This is EXACTLY why I don't get into these political threads. Barry, and everyone, I SEE the freedom of Speech implications. just like I see it now EVERY SINGLE day with anyone that speaks out against ANYTHING with the current administration. You get very upset that a some high matenience Divas a decade ago got dropped by some radio stations, have ,less than half of the information from that time (which I was right in the middle of, since many friends of mine were involved with that label, with those girls, and dealing with bad attitudes, the Gallager references are pretty dead on.) but you seem to conveinently overlook the situation today when people are called rascist, terrorists, have the IRS, FBI, NSA called on them, reputations ruined, family members threatened.

The sense of proportion is what is shocking. No one threw the Chicks in Jail.No one came after their TWELVE MILLION DOLLAR settlement with Sony. No one shut down their Monument record label. They hated Nashville the whole time they were here and were never shy about letting EVERYONE know how much they hated Nashville and everyone in the business they were in. They went on, and are still around today.

They insulted their fans on many other things OTHER THAN one thing they said about George Bush. It's kind of the Leslie Neilson/Officer Barbrady example. Got a gum wrapper on the ground and start screaming about the world ending because of littering, and the entire world behind them is exploding in giant mushroom cloud.

I'm dumping out of this thread because there is nothing else to add here. You can blame everyone and complain they were treated shabily. If you had dealt with them for many years BEFORE that incident, you might have a different opinion of all of it.

MAB