Another celebrity – fed up with celebrities voicing their opinions over the war – is voicing his opinion. Sounds like a lot of these people are anxious to get a bit of that yummy, gooey publicity for themselves.
From NBC4 in Washington:
Country superstar Travis Tritt is taking Dixie Chick singer Natalie Maines and the celebrity antiwar movement to task over recent remarks about President George W. Bush and the impending war with Iraq.
Tritt said in a statement that while he’s never felt it was his place as an entertainer to get in the middle of any political debate waged by other celebrities, recent comments made by some of my fellow entertainers caused him not to hold his tongue any longer.
Maines said at a Dixie Chicks’ concert in London last week, “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.”
The singer said it was cowardly for Maines to make the crack about Bush while overseas, and said, “I dare her to go to the (Houston) Astrodome and say that.”
It seems like the ones who are against celebrities speaking out are the ones who don’t have that big an audience… and long, greasy, stringy hair.
