Here come the US election 2024 celebrity endorsements – but do they matter?
Al Jazeera
Celebrities have been revealing their presidential preferences, largely falling down on the side of Kamala Harris.
The callers were so angry that security wasn’t taking any chances.
After the late shift ended, they escorted the nighttime host of WIRK radio to his car, lest any of the callers make good on their threats to “beat up” the host for playing the Dixie Chicks.
The year was 2003, and the band had just created a national uproar over the Iraq War.
“We do not want this war, this violence,” singer Natalie Maines told the crowd of the show in London, “and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas”.
This rebuke of President George W. Bush led to massive boycotts, and for a time, it looked like the Dixie Chicks might never recover from speaking out against politics and war.
