This disturbing, neofascist event is sponsored by Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
In a modern-day bookburning, these corporate-sponsored rallies gather 'patriots' to smash Dixie Chicks CDs. Picking on an innocuous female pop-country trio for questioning the intentions of an unelected imbecile is now "Patriotic". I got that right, didn't I? Is that right?? How much do you want to bet that some fawning Republican yes-man somewhere has called these ladies 'terrorists' already. I guarantee it's happened.
The vice chairman of Clear Channel is Tom Hicks, whose name may be familiar to readers of this column. When Mr. Bush was governor of Texas, Mr. Hicks was chairman of the University of Texas Investment Management Company, called Utimco, and Clear Channel's chairman, Lowry Mays, was on its board. Under Mr. Hicks, Utimco placed much of the university's endowment under the management of companies with strong Republican Party or Bush family ties. In 1998 Mr. Hicks purchased the Texas Rangers in a deal that made Mr. Bush a multimillionaire.
In a modern-day bookburning, these corporate-sponsored rallies gather 'patriots' to smash Dixie Chicks CDs. Picking on an innocuous female pop-country trio for questioning the intentions of an unelected imbecile is now "Patriotic". I got that right, didn't I? Is that right?? How much do you want to bet that some fawning Republican yes-man somewhere has called these ladies 'terrorists' already. I guarantee it's happened.
The vice chairman of Clear Channel is Tom Hicks, whose name may be familiar to readers of this column. When Mr. Bush was governor of Texas, Mr. Hicks was chairman of the University of Texas Investment Management Company, called Utimco, and Clear Channel's chairman, Lowry Mays, was on its board. Under Mr. Hicks, Utimco placed much of the university's endowment under the management of companies with strong Republican Party or Bush family ties. In 1998 Mr. Hicks purchased the Texas Rangers in a deal that made Mr. Bush a multimillionaire.
