other songwriters, including Neil Finn on "Silent House". The album contained several tracks that seemed to indirectly reference what the group called "The Incident", and the group remained defiant. Maguire commented that, "I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith . We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do." [ 77 ] Maines also retracted her earlier apology to President Bush, stating, "I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President, but I don't feel that way anymore. I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever." [ 77 ] Taking the Long Way debuted at number one on both the U.S. pop albums chart and the U.S. country albums chart , selling 526,000 copies in the first week (the year's second-best such total for any country act) and making it a gold record within its first week, despite having little or no airplay in areas that had once embraced them. The Chicks became the first female band in chart history to have three albums debut at No. 1. [ 78 ] Both "Not Ready to Make Nice" and second single " Everybody Knows " were largely ignored by U.S. country radio [ 79 ] and failed to penetrate the top 35 of the Hot Country Songs chart. In June 2006, Emily