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Err America: bush-bashing filmmakers are grossly missing the mark.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-NOV-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Err America: bush-bashing filmmakers are grossly missing the mark.(Hollywood, TX: CHRISTOPHER KELLY ON OUR STATE OF ENTERTAINMENT)

Article Excerpt
Midway through Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck's new documentary, Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, we witness a showdown of sorts. Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines is watching video footage of George W. Bush being interviewed by a television news reporter, about Maines's notorious statement to a London concert audience that she was ashamed of the fact that the president hails from Texas. Bush offers up a plainspoken analysis of the controversy. "The Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind," he tells the interviewer. "But they shouldn't have their feelings hurt just because some people don't want to buy their records." Maines, however, fails to see his logic. "What a dumb f--," she loudly pronounces. And then, in the unlikely event that Bush himself is watching, she looks into the camera and repeats the epithet directly to him: "You're a dumb f--."...

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