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For the record, the comment was met with a roar of approval so it didn't sound like many people were offended and walked out, if any at all.

if I was in the public eye and I knew my words were going to do some bad along with good I would most definitely have enough common sense to not use my celebrity status to spout political anything

So you are saying that you would sacrifice your ethics and keep your mouth shut in order to make a buck?

if they said it on their own soil................. there wouldn't have been such a backlash!

I do NOT go to hear someone who probably doesn't know a single thing about what they are talking about spewing propaganda

Then shouldn't we say the same about you? Aren't you doing the exact same thing? You may not be all that knowledgeable either when it comes to this particular subject.

Apology from Natalie Maines
As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful. I now realize that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect.

I hope everyone understands, I'm just a young girl who grew up in Texas. As far back as I can remember, I heard people say they were ashamed of President Clinton. I saw bumper stickers calling him everything from a pothead to a murderer. I heard people on the radio and tv like Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott bad mouthing the President and ridiculing his wife and daughter at every opportunity.

I heard LOTS of people disrespecting the President. So I guess I just assumed it was acceptable behavior.

But now, thanks to the thousands of angry people who want radio stations to boycott our music because criticizing the President is unpatriotic, I realize it's wrong to have a liberal opinion if you're a country music artist. I guess I should have thought about that before deciding to play music that attracts hypocritical rednecks.

I also realize now that I'm supposed to just sing and look cute so our fans won't have anything to upset them while they're cheating on their wives or getting in drunken bar fights or driving around in their pickup trucks shooting highway signs and small animals.

And most important of all, I realize that it's wrong for a celebrity to voice a political opinion, unless they're Toby Keith, Charlie Daniels, Clint Black, Barbara Mandrell, Loretta Lynn, Ricky Skaggs, Travis Tritt, Hank Williams Jr, Amy Grant, Larry Gatlin, Crystal Gayle, Reba McEntire, Lee Greenwood, Lorrie Morgan, Anita Bryant, Mike Oldfield, Ted Nugent, Wayne Newton,****Clark, Jay Leno, Drew Carey, Dixie Carter, Victoria Jackson, Charleton Heston, Fred Thompson, Ben Stein, Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bo Derek, Rick Schroeder, George Will, Pat Buchanan, Bill O'Reilly, Joe Rogan, Delta Burke, Robert Conrad or Jesse Ventura.

God Bless America,
Natalie

It's part of their act and their record sales have been surging for it.

They were playing a concert overseas and decided to bash their own president on foreign soil! I should say 'she' did as the lead singer was the one that opened her mouth. There is freedom of speech in America yes, but you don't openly bash the leader of your country in a foreign land and then expect the soldiers putting their lives on the line to not be in more danger thanks to your lack of common sense.

Also it might not have been taken so serious if it was before 911. Also if the country was so anti-bush and behind what Natalie Maines said, the Dixie chicks concert sales and record sales would NOT have taken such a serious nose dive!

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Theodore Roosevelt- 1918

Last I looked, they were doing pretty well. Nice rebound, huh?

The "you hate your country if you don't love Bush" mentality is appalling, and I'm glad that Europeans were given to understand that we're not all that way.