I recall that in a Der Spiegel interview in which the claim was made that people upset with the Chix were really the unpatriotic ones.
As for a quote, I do have one where she puts down the concept of patriotism as ignorant:
MAINES started a highly publicized feud with TOBY Keith almost a year before her comments about President Bush when she attacked Keith for a song he wrote honoring his father, who was an Army veteran. In Keith’s song, Courtesy of the Red White and Blue (The Angry American), he wrote,
“My daddy served in the army, where he lost his right eye,
but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he
died. He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me,
to grow up and live happy in the land of the free.”
In the song, he went on to describe how he believed his father would have reacted to 9/11 had he lived to see it. One line in the song, “We’ll put a boot in your ass, it’s the American way” caused ABC to pull Keith from an Independence Day concert.
MAINES told the Los Angeles Daily News about the song,
"Don't get me started. I hate it. It's ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant.”
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"A lot of pandering started going on, and you'd see soldiers and the American flag in every video. It became a sickening display of ultra-patriotism."
"The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism," MAINES resumes, through gritted teeth. "Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country... I don't see why people care about patriotism."
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