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I have one thing to say to The Dixie Chicks:

You Go Girls!

I have one thing to say to Country and Western station programmers:

Get over yourself

Let's take all this out of context for a moment:

some random music group in the C&W genre releases a song with lyrics like these:

I'm not ready to make nice/I'm not ready to back down/I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time to go round and round and round.

It's too late to make it right/I probably wouldn't if I could/'cause I'm mad as hell/Can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should

Wrap the normal C&W music and other stuff (except for the beer, dogs and trucks) relating to heartbreak and you have a single that will go far.

But in the America we live in today (not the one I grew up in, nor the one I expected to live in as an adult), you have to wrap an extra pc wrapper around the song. You have to consider the source.

In this case, the song is "Not Ready to Make Nice" by the Dixie Chicks. And everyone keeps talking about how they said they were ashamed of our president and how this song is unapologetic for saying that. Pardon my french, but WTF?

Regarding the lyric above, let me say, "I know that feeling." And it usually has very little to do with politics.

So, Dixie Chicks, I feel your pain.

I listen to your music.

I don't get the political angle that everyone is ascribing to it, tho.