Dixie Chicks trailer: must-not-see TV?

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The Weinstein Co., which is distributing the new Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up & Sing, says NBC and the CW are refusing to air the trailer (above) because it’s “disparaging to President Bush.” Of course, if everything that was disparaging to President Bush were taken off the air, we’d have hour upon hour of dead space. No doubt they’re going nuts about this news over at the Chicks’ fan blog.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

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