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I don't know if anyone cares about this anymore, but they're still at #1 on the country album sales chart , and #30 in overall sales , even though they don't have a single track in the top 100. They did "plunge" to the #2 spot last week, beaten by someone named Chris Cagle, whom I've never heard of but whose album was new and is now at #5.
So here we are, over a month after the right began braying about how horrible these women are, and they're still at #1. How long until this is shown to have been much ado about nothing? It looks ordinary consumers still haven't reacted to the "controversy", despite all the manufactured outrage.
Another thing - in the analysis of this I've seen, people keep talking about how much "damage" has been done to them since the incident. What's conspicuously absent from these discussions is a mention that they're still #1, even though their album has been out 33 weeks - most artists would kill to be at the top of the charts for that long. I guess that's the SCLM (so-called liberal media, borrowed from Alterman) at work again - mention the "consequences" of criticizing GWB, but ignore the fact that those "consequences" seem to involve having your album sales skyrocket.
I criticize Bush, but I only have the #3 blog.
(just in case there hasn't been enough anti-Bush bile here lately, here's Idiot Son of An Asshole!)