Well straffo, the whole freedom of speech arguement only applies when it's the G'ment trying to suppress opinions. So it doesn't really apply to this.
The people here decide what's hot and what's not, who's a star and who's a want-to-be/has-been/never-was. That's the thing with being a celebrity over here. You piss off the masses and you're pretty much done for, because people will stop spending money on that celebrity's products (CDs, concert tickets, etc). Enough drop in popularity = end of celebrity's career. Such is the hazard of a 'public life' here, the American public is a very fickle beast.
Naso it's only ironic if you go out and buy the CD for the sole purpose of burning it. I'll wager 95% of the people who were trashing thier CDs had purchased them some time before the offending remark was said. The John Q Public hears about what she said and decides he's no longer going to support the Dixie Chics, and wants the group to know it, so he takes the CD's he bought a few months ago and joins others in a public gathering, destroying thier CDs.
And I'm sure there were some people who went out and bought the CD just to trash it.
Dowding I'm starting to wonder about you.. here lately you seem to make less and less sense with each post.
