Hey Dixie Chicks, why don't you follow the advice of the title of your little political diatribe film that you stole from Laura Ingraham's book and SHUT UP AND SING!!!! But wait, you suck at that too, so all you have left is whining and complaining. From a Drudge Flash:In an Ironic Twist of Events, NBC and The CW Television Network Refuse to Air Ads for Documentary Focusing on Freedom of Speech
NBC Claims that the Network “Cannot Accept These Spots as They are Disparaging to President Bush”
The CW Television Network that the Network Does “Not have Appropriate Programming in which to Schedule this Spot”
NBC and The CW Television Network have taken a stand against the Dixie’s Chicks new documentary “Shut Up & Sing” a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible political and media fallout that occurred in 2003 after the Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said that she was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." “Shut Up & Sing” opens in theaters in NY and Los Angeles on Friday and in theaters nationwide on November 10th.
NBC responded to a clearance report submitted by the Weinstein Company’s media agency saying that the network “cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.”
The CW Television Network responded that it does “not have appropriate programming in which to schedule this spot.”
Famed litigator David Boies stated, “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."
Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Company stated, “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. The idea that anyone should be penalized for criticizing the president is sad and profoundly un-American.”
The Weinstein Company is exploring taking legal action.
No, it is not restricting your right to speak. It is good business. How well, again did that last album do? How were those empty arenas you played to? See, you aren't a draw anymore, you are an albatross, and NBC and the rest of the 527 media TV stations have enough trouble drawing ratings without your ignorant, misinformed, self-important, self-victimizing crap of a movie being advertised and causing more people to switch the channel. See, that is the problem with you liberals. If you can't compete, you claim you are being discriminated against. Then, if the whining doesn't work, and the blackmail doesn't work, then you bring out the lawyers. Come on now, kindly grow up!
