Stupid is as stupid does

You remember when all the right-wingers went even crazier and "boycotted" the Dixie Chicks, a band whose works they may or may not have thought about purchasing in the first place, because of the aforementioned Chicks being publicly ashamed of our President?

Well, if that was stupid--and it was stupid, really, really stupid--then what are we to think of liberals who say that we need to buy the new Dixie Chicks album for the same reason? Let's ask Atrios and John Amato:

I don't know how many C&L readers have bought the CD, but it's important to back up all our artists that have the courage to speak out when they knew there would be a backlash against them.

I haven't heard the album, but, um, what if it really sucked?