"Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing" Movie Trailer

[Dr. Love]

This is the first time I recall DC stating a preference for women.

[DEMON CUNT]

Yeah, it seems as though CC was stirring the pot to provoke the toothless hillbilly right into supporting the invasion of Iraq.

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by Dr. Love
This is the first time I recall DC stating a preference for women.

DC is 100% hetro.

All the homo shit is for the benefit of the conservative reactionary dumb dumbs.

The way they would respond to a picture of some dude in his underwear was both hilarious and creepy. They would run around screaming like spooked monkeys.

One of them even started a thread hoping that I was a fag. Here he is now:

[4moreyears]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
Since when is collusion in any way legal. And again, the Chicks last album was high high high on the charts. So, in essence, they're creating and altering the market, not reacting to it.

When you are a country music radio station and your primary demographic is right wing rednecks then it is not collusion it is good business sense. Willie Nelson is a big country singer but a liberal democrat. But is is smart enough to not piss off his main fan base. It was OK for them to say what they said but they pissed off a % of their fans who made a big enough stink. They seem to understand the concequences of what they said. I do respect them for sticking to their guns and not caving.

[Nickdfresh]

Again, facts mensa. How is it good business not to play the number one selling country act?

We're talking about a small minority of dumb fucking chickehawk loudmouths that were trying to censor the Chicks. Not the majority of the demographic, as evidenced by their sales.

And stop with the high school, 11th grade level, economics lessons...

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by DEMON CUNT
DC is 100% hetro.

All the homo shit is for the benefit of the conservative reactionary dumb dumbs.

Riiiiiiight.

[4moreyears]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh

And stop with the high school, 11th grade level, economics lessons...

Do you want me to come down to 1st grade so you can understand it?

See Ford. See Ford Run.

[ULTRAMAN VH]

And why is a ridiculous thread like this posted on the Frontline? Hey, Mighty Moderator, why don't you dump this.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by 4moreyears
Do you want me to come down to 1st grade so you can understand it?

See Ford. See Ford Run.

No, I want you to attend college so you can speak my language, high school girl...

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by ULTRAMAN VH
And why is a ridiculous thread like this posted on the Frontline? Hey, Mighty Moderator, why don't you dump this.

You know, I almost got excited when I saw that you actually posted in a thread that was not your own shit op-ed cut and pastes.

Then I saw this...

[DEMON CUNT]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Riiiiiiight.

Speaking of conservative reactionary dumb dumbs who are stimulated by gay pictures.

It appears that BigBland enjoys watching men in tight clothes play with their bats and balls.

Paging Dr. Freud!

Isn't one of those guys named Pooholes?

[blueturk]

Unaired Ad Gets Dixie Chicks Flick A Whole Lot of Ink

By Lisa de Moraes
Saturday, October 28, 2006; C01



NBC and CW networks became unwitting stealth-marketing partners with the Weinstein Co. when they refused to air ads for the film company's upcoming docu-flick about the storm that erupted when the Dixie Chicks' lead singer said in a 2003 concert she was ashamed President Bush was from her home state of Texas.

Or, as we like to say here at The TV Column, when refusing ads for a flick about Censorship and Freedom of Speech, it's always best not to tell the producer in writing that you "cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to the President" or that your network "does not have appropriate programming in which to schedule this spot" -- because such statements are going to wind up in a news release about network censorship.

It all started earlier this week when Weinstein submitted ads for its new Barbara Kopple documentary "Shut Up & Sing" to the broadcast networks for review by their standards and practices departments.

NBC said it "cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush."

CW said it "does not have appropriate programming in which to schedule this spot."

Weinstein said: "Eureka!"

And on Thursday evening, it sent out a news release headlined:

"In an Ironic Twist of Events, NBC and the CW Television Networks Refuse to Air Ads for Documentary Focusing on Freedom of Speech."

"It's a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America," bemoaned Weinstein Co. co-chairman Harvey Weinstein.

"The idea that anyone should be penalized for criticizing the president is sad and profoundly un-American," he added.

And, because Weinstein Co. didn't send out the announcement until too late for reporters in some areas of the country to get an "outside expert" on the phone to comment, it even provided them with one, throwing in a quote from "famed litigator David Boies."

