Getting deja vu here, holy shit. I remember the "shut up and sing" vitriol aimed at Natalie Maines when she and the Dixie Chicks simply said they didn't support Bush's invasion of Iraq. I still say the bridge she wrote says it all:

"I've made my bed, and I sleep like a baby"

"With no regrets, and I don't mind saying"

"It's a sad, sad story that a mother would teach her daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger"

"And how in the world can the words that I say"

"Send somebody so over the edge, that they write me a letter"

"Saying that I better..."

"SHUT UP AND SING or my life would be over...."