* As if President Bush wasn’t a big enough foe, the Dixie Chicks are in hot water again, possibly with a more formidable foe – PETA.
Actually, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals doesn’t have a beef with the band, but with its management company, which nixed an ad the Texas-based trio did as part of PETA’s “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign. The ad featured Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire posing in a field of flowers clad in nothing more than a few strategically placed instruments.
The band’s managers, afraid that the recent brouhaha over Maines’ antiwar statements would embroil the Chicks in another boycott, pulled the ad. They even tried to pay PETA $10,000 to pretend the whole thing never happened, MSNBC reports.
“They are the Dixie Chicks, not the Stepford Wives,” a PETA spokesman said. “This trio … aren’t afraid to voice their views.”

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