John Leo and a Dixie Chick
I am not a fan of Natalie Maines, one of the Dixie Chicks. While I support her free speech rights, protected by the military that she may disrespect, I also strongly support the rights of her (former) fans to quit supporting a singer that obviously does not represent their values.
However, today I am defending singer Natalie Maines, the one that "bravely" said she was ashamed of President Bush when she was overseas surrounded by those who wanted to keep Saddam in power.
Columnist John Leo included Natalie in his collection of "over the top" quotes. He quotes Natalie Maines as saying:
I realize that I’m just supposed to sing and look cute so our fans won’t have anything to upset them while they’re cheating on their wives or driving around in their pickup trucks shooting small animals.This sounded too stupid to be true, even for Miss Maines. So I did a quick check trying to find the original source for the quote. Turn out, she never said it. Now if I can find this out in just a few minutes, on my own time, John Leo certainly should have been able to do so. After all, he gets paid for his writing. I suspect he had the same problem as Dan Rather – he wanted for this to be true. Hopefully, he will prove himself a better man than Rather and quickly admit his mistake. I just sent Leo a message via Townhall. Let's see if he responds.
Tip of the helm to Patriot Paradox for originally calling my attention to Leo's article.
My compliments to Mr. Leo for a fast response. Last night John Leo sent me a message: The Natalie Maines quote was from an internet hoax that we should have caught and will apologize for. Dan Rather and others at CBS should take lessons from John Leo in how to handle mistakes.
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