Real Life Rock Top 10

10) Associated Press, March 14: "Dixie Chicks singer criticized for anti-Bush comments" For the record, Natalie Maines, on stage, London, March 10: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." Maines was born in Texas--in Lubbock, Buddy Holly's hometown. George W. Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and to run for office adopted a tough-guy version of what he took to be a Texas accent. On September 21, 2001, in New York City, for the "America: A Tribute to Heroes" broadcast, Maines introduced the Dixie Chicks' "I Believe in Love" in a deep performance; Bush posed at Ground Zero with his arm around a New York City worker, promising aid he later withheld.

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GREIL MARCUSis the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces. His most recent book, part of the British Film Institute's Film Classics series, is The Manchurian Candidate.City Pages welcomes his column, "Real Life Rock Top Ten," which will appear every three weeks.