Stern Show on SIRIUS Satellite Radio.[22] According to National Red Cross spokesperson Julie Thurmond Whitmer, the band would have made the donation "only if the American Red Cross would embrace the band's summer tour," writes Ms. Whitmer, referring to the group's 2003 U.S. tour after the London incident.
In October 2004, Dixie Chicks joined the Vote for Change tour, performing in concerts organized by MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action in swing states. While Dixie Chicks' artistic collaborations with James Taylor went well, sharing the stage on many occasions, Maines's comments during the concerts revealed a certain amount of nervousness over the future career path of Dixie Chicks.[citation needed]
In June 2006 an article in the Telegraph quoted Emily Robison on the lack of support from other country music performers, "A lot of artists cashed in on being against what we said or what we stood for because that was promoting their career, which was a horrible thing to do." Robison continued, "A lot of pandering started going on, and you'd see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism." Maines commented, "The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country ... I don't see why people care about patriotism."[26]
Wikinews has related news: Dixie Chicks show documentary at TIFF
At the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, Cabin Creek Films, the production company of award-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple, premiered Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing. Distributed by the Weinstein Company, the documentary follows the Chicks over the three years since the 2003 London concert remark.
At the 49th Grammy Awards Show in 2007, the group won all five categories for which they were nominated, including the coveted Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Album of the Year, in a vote that Maines interpreted as being a show of public support for their advocacy of free speech and their early disapproval of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[27]
In 2007 Natalie Maines appeared in the documentary Pete Seeger: the Power of Song. She gives commentary on Seeger's censorship throughout the 1950s and 1960s from the perspective of her own experiences with censorship.
Not Ready to Make Nice: The Chicks return
On March 16, 2006, Dixie Chicks released the single "Not Ready to Make Nice" in advance of their upcoming album. Written by all three Chicks alongside Dan Wilson, it directly addressed the political controversy that had surrounded the group for the past three years:
I’m not ready to make niceI’m not ready to back downI’m still mad as hell and I don’t have time to go 'round and 'round and 'roundIt’s too late to make it rightI probably wouldn’t if I could‘Cause I’m mad as hellCan’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should and, in criticism of the death threats the women (particularly Maines) received,
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach herDaughter that she ought to hate a perfect strangerAnd how in the world can the words that I saidSend somebody so over the edgeThat they’d write me a letterSayin’ that I betterShut up and sing or my life will be over In a press release, Robison said, "The stakes were definitely higher on that song. We knew it was special because it was so autobiographical, and we had to get it right. And once we had that song done, it freed us up to do the rest of the album without that burden." She also added a comment that writing the song had become their "therapy", since they'd had to hold in so many stored emotions for so long.
The question of how the group's new record would fare commercially attracted intense media interest. The Chicks' new album, titled Taking the Long Way, was released in stores and online May 22, 2006. The album was produced by Rick Rubin who had worked with Linkin Park, Metallica, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Danzig, System of a Down, Slipknot, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, and the Beastie Boys among others and was publicized to be more rock-intensive than country-oriented.[28][29] All 14 tracks were co-written by the three Chicks, alongside various other songwriters, including Neil Finn of Crowded House, on "Silent House". The album contained additional tracks that seemed to indirectly reference what the group called "The Incident", and the group remained defiant. For instance, in the May 29 issue of Time, Maguire said, "I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do." Maines also retracted her earlier apology to Bush, stating, "I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President, but I don't feel that way anymore. I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever."[30]
Despite little airplay, Taking the Long Way debuted at number one on both the U.S. pop albums chart and the U.S. country albums chart, selling 526,000 copies in the first week (the year's second-best such total for any country act) and making it a gold record within its first week. The Chicks became the first female group in chart history to have three albums debut at #1.[31]
In Europe, both singles from Taking the Long Way were well received by country radio, remaining on the European Country Charts for more than 20 weeks each: Not Ready To Make Nice peaked at #13 and Everybody Knows at #11.[32]
The group's Accidents & Accusations Tour began in July 2006. Ticket sales were strong in Canada and in some Northeastern markets, but notably weak in other areas. A number of shows were cancelled or relocated to smaller venues due to poor sales, and in Houston, Texas, tickets never even went on sale when local radio stations refused to accept advertising for the event.[33] In August, a re-routed tour schedule was announced with a greater emphasis on Canadian dates, where Taking the Long Way had gone five-times-platinum. The tour's shows themselves generally refrained from any explicit verbal political comments, letting the music, especially the central performance of Not Ready to Make Nice, speak for itself. At a Nov. 5, 2006 concert in Calgary, Alberta the Chicks received a thunderous ovation when the song was over, and the band held up a handwritten sign from a fan that read "Nobody likes a nasty Bush."[citation needed]
During 2006, Dixie Chicks became the first major band to hire a designated blogger to be embedded with them for their promotional activities and tour. They partnered with Microsoft and hired Junichi Semitsu, a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, to write first-hand accounts for their Accidents & Accusations Tour at the website Dixie Chicks @ MSN.[34] MSN broadcast an entire live concert, called "Scene of the Crime", of Dixie Chicks' return to Shepherds Bush, London, the site of "The Incident". Toward the end of the concert, Natalie said from the stage, "And all week, the only thing people keep asking is, 'What are you gonna say? Do you know what you're gonna say?' As usual I didn't plan anything, but I thought I'd say something brand new and just say, 'Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.' " which was met with thunderous applause and cheers.
