Sure they swept the Grammy Awards, but apparently the Dixie Chicks don’t fly with the Academy of Country Music. Nominations were announced Monday for the annual ACM Awards and there was nary a Chick to be found despite the Texas trio’s five Grammies for Taking the Long Way. The Chicks have won 10 ACMs in their career, including Entertainer of the Year in 2000, but have been shunned by the Nashville establishment since their President Bush-bashing comments in 2003.

While the Academy of Country Music isn’t ready to make nice with the Chicks, the organization made sure the usual Nasville-pleasing subjects were accounted for, led by George Straight, Brooks & Dunn and Rascal Flatts.

The nominations were announced at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville by 2006’s Entertainer of the Year, Kenney Chesney, and the duo Sugarland, who won for Top New Duo or Vocal Group in 2006.

“Whenever you get nominated, it’s a reflection of a lot of people’s hard work,” Chesney said.

Politics should not be part of deciding who does and who does not get an award, however, when you see Al Gore getting an award from Hollywood liberals when clearly he wasn’t deserving of it, it is obvious that awards are really a popularity contest, much like politics, and have less to do with the quality of work done.

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