Now, I have a little different attitude towards the Dixie Chicks, George Bush and the GOP than Bryanna does. First off, my kids are big fans of the the Dixie Chicks. My 11 year old daughter and her mother went to their most recent concert in Portland.

I really can understand the Chicks’ anger at George Bush being associated with Texas just because his father rented a hotel room there - his legal residence during much of his DC career - and W learned to speak with drawl. The Bush family have very little to do with Texas or the rest of Dixie in terms of culture or heritage. The Bush family do have a history of making big bucks through politics - and the folks in their traditional stomping grounds like Connecticut are so fed up with their stunts, I doubt that even with elections by Diebold, they would win an election there.

I come from Missouri - and families like the Bush clan were called “carpetbaggers” there.

Anyhow, we have some women with undoubted talent giving appropriate credit to a guy that got everything by trading on his family name and money. Bryanna, why do you defend a guy doing everything in his power to faciliate mass immigration to the US from Mexico? Every indication suggest that Al Gore with an A- voting record from Americans from better immigration wouldn’t have been nearly as bad with respect to the immigration issue as George Bush has been.

I’m not a fan of Hollywood. The highly-centralized media control represented by Hollywood and Fox News is causing serious problems (which is part of why the two of us are writing for VDARE.COM rather than making big bucks).

That said, I think that Hollywood is gearing up for a serious political win in 2008. The only successful Democratic presidential runs in recent memory were white, male southerners - Clinton and Carter. Hollywood has a history of being rather disparaging towards folks with that heritage (think of films like Deliverance). Now, with the recent success of the Chicks and the academy award nomination for Al Gore, Hollywood is playing a little different game. I think there is every indication it will work.

We should appeal to Southern Democrats like Jim Webb who are being put into a very strategic situation by these circumstances–and might be inclined to bring some sanity to immigration policy.

I suspect that if anyone were to actually talk to the Dixie Chicks, their own attitudes on immigration would be closer to folks like Gore, Webb and Byrd than the traitor George “Open Borders” Bush.

Michelle Malkin recently did a some blogging about a blogger hired by John Edwards named Amanda Marcotte. Ms. Marcotte’s writings are unspeakably vile. You may think Vdare.com is racist, or wrong-headed, or , if you’re on our side, somewhat “edgy.”

But Amanda Marcotte’s writings are unspeakably vile. Never mind who she hates, (if you are one of white, Christian, Republican, pro-life, heterosexual, or in the Armed Forces, Ms. Marcotte hates you) the attitudes and language are totally vile, and since this is the internet, I don’t have to quote them, I can link to Dan Riehl’s round-up of vile things Ms. Marcotte has said.

Michelle Malkin has been holding John Edwards accountable for hiring this crazy woman, and some of her political enemies are saying that if she’s published by us, she must be just as bad.

We publish Michelle Malkin’s syndicated columns, and this leads Alex Koppelman(last seen beating up Ann Coulter for quoting Peter Brimelow) and Rebecca Traister at Salon, to write

Malkin, it should be noted, is hardly innocent of being involved with what ABC News’ Terry Moran termed “hate speech” when applied to Marcotte. Malkin has long maintained ties to VDARE, a Web site tagged as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center that has published works by people like Jared Taylor, one of America’s leading white supremacists, and Sam Francis, who was fired by the conservative Washington Times for his own white supremacist remarks, given at a conference held by Taylor’s organization. The liberal press watchdog Media Matters has also noted Donohue’s long list of controversial statements. [Edwards campaign fires bloggers]

There are far too many mistaken charges to answer in short piece, the main point they seem to make here is that people who don’t like Vdare.com, don’t like Vdare.com. Therefore, it’s wrong for Michelle not to attack Vdare.com the way they do.

• The SPLC has “tagged”as a “hate group .” Big deal–tagging is what they do, it doesn’t actually mean anything.
• We publish “Jared Taylor, one of America’s leading white supremacists.” And Jared is bad because he’s been tagged, too? If you must know, the leading white supremacist in America is not Jared, but George W. Bush, who is the Mayflower-descended white President of a majority-white country. Jared is the editor of a magazine.We frequently quote Bush, too, but that doesn’t prove anything.
• Sam Francis was fired from the Washington Times, because people either didn’t like what he wrote, or what he said.

All that proves, I’m afraid, is that there exists a prejudice against us.

For the record, the fact that we publish Michelle’s syndicated columns doesn’t mean she agrees with everything written here. In fact, Vdare.com writers frequently don’t agree with each other, and have lengthy debates in print.

Media Matters, the David Brock run/George Soros funded liberal media inquisitors, ran an item called Malkin, writer of “mean-spirited rantings,” accused Edwards bloggers of “foul-mouthed nutroots diatribes”

The “mean-spirited rantings” they’re referring to in the headlines are Michelle’s syndicated column, and the occasion of them being called “mean-spirited rantings” was that a Virginia paper dropped Michelle’s column, calling her “an Asian Ann Coulter” (like that’s a bad thing), but the so-called “rantings” were a syndicated column printed in many papers. The “foul-mouthed nutroots diatribes”that Michelle is talking about are unprintable in any paper in America

All in all, it adds up to one more reason to ignore the inquisitors.

It was pretty much accidental but several years ago I saw the Dixie Chicks perform at a little honky-tonk owned by Buck Owens. By “accidental” I mean someone gave me free tickets and dinner was included so I went with no thought as to who was performing!

Yes, they sang with Buck and yes, it was fantastic.

Here’s the thing: At the time, these Texas gals were virtually unknown but 15 minutes into their first set I was completely blown away by their talent! Their sound was unique, their musicianship was a breath of fresh air (which means they actually played musical instruments as opposed to the Britney Spears of the world who just wear virtually nothing and jiggle a lot…not that there isn’t a market for that, obviously) and sitting in the audience, I couldn’t help clapping along with the Chicks like a three year-old at a Wiggles live show.

Now then, if it only stopped there but no…eventually that Natalie had to go and open her fat trap.

Obviously, we at VDARE.com are big, big supporters of the First Amendment and would never want to censor anybody but by the same token, we fully understand that free speech comes with a price…a price we have paid many times over.

The war in Iraq was just getting underway and the Dixie Chicks were playing a concert in London (I think…some European country). Shortly into the show, Natalie Maines starts spouting off about how horrible President Bush is and how ashamed she is that he (like her) hails from Texas.

Sure, there are probably more than a few people who share her sentiment and more now than then HOWEVER people back here in the States took it badly–which is to say they boycotted the band and organized public bonfires to burn their CD’s. Ticket sales for their nation-wide tour were so low they had to cancel more shows than they played.

The Nashville music industry wrote them off as traitors and have yet to welcome them back–I too wrote off the band and have no plans to place my hard-earned cash into their ungrateful little pockets.

(Once again, I would never condone censorship–I think the girls had every legal right to say what they said–but this is the price they pay for voicing what has been perceived as anti-American sentiment.)

Nashville may never smoke the peace pipe with the Chicks…but Hollywood will.

Last night at the Grammy Awards, the Dixie Chicks cleaned up winning every category for which they were nominated!!

How should I put this?

I HATE HOLLYWOOD!!

The United States is actually two countries: One is a toxic cesspool sans scruples called Hollywood and the other is well, everything else. One day, if the deepest desires of my heart come true, the latter will invade the former and burn it to the ground.