In 2006, Taking the Long Way was the ninth best-selling album in the United States. It won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Album, Best Record, and Best Song (for "Not Ready To Make Nice") - 14 years since one artist or group last swept those three awards[35] - and Best Country Album on February 11, 2007. After their Grammy win, Dixie Chicks album Taking the Long Way hit #8 on Billboard 200 and #1 on the country album charts and the Song of the Year-winning Not Ready to Make Nice re-entered the charts at #4 on the Hot 100.
The music video for "Not Ready to Make Nice" was nominated for the 2007 CMT Music Video Awards in the categories of "Video of the Year" and "Group Video of the Year," however, the video did not win in its nominated categories.[36]
Dixie Chicks were nominated for the 2007 Country Music Association's award for Top Vocal Group, their first nomination from the CMA Awards since 2003.[37] The trio lost to Rascal Flatts.
Al Gore announced on April 2, 2008, that the Dixie Chicks and fellow country artist, and at one time stark opponent of the Chicks, Toby Keith, will appear side-by-side in a commercial spot to promote Gore's "We Campaign" initiative to raise awareness about climate change and what Americans can do to help the environment. According to Keith's publicist, the filming date and location have not yet been determined. [38]
On April 13, 2008 the Dixie Chicks appeared on The Simpsons' episode Papa Don't Leech. The Chicks sang a song that was plagarised from Simpsons character Lurleen Lumpkin called Patriotic Again.
[edit] Shut Up and Sing
An ad for Shut Up and Sing, a documentary about the furor over Maines's comment, was turned down by NBC on October 27, 2006, citing a policy barring ads dealing with "public controversy". Ads for the documentary were rebuffed by the smaller CW network as well; local affiliate stations of all five major broadcasters, including NBC and CW, ran promotional spots for the film in New York and Los Angeles, the two cities where it opened that day. "It's a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America," the film's distributor Harvey Weinstein said in a statement.[39]
Shut Up and Sing's title was taken from "Not Ready To Make Nice", which in turn took the phrase from a threatening letter received by the band.[40]
另外，请M兄注意以下区别：
1。该乐队成员本来就是公众人物，而王不过是个学生；
2。该乐队受到的批评主要来自他们的FANS，而王居然劳动到祖国官方的CCTV大动干戈；
3。该乐队我行我素，却继续红遍美国；我想王在最近两年内不用作回国探亲的打算了。
"I’m not ready to make niceI’m not ready to back downI’m still mad as hell and I don’t have time to go 'round and 'round and 'roundIt’s too late to make it rightI probably wouldn’t if I could‘Cause I’m mad as hellCan’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should"
另外，美国也有的就是对的吗？美国有杀人，又抢窃，有校园枪击。是不是中国也必须向他们看齐？
有时候真的会生出如此的感叹：崇洋媚外的其实并不是少数人的专利。
Dixie Chicks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the first concert of their nationwide Top of the World Tour Dixie Chicks received a positive reception. The concert was held in Greenville, South Carolina on May 1, and was attended by a sell-out crowd of 15,000 (tickets for most of the shows had gone on sale before the controversy erupted[19]). The women arrived prepared to face opposition — and Maines invited those who had come to boo to do so — but the crowd erupted mostly in cheers.
Nevertheless, a Colorado radio station suspended two of its disc jockeys on May 6 for playing music by the Dixie Chicks.[20] On May 22, at the Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards ceremony in Las Vegas, there were boos when the group's nomination for Entertainer of the Year award was announced. However, the broadcast's host, Vince Gill, reminded the audience that everyone is entitled to freedom of speech. The Academy gave the award to Toby Keith, an outspoken critic of the group who had received criticism for displaying a backdrop at his concerts showing a doctored photo of Maines with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein[21].
