The Dixie Chicks

HarryKeogh said:
this just in...They're on Howard Stern right now and we just learned none of them swallow, they don't get their periods at the same time and one of them (Natalie) is fully shaved.
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Damn, I miss Howard.
 
Why do I sense 3 intellegent women yanking Howard's chain right about now? :D
 
Lessee... they've gotten themselves on the cover of Time, they got themselves on HowardStern's show, they were on Newsweek's web site yeserday, all just when heir latest album comes out.

Publicity campaign? Nahhh...
 
Jocko, your loyal readers are supplying you with a veritable plethora of sig line material this week. I'm impressed.
 
BPSCG said:
Lessee... they've gotten themselves on the cover of Time, they got themselves on HowardStern's show, they were on Newsweek's web site yeserday, all just when heir latest album comes out.

Publicity campaign? Nahhh...
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Well, of course they were on Howard to promote a new album. I figured that out When Stern introduced them and he said they're hear to promote a new album.
 
Jocko said:
Breathtaking self-delusion. No other way to describe it.
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So, what's the self-delusion here. You think that those three are being sincere, rather than yanking Howard left and right for some cheap publicity?

Really?

Where's the beef, Jock?
 
BPSCG said:
Lessee... they've gotten themselves on the cover of Time, they got themselves on HowardStern's show, they were on Newsweek's web site yeserday, all just when heir latest album comes out.

Publicity campaign? Nahhh...
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Lessee... Every single talk show, TV and radio, morning, noon and night ... every single entertainment celebrity guest and a good portion of the rest of the guests are promoting their latest product.

Nahhh...
 
jj said:
So, what's the self-delusion here. You think that those three are being sincere, rather than yanking Howard left and right for some cheap publicity?
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Do you think they drop politically-charged bombshells for cheap publicity?

Where's the beef, Jock?
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Dunno, didn't Stern ask them?
 
BPSCG said:
And this gets them on the cover of Time.

Someone explain to me the difference between Time and People.
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Would that be the intended difference or the real difference you are referring to between the "news"magazine and the "chat"magazine?
 
Here's a Stern fan's synopsis of the war-related backlash portion of the interview. It was a relatively small portion of the whole interview.

Howard apologized for what he said about them back when they said some things about President Bush a few years back.

The girls said that things got really bad when the Red Cross refused to take a million dollars from them. They couldn't believe that they had so much negative feedback after expressing their opinions on what they thought about the war in Iraq. Howard said that Iraq is a mess right now and it will be a mess for a long time. It may never be right. The Chicks lost a lot of fans because of their comments but they said that they just move on from there and put that behind them.
The girls said that they're not getting a lot of air play because of what went on a few years ago. Howard asked if Clear Channel is still one of the companies giving them a problem. He explained how they got rid of him after he came out against the war a few years back. He thinks that they fired him because of that and blamed the FCC for the firing. The Chicks said that Clear Channel hasn't given them that much of a problem but Cumulus (Corrected to Cox later) banned them all together. They said that Clear Channel gave their stations the choice to ban them if they wanted to. They were very sneaky about it while Cumulus (Cox) wasn't. The Chicks said that Clear Channel didn't have a problem booking them for gigs at their venues.
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I'm having trouble buying the Red Cross refusing to accept a million dollars from them though. I wonder what's the story behind that.
 
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HarryKeogh said:
I'm having trouble buying the Red Cross refusing to accept a million dollars from them though. I wonder what's the story behind that.
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I don't know the answer, but here's a possible scenario. Dixie Chicks offer to do a charity concert benefitting the Red Cross. Red Cross realizes that the negative publicity might turn off other donors and offset any financial gain from the charity concert, so they turn down the offer.

Wouldn't be the same as turning down a check for a million dollars.
 
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