Dixie Chicks To Be On 60 Minutes This Sunday; Discuss Death Threats

[Hissyspit]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/11/60minutes/main1611424.shtml

Dixie Chicks Recall Death Threat
Steve Kroft Profiles Controversial Country Band

NEW YORK, May 11, 2006

(CBS) The band that received death threats and whose reputation suffered for disparaging President Bush reveals that one of the threats was so specific and serious it required intense police intervention. The Dixie Chicks tell 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft about the threat and how it hasn't made them change their style this Sunday, May 14, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

There had been threats ever since lead singer Natalie Maines told a London audience the band was ashamed that the president of the United States had come from their home state of Texas. This threat, in the summer of 2003, was different than all the others. "It was definitely scary because it seemed so it wasn’t just somebody wanting to write a hate letter. It was somebody who obviously thought they had a plan," Maines tells Kroft.

"There was one specific death threat on Natalie. had a time, had a place, had a weapon. I mean, everything," banjo player Emily Robison recalls. "This was at our show in Dallas. 'You will be shot dead at your show in Dallas' on whatever the date was," she says.

The FBI and the Texas Rangers were brought in, says Maines. "We flew in on a jet … and we went straight from the police cars to the stage and straight from the stage back to the police cars and back to the plane. So, you know, it was all surreal. But at that stage everything was surreal," she remembers.

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In the 60 Minutes segment, the band refuses to apologize to country music fans who were angered by Maines' remarks or to "make nice" to the radio stations that refused to play their music. When asked by Kroft why the band just doesn't try to make country music fans happy, Maines tells him that's not the way the Dixie Chicks work. "We don't make decisions based on that. We don't go, 'OK, our fans are in the red states, so I'm going play a red, white and blue guitar and put on my I Love Bush T-shirt,'" she says. "We’re not like that because we’re not politicians. We’re musicians," Maines tells Kroft.

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[Rose Siding]

1. The letter writer must have been who BO meant when he said "we"

at a dinner earlier this week.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1148822&mesg_id=1148822

Bill O'Idiot: "I enjoyed your performance. I'm glad you performed. I don't agree with some things you say, but you've got guts. We just wish you'd said what you'd said in the United States"

Maines (deadpan): "Oh, I'd say it in the U.S."

[AndyTiedye]

4. Looks Like They're Saying It Everywhere They Go Now

:yourock:

[faithnotgreed]

2. oh im kicking for them

dont listen to them very often but now that they have backed up natalies statement i have much respect for them
and dl their latest song/response to this madness

i dont watch much tv but i will watch them on 60 minutes

[Booster]

5. I wasn't a fan in the beginning, but they grew on me, and after

Natalie made the statement they became my heroes. The thing I was most proud of them for was the fact they stood together and backed each other up without flinching an eye. I went to see them on their last tour and they really put on an excellent show; very polished and each one extremely talented. If they come this way again I'll get me some Chicks tickets.

[faithnotgreed]

6. exactly - they have backed up the original statement

clearly they were confused and angry (rightfully) by the completely ignorant and hateful response they received after the statement was made but you would assume they would let that go since its died down
but NO

here they are again with another great song
i think they are quite talented and do have a wonderful sound and i say that as someone who doesnt listen to much country - but i do respect talent especially when their beliefs are so progressive

[zulchzulu]

3. Scatter-brained Chimpy Apologists are dangerous animals...

It's amazing how utterly hateful and stupid these Repuglified idiots are...I remember talking to them while tabling for Kerry in 2004. Absolute brainwashed Faux Snooze zombies...

I remember this one family that looked like your typical white suburban mid-30s parents and their couple kids. I was giving out flyers about Kerry coming to Madison. This image of a little girl, no older than 8, foaming at the mouth and gritting her teeth with such hate at seeing a Kerry button on me still burns in my brain. The poor little thing learned to hate from her parents. Her Dad wanted to punch me for even holding out a flyer within ten feet of him. It was pretty sad.

[Hissyspit]

7. kick for today