Harry Krause wrote:
NEW YORK, May 31 -- As Taking The Long Way debuts at #1 on the Billboard
Top 200 best-selling albums chart this week, with first week's sales of
525,829, the Dixie Chicks have become the first female group in chart
history to have three albums debut at #1, breaking the record the Chicks
established in 2002 when the group's last studio album, Home, debuted at
#1 and made them the first female group ever to have two albums debut at #1.

With the #1 debut of Taking The Long Way, the Dixie Chicks have also
become the first female group in chart history to have three studio
albums occupy the #1 slot on the Top 200.

Taking The Long Way has achieved one of the year's Top 5 first week's
sales tallies and has the best first week's sales for any female act on
the Top 200 in 2006.

In addition to its chart-topping success in America, Taking The Long Way
has just debuted at #2 in Australia.

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Good things can happen when you leave the rednecks behind.

Yeah, they're good, and they've been kicked around by the hillbillies
because they actually have brains and don't lock step to the party.

Sean Corbett wrote:
You wrote:

Yeah, they're good, and they've been kicked around by the hillbillies
because they actually have brains and don't lock step to the party.


Would that be the Democrat party, the party of Toby Keith? From Mr.
Keith's homepage:

I'm a lifetime registered Democrat. That completely freaks people out. I
helped to campaign in Oklahoma (for Democratic Gov. Brad Henry.)

I always vote for the guy who can get it done. And it ain't nobody's
business who I vote for, but I voted for Clinton twice.


http://tobykeith.musiccitynetworks.c...5&news_id=7055

BWWAAAAHAAA!!!! He finds ONE LOUSY DEMOCRAT and thinks he's found some
divine inspiration.........grow up. And here, learn something:
http://www.motherjones.com/arts/book.../rednecks.html
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/bibli...1-0895260735-1

According to a story from americannewsreel.com sent to RRC by former
Reprise president Howie Klein, "Phone calls originating from Republican
Party headquarters in Washington went out to country stations, urging
them to remove the Chicks from their playlists.The 'alternative
concert' [to the Dixie Chicks' tour opener] is actually the work of the
South Carolina Republican Party and party officials are helping promote
the concert.We received a call from 'Gallagher's Army,' urging us to
support the alternative concert. Caller ID backtraced the call to South
Carolina GOP headquarters."

Chain radio stations were quick to dump the Chicks because their parent
companies (Clear Channel, Viacom, et al) have pressing business in the
nation's capitol and they want help from the Republican Party.

What part of that don't you understand?

In article ,
says...
It's hilarious to watch lefties go apoplectic and scream about "censorship"
of their precious "progressive" artists. The reason why it's always a
leftie involved in these incidents is that RECORD COMPANIES, HOLLYWOOD
STUDIOS AND TELEVISION PRODUCERS ONLY HIRE LEFT-WINGERS. Check the
Billboard Hot 100. Any Republican hip-hoppers on there? The box office
Top Ten. Any flicks by right-wing directors, producers, or stars? How
about network sitcoms? Standup comics? Broadway shows? Lefties, lefties,
lefties. The reality is, that but for a few country artists, THE FAR-LEFT
POWER BROKERS IN THE MOTION PICTURE, MUSIC, TELEVISION AND THEATER
INDUSTRIES HIRE FAR-LEFT ENTERTAINERS AND ONLY FAR-LEFT ENTERTAINERS.

I love it when folks feel the need to type whole sentences in all caps.
You know you've gotten them going. When I'm on edge I usually find a
way to use all caps on a couple of words or spew a couple (of hundred)
expletives.

But you, man, you drank the cool aid all the way to the bottom of the
glass. Here's to ya man, as written in Ulysses "drink life to the
lees."

