{"id":7472,"date":"2006-05-22T09:42:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2006-05-22T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T13:42:05","slug":"i-dont-feel-he-is-owed-any-respect-whatsoever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/i-dont-feel-he-is-owed-any-respect-whatsoever\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I don’t feel he is owed any respect whatsoever’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I admit that I didn’t follow the “controversy” surrounding the [tag]Dixie Chicks[\/tag] very closely in 2003, but I can’t help but enjoy seeing how the country group isn’t backing down<\/a> now.<\/p>\n

Now that [[tag]Natalie Maines[\/tag] is] truly notorious, having told a London audience in 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, “Just so you know, we’re [tag]ashamed[\/tag] the [tag]President[\/tag] of the United States is from Texas,” Maines has one regret: the apology she offered George W. [tag]Bush[\/tag] at the onset of her infamy. “I apologized for disrespecting the office of the president,” says Maines. “But I don’t feel that way anymore. I don’t feel he is owed any [tag]respect[\/tag] whatsoever.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The country music industry in turn shunned the Dixie Chicks in ’03 after the Bush criticisms, which in turn limited the group’s ability to reach country radio stations. (Some of the more colorful country critics hosted protests in which the groups’ records were smashed.) The Dixie Chicks could have reversed course. They did the opposite. Not only is Maines now telling reporters that Bush isn’t owed any respect at all, the first single from the group’s new album is called, “Not Ready to Make Nice.”<\/p>\n

The industry is still angry — Clear Channel’s Steve Gramzay described the new single as showing “arrogance and disrespect<\/a>” — but the group doesn’t seem to care. Good for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I admit that I didn’t follow the “controversy” surrounding the [tag]Dixie Chicks[\/tag] very closely in 2003, but I can’t help but enjoy seeing how the country group isn’t backing down now. Now that [[tag]Natalie Maines[\/tag] is] truly notorious, having told a London audience in 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, “Just so you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}