SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The Dixie Chicks may have a little more trouble getting a friendly audience in this part of Dixie.
Using a 33,000-pound tractor to obliterate compact disks and other items, a few hundred protesters, referring to themselves as backers of President Bush and Barksdale Air Force Base, lashed back at lead singer Natalie Maines.
During a Dixie Chicks concert in London last week, Maines reportedly told the audience, in reference to Bush’s push for military action against Iraq, “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.”
Maines apologized in a public statement, saying her remarks were disrespectful.
Country station KRMD-FM has dropped all the Dixie Chicks hits from its playlist.
Dixie Chicks off the radio
March 17, 2003
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