Poor, unloved Ms. Ronstadt. Those mean ticket buying fans got up and left rather than listen to her drivel about MMoore/F-911.
I guess they were just exercising their freedom of speech.
People go to Vegas to be entertained, not listen to some f’n wash-up flap her lips about her love muffin.
Anyone that is actually influenced by these Hollywood jackasses, completely negates any shred of intelligence they had to begin with.
Celebs are simply trying to make headlines. Does anyone actually BELIEVE that they are hard-liners one way or another? Come on…
Lets be consistent about this. Other celebrities that have no place voicing their idiotic political views:
Ronald Reagan
Arnold Shwarzenegger
Hey, who would have guessed that the woman who was married to Jerry Brown, is a liberal?
Shocking!
[quote]Lumpy wrote:
Lets be consistent about this. Other celebrities that have no place voicing their idiotic political views:
Ronald Reagan
Arnold Shwarzenegger
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Lumpa ~ The simple fact is, Ronald and Arnold actually did something about their political views, while most Hollywood punks are just “voicing” their opinion to the masses. Holding an office has a lot more credibility and responsibility than just getting your BS printed in a newspaper. Typical. ~ Jack
Lumpy -
These people plopped down 50-60 bucks, expecting to be entertained, only to get her political insights forced down their throats.
Hardly Reaganish if you ask me. Besides, the people ELECTED the Terminator and Reagan.
I don’t remember Lard-Ass Linda running for anything but the buffet line.
I agree that all (liberal and conservative) Hollywood celebrities need to shut up and stop thinking their opinion is so important.
Most celebrities have the intellectual candle power of a 10-watt bulb. I care about as much about what Matt Damon and Ben Afleck think about the economy or environmental science as they care what I think of their next movie script.
If you’ve seen the movie ‘Good Will Hunting’, then you can see the source of their views: Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. The book is presented to gullible college-students as objective history (the leitmotif of the book is that Americans are evil, no matter what. Ex: if you go into Haiti right away, here are the American oppressors. If you wait, you’re obviously a racist for not intervening sooner. That kind of crap…). Its amazing to me how we have survived so far with so much rot at the core.
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Why the hell should famous people have to keep their opinions to themselves? If the populace is too stupid to think for themselves… then that is the problem you should be addressing. Instead you would wish the rich and famous to be somehow silent?
Admittedly, they are generally out of their minds due to their distance from real world issues, kind of makes it entertaining to hear their own opinions.
On a different note, if Linda promised a performance and then didn’t deliver, bad news. If she added some opinion based material to the performance, well, y’know, suck it up. You’ll know better next time.
[quote]Lets be consistent about this. Other celebrities that have no place voicing their idiotic political views:
Ronald Reagan
Arnold Shwarzenegger[/quote]
Lumpy, voicing their views got them into elected office, which is the job wherein one is expected to voice and act on one’s political views. Are their views idiotic because you don’t agree with them? I have yet to see you say anything that isn’t trashing someone’s point of view that isn’t yours. You really should try to better articulate your own views, because I have no idea what they are; I just know just what they aren’t. What do you stand for, man?
On topic now, nobody gags up $50 to go hear a performer’s political rant. They’re called performers. We pay to see them sing/play/act or whatever they do. If you are going to personally insult what is likely to be half your audience, you should expect a reaction. The hotel is running a business, and stood to lose business because of her. Of course she has a right to scream her opinion all she wants, but people have the right to express their opinion of that opinion.
Similar instances occured with graduaton speeches this year. Certain people who were called upon to deliver a commencement address were apparantly distracted with political opinions. Many of them were booed off the stage.
I think it would be wise for both those with opinions on the left and right to remember why they were hired. Be professional! Do what you were hired to do!
If the celebrity in question wants to voice their political opinion they should not do it when people are paying them to perform. It’s just bad business, and bad politics!
Linda Ronstadt dedicated a song in her encore to Michael Moore, and she recommended that they see Fahrenheit 9-11. A few people stormed out.
That’s it! That was her big so-called “rant”.
You guys really seize onto the important topics…LOL
[quote]Lumpy wrote:
Linda Ronstadt dedicated a song in her encore to Michael Moore, and she recommended that they see Fahrenheit 9-11. A few people stormed out.
That’s it! That was her big so-called “rant”.
You guys really seize onto the important topics…LOL[/quote]
This from someone who thought the most important thing about the Sandy Berger fiasco was whether he stuffed documents in his socks…
What are the two things you never bring up with strangers because they are too libale to offend? Religion and politics. Linda Ronstadt sings - if she had decided to lecture everyone about saving themselves by accepting Jesus Christ into their hearts, I suspect the audience would have reacted in similar fashion.
She is free to say whatever she wants - and free to get fired. Ain’t liberty grand?
The only reasons this got as much coverage as it did were:
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Ronstadt is a reasonably well-known celebrity
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A handful of kneejerkers want to use this little dustup as an example of a larger, more nefarious conspiracy to censor dissent
Lumpy-
I guess all the folks that stormed out of her concert should have ran it by you before exercising their rights to ignore Ms. Ronstadt.
It’s just a shame that these ignorant people wasted their freedom of speech on something as trivial as this, huh Lumpy?
900 American soildiers dead in Iraq, and this is what you’re concerned with.
They say a measure of a man is what makes him angry.