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GOP Orchestrated Dixie Chicks Protests
'When Dixie Chick Natalie Maines told fans in London that she and her fellow Texas-born chicks were ashamed George W. Bush was a fellow Texan, it started a nationwide backlash against the group. Listeners flooded country music stations with demands they stop playing Chicks songs, fans sent their CDs in to be burned. Good old American pride? Not entirely, according to the blog AmericanNewsreel:

'"Turns out the whole thing was orchestrated by the National Republican Party. Party operatives spammed their email lists the day after Maines made her statement, urging them to contact radio stations. Phone calls originating from the GOP headquarters in Washington went out to country stations, urging them to remove the Chicks from their playlists. Get ready for mega dirty tricks come election time 2004.' - link.