In the fall (autumn) of 2003 Dixie Chicks starred in a broadcast TV commercial for Lipton Original Iced Tea, which made a tongue-in-cheek reference to the corporate blacklisting and the grassroots backlash. In the commercial, the Chicks are about to give a stadium concert when the electricity suddenly goes out. They continue anyway, performing an a cappella version of "Cowboy Take Me Away" to the raving cheers of the fans.
Dixie Chicks performing at Madison Square Garden on June 20, 2003 during Top of the World Tour.
In a September 2003 interview, Maguire told the German magazine Der Spiegel: "We don't feel a part of the country scene any longer, it can't be our home anymore." She noted a lack of support from country stars, and being shunned at the 2003 ACM awards. "Instead, we won three Grammys against much stronger competition. So we now consider ourselves part of the big rock 'n' roll family." However, in an open letter to fans on the Chicks' website, Maines said Maguire had been misquoted.[citation needed]
Also in 2003, the American Red Cross refused a 1 million USD offer from the Dixie Chicks. The organization did not publicize the refusal; it was revealed by the Chicks themselves in a May 2006 interview on The Howard Stern Show on SIRIUS Satellite Radio.[22] According to National Red Cross spokesperson Julie Thurmond Whitmer, the band would have made the donation "only if the American Red Cross would embrace the band's summer tour," writes Ms. Whitmer, referring to the group's 2003 U.S. tour after the London incident.
The Dixie Chicks controversy made it impossible for the American Red Cross to associate itself with the band because such association would have violated two of the founding principles of the organization: impartiality and neutrality...Should the Dixie Chicks like to make an unconditional financial donation to the American Red Cross, we will gladly accept it.[23]
This relationship with the Red Cross proved unfortunate, when little more than a year later, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita battered the gulf States, with their home State of Texas directly in the wake of the disaster. Thus, in September 2005 Dixie Chicks debuted their song "I Hope" in a telethon: the Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast, along with a star studded line-up, including Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, U2, Sheryl Crow, Patty Griffin, Neil Young, and many other celebrities. The Chicks subsequently made their new single available as a digital download single with proceeds to benefit hurricane relief.[24][25]
In October 2004, Dixie Chicks joined the Vote for Change tour, performing in concerts organized by MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action in swing states. While Dixie Chicks' artistic collaborations with James Taylor went well, sharing the stage on many occasions, Maines's comments during the concerts revealed a certain amount of nervousness over the future career path of Dixie Chicks.[citation needed]
In June 2006 an article in the Telegraph quoted Emily Robison on the lack of support from other country music performers, "A lot of artists cashed in on being against what we said or what we stood for because that was promoting their career, which was a horrible thing to do." Robison continued, "A lot of pandering started going on, and you'd see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism." Maines commented, "The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country ... I don't see why people care about patriotism."[26]
Wikinews has related news: Dixie Chicks show documentary at TIFF
At the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, Cabin Creek Films, the production company of award-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple, premiered Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing. Distributed by the Weinstein Company, the documentary follows the Chicks over the three years since the 2003 London concert remark.
At the 49th Grammy Awards Show in 2007, the group won all five categories for which they were nominated, including the coveted Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Album of the Year, in a vote that Maines interpreted as being a show of public support for their advocacy of free speech and their early disapproval of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[27]
In 2007 Natalie Maines appeared in the documentary Pete Seeger: the Power of Song. She gives commentary on Seeger's censorship throughout the 1950s and 1960s from the perspective of her own experiences with censorship.
Not Ready to Make Nice: The Chicks return
On March 16, 2006, Dixie Chicks released the single "Not Ready to Make Nice" in advance of their upcoming album. Written by all three Chicks alongside Dan Wilson, it directly addressed the political controversy that had surrounded the group for the past three years:
I’m not ready to make niceI’m not ready to back downI’m still mad as hell and I don’t have time to go 'round and 'round and 'roundIt’s too late to make it rightI probably wouldn’t if I could‘Cause I’m mad as hellCan’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should and, in criticism of the death threats the women (particularly Maines) received,
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach herDaughter that she ought to hate a perfect strangerAnd how in the world can the words that I saidSend somebody so over the edgeThat they’d write me a letterSayin’ that I betterShut up and sing or my life will be over In a press release, Robison said, "The stakes were definitely higher on that song. We knew it was special because it was so autobiographical, and we had to get it right. And once we had that song done, it freed us up to do the rest of the album without that burden." She also added a comment that writing the song had become their "therapy", since they'd had to hold in so many stored emotions for so long.
