Ann Coulter says liberals are less patriotic, because we criticise our government. This convinces me that she doesn't understand what our country is all about.
The Dixie Chicks come from the people whose husbands, brothers, fathers, sons, and friends, are dying in Iraq, because Bush didn't know what he was doing. They don't like the war. They have said so.
The first amendment gives them that right. It also gives them the right to say unkind things about people who don't agree with them. That is called debate. (The phrase F.U. suggests poor debating skills, but they are, after all, musicians.)
Stifle dissent, and we might as well hand this country over to Osama bin Laden.