For the love of God...
Don't get me started on these women. I'm all for free speech rights. I really don't care what Natalie says. If she's so concerned with free speech, why did she apologize? The dixie chicks fired their original lead singer because they wanted to be "mainstream". They hired the annoying front woman, and started banging out the hits. The catch with banging out the hits is that you suddenly have a primarly top 40 country fan base. If your primary concern is being mainstream and selling records, you should know better than to insult the man most of your fans voted for. That's why she apologized. This group has way to much "please like me" and no where near enough heart. (sorry about that, it's been bugging me for a while.) I'll spare you my dissertation on the need for a "petition"....(i'd like to start a petition to turn current "country music" into actual country music)

-(whew) Spartacus