Dixie Chicks plane mishap (they're OK)

[DaveGriffin]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-1104462,00.html

 

[chawbein]

US country rock band the Dixie Chicks...

They're barely country and not at all rock, but they entirely suck.

 

[flywithastick]

Dixie Chicks plane mishap (they're OK)

boy, am I relieved!

 

[skyking1976]

but they entirely suck.

That's not exactly a bad thing....

 

[Singlecoil]

Looks like Pat Robertson wasn't praying quite hard enough...

 

[sleepy]

Who are the Dixie Chicks? Are they from Georgia?

 

[Thrust Master]

What a shame,
A nice plane like that was damaged...
I'll bet the FAT little blonde was wearing a
seat belt extender, to bad it wasn't around
her neck when they stopped fast.

Let them tour Europe, they don't mean $hit
here...


The Snake is back

 

[VivaZapata]

The Dixie Chicks' opinion on Bushy boy is right on! Their music is okay. Glad to see that all is well.

 

[TonyC]

Freedoms and Responsibilities

The Dixie Chicks' opinion on Bushy boy is right on! Their music is okay. Glad to see that all is well.

You're entitled to your opinion, and they're entitled to theirs. The First Amendment allows them to voice those opinions. But the First Amendment applies to US citizens on US soil. As far as I'm concerned, that can only extend to 12 miles off shore -- that's where International airspace/waters begin, and that's where a US citizen's responsibility to be a proper ambassador of his/her country begins. To go to a foreign country and tell a large concert audience that you're ashamed of your President is despicable behavior -- grossly irresponsible. Doing such amounts to nothing less than aiding and abetting the enemy.

Freedoms go hand in hand with RESPONSIBILITY

IMHO....

 

[TonyC]

"The incident happened when part of the wing just hit a corner of the building." ... "It was taxi-ing at a very low speed towards the general aviation terminal, where private aircraft park when the wingtip clipped the Glasgow and Strathclyde University air squadron building." ... He said the building suffered damage to a roof panel and "about one or two feet" of the plane's wingtip was damaged.

Wow. Good thing the pilot wasn't doing anything! (the "wing just hit ... the building", "It was taxi-ing...", "the wingtip clipped ... the building.") In my former life we always believed a taxi accident was the kiss of death to a career.

Good grief, though, how could you misjudge a building by "one or two feeet"?!?!?

 

[EagleRJ]

The pilot was obviously a little left of where he thought he was, due to three of the passengers he was carrying!

 

[njcapt]

The pilot was obviously a little left of where he thought he was, due to three of the passengers he was carrying!

WWaaahhhhhahahahaha.

That was a good one.

Glad everytime we get a little ramp (or hangar) rash it doesn't make the international press.

 

[VivaZapata]

But the First Amendment applies to US citizens on US soil.

To imply that the right of free speech ends when outside of US soil is abject nonsense. Where did you get this idea?

and that's where a US citizen's responsibility to be a proper ambassador of his/her country begins. To go to a foreign country and tell a large concert audience that you're ashamed of your President is despicable behavior -- grossly irresponsible. Doing such amounts to nothing less than aiding and abetting the enemy.

Being a "proper ambassador" does not mean that you have to falsely express that you're in lock step with the current regime. More importantly, a "proper ambassador" will excercise their constitutional rights in foreign countries as long as that country's laws are not being violated. What is dispicable and irresponsible is unconditional allegiance.

"aiding and abetting the enemy" (Not that it matters where this took place) This concert was in London England. Since when is England considered "the enemy"?

 

[Typhoon1244]

Heard a store clerk complaining about people like the Dixie Chicks thinking they have a right to say whatever they want just because they're famous.

Just playing Devil's advocate...if Natalie Maines had come out on stage and yelled "we're proud to share the home state of the greatest American that ever lived, George W. Bush! Go Bush! Yee-ha," nobody'd be complaining about celebrities shooting their mouths off in public.

Or what if she'd come out yelling, "Bill Clinton's a loser!" Would y'all still be burning their albums?

Right after sucking face with Madonna, Britney Spears went on Crossfire and said "...I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens." In other words, don't think, just obey. I didn't hear anybody (except Bill Maher) complaining about that.

 

[bart]

The way I see it... consider the source.

Bunch of overweight, uneducated half-wits expressing an opinion so that the Hollywood Elite will fawn all over them...

Whatever... let 'em go to Hollywood and have mutual admiration love-fest with Babs and Alec.

One last thing: Viva-Zapata: Being and American citizen and bad mouthing your country abroad isn't illegal, but it sure is in bad taste and speaks volumes of someone's character.

Also, I understand you are angry that Bush is running this country and going after terrorists instead of accepting bribes from the Chinese and getting bjs from overweight interns. Hell, it makes me mad sometimes too.

 

[FL000]

I don't have a problem with the girl saying anything she wants to, wherever she wants to. I also don't see why she has a problem with her fans, or former fans, discarding their albums, boycotting their music and concerts, and expressing their displeasure at the comments.

Unfortunately, those of us who hated their music to begin with have no other recourse except to roll our eyes or shoot off at the mouth.

Each party has a right to do and say as he pleases.

 

[414Flyer]

To imply that the right of free speech ends when outside of US soil is abject nonsense. Where did you get this idea?

Well if you honestly think US rights apply to US citizens while overseas, go to either of your favorite countries like DPRK or Cuba, and start criticizing the glorious leader and or the revolution, and see how far "I am a US citizen" goes.

No one has said she did not have the right to do it, just that it was at a really bad time, and that maybe criticisms are best done at home. There are a lot of things one has the right to do, that will still get you plenty of criticism. Just because someone can do something, doesnt mean everyone has to accept and celebrate it.

Personally I like the Dixie Chicks pre-natalie maines better.

 

[Jafar]

Bunch of overweight, uneducated half-wits expressing an opinion so that the Hollywood Elite will fawn all over them...

The Butter Hogs. Most fitting description for those food-bags I've heard yet. Phil Hendrie coined this term to describe the "chicks" a few weeks ago.

 

[XGmaninGA]

Glad to see the French Hens were unscathed by their brush with death.

 

[350DRIVER]

They can say whatever the he!! they want to. This is America and quite frankly I as well as many other millions of Americans share the exact same views, opinions, etc, etc.... If you don't like em then the simple solution would be >don't listen to them or buy their music. Obviously, they sure got their point across to many people since this has caught "your" attention.

Glad everything turned out alright.

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