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May. 21st, 2003 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mirajeI heard a lot of things that were very unpleasant to hear tonight. First, I was watching the Country Music Awards on CBS. When the Dixie Chicks' name was called for entertainer of the year, the audience (all the country singers and families and suck) booed. I'm getting so fucking tired of the immaturity that our country has shown these artists. When once these people loved their music and brought them into their family, they have now shoved them out into the gutters. I couldn't help but think what a bunch of hypocrites all these adult artists were. You go to an awards show to honor the music, and all I saw was political propaganda with people singing about America kicking ass and getting standing ovations and POWs being invited to see the show. If you don't agree with them, then you better not say a goddamn thing. They'll rake you over the coals for have a fucking OPINION. Who gives a shit about music anymore. While all this was going on, I got to sit there and listen to Dad and Vickie talk about how glad they were that the Dixie Chicks were booed.
Here's the second unpleasant thing of the night. I was watching CNN or some other news station, and they were talking about the next election. It's starting to look like Bush might win re-election. The Democrats need to stop squabbling, pull their heads out of their asses, and get something moving. They need to pick a candidate...SOON.
Here's the second unpleasant thing of the night. I was watching CNN or some other news station, and they were talking about the next election. It's starting to look like Bush might win re-election. The Democrats need to stop squabbling, pull their heads out of their asses, and get something moving. They need to pick a candidate...SOON.
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Date: 2003-05-21 08:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-05-21 09:01 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-05-21 09:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-05-22 05:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-05-22 10:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-05-22 07:45 am (UTC)"I got to sit there and listen to Dad and Vickie talk about how glad they were that the Dixie Chicks were booed."
I know what you mean about ^that. When my parents came to pick me up from school for my summer break, we were in the car, and I said "let's put in the Dixie Chicks!" And my dad said: I don't want to even put them near the radio" yadda yadda yadda.. And my mom said: "Their not so bad. It's only that one with the big mouth running at the head." Um.. HELLO??!! So *I* said: "No. I'm glad they said what they said. SOMEBODY needed to say it." Needless to say, my parents didn't like it, but we got to listen to the Dixie Chicks.
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Date: 2003-05-22 10:23 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-05-22 10:51 am (UTC)Maybe next time! ;)
Don't mean to intrude
Date: 2003-05-22 11:14 am (UTC)It is okay for everyone to have an opinion and express their right of free speach, but expect someone to disagree...
Okies, I'm sorry I intruded in yer LJ...
Re: Don't mean to intrude
Date: 2003-05-22 12:57 pm (UTC)I still don't understand the extent of the negativity, even if I understand where you're coming from on the being in another country thing. Ordinary people say those types of things all the time, in our country and in others. I never got the whole "Well, you're famous, so you're not allowed to have an opinion. And while you're at it, you're only allowed to speak your mind in certain places."