Dixie Chick regrets choice of words.
Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said she spoke against President Bush and the war with Iraq last month out of frustration and regrets her choice of words, but not that she spoke out about how she felt.
"I'm not truly embarrassed that President Bush is from my state, that's not really what I care about," Maines said in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer for "Primetime Thursday."
"It was the wrong wording with genuine emotion and questions and concern behind it. ... Am I sorry that I asked questions and that I just don't follow? No."
At a March 10 concert in London, Maines told the audience in reference to Bush's push for military action against Iraq: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
Maines and the Texas-based trio's other members _ Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, who are sisters _ also told Sawyer the fallout was too harsh for the offense and they've always supported U.S. troops even though they questioned the war.
"I feel me speaking out is the most patriotic thing I can do," Maines said. "People have died to give you this right and I'm using it."
Murder Inc. Recorded Executive Arrested.
Authorities in Los Angeles have arrested an executive with rap music label Murder Inc. on federal firearms charges.
The executive, Dexter Ottley, was taken into custody on Thursday based on authorities finding a .25-caliber gun found on his desk during a search of the record label offices in Manhattan in January.
Prosecutors were investigating the label, home to multi-platinum rapper Ja Rule and Grammy-winning singer Ashanti, because of suspicions that it laundered drug money. Documents and computers were also seized during a search of the offices.
Ottley, 38, was arrested along with Tarik Williams, also a Murder Inc. executive and Taheem Crocker, a recording artist who goes by the moniker Cadillac Tah, The New York Times reported in its Friday editions.
Williams and Crocker were not charged with any crime, however.
Murder Inc. and its chairman, Irv Gotti, have been the focus of an investigation by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.