The Dixie Chicks

Alex · 09-11-2006, 02:49 PM

Oh, I think that has already happened. I just think that to a great extent the middle has abandoned the political process because regardless of whether it is from the left or the right they hate listening to the screeching righteous indignation.

And I wouldn't read much into the success/failure of the Dixie Chicks. Perhaps all that has happened is that by repeatedly playing her fawning interview, Terry Gross has successfully marketed the Dixie Chicks to the NPR set. They, for the most part, are already on one side of the issue and wouldn't represent any kind of demographic shift.

Kind of like when Christopher Hitchens stopped being a liberal and became a conservative. He went from X number of readers to Y number of readers but that isn't reflective of anybody other than Christopher Hitchens changing his mind (Arianna Huffington did the same thing in the opposite direction).

09-11-2006, 02:49 PM	#38
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Oh, I think that has already happened. I just think that to a great extent the middle has abandoned the political process because regardless of whether it is from the left or the right they hate listening to the screeching righteous indignation. And I wouldn't read much into the success/failure of the Dixie Chicks. Perhaps all that has happened is that by repeatedly playing her fawning interview, Terry Gross has successfully marketed the Dixie Chicks to the NPR set. They, for the most part, are already on one side of the issue and wouldn't represent any kind of demographic shift. Kind of like when Christopher Hitchens stopped being a liberal and became a conservative. He went from X number of readers to Y number of readers but that isn't reflective of anybody other than Christopher Hitchens changing his mind (Arianna Huffington did the same thing in the opposite direction).
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