Are these former enemies now frenemies? The Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith are teaming up for a good cause, and the person bringing them together is none other than Al Gore.
The Chicks and Keith are set to appear together in a commercial for the Alliance for Climate Protection. It's a cause championed by the former Vice President, who designed an ad campaign featuring strange bedfellows such as the aforementioned feuding country stars, Democrat Nancy Pelosi with Republican Newt Gingrich, and the Reverend Al Sharpton with the Reverend Pat Robertson -- all pairs who've traded jabs in the past. Gore's goal is to prove that climate change is not a partisan issue.
The feud between the Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith started when Natalie Maines was quoted as saying that Keith's song, 'Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue,' made country music sound "ignorant." He fired back, saying she was a lousy songwriter. Keith then went so far as touring with a backdrop depicting Maines with Saddam Hussein, while Maines wore a T-shirt to the ACM Awards that read "FUTK." (No one believed that stood for 'Freedom, Understanding, Truth and Knowledge.')
So, is all of that just water under the bridge now? We'll see when the commercials begin airing on most major television networks later this month.
Reader Comments(1 of 3)
Larryat 4-04-2008
yet another example of why Al should've been our president
Ericat 4-04-2008
You're kidding right!?! Lots of lost respect now for TK.
Lindaat 4-05-2008
how cares i wish Toby Keith and The Dixie Chicks would go away, they are just allike PIGS
Loryne Taffat 4-05-2008
I think it is about time people stop sweating the small stuff and look at the big picture. Life is too short to bicker about insignificant things. What ever happened to our first ammendment?
Cynthiaat 4-05-2008
Everyone can talk all they want... but in the long run, the girls were right.
countryfanat 4-05-2008
#3. Courtesy of the Red White and Blue was actually not only a tribute to the USA with a message to unite in troubled times, but also to his father. I don't think that the ignorant big mouth USA/President bashing Dixie Chicks should have opened their ridiculous media attention getting mouths anyway.
CarolinaGirlat 4-05-2008
Gore is a nut...he would've been AWFUL as president. The man said he INVENTED the internet...WOW.
veronicaat 4-07-2008
more power to them!!!
PBat 4-05-2008
Oh - so that's what started the feud?
Strange that you omit the truth: that the "feud" started when Maines blurted out anti-American comments to a foreign anti-American crowd while our soldiers and Marines were poised to go into battle.
I guess we're not supposed to remember that particular inconvenient truth, are we?
Willat 4-05-2008
Isnt this the 2nd time this girl shot her mouth off and got into trouble?? I'd prefer not to hear her talk, or sing :)
Deeat 4-05-2008
Toby Keith is Top Notch in my book! A patriotic man who meant nothing but good with that song. The Dixie Chicks on the other hand are ignorant, you never show disrespect to the president of the untied states no matter what you think of them, its just not what you do!
Their career has never been the same since Natalie opened up her little miss piggy mouth, and you no what, they deserve it!!!!!!!!
Samat 4-07-2008
Oh, yeah, 5 Grammies later, Album Of The Year... no, their career's never been the same. LOL! Natalie had every right to voice her opinion of Dubya & time has shown (heck, it was obvious even back then) that she was right. That Toby Keith song was extremely war-mongering & hate-filled & I was embarrassed as an American that it was such a big hit. Fortunately, some country fans have better taste & still support the Chicks.
Samat 4-07-2008
Yeah, 5 Grammy Awards & an Album Of The Year later, their careers have never been the same. LOL! And every Grammy well deserved for a beautiful, brilliant album full of gorgeous, heartfelt songs. Something TK knows nothing about.
gwynat 4-07-2008
Personally, People forget that if we weren't a great country. People like the Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith couldn't say anything. If we lived somewhere else in the world they would have all been taken out and hung.
I personally think they should be grateful for having the right to be stupid.
Tedat 8-26-2008
Have you been anywhere else to know this? Why do so many americans insist on commenting on the politics of other countries when they can't even find their own on a map. As an Australian who travels extensively I can assure you that America is NOT a free country. You lock up and prosecute more of your own people than almost any other country in the world. You execute more of your own citizens than any other country except China.
The USA is a migrant country whose citizenry is made up of those who could not succeed in their countries of origin. It is a country of people ashamed of their pasts. That's why they push their supposed patriotism so publicly. If you love American you can't possibly have parents or grandparents who were cowards and thieves. No, every person who ever escaped another country did so because Amercia is the land of the free and the home of the ignorant.
Australia and many other countries have less laws, less taxes, less violence, less hypocracy and less overt patriotism. For a brief period some of us forgot that all politicians lie. We quickly regained our collective memory and kicked out George's friends in Australia' Parliament. Here, it is BECAUSE we are a migrant nation, made up of the failures of other countries that we, firstly, don't take ourselves or our politicians too seriously and, secondly, try not to believe in a 'Hallmark' version of our nation.
Americans sometimes seems like college kids. One moment they appear intelligent and hard-working. They question their professors and buck against convention. The next they are at a frat party and the lowest common denominator in behaviour intelligence, wit and insight enforces mediocrity and a herding mentality.
Remember, it was a famous Amercian capitalist, P.T.Barnum, who is credited for claiming that 'no one ever went broken underestimating the intelligence of the average American.'
And clearly, Gwyn, you are so average.