The question of how the group's new record would fare commercially attracted intense media interest. The Chicks' new album, titled Taking the Long Way, was released in stores and online May 22, 2006. The album was produced by Rick Rubin who had worked with Linkin Park, Metallica, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Danzig, System of a Down, Slipknot, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, and the Beastie Boys among others and was publicized to be more rock-intensive than country-oriented.[28][29] All 14 tracks were co-written by the three Chicks, alongside various other songwriters, including Neil Finn of Crowded House, on "Silent House". The album contained additional tracks that seemed to indirectly reference what the group called "The Incident", and the group remained defiant. For instance, in the May 29 issue of Time, Maguire said, "I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do." Maines also retracted her earlier apology to Bush, stating, "I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President, but I don't feel that way anymore. I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever."[30]
Despite little airplay, Taking the Long Way debuted at number one on both the U.S. pop albums chart and the U.S. country albums chart, selling 526,000 copies in the first week (the year's second-best such total for any country act) and making it a gold record within its first week. The Chicks became the first female group in chart history to have three albums debut at #1.[31]
In Europe, both singles from Taking the Long Way were well received by country radio, remaining on the European Country Charts for more than 20 weeks each: Not Ready To Make Nice peaked at #13 and Everybody Knows at #11.[32]
The group's Accidents & Accusations Tour began in July 2006. Ticket sales were strong in Canada and in some Northeastern markets, but notably weak in other areas. A number of shows were cancelled or relocated to smaller venues due to poor sales, and in Houston, Texas, tickets never even went on sale when local radio stations refused to accept advertising for the event.[33] In August, a re-routed tour schedule was announced with a greater emphasis on Canadian dates, where Taking the Long Way had gone five-times-platinum. The tour's shows themselves generally refrained from any explicit verbal political comments, letting the music, especially the central performance of Not Ready to Make Nice, speak for itself. At a Nov. 5, 2006 concert in Calgary, Alberta the Chicks received a thunderous ovation when the song was over, and the band held up a handwritten sign from a fan that read "Nobody likes a nasty Bush."[citation needed]
During 2006, Dixie Chicks became the first major band to hire a designated blogger to be embedded with them for their promotional activities and tour. They partnered with Microsoft and hired Junichi Semitsu, a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, to write first-hand accounts for their Accidents & Accusations Tour at the website Dixie Chicks @ MSN.[34] MSN broadcast an entire live concert, called "Scene of the Crime", of Dixie Chicks' return to Shepherds Bush, London, the site of "The Incident". Toward the end of the concert, Natalie said from the stage, "And all week, the only thing people keep asking is, 'What are you gonna say? Do you know what you're gonna say?' As usual I didn't plan anything, but I thought I'd say something brand new and just say, 'Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.' " which was met with thunderous applause and cheers.
In 2006, Taking the Long Way was the ninth best-selling album in the United States. It won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Album, Best Record, and Best Song (for "Not Ready To Make Nice") - 14 years since one artist or group last swept those three awards[35] - and Best Country Album on February 11, 2007. After their Grammy win, Dixie Chicks album Taking the Long Way hit #8 on Billboard 200 and #1 on the country album charts and the Song of the Year-winning Not Ready to Make Nice re-entered the charts at #4 on the Hot 100.
The music video for "Not Ready to Make Nice" was nominated for the 2007 CMT Music Video Awards in the categories of "Video of the Year" and "Group Video of the Year," however, the video did not win in its nominated categories.[36]
Dixie Chicks were nominated for the 2007 Country Music Association's award for Top Vocal Group, their first nomination from the CMA Awards since 2003.[37] The trio lost to Rascal Flatts.
Al Gore announced on April 2, 2008, that the Dixie Chicks and fellow country artist, and at one time stark opponent of the Chicks, Toby Keith, will appear side-by-side in a commercial spot to promote Gore's "We Campaign" initiative to raise awareness about climate change and what Americans can do to help the environment. According to Keith's publicist, the filming date and location have not yet been determined. [38]
On April 13, 2008 the Dixie Chicks appeared on The Simpsons' episode Papa Don't Leech. The Chicks sang a song that was plagarised from Simpsons character Lurleen Lumpkin called Patriotic Again.
