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Dixie Chicks Attempt Career Rehab"

Posted by Kevin Willmann
Sunday, March 16, 2003


Did you just hear that flushing noise of rushing water? That was Dixie Chick Natalie Maines flushing the group's career down the drain, after her verbal slap at George W. Bush at a concert in England.

Maines' attack on Bush has stirred as much, if not more, anger as than John Lennon’s "bigger than Jesus" comment. Now, fans are throwing Dixie Chicks (or ''Vichy Chicks'' to some) CDs, concert tickets, and other souvenirs in their closest garbage can or bonfire.

Realizing their careers are sinking faster than the Titanic, the trio has issued another apology. More on their desperate attempt to save their career can be found in the following from Entertainment Weekly.

Angry fans and radio stations appear to have rapidly clipped Dixie Chick Natalie Maines' antiwar feathers. The country singer apologized Friday evening for saying her band is '''ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas''--comments that prompted furious online posts and phone calls from listeners, and boycotts from some country stations. '''I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful,'' Maines said in a statement released by her publicist. '''I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect.''

She also seemed to soften her antiwar stance in the face of protests. ''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,'' she said in her new statement. In an earlier statement on their website, the Chicks had taken a stronger stand: ''While we support our troops, there is nothing more frightening than the notion of going to war with Iraq and the prospect of all the innocent lives that will be lost.''

To read the entire article, go to:

http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,433054~4~0~dixiechickapologizesfor,00.html