Dixie Chicks Get ‘Checked Out’

[babylonsister]

And here in the heart of Houston, I couldn't rent it either.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/07/3036/

Dixie Chicks Get ‘Checked Out’
Impossible To Rent & Difficult To Buy - ‘Shut Up & Sing’ At Last
by John Young

WACO, Texas —

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One problem is that I no longer knew how to contact my friend Jerry. He’s the one-time convenience-store employee who supplied for me a copy of Martin Scorcese’s “Last Temptation of Christ,” in a brown envelope, back in 1988.

That controversial film was stopped at every port in our landlocked city - not shown in theaters; couldn’t rent it; couldn’t buy it; the cable company blocked it on Showtime.

Three summers ago when Waco theaters weren’t showing “Fahrenheit 9/11,” I tried to hook Michael Moore up with Jerry so that we in Waco could see what all the fuss was about. Moore liked my idea but took my middle man out of the equation. Sorry, Jerry. He sent the film to peace groups who cued it up in the Crawford High School football stadium parking lot before some 3,000 people.

Now here we are in 2007 with a similar problem, and no Jerry to facilitate. So deeply did I feel about the right of people in our community to decide for themselves on matters like “Shut Up and Sing” that I said to myself, “OK. I’m going into video rental.”

I would buy the video for $16.99, and then would rent it to you and yours to recoup my investment.

I’m so happy to tell you I didn’t have to do that. I didn’t because I made one more call. I should have thought about it first:

The public library.

The Waco-McLennan County Library has a copy of “Shut Up and Sing.” It will loan you that copy for free if you have a library card. This means I won’t have to rent it to you. That’s a relief. I already had enough on my hands leading various tribes out of the wilderness.

I told reference librarian Sean Sutcliffe about my problems renting the video. We speculated that this might be a problem elsewhere in America’s heartland. Then he did a computer search for the title in other libraries in the country. Publicly supported beacons of free inquiry popped up on his screen by the hundreds.

What a country.

[marmar]

1. The Ministry of Propaganda has spoken....

War is peace, peace is war, dissent is treason.

[supernova]

2. Do not. Mess. With. Librarians.

Our guardians of free speech and FOI are not armies of well, armies and lawyers. It's Librarians. ;-)

:rofl:

[Ian David]

3. Here it is, "Shut-up and Sing," at Overstock.com for $14.00.

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[babylonsister]

4. Thanks. I already bought it from Best Buy - $24.99

:grr: But I have no complaints about supporting the Chicks, so there's that. I'll be buying Sicko, too, as I never did get to see it.

[angrycarpenter]

5. my brother

lives in paris tx. has never seen a Michael Moore movie but will go on for hours as to how he is full shit. He made me so mad when "sicko" came out that I may never speak to him again.

[marmar]

6. A woman at work went on and on about how one-sided "SiCKO" was....

... and how the health care systems in the other countries are falling apart, and that SiCKO showed a hospital in Cuba that normal Cubans don't get to use.
Then I asked her if she'd seen the movie, and she said, "No, but I've read about it.":crazy:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Ho ho ho..... that's like, have you ever swam in the Amazon river and

replying, no, but I've tasted some water bottled in S. America, does that count??

[tnlefty]

10. A belated Welcome, angrycarpenter!

I have relatives like that, and you have my empathy. We finally got to see Sicko 2 weekends ago and I was amazed that in my very red pocket that there were so many people there to see it! :thumbsup:

I've about decided that insurance companies should get out of the health insurance business as they'll still be able to rip people off with homeowner's and car policies. :hi:

[MasonJar]

7. It is a good idea to buy and donate such items to the local library

so they have a supply. I found out that the library here did not have Al Gore's book, An Inconvenient Truth, when a woman asked to check it out. I bought them one. I bought several others and gave them to friends.

[babylonsister]

8. Excellent idea! I have a few older books (Molly, Moore, Conason) I

will do just that with. Thanks for the idea.

[paparush]

11. Two words: Bit .......... Torrent

[demigoddess]

12. Just checked it out of the library here. When I put a hold on it there were

over 600 holds (people on the waiting list) but many copies and I did not wait that long. And I always donate books to the library when i get the chance and i buy their old books at their sales to keep them in the money.

[satya]

13. Our county library system has 17 copies--6 are "missing" and 83 of us on the waiting list. nt

[yebrent]

14. Netflix

Netflix has every documentary that can't be found at your local heartland video rental store. All you need is a valid mailing address.