{"id":16451,"date":"2016-08-12T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16451"},"modified":"2016-08-12T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:02:45","slug":"natalie-maines-asks-wheres-the-outrage-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16451","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Maines asks: Where&#8217;s the outrage now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chicks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16452\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chicks-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"chicks\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chicks-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chicks.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Natalie Maines became the voice, the face and the symbol of something that had little to do with the music she and her bandmates, the Dixie Chicks, were making about a dozen years ago.<\/p>\n<p>She had the audacity, the temerity, the unmitigated gall to grab a microphone during a concert in London and declare that she was &#8220;ashamed&#8221; that President George W. Bush was from Texas. Maines, a native of Lubbock, thought little of the Iraq War, so she decided to\u00a0protest it.<\/p>\n<p>For that she and the other Chicks were scorned. Country radio stations all around the nation banned them. How <em>dare<\/em> they speak ill of the president and condemn his war policy?<\/p>\n<p>She poses an interesting question today, though.<\/p>\n<p>She wonders: How is it that Donald J. Trump &#8212; the Republican presidential nominee &#8212; can all but order a hit on Hillary Rodham Clinton and still be revered by those who condemned her for speaking her mind?<\/p>\n<p>Trump has said as well that Barack Obama &#8220;founded&#8221; the Islamic State and has continued to question whether Obama is constitutionally eligible to serve as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Does that bother those on the right?<\/p>\n<p>Not in the least &#8230; apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/natalie-maines-of-the-dixie-chicks-has-an-important-question-about-donald-trump?c=ufb1\">http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/natalie-maines-of-the-dixie-chicks-has-an-important-question-about-donald-trump?c=ufb1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Man, oh man. There&#8217;s so much about this current political climate that is very ugly.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Maines became the voice, the face and the symbol of something that had little to do with the music she and her bandmates, the Dixie Chicks, were making about a dozen years ago. 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