The tip off for me Ms. Horn was when you called Pres. G. W. Bush a “war criminal”. The Dixie Chicks lead singer decided to bad mouthed the president while standing in front of a mainly socialist audience in England. The cheering she got from the audience must have fooled her into thinking that what she said would be…

The fact is that 3/4 of the American public was in favor of the Iraq war when it started. It was months into it that Americans began to blame Bush for the intelligence Colin Powell (and every intelligence service around the world) provided him. ( remember : “ its a slam dunk, sir” ?)War is something you don’t get into…

Screw the Dixie Chicks......to quote a few words from another country singer of great fame, “when you’re running down my country, you’re walking on the fighting side of me.” That’s what Natalie M and the Dixie Chicks as a band were doing. I understand free speech......But when you are making that statement in a…

It wasn’t just what happened in TX that was the final nail in the coffin and I believe it was terrible for people to threaten anyone. There was also an ongoing feud with Toby Keith where Maine wore a shirt to the grammys that said FUTK. She seemed to not have an edit function. Also, as a performer she was almost a…

Wow, big day at Gawker. First it’s hate and vitriol towards George W. Bush because it will never be not fun to gin that emotion up again and get your totes stars. Then it’s wagging your finger at any consumer with the audacity to actually choose how they spent their own discretionary funds.

Slow news week? bringing up an incident from a dozen years ago. The only lesson you can take away from this old, OLD news is that sometimes, right or wrong there are consequences to be paid for opening ones mouth. So if you aren’t prepared to accept those consequences, better to sing your songs and stay out of…

I call BULLSHIITE on this. Michael Richards mutters “ni****” and saw his career in Hollywood disappear; Paula Deen admits using the word in a legal deposition and her TV show is cancelled; Donald Stirling is castigated as a racist and his football team is taken away. The Dixie Chicks DESERVE the exact same treatment…

This was NOT a RAW DEAL. It was straight cold disapproval.

Oh please...

Raw deal? The Dixie Chicks are country music artists... Country music is popular all over the country, but it’s primary fan base is in the South... In Dixie (let’s not get into the Confederate imagery in the band’s name). The South is conservative. So if Natalie Maines says something that the majority of her fan base…

lol am i supposed to be sympathetic to these dumb cunts? because i’m not. but its typical to expect gawker to embrace feminazi nonsense by trying to rehabilitate the image of 3 very stupid women who shit where they ate. freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, and these very, very stupid women should have…

No- If you speak out against our president HERE, at HOME, that is one thing. But what they did was ANOTHER ENTIRELY- Basically criticized our nation IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY. They could stay there forever for all I care about them.- They got what they deserved, and I am still disgusted when I hear a “Chix with Dix” song…

There’s a way to do something, but in the shadow of 9/11 people supported the President, something everyone seems to have forgotten and they attacked American Pride. After 9/11 regardless of the after effects, people were more united then ever without realizing it. Now look where we are at?

I feel bad that they were ahead of their time on being critical of the war and Bush. That said, you gotta know your audience. You wouldn’t expect the CEO of a company mostly catering to millennials and progressives to come out against gay marriage and get away unscathed. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen CEOs ousted…

I love revisionist historians.

The Dixie Chicks had an audience largely comprised of small minded right wing idiots and chose to speak out in such a manner that the reaction would be predictable to anyone with a brain cell. I really dont feel very sorry for them though, because in the same way that they were able to exercise their right of self…

I’m not sure why people standing in front of microphones to sing songs often feel compelled to vomit their political views on their captive audiences. I’m not supporting or condemning what they said — I just get tired of actors, musicians, etc., thinking they know more than the average joe when it comes to political…

Man, I really love reading this sports blog. All the sports content is blowing me away. Nothing says sports like a post about decade old controversy about music to serve the political agenda of the writer.

·“George W. Bush should be remembered as a war criminal, and not be repainted as a simple old man from Texas who enjoys painting and baseball.”
Hey, I am not really a GWB guy, but the president didn’t act alone... If you are going to call him a war criminal, better throw in his entire Cabinet, every General, every…

I don’t care about the Dixie Chicks one way or another, but a lesson I learned a long time ago is that “You can have anything you want, you just can’t have everything you want”! They chose there path and got what they got. I hope it was worth it...