(Boies, FYI, is one of the "legal eagles" who crafted the exit agreement from Disney of the former Miramax chiefs -- Bob and Harvey Weinstein, Variety reported back when.)

"It is disappointing and troubling that NBC and The CW would refuse to accept an otherwise appropriate ad merely because it is critical of President Bush," Boies said in the news release.

"Political criticism is at the heart of the First Amendment. The legal issues are complicated; the policy is not. The public deserves to hear more than the official point of view."

All good stuff. But the Weinstein Co. probably should not have thrown in at the end of the release that it is "exploring taking legal action." Way too Snidely Whiplash.

In case you haven't yet seen it, the 15-second version of the ad opens with President Bush saying in a televised speech, "The United States is ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction."

Then the words "Lies Exposed" appear on a black screen.

Cut to: Natalie Maines saying she's embarrassed about Bush, to thunderous applause.

Cut to: Clip of some local news chick saying to camera, "The radio station has set up these garbage cans for people to throw out their CDs."

Cut to: Much hooting and hollering at anti-Dixie Chicks protest, with crowd shouting "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! and waving signs suggesting the singers should be tried for treason. "Move to France, Dixie Chicks!" one guy suggests helpfully.

Cut to: The words "Conspiracy Uncovered" on a black screen.

Cut to: The lead singer reading a message that says "Natalie Maines will be shot dead in Dallas, Texas."

Cut to: News conference with someone official-sounding saying, "The FBI had some intelligence, but they didn't share it." (Which in and of itself is actually a very funny line.)

Cut to: Bush saying, presumably to reporters, while walking, "They shouldn't have their feelings hurt because some people don't want to buy their record."

Cut to: Maines on a couch, reading Bush's comment about their feelings being hurt. " 'Have their feelings hurt'?!" she says, incredulously. "What a dumb --"

Before she can get out the last word, the picture cuts away and Voiceover Guy says, "Rated R -- select theaters this Friday."

When a small movie like this one gets a very limited release -- just four theaters this weekend -- with the intention of going wide after that, word of mouth is critical and that's when you often see stealth marketing campaigns, such as whipping the media into a froth over some angle on the flick to generate millions in free publicity. (The movie opens nationwide Nov. 10.)

Yesterday both NBC and CW noted Weinstein Co. hadn't actually tried to make a national media buy for the ads. So, they seemed to be saying, their comments about the ads are a moot point.

"While a spot was submitted to our broadcast standards and practices department for review and was rejected because it violated our policy of not broadcasting ads that deal with issues of public controversy, the Weinstein Company did not make a national media buy for 'Shut Up & Sing,' nor did anyone from the company inquire about buying time on the network," NBC said.

CW, which values brevity, merely said for the record that the Weinstein news release is "flat-out inaccurate. The whole matter is a mystery to The CW."

"We have lots of issues with commercials all the time," Alan Wurtzel from NBC told The TV Column. Wurtzel oversees the standards department in his capacity as president of research and media development of NBC Universal.

"NBC got back to the film company explaining the ads violated NBC's policy against taking ads that dealt with issues of public controversy, and one of the ways they were doing that was being disparaging of Bush. . . . We never heard from them again," he said.

"These are guys who know what the procedure is with respect to ads clearances -- they've done this for 20 years. Normally they'd be on the phone in a second saying either 'how do I fix it to make it comply?' or 'let me talk to your boss.' In neither case did that happen. . . . This leads me to believe they might have had another objective."

Asked whether he thought NBC had played into the film company's hand, Wurtzel said, "I will say there have been other instances in the past where [companies] get more publicity by having an ad rejected than run."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/27/AR2006102701746.html

[matt19]

B-o-o H-o-o , I'm sorry but they alienated their core fanbase. You cant tell me they didnt know their core fanbase was conservitive. I respect the fact that they spoke their mind. And they made the right choice in speaking what they thought. However you cant have your cake and eat it too.

[4moreyears]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
No, I want you to attend college so you can speak my language, high school girl...

Come on Nicole you are not worth the time.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by 4moreyears
Come on Nicole you are not worth the time.

Okay bitch. Which college did you go to again high school boy?

Know nothing fucking troll says what?

If you truly are a 30-something, which I'm quite convinced you're not, you're pretty sad. And if you're a teen listing her age as 30+, when do you plan to enlist?