Dixie Chicks Attempt Cheap Publicity Stunt

The Dixie Chicks and their film distributor are claiming they are being victimized in a transparent attempt to drum up publicity for a useless victimography that nobody really wants to see.

In yet another public display of stunning ignorance about the First Amendment, they seem to believe that they have a constitutional right to put their ads on networks that have no desire to be tied up in their attempt to influence the upcoming elections.

One more time for the Dixie Chicks and their adherents: you have a constitutional right to say whatever you want, and no one has ever tried to impinge on that right. However, you don’t have a constitutional - or any other kind of - right to demand that someone else provide you with a platform to do so.

NBC and the CW have viewerships comprised of both Republicans and Democrats, and neither network is in a position to make half of them mad by airing your ridiculous publicity stunt. They are perfectly within their rights to say “I don’t want anything to do with this mess,” and what objective person could really blame them?

The article also makes it clear that you never made a serious attempt to actually place the ads in the first place: it was all a transparent ploy to generate publicity by making false claims about censorship from the start. You did just enough to issue a press release, and for this little piece of prevarication I’m supposed to want to see your film? How pathetic must it be that telling baldface lies about it is the best thing you could come up with to market it? All it tells any sane, thinking person is that this film is pure pap that’s long on agenda and short on facts. Believe it or not, we’re not all as stupid as you thought we were when you dreamed up this little ploy…

But in the world according to the Dixie Chicks and their enablers, only they have the right to speak their mind while everyone else is forced to pony up the time and money so for them to jam their amateur politics down everyone else’s throat. As this little incident shows, in their world you don’t even have to disagree with them to get branded as some sort of corporate Nazi, all you have to do is to decide not to play along.

I guess you’d have to pony up a few bucks to watch their propaganda flick in order to find out what level of Hell from which you must have ascended if you actually have the nerve to call them out on their ignorance of both Geopolitics and Basic Civics 101.

Since I plan on skipping out on the victimography, I guess I’ll never know from which level I arose…If you’re gullible enough to fall for it and decide to watch this tripe, drop me a line. I’ll want to know, so I can put it on my resume.