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Jun 13, 2002
Toby Keith tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer he was nixed from ABC's "In Search Of America: A July 4th Celebration" because newsman Peter Jennings was offended by the lyrics of "Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)"
Jul 5, 2002
Chad Brock angers Hispanics during a show in Greeley, Colorado, when he says immigrants are welcome in the U.S., but that they should speak English: "Learn the language. If you don't like it, then you can always leave"
Sep 29, 2002
Grand Ole Opry stalwarts Charlie Louvin, Stonewall Jackson and Del Reeves attack general manager Pete Fisher in The Tennessean, angry that non-Opry members are regularly taking performance slots they believe they should receive
Sep 30, 2002
A day after he was attacked in an unfavorable newspaper story, Grand Ole Opry general manager Pete Fisher sends a letter to members, insisting he is not squeezing out older acts and noting that attendance is up for the first time in almost 20 years
Mar 4, 2003
Charlie Daniels sends an "open letter to the Hollywood bunch," railing against peace activists in the coming War on Iraq. He labels Sean Penn a traitor for visiting Iraq and calls liberal actors "pampered, overpaid, unrealistic children"
Mar 10, 2003
Dixie Chick Natalie Maines tells a London concert audience, "We're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." The audience cheers, but many U.S. radio stations stop playing Chicks music as the nation prepares for war in Iraq
Mar 14, 2003
The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines issues an apology to president George W. Bush, saying she was "disrespectful" when she told a U.K. audience she was "ashamed" of him four days earlier. Many radio stations still refuse to play the band's music
Mar 17, 2003
Cumulus Broadcasting bans all Dixie Chicks songs from its 42 stations, just one of numerous radio chains and stations to take similar action in response to Natalie Maines' statement that she's "embarrassed" by president George W. Bush
Mar 21, 2003
When stutterer Robert Tart calls St. Louis radio station WIL-FM asking to dedicate Joe Diffie's "In Another World" to his girlfriend on-air, an employee tells him, "We don't do the stuttering thing." Tart files a complaint with the Human Rights Commission
Apr 24, 2003
The Dixie Chicks appear with Diane Sawyer on ABC-TV's "Prime Time Thursday," where they say that after telling a British concert audience that they were "embarrassed" by president George W. Bush, they've received death threats and had their property vandalized
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