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can't happen here

Paul Krugman's Tuesday NYTimes column discusses the plight of the endangered ~~prairie chicken~~ Dixie Chicks, and corporate radio's attempts to turn their anti-Bush remarks into promotional material. Here's an excerpt:

a crowd gathered in Louisiana to watch a 33,000-pound tractor smash a collection of Dixie Chicks CD's, tapes and other paraphernalia. To those familiar with 20th-century European history it seemed eerily reminiscent of. . . . But as Sinclair Lewis said, it can't happen here.

In the comments of an earlier post, Prentiss suggested interested Austinites demonstrate at Clear Channel's regional office on South Congress, in reaction to their iron-fisted playlists and conservative politics.

Posted by McChris at March 24, 2003 11:55 PM
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You guys read too much in to this sort of thing. This is just another manifestation of the American obsession with watching people do stuff with tractors... cause they're cool... and stuff

Idiocy passes everywhere.

Salon has some good commentary on this sort of thing today. It's worth clicking through the annoying ad.

Posted by: loophole at March 25, 2003 12:02 PM