You're all the way on top of that.

jps

"Sean Corbett" wrote in message
...
You wrote:

It's hilarious to watch lefties go apoplectic and scream about
"censorship"
of their precious "progressive" artists. The reason why it's always a
leftie involved in these incidents is that RECORD COMPANIES, HOLLYWOOD
STUDIOS AND TELEVISION PRODUCERS ONLY HIRE LEFT-WINGERS. Check the
Billboard Hot 100. Any Republican hip-hoppers on there? The box office
Top Ten. Any flicks by right-wing directors, producers, or stars? How
about network sitcoms? Standup comics? Broadway shows? Lefties,
lefties,
lefties. The reality is, that but for a few country artists, THE FAR-LEFT
POWER BROKERS IN THE MOTION PICTURE, MUSIC, TELEVISION AND THEATER
INDUSTRIES HIRE FAR-LEFT ENTERTAINERS AND ONLY FAR-LEFT ENTERTAINERS.

That's a fascinating conclusion. Don't you think, though, that the "power
brokers" are more simply motivated? I imagine their discussions of who to
hire and promote has everything to do with who will make them money and not
what someones political paradigm might be. Then, again, this concept might
be too difficult for me since I have trouble seeing conspiracies around
every corner.

Harry Krause wrote:




There are very very few "artists," performing, creative, or otherwise,
on the "right hand side" of the political spectrum. The very nature of
"conservatism" is the antithesis of artistic creativity.

As someone who has a son and daughter who are very artistic, I do have
to agree. Their brains work completely different than those who use
their right side of their brain (or is that the left side of the brain)

--
Reggie

That's my story and I am sticking to it.

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:55:06 +0000, Sean Corbett wrote:

What about a response to
"Good Night, And Good Luck" showing that Joe McCarthy never identified
someone as a communist who wasn't in fact a communist?

Oh please, before you try promoting that drunk to hero, you might want to
consider the damage he did honest investigations of Soviet espionage. We
now know that there were at least 350 Soviet spies working in this
country. Want to guess how many McCarthy uncovered? As Truman then said
about McCarthy, "the best asset the Kremlin has." Oh, and by the way,
being a communist isn't now, and wasn't then, illegal.

Harry Krause wrote:
Ayn Rand was a liberal, by the way.

Stunned.

Not meaning to argue on this point, really, I figure Harry knows a
liberal from a conservative better than me (I find it sometimes hard to
tell, if you aren't wearing a label)

but

Ayn Rand?
A liberal?
Really?
Compared to ... Atilla the Hun????

Maybe I should try, again, to read one of her tomes.
She was the favourite author of the most right-wing guy I ever dated.
Threw out the books, along with him.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Bryan wrote:
"Sean Corbett" wrote in message
...
You wrote:

It's hilarious to watch lefties go apoplectic and scream about
"censorship"
of their precious "progressive" artists. The reason why it's always a
leftie involved in these incidents is that RECORD COMPANIES, HOLLYWOOD
STUDIOS AND TELEVISION PRODUCERS ONLY HIRE LEFT-WINGERS. Check the
Billboard Hot 100. Any Republican hip-hoppers on there? The box office
Top Ten. Any flicks by right-wing directors, producers, or stars? How
about network sitcoms? Standup comics? Broadway shows? Lefties,
lefties,
lefties. The reality is, that but for a few country artists, THE
FAR-LEFT
POWER BROKERS IN THE MOTION PICTURE, MUSIC, TELEVISION AND THEATER
INDUSTRIES HIRE FAR-LEFT ENTERTAINERS AND ONLY FAR-LEFT ENTERTAINERS.

That's a fascinating conclusion. Don't you think, though, that the
"power brokers" are more simply motivated? I imagine their discussions
of who to hire and promote has everything to do with who will make them
money and not what someones political paradigm might be. Then, again,
this concept might be too difficult for me since I have trouble seeing
conspiracies around every corner.





There are very very few "artists," performing, creative, or otherwise, on
the "right hand side" of the political spectrum. The very nature of
"conservatism" is the antithesis of artistic creativity.


Tell that to Mel Gibson. Seriously, my gut feeling is that there are
certainly more outspoken liberals in the arts than conservatives, but I have
know way of knowing what the true percentage breakdown might be.
Anecdotally, two of the most right wing families I know have just sent
their oldest kids (with right wing views) off to art schools.

Still, I don't see a Hollywood conspiracy to do anything other than promote
the product and the artist that most Americans want to pay money to see. I
doubt very strongly that on the population scale there is any discussion of
who to hire and which screen play to turn into a movie based on politics.