The Grammy’s are supposed to be about music right? The Dixie Chicks really will not let it die. Having cashed in on five grammys last night, you’d wish they would have the decency and humility to leave IT alone. The two-second comment that spurred the rejection of the Chicks from the country music industry four years still makes the stage when they win four years later? Not only is it utterly immature and annoying to keep hearing about it, but it completely diminishes their accomplishment. Wow, you really stuck it to us, Chicks. They cried. They smirked. They gloated. Gag.

Essentially, they would not have walked home with five awards last night without their ignorant political stance. Labeled “brave” by Joan Baez, getting shoutouts from Don Henley, and smugly accepting their trophies, the Chicks reveled in their cushion of comfort. The entertainment world is of course a bubble of congealed opinion, rarely wavering in political views and readily embracing—or laying out red carpets—for those who proclaim their uneducated sentiment loudly. The Chicks were certainly in their element of Hollywood idolization, little loudmouthed Natalie going so far as to quote Bart Simpson, with an obnoxious “ha ha.” She was also really good at demonstrating her immaturity in their self-pitying, self-glorifying documentary, “Shut up and Sing.”

I like their music. But it’s hard for me to stomach them. The “comment” elevated their status in deeper sense among Hollywood and some fans. However, it’s clear now that whatever seriousness they have about the war, the President, and all things political have been used as a façade to propel them to a different kind of stardom. It’s not about the politics and it never really was. They are the kind that hoped the President would be wrong and in their documentary, laughed arrogantly when a clip showed Donald Rumsfield and President Bush declaring that their were no weapons of mass destruction.

Anyone who would call the President of the United States a “dumbf**ck” in a documentary chronicling their life’s work can’t expect to be taken seriously by American citizens. In Hollywood, it’s a different story. I almost feel sorry for the jaded famous people who throw bags of money at Al Gore’s global warming campaign and spew anti-war rhetoric in their happy-feely interviews. Have any of them noticed that like 99% of Hollywood leans to the left, votes Democrat, and supports all the same political candidates and sides of important issues? It’s a good thing there are limits on how much one person can contribute to a campaign. I’ve heard most of the Hollybots are supporting the dashing Barack Obama for 2008. Oooh, big surprise there.