Springsteen, Dixie Chicks, & Joe McCarthy
edlorah
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Watching Diane Sawyer's parental interrogation of the Dixie Chicks tonight: "Ashamed? Ashamed of the President? Did you mean to use another word?" And their tearful retraction: "We didn't mean it. Everybody who lost someone in 911 should get to torture Osama bin Laden."
Bruce Springsteen commented eloquently the other day on the Chick's plight (see below) but what took him so long? The controversy began weeks ago before the war began. Bruce said nothing until the storm subsided and the war was "won". Has Joe McCarthy had the last laugh? Are artists too afraid of a new blacklist to express their opinions if they are not in line with the Bush administration?
Bruce's comments-
The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves. To me, they're terrific American artists expressing American values by using their American right to free speech. For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American.
The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about - namely freedom. Right now, we are supposedly fighting to create freedom in Iraq, at the same time that some are trying to intimidate and punish people for using that same freedom here at home.
I don't know what happens next, but I do want to add my voice to those who think that the Dixie Chicks are getting a raw deal, and an un-American one to boot. I send them my support.
Bruce Springsteen
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"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
Watching Diane Sawyer's parental interrogation of the Dixie Chicks tonight: "Ashamed? Ashamed of the President? Did you mean to use another word?" And their tearful retraction: "We didn't mean it. Everybody who lost someone in 911 should get to torture Osama bin Laden."
Bruce Springsteen commented eloquently the other day on the Chick's plight (see below) but what took him so long? The controversy began weeks ago before the war began. Bruce said nothing until the storm subsided and the war was "won". Has Joe McCarthy had the last laugh? Are artists too afraid of a new blacklist to express their opinions if they are not in line with the Bush administration?
Bruce's comments-
The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves. To me, they're terrific American artists expressing American values by using their American right to free speech. For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American.
The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about - namely freedom. Right now, we are supposedly fighting to create freedom in Iraq, at the same time that some are trying to intimidate and punish people for using that same freedom here at home.
I don't know what happens next, but I do want to add my voice to those who think that the Dixie Chicks are getting a raw deal, and an un-American one to boot. I send them my support.
Bruce Springsteen
|
–--
"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
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