Again!
Posted on 07/20/2004 4:10:29 PM PDT by onevoter
US singer Linda Ronstadt was booed off the stage and kicked out of a Las Vegas casino after praising polemical filmmaker Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11," the casino said.
The management of Las Vegas Aladdin Casino and Resort evicted the famed crooner from the premises during a concert after members of the audience reacted furiously to her praise of Michael Moore, whose film bashes US President George W Bush.
"She was removed from the hotel towards the end of the concert," a hotel official who declined to be identified told AFP.
"The company decided to remove her from the property after she dedicated a song to Michael Moore."
"This angered our guests who spilled their drinks and demanded their money back," the official said.
The liberal Ms Ronstadt, 58, a 10-time Grammy Award-winner and an icon of the politically-agitated 1970s, praised Mr Moore as a "great American patriot" who "is spreading the truth."
She also dedicated the song "Desperado" to Mr Moore and urged the audience to go and see "Fahrenheit 9/11," which mercilessly slams Mr Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq and his handling of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
According to local media, members of the 4,500-strong audience stormed out of the concert hall, tore down concert posters and tossed cocktails into the air.
Hotel president Bill Timmins then ordered security guards to escort Ms Ronstadt off the premises.
Mr Moore reacted furiously to the hotel and casino's decision in an open letter to Timmins on the filmmaker's website.
"What country do you live in?," Mr Moore asked in the letter.
"For you to throw Linda Ronstadt off the premises because she dared to say a few words in support of me and my film, is simply stupid and un-American," Mr Moore said.
Been posted many times.
Life can be hard.
Roughly 95% of the personal woe a person endures in life may be traced to self-induced activities. She was just laying a trap for herself, in her "Dixie Chick" moment.
and how was he un-American, i wonder, as if michael moore could answer that question.
mm is going to end up in a loony bin or kissing off the world one day. he ain't normal.
What a moron - they removed her for her own safety, duh!
Blimpoid Fat Hag has been Linda Ronstadt is clearly starving for some PR. And doughnuts.... ooooh doughnuts!!
In an article Drudge has from the San Diego Union, Ronstadt went on to make this situation worse by saying:
"This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know."
Somebody staple her lips shut!!
Callers who attended said that approx 2000 people walked out throwing drinks, booing, ripping posters, etc.
They wouldn't even let her go back to her suite to pick up her belongings.
It was a curb-side ejection!
She also said that Las Vegas is not the place to entertain.
As Dice Clay would say...."PAINFULLY DUMB"
Correction: Been posted many many many many many many many many many many times.
I think this may be a part of a bigger picture. Rondstat, Goldburg and others are starting a "We are persecuted victims of the Christian Right" movement and it is going to be just a little taste of the divide and conquer strategy laid down by the DNC.
This has been posted a zillion times already!
This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was about audience enjoyment, not hers! She is paid to entertain - who cares if she "enjoys" herself?
And her stomach.
Maybe she'll show up in Boston and sing for JFK.....
Hopfully not like this!
"She is paid to entertain - who cares if she "enjoys" herself?"
And, therein lies the problem. Between her concern over whether or not she is "enjoying" herself and her "enjoying" waaaaaayyyyyy too many stops on her tour bus at waaaaaayyyyy too many Dunkin Donuts, her career has taken a well-deserved nose-dive.
Now, she can join Rosie O'Fats in the new MM-produced Reality TV show called "Dude, where's my career?"
As if her inflammatory political statements were not enough, she also denied that she and her manager had agreed to her singing her hit songs, as the casino advertised. She has no one but herself to blame for the outcome. Like that will stop her from carping about it, though....
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