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Worley Cheered, Dixie Chicks Booed at ACCM Awards ShowCountry music cheer Worley's butt-waving flag routine but boo on cue for the Chicks
If this past weekend's American Clear Channel Music Awards in Branson, Missouri proved anything, it's that country music fans have a long memory and take their patriotism seriously. The newest of the awards shows began with a performance by patriotic poster boy, Daryl Worley, performing his latest song, "I Kiss The Ground You Walk On," a rousing anthem to President George W. Bush. Worley performed with an American flag waving from a pole that was anchored in the back of his jeans. Amazingly, by "shaking his booty," he was able to cause "old glory" to ripple, much to the crowd's delight. Billy Joe Goebbels, Clear Channel's Vice President in charge of music marginalization, praised Worley's performance. "I've never seen anything like it. How many guys can perform a patriotic song to President Bush with a flag sticking out of their posterior?" Goebbels added that all of the songs from Worley's new album "Stupid and Proud of It," will be added to the playlists of all 103,812 Clear Channel radio stations throughout the world. The Dixie Chicks didn't fare quite so well in front of the Clear Channel hand-picked crowd. Before they performed, the comments of lead singer Natalie Maines expressing embarrassment that President Bush was from Texas were aired to the crowd over large television screens positioned throughout the auditorium to thunderous boos. The words "anti-patriots" and "traitors" were flashed throughout the tape-recorded comments that played to the crowd. At the conclusion of the evening, talk show host Rush
Limbaugh came out to lead the audience in a reading of a
The modified Pledge of Allegiance began: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America |