Another audience walked out on poor Linda…

But that isn’t what I find interesting.

What I find interesting is the continuous rehashing of a blatant lie that appears again and again and again.

ContraCostaTimes.com | 07/23/2004 | Ronstadt gets audience walkout encore

In March 2003, Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines’ comments against Bush and the Iraq war triggered a boycott by a group of more than 200 radio stations.

Natalie Maines’ comment against the Iraq war:

“Just so you know, we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.”

Wow. That’s a real comment against the war. Where did she mention the war, exactly? Where did she analyze an issue? Where did she offer anything but a cheap insult?

Secondly, that “boycott” wasn’t started by a group of radio stations, but was started by fans telling those stations that they wouldn’t listen if they kept playing Dixie Chicks albums. Country music fans who live in flyover country that like our President and agree with the war. And the CD mashing was people destroying their own CD’s. Isn’t this the democratic process we keep hearing so much about? Isn’t this the voices of the people being heard, which is all you hear about from those fools who think they’re being silenced?

I won’t even get into the album sales as I’ve already beat that dead horse, but don’t forget the album that came out afterward that skyrocketed to number one the first week it was out. All that “boycott” succeeded in doing was getting them on the cover of every magazine, on every evening talk show, on every news show, and a prominent feature interview with Diane Sawyer where they made a tearful plea for people to stop being mean to them. Basically, all it turned them into was martyrs.

Oh. One more note for the CCT:

At a recent John Kerry fund-raiser, actress Whoopi Goldberg made several crude puns on Bush’s name, and complaints led to her firing as a spokeswoman for Florida-based Slim-Fast.

Slim Fast is not technically a Florida-based company, it’s owned by a UK based company called Unilever, Inc., and Unilever is run by a hard core Kerry supporting thousands of dollars donating liberal, so let’s not turn the Whoopi episode into some sort of VRWC. It isn’t.

Assholes.