To: PROLIFE who wrote (409668 ) 5/27/2003 6:25:35 PM From: Jerrel Peters Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670 Natalie Maines's Cussin' Clothes Country music fans continue to let the Dixie Chicks know just what they think of lead singer Natalie Maines's ill-timed statements about President Bush. The Dixie Chicks performed recently via satellite from Austin, Texas, at the 2003 Academy of Country Music Awards. Despite having been nominated in three categories, the Chicks didn't get scratch. And when crooner Vince Gill mentioned the group's name as one of the nominees for Entertainer of the Year, the audience let loose with some down-home boos. Host Reba McEntire described the audience reaction to the Associated Press as "a pretty big negative response. I don't think it's over." Apparently, Entertainer of the Year Toby Keith doesn't think it's over either. During the Dixie Chicks' performance, Maines sported a T-shirt that bore the letters "F.U.T.K." Maines appears to have a pattern of expressing her thoughts through tage attire. When she kicked off the group's tour in Greenville, SC, she wore a shirt that read, "Dare to Be Free." The speculation at the ACM awards was that the "T.K." may have been a squawk at the guy who took home the top honor of the evening. Gill alluded to the garment in question when he opened the envelope to announce the winner. He quipped, "Well, I think his name was on somebody's shirt tonight." After the event, Keith appeared on the ABC late-night talk show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The country singer explained why there is no love lost between Maines and him. "She attacked me about nine months ago over the 'Angry American' song ["Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue"]. I took the high road for a little bit and then she didn't think that she got the fight, I think, that she wanted. So then she attacked our president on foreign soil and got the fight she wanted, I guess," Keith said. Keith suspects we'll be hearing more hackneyed phrases from Maines. He predicted that "she's still not done. If y'all think she's done, you're crazy. Stuff comes out of her blowhole daily." The Left Coast Report keeps hoping that someone will find a way to cork it.newsmax.com