Dixie Chicks/Larry King. Great show but Larry looked like he wanted

controversy.


he was getting kind of pissy

Based on SALES, not radio. Because the pisshead corporate country music people can't bring themselves to play them.. but the people are buying it! AND.. the Dixie Chick's album has outsold.... Toby Keith's lastest album! Ha!!

who he's had on his program nearly a dozen times, boring us with her woes as she blasted the Clintons?

I think that maybe he wanted them to be more hard-core or something but instead they seemed very nice and humble while voicing their opinions.

and honest in a lady type of way

:dem: They are Brave,they didn't Back Down,they were Right then,they are Right now!:patriot:I liked them in 2003 and I love them now!"The band received death threats, including at least one, in Dallas, that the FBI considered credible. A newspaper printed Maines's home address in Austin, Texas, and she ended up moving first outside the city and then to Los Angeles. On the American tour a handful of boos were drowned out by fervent cheers. Suddenly there was more at stake than toe-tapping tunes." Travelin' Soldier; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZn-yaYivdw&search=Dixie%20Chicks%20Travelin No more apologies from the Dixie Chicks http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/29/news/dixie.php In Defense Of The Dixie Chicks - And Responses
posted May 31, 2006 http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_86778.asp
:yourock: Oops,How could I forget Pink.:blush: How does he sleep? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FF0cS9s6Aw&search=pink%20dear%20mr%20president&watch2

When a caller said something to the effect that there were 70% of the people who stood with the Dixie Chicks, Larry King said, "More like 60%." To their credit, the Dixie Chicks continued to stick by that figure in several comments following his "correction".

Then, after the clip of the Dixie Chicks singing the national anthem at the 2003 World Series (?) following a commercial break, Larry King segued with an explanation of the clip, adding that that was the last time (with a hmmph-type of laugh) the Dixie Chicks sang the national anthem.

the anthem since then, and they said no, so he was just repeating something they had already said themselves.

I love this show though -- the Chicks are doing great, and the callers have been very supportive of them. I was waiting for a call from a Freeper or something, but it didn't happen.

Chicks Rock!

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These gals got what Toby never had - big swinging brass ones, May 31, 2006
Reviewer: Sojourner AndNothinBut "TRUTH" (Red State South, USA) - See all my reviews
A truly brilliant work. The considerable talents of this trio washes over the listener in waves of awesome sound and gripping lyrics. Those whining about "overproduction" and the "loss" of instrumental distinction should upgrade from those spark'a'matic speakers. Production quality is sharp as a razor, which accounts for the crystal clarity of every instrumental and vocal contribution.
These ladies leave no doubt about who they are, where they stand, what they're made of and whose opinion they care about - and whose they don't. And I kinda like it...

so I didn't know he was repeating that fact.

I was glad that the callers were respectful. The only caller who came close to being contentious was when an older lady mentioned that she had a granddaughter serving in Iraq -- do the Dixie Chicks have any plans to go to Iraq to entertain the troops. It was the mention of having a granddaughter serving that made me wonder for a moment if she had meant to undermine them. I liked their answer; that their performance on the naval ship went well & that they would go to Iraq if the troops wanted them to go.

And I hope they DO get to go to Iraq if that is what the want to do (and that they -- and the troops -- stay safe).

"whew" there are some of you left...allowed to talk on tv :)

They were fabulous, I was very impressed with them--better than balls, they've got estrogen! I loved the male caller (from Colorado? can't remember) who mentioned that the Dixie Chicks were on live, taking calls from the American people, where Donald Rumsfeld was just on but refused to do it live, and therefore avoided taking calls, and the caller called Rumsfeld a "coward." It was wonderful. King is such a clueless asshole, and fought the caller, "It's kind of hard to take calls when you're not on live," a totally bizarre, deliberate refusal to understand the caller's point, and then critcized the caller for making the statement at all.

I always thought there was something very strange and disconnected about the "big backlash" against them--all the manifestations were corporate (smear campaigns, no airplay, etc.)--yet the tour they went on just after the original comment was a complete sellout, and now their new CD debuts at #1 with a bullet, meaning an industry-projected continued strong seller, and all the calls on tonight's program were favorable. It is possible that the whole thing was a fake, organized campaign designed to provoke a response and destroy their careers, all by media manipulation--and the American people responded by going out and buying the CD instead. This is why I never give up on the American people. We are not evil, or stupid, and we will not be led down this path forever. Give people the facts and--bam--Bush's, Cheney's, Rumsfeld's, Rove's, etc., favorable opinions are all down the drain and dead.

I never really liked country music, exactly because of the occasional frightening narrow-mindedness of its fans, with a very few exceptions, but the Dixie Chicks did what I think was the single best version of Stevie Nicks's "Landslide" apart from Fleetwood Mac itself, and this new "Not Ready to Make Nice" is great. I was really impressed with them the whole hour, they have come through this ordeal beautifully, they were proven right by events--remember that this was when only Sen. Robert Byrd was making speeches against invading Iraq at that time, also unheeded--and I hope they end up being even bigger and more popular than ever. Before Stephen Colbert or any of these others, there were the Dixie Chicks. They are the real Americans!

Glad to hear they were great!