[edit] Shut Up and Sing
An ad for Shut Up and Sing, a documentary about the furor over Maines's comment, was turned down by NBC on October 27, 2006, citing a policy barring ads dealing with "public controversy". Ads for the documentary were rebuffed by the smaller CW network as well; local affiliate stations of all five major broadcasters, including NBC and CW, ran promotional spots for the film in New York and Los Angeles, the two cities where it opened that day. "It's a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America," the film's distributor Harvey Weinstein said in a statement.[39]
Shut Up and Sing's title was taken from "Not Ready To Make Nice", which in turn took the phrase from a threatening letter received by the band.[40]
胡兄并非觉得受了污辱，但真觉得不太理解因何就被误认为成了“修炼人”？因为包容？因为理智面对？
可能以前我觉得一些非常浅显的道理，大多数中国人也是理解的， 但看来，我在这一点上是错了。
不知你是否意识到，中国人愚昧表现之一就是先label别人，再猜测别人的意图，然后根据自己无聊的猜测作错误判断，最后作出不理智的野蛮行为。
三反五反，反右，大跃进，文革中批林批孔，反击右倾翻案风，到后来的反对资产阶级自由化，迫害FLG, 至今天的镇压西藏自由，全都如此。 当权者（中共政府）先给他要整治的人贴个标签（也叫扣个帽子），再启动他的宣传机器诋毁诽谤别人， 这就轻易的剥夺了别人平等的话语权，和平等的社会地位。 使得被压迫的群体迅速成为被孤立的，被痛恨的，似乎代表了邪恶的一小撮人。
在这种情形下，人们不会有理智的探讨，开诚布公的对话，基本的对人的尊重，和不同思想的和平对抗。 有的只是希望把对方斩尽杀绝的仇恨。:flaming:
这就是中国的游戏规则，这就是中国落后，被西方文明轻视的重要原因之一。
胡兄并非觉得受了污辱，但真觉得不太理解因何就被误认为成了“修炼人”？因为包容？因为理智面对？
可能以前我觉得一些非常浅显的道理，大多数中国人也是理解的， 但看来，我在这一点上是错了。
不知你是否意识到，中国人愚昧表现之一就是先label别人，再猜测别人的意图，然后根据自己无聊的猜测作错误判断，最后作出不理智的野蛮行为。
三反五反，反右，大跃进，文革中批林批孔，反击右倾翻案风，到后来的反对资产阶级自由化，迫害FLG, 至今天的镇压西藏自由，全都如此。 当权者（中共政府）先给他要整治的人贴个标签（也叫扣个帽子），再启动他的宣传机器诋毁诽谤别人， 这就轻易的剥夺了别人平等的话语权，和平等的社会地位。 使得被压迫的群体迅速成为被孤立的，被痛恨的，似乎代表了邪恶的一小撮人。
在这种情形下，人们不会有理智的探讨，开诚布公的对话，基本的对人的尊重，和不同思想的和平对抗。 有的只是希望把对方斩尽杀绝的仇恨。:flaming:
这就是中国的游戏规则，这就是中国落后，被西方文明轻视的重要原因之一。
不好意思，给胡兄贴标签确实是我的错。抱歉抱歉。
不可否认的是，国人的很多愤怒，其实也是因为动不动就被人贴上愚昧落后的标签而来。（贴这标签和因被贴这标签而生愤怒我都有分。大家共勉吧。）
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胡兄并非觉得受了污辱，但真觉得不太理解因何就被误认为成了“修炼人”？因为包容？因为理智面对？
可能以前我觉得一些非常浅显的道理，大多数中国人也是理解的， 但看来，我在这一点上是错了。
不知你是否意识到，中国人愚昧表现之一就是先label别人，再猜测别人的意图，然后根据自己无聊的猜测作错误判断，最后作出不理智的野蛮行为。
三反五反，反右，大跃进，文革中批林批孔，反击右倾翻案风，到后来的反对资产阶级自由化，迫害FLG, 至今天的镇压西藏自由，全都如此。 当权者（中共政府）先给他要整治的人贴个标签（也叫扣个帽子），再启动他的宣传机器诋毁诽谤别人， 这就轻易的剥夺了别人平等的话语权，和平等的社会地位。 使得被压迫的群体迅速成为被孤立的，被痛恨的，似乎代表了邪恶的一小撮人。
在这种情形下，人们不会有理智的探讨，开诚布公的对话，基本的对人的尊重，和不同思想的和平对抗。 有的只是希望把对方斩尽杀绝的仇恨。:flaming:
这就是中国的游戏规则，这就是中国落后，被西方文明轻视的重要原因之一。
you are such an idiot. just look at the US history. It is full of persecutions and mass killings.
China dose not care what westerners think. China has the power and the will to stand above them.
Your whining here just shows your mere slave mentalilty to your western masters. China will not tolerate those who want to split China, tibetans or you.
Flg deserves to be kicked into the sea to feed sharks
