{"id":337,"date":"2007-01-29T19:13:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T02:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=337"},"modified":"2007-04-10T23:08:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T06:08:29","slug":"oreilly-predicts-dixie-chicks-nix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Reilly Predicts, Dixie Chicks Nix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Flix\/dixie.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\">There is seemingly no subject on which professional know-it-all, Bill O&#8217;Reilly, does not consider himself to be an expert (and no subject on which he actually is). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshounds.us\/2006\/03\/15\/dixie_chicks_not_ready_to_make_nice_hits_billboard_with_a_bullet_oreilly_predicts_reduced_sales.php\" target=\"_blank\">Last March<\/a>, wearing his music biz (dunce) cap, he predicted that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dixiechicks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dixie Chicks&#8217;<\/a> soon-to-be-released CD, <em>&#8220;Taking The Long Way,&#8221;<\/em> was destined to fail. He said at the time that it would sell <em>&#8220;2 million tops.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see how he&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking The Long Way<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is certified double platinum.<\/li>\n<li>finished the year 9th in overall sales.<\/li>\n<li>is still on the Billboard 200.<\/li>\n<li>is still on the Billboard Country 25.<\/li>\n<li>nominated for 5 Grammys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those not in the biz, <em>double platinum<\/em> means sales of 2 million. So they have already reached what O&#8217;Reilly thought would be their peak (in just 7 months). They are assurred of blowing past that number considering that they are still on the charts and the Grammys nods will boost sales as well. If they win, all the better. Plus, they will be performing in the Grammy broadcast on February 11.<\/p>\n<p>So this is proof that O&#8217;Reilly is a fraudulent moron with a talent for being wrong and embarrassing himself. Not exactly a revelation, but still&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> The Dixie Chicks swept all 5 categories for which they were nominated in the Grammy Awards last night. Already on Amazon.com, the CD is #1 for Country and #2 for overall sales.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/articles\/1552144\/20070212\/dixie_chicks.jhtml?headlines=true\" target=\"_blank\">Natalie Maines<\/a> from one of the acceptance speeches:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;I think people are using their freedom of speech here tonight with all of these awards,&#8221; Maines said in accepting the album of the year nod. &#8220;We get the message. There&#8217;s a lot of awesome music this year and fantastic performances. I&#8217;m very humbled. I think people were using their voice the same way this loudmouth did.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Suck on it Bill-O.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is seemingly no subject on which professional know-it-all, Bill O&#8217;Reilly, does not consider himself to be an expert (and no subject on which he actually is). Last March, wearing his music biz (dunce) cap, he predicted that the Dixie Chicks&#8217; soon-to-be-released CD, &#8220;Taking The Long Way,&#8221; was destined to fail. He said at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-5r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":443,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=443","url_meta":{"origin":337,"position":0},"title":"Sicko Gets Thumbs Up From&#8230;Fox?","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/19\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Michael Moore's new film, \"Sicko,\" got a critical boost today from an unexpected source. 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