Ready to Make Nice...Five Times

For the last few years, I thought it was such a shame these excellent artists were being blacklisted.

So it was just great to see the long-vilified Dixie Chicks win five Grammy awards last night. I always wondered why this was a big issue. Were conservatives worried that the Dixie Chicks were going to shape public opinion. If not, who cares? It's not just those who freely choice to burn them in effigy (since they have that right), but the ones who forced others to also boycott the Dixie Chicks, such as disc jockeys in Colorado who were fired for playing their records...freely.

Last night was almost a "Sorry we made a big fuss about your right to freely speak and by the way, you were right about the war" statement.

Perhaps it is time for a general vindication of original war critics. We are today looking for some way to stop the war, but we weren't about to stand up against it in 2003. Perhaps it is time to give credit to those who were. We were all duped, the Dixie Chicks were not.

What's great is that they won 5 Grammy Awards for saying this;

It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter sayin’ that I better shut up and sing or my life will be over