Natalie Maines - The Lionhearted
From Grumpus:
Do celebrities use a different dictionary? Since when does using the celebrity pulpit to criticize a politician qualify as an act of bravery, particularly in the US?
From MSNBC:
Natalie Maines — the Dixie Chick who made those controversial comments about George W. Bush — has kind words for another Bush basher.“Some people call me brave, but I don’t think what I did was brave at all. Brave is Kanye West, after Hurricane Katrina, saying George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” Maines tells the December issue of Playboy magazine; the interview goes on-line on Friday. “That was one of the greatest television moments of all time. I would never have said that. I’m a coward compared with him. It was so honest and sincere, and he knew what he was going to say. I would have chickened out. That was just so brave. And true.”
Given that so many people have criticized Bush over the last six years, what Natalie Maines or Kanye West did wasn’t particularly original. And it’s not like they ran the risk of being arrested afterwards and thrown into jail for criticizing the government, unlike, say, in that bastion of freedom and equality called Cuba. Considering the utter lack of consequences to either of them for their “bravery” (unless one considers reduced airplay a “consequence”) what these two morons did was about as brave as ordering a beer in a wine bar.