The Dixie Chicks upsets Texas again

[brettdale]

Sorry dont have the actual link, this was posted on another board.

Latest Attack From Dixie Chicks' Lead Singer Hits Home
Comment Not Sitting Well With Some In Lubbock

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Dixie Chicks lead singer and Lubbock resident Natalie Maines has spoken out once again, this time attacking her hometown instead of the president.

Maines made comments during the premiere of the new Dixie Chicks documentary being featured at the Toronto International Film Festival "Shut Up and Sing,” which documents the group's time since the now notorious President George W. Bush comments when Maines told a concert crowd she and the Chicks were ashamed that Bush was from Texas.

The lead singer spoke to the Vancouver Sun recently, saying, "but if you live in Lubbock, Texas, where I'm from -- you just have one paper and one radio station and unless you're savvy on the Internet, that's it for you. If Bush said get a gun and kill an Arab, they would do that."

It's a comment that isn't sitting well with some Lubbockites.

"I don't believe she should be cutting Lubbock down the way she does because Lubbock housed and fed her for a long time," a resident said.

"Everybody has the right to say whatever they feel, it's a free country," another resident said.

The documentary makers said they don't know exactly when "Shut Up and Sing" will air in Lubbock, but they said it could be as early as October.

[Redstone]

1. Fuck a bunch of Lubbock if they don't like it. I've been there.

And I'd advise anyone not to go there if they don't have to.

Redstone

[Subdivisions]

2. Oh my fucking God! Sit down Lubbock and quit your fuckin' bawlin'!

I'm sick and God-damned tired of people gettin' their wittle feel-wins hurt. Ohhhhhh! Somebody said something that hurt your wittle feel-wins, poooooorrr little Wubby-Lubby! Fuckin' GROW UP and be TEXANS you fucking pussies.

You too Muslims who are pissed at the Pope. Get over it you big crybabies!

[LA lady]

3. There's a poll

http://www.nbc5i.com/entertainment/9893512/detail.html

[derby378]

5. Yes 75% - No 25%. DU this poll NOW!!

Go! Go! Go! This poll is in my hometown! Go! Go! Go!

[donco6]

11. As usual, it's the wrong question. They SHOULD ask:

"If Bush told you to pick up a gun a shoot the nearest 'Islamofascist,' how long would it take?"

[sendero]

4. Lubbock..

.... is a strong contender for the title of "Armpit of Texas". I've been there once, and that was enough for a lifetime.

[EFerrari]

22. But wait -- aren't a bunch of really good musicians from Lubbock?

Wasn't Buddy Holly from Lubbock or am I thinking of a different armpit?

lol

[alarimer]

23. notice how they got out as soon as they could

The Dixie Chicks have a song called "Lubbock or Leave it" and it's basically what Maines said. I have never been to Lubbock so I can't say but most people tell me it's a good place to be FROM.

As Billy Joe Shaver says "There's some nice folks in Lubbock...But they're all DEAD".

[EFerrari]

25. Lol! That's funny.

:)

[Change has come]

27. Lubbock Or Leave It

Great song!



Dust bowl, Bible belt
Got more churches than trees
Raise me, praise me, couldn't save me
Couldn't keep me on my knees,

Oh, Boy, Rave down on loop 289
That'll be the day you see me back
in this fools paradise

Temptation's strong (salvation's gone)
I'm on my way...
To Hells Half Acre
How will I ever, How will I ever
Get to Heaven now..

Throwin stones from the top of your rock
Thinkin' no one can see
The secrets you hide behind
You're Southern hospitality

On the strip the kids get lit
So they can have a real good time
Come Sunday they can take their pick
From the Crucifix skyline

Tempation's strong (salvation's gone)
I'm on my way...
To Hells Half Acre
How will I ever, How will I ever
Get to Heaven now, get to Heaven now

International Airport
A quarter after nine
Paris Texas, Athens Georgia
Not what I had in mind

As I'm getting out I'm laughing to myself
'Cause this is the only place
Where as you're getting on the plane
You see Buddy Holly's face

I hear they hate me now
Just like they hated you
Maybe when I'm dead and gone
I'll get a statue too

Tempation's strong (salvation's gone)
I'm on my way...
To Hells Half Acre
How will I ever, How will I ever
Get to Heaven now, get to Heaven now

How will I ever...Get to Heaven now

:bounce:

[sendero]

24. It's the armpit factor...

.. when you are stuck in an armpit, you want out. So you stretch yourself to do something compelling that will facilitate your displacement.

Yes, Buddy Holly was from Lubbock - but I'm coming up blank on other great artists :)

[EFerrari]

30. Apparently Lubbock calls itself "the music crossroads of Texas"

from Wiki:

"Lubbock is the birthplace of Rock and Roll legend Buddy Holly, and the city hosts both a cultural center and annual music festival named for him.

