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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: artists and protest (was dixie chicks axis of evil blah blah) |
| Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:18:29 -0500 |
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The bottom line here-- can you say Michael Moore?-- is that being a
celebrity (and so having a platform) is not the same thing as having enough
intelligence or being well enough informed to say something political.
There is a difference between freedom of speech and putting one's own foot
in one's mouth in an extremely public fashion.
I mean, who gives a f*** about the politics of the Dixie Chicks? Can you
even read that sentence I just wrote without laughing out loud? The
politics? of the Dixie Chicks?? Perhaps an hour-long forum a day on C-Span
is in order.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Hoskins" <KarenSH@webtv.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Cc: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: artists and protest (was dixie chicks axis of evil blah blah)
> It is only a form of censporship if said Dixie Chick was forbidden from
> speaking. Just as she has the right to speak as she wishes, her record
> buyers have the right not to buy her records for whatever reason. Or are
> we now forced to listen music we don't care to in order to protect her
> rights?
>
> Do you think she apologized for any other reason other than being afraid
> she'd ticked off her C&W audience and would lose money in record sales?
> Her sincerity of her original comments were trampled by the phony
> sincerity of her apology. If she realy believed in what she said she
> never would have taken it back.
>
> Karen
>
> Road Angel wrote:
> I congratulate the female country stars who are willing to stand up for
> their beliefs. I'm just sorry that conservatives cannot understand that
> dissent is one of the things that makes America great. "The land of the
> FREE," anyone? And whether you like to admit it or not, when a person
> chooses to express him- or herself, and then his or her livlihood is
> threatened because of his or her expression of that belief, that IS a
> form of censorship.
>
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