Diixe Chicks to be guests on Larry King tonite

[Armstead]

Yes, I must admit I have Paula Zahn on in the background.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Good. I don't even like country music much, but this very moment

I am downloading their album from iTunes. Gonna have to watch Larry K.

[Catchawave]

2. Go Natalie, you're not unpatriotic !

[laundry_queen]

3. Watching right now.

kick for the Dixie Chicks!

[longship]

4. Popcorn time.

:popcorn: :popcorn:

Third rate interviewer talking with third rate entertainers.

[bbernardini]

5. Why are they "third rate"?

Or are you just trying to start a flame war? :)

[RebelOne]

13. Let's just ignore that remark.

[longship]

15. All Pop culture is third rate.

It'a all part of the big dumbing down of the populace, the epitome of which is two terms of the Chimp.

I cannot get excited about Dixie Chicks, Larry King, or anything else spewing from the media conglomerates who decide what is music, what is news, what is entertainment. For Christ sakes, people think that who is (or is not) on "American Idol" is newsworthy.

It's *all* rubbish. All of it.

Cable TV has pseudo-educational networks who seem to focus solely on claptrap. "The Learning Channel" seems to think interior decorating is the only learning people need. Arts and Entertainment thinks that some dirt ball family who makes a living hauling in other dirt balls is art. National Geographic does more crop circles, tattooing, and alien visitation than geography.

They all pander to the Chimp's military machine by featuring such educational features as how all Chimp's big military hardware works. Whenever a new big movie comes out, they pander to that. Ten thousand programs on Da Vinci Code.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

18. as a person who refuses to have TV in his home...

i'll still defend the dixie chicks as having artistic merit. rick rubin wouldn't be producing their cd for one thing, if they were hacks. and neil finn and semisonic are both involved w/ the album.

are they the 2nd coming of johnny cash or the carte family? no.
but they're not as bad as (ugh) american idol. i wouldn't wish that 'music' on my worst enemy

[bbernardini]

19. So what's acceptable, then? nt

[longship]

26. Let's start with putting education on the education channels.

The Learning Channel
The History Channel
National Geographic Channel
Discovery Channel

PBS still does some good stuff. NOVA is still high value, but sadly Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers are gone. Frontline still does great stuff, but The Evening Newshour is significantly watered down from the time when it was the MacNeil/Lehrer Report.

Then, there's the so-called news channels. The sole good news program is Keith Olbermann who seems to be the only muckraker left in all of visual media. We can get things moving here by simply turning them off.

Certainly, one learns absolutely zero from watching lame Larry King throw his softballs at the Dixie Chicks.

This is all part of the reason why we have George W. Bush in the White House. Bush is a disease which breeds because of ignorance.

Over 40 years later, Newton Minnow was correct.

[mmonk]

23. Sorry, but people that write their own music

and can play instruments are artists and I like their music. You can like music and not be "dumbed down". I'm a little perplexed at the media interest in them though. I thought that culture was more into American Idol as musical expression.

[oasis]

10. How would you rate your comment? (n/t)

[Patsy Stone]

6. They're quite fabulous.

Calmly explaining their points. Expressing the idea that it's patriotic to question authority. :patriot:

Just great.

[AlinPA]

7. They are exposing the ugliness of the right-wing Bush** supporters.

[NVMojo]

8. thanks for the heads up, I would have missed it!

[tridim]

9. Gawd I love them!

They're so down to earth and normal. I think all three need to join DU!

[RebelOne]

11. Watching them now.

[LSK]

12. Larry King doesn't know who is who

This is embarrassing to watch him interview someone he doesnt know.

[chaumont58]

14. I think time has passed ole Larry by

It was stupid to not know their names.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

16. Caller said 70/30 of the country agrees with you.

Larry quickly piped up, "I think that's 60/40". One of the Chicks (missed which one)said, "I think it's more like 72.

I see poor old repukelican Larry's face getting tighter and tighter as the show goes on. Love it!!

[NRaleighLiberal]

17. Larry didn't know what to do when the caller slammed Rummy -

said that the Rumster didn't have the balls to go on live! Poor Larry, people trashing his peeps.

[chaumont58]

20. One of the chicks got a small dig in at Reba

Reba is one nobrainer twit.

[Cha]

21. Dish! What was

da dig?

I can't stand that slimey bushpimp.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

22. I had to look it up, but here it is...

http://www.ashlandcitytimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060525/COLUMNIST0501/605250393/1121/ENTERTAINMENT06

In case you missed it, Reba said toward the end of the show: "I don't know why I was so nervous about hosting this show this year. If the Dixie Chicks can sing with their foot in their mouths, surely I can host this sucker."

[Cha]

24. Thank you, I read that the other

day on DU, but I was wondering what dig a "chick" got in on reba per chaumont.

[HeeBGBz]

25. They were great!

Sure made the RW hate groups look as bad as they really are.