The city has also been the birthplace or home of several country musicians including Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, and Joe Ely (collectively known as The Flatlanders), Mac Davis, Terry Allen, Lloyd Maines and his daughter, Natalie Maines (singer for the Dixie Chicks)."

Yahoo also finds entries for sightings of the "Lubbock Lights" (when aliens refused to land there) and several fine alcohol treatment facilities.

:)

[FredScuttle]

28. A partial list of artists from Lubbock, courtesy of imdb.com

You are correct...Buddy Holly was from Lubbock, as was:

Mac Davis
Bobby Keys (ace saxophonist with the Rolling Stones and Joe Cocker)
Delbert McClinton
Norman Petty (Holly's manager and writer on a lot of his hits)

incidentally, Donnie Moore was also from Lubbock. He was the tragic figure who gave up a Game 5 home run in 1986 that led to his team, the Angels, losing to the Red Sox in the ALCS...he killed himself 3 years later, unable to get over the stigma.

[EFerrari]

31. That's terrible.

:(

[Vexatious Ape]

6. P.C crime

One does not tell the truth in this country without getting clubbed like a baby fur seal on a cold Arctic night. The con's can bitch all they want about political correctness but they cry the hardest when someone offends their twisted sensibility's.

[Orangepeel]

7. Hah! Are they *denying* they'd kill an Arab?

unAmerican traitors! :rofl:

This is a great comment because somebody who is insulted by the comment probably doesn't want to admit it's an insult.

[filer]

13. Not only would they kill one,

they'd probably drag the body behind a pickup.

[Orangepeel]

33. Nah. Most would only support paying someone else to do it.

actually killing and dragging would involve getting up from the Lay-z-boy.

[tanyev]

8. "Lubbock housed and fed her for a long time"

Heck, even most child abusers house and feed their kids. Guess those kids should be grateful.

[TahitiNut]

15. GMTA (See below.)

:eyes:

[donco6]

9. When she says something untrue, I'll be upset.

But I'm not upset so far.

[TheFriedPiper]

10. Good, upset Texans make me happy

especially if they are upset becuase the Cowboys lost!

[Aristus]

12. To Hell with Lubbock.

If they were worth a shit, they wouldn't still be a one-stoplight cowtown. Why do you think people with brains and talent like Buddy Holly and The Dixie Chicks were in such a hurry to get outta there?

[TahitiNut]

14. "Lubbock housed and fed her for a long time" ???

:wtf:

Was Natalie Maines an orphan? on welfare?

No. She's the daughter of country musician and producer Lloyd Maines and Tina Maines, and a 1992 graduate of Lubbock High School, from which she graduated a year early due to her attending summer school.
I presume her parents paid more than their fair share of taxes.
Father, Lloyd Maines, is a well-known and highly respected steel guitar player for artists including Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Jerry Jeff Walker, Charlie Robison, Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green, Joe Ely, David Byrne, the Dixie Chicks, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and many others.

What a stupid, self-serving, condescending piece of false crap to mouth!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

16. Let's see...

my nephew went to college there (UT Lubbock) and told me stories about how his gay friends were afraid to go off campus for fear they would get beaten.

He didn't seem to be too thrilled with the locals, and I trust his judgement.

The three times I was there I was left with the impresison it was a bit of a lifeless shithole.

But that's just me....

[tanyev]

20. My college choir was on tour up in that part of the world one year.

One day for our free time they dropped us off on the Tech campus. Oh, gosh. Wind and dust and nothing to do. A whole bunch of college kids counting the minutes until the bus came back to pick us up.

[Raine]

17. "Lubbock housed and fed her for a long time" (???)

it seems it would be her parents that "housed and fed her" or did the town pay for it??? :shrug:

[Vexatious Ape]

21. Didn't you know

that the Peoples Republic of Lubbock was a Commie state back when she was growing up?

[Catherine Vincent]

18. She's partially right.

She's from there and she knows the mentality of some of the people there. I think that's why some of them are so upset because they know deep down she is right.

[CTyankee]

19. Hello Texas! See my monicker on DU?

Born and raised in Dallas but long gone now and do you know why? Well, I've got a brain for starters and I'm not taking any more of the Kool Aid. You can have my share, OK?

Thanks for the memory. But now I have moved on to New England. I am a CT Yankee (eek!) now. Get used to it.

[mourningdove92]

26. She's right, you know. And I speak from experience.

I was raised in Lubbock.

[lonestarnot]

29. You just go ahead on and stir them up Natalie! If the truth hurts them

well oh well!

[mitchum]

32. "Lubbock housed and fed her"???!!! What? She was a ward of the city?

Fuck those rednecks

[Rosco T.]

34. I think this says what I want to say to Lubbock

www.cafepress.com/democatic