[MadIvan]

Glad I never bought any of her albums anyway.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[jocon307]

She thinks she's a much better singer than she is. In that same interview she talks about how she probably would have become an opera singer, if she hadn't gotten caught up in pop. She's in the movie version of "Pirates of Penzance" and it's fairly clear from that that major opera Diva was never a career path for her.

She's a Mexican-American, despite the German name. She's had some good success singing Mexican folk songs. My suggestion is that she decamp for Cancun forthwith, I'm sure there are many tourist joints there who can provide her with gainful employment. Since America s*cks so much.

[GeronL]

That headline is right on the money.

[garylmoore]

Glad I never bought any of her albums anyway

Yeah, me too, although I've never really liked her voice or her.

[Tom_Busch]

Whatever is the author talking about? It's not bigotry if it's against Christians...

[JimVT]

"Insubordination from my inferiors is something up with which I will not put!"

[bad company]

We were going to burn her albums but no one could find their old 8-tracks.

[mdmathis6]

The problem with calling some non Christians bigots is that they have no enlightened conscience and they'll feel that criticism never applies to them any-ways...but they'll happily turn the phrase around onto Christians...some of whom exercise no wisdom and discernment regarding conscience and faith.

Thus these Christians feel as though they must carry the whole world of "progressivist ideology" on their shoulders instead of their own CROSSES, inadvertantly giving into the evil they are to stand against!

[HorsePlayer]

Linda, Linda, Linda.

Just shut up and sing Blew By You for us one more time.

[garbanzo]

If Ronstadt had said the following

It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a ... fundamental Christian Jew. It can cloud my enjoyment.

that would have been a career ender. No ifs, ands, or buts. No Hollywood celebs talking about censorship and freedom of speech.

[hellinahandcart]

Talk about not knowing her audience.

My dad bought all her albums with Nelson Riddle, and she's definitely on his sh!t list now.

[goldstategop]

I have a lot of movies from people whose politics I don't agree with. However most of them don't go out of their way to show they're smarter than me and I hope the rest of Hollywood learns that lesson - fast. Being a snob is very unbecoming.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

She's a big....something.

[Dustbunny]

Never really cared for Ronstadt, so we don't own any of her albums.

She is just another 'has been' looking for publicity.

[hummingbird]

Linda Ronstadt is a bigot.

Yep, yep, yep...and she convicts herself with her own words.

"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.”

Guess it jams her frequencies. Tee-hee....

[auggy]

"?I want people to get their head up out of their mashed potatoes and learn something about the issues and go and vote. . . . I?m not telling them how to vote. I?m saying, get information about the issues.?"

She appears to have had her head in Mashed potatoes, too often.

She didn't learn much, but she did pack on about a hundred issues.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Disease, old age and death will soon silence the Hippy's socialist whine.

[mombonn]

“I want people to get their head up out of their mashed potatoes . . .

The only reason she wants their heads out of the mashed potatoes is so she can get her snout in.

[XEHRpa]

> Linda Ronstadt is a bigot

I think the title got truncated...

Linda Ronstadt is a big otter. (Have you seen those photos lately?)

[asgardshill]

“This is an election year,” she told the Los Angeles Times after the event. “I want people to get their head up out of their mashed potatoes ...

Judging by her recent photos, I would confirm that mashed taters (and every other food group) are a big part of her problem.

[RetSignman]

Forgotten and has-been former "stars" have found a way to get back into the spotlight. It matters not, if it is in a negative light, in fact , all the better.

They look at it as making a comeback and, as usual, the media will advance their efforts and before you know it, they start appearing on talk shows and various other print media, defending themselves.

Has-been, forgotten "movie stars" are especially good at this, they have found that by making outrageous and personal attacks on the President as especially useful to promote their lagging careers. They found that suddenly the heads of studios take an interest in them again and they receive roles again.

Politicians use this tactic, also,to keep their names in front of the public eye, it doesn't matter how outrageous their comments are, whether they spout out right lies. because they know they can't be sued by the President.

[Brilliant]

Like Moore, she's just a fat idiot.

[showme_the_Glory]

I saw her open for the Eagles several years ago. She was a lot better then. Dang I miss the Eagles........

[LisaMalia]

Linda Ronstadt is getting more press then she has in the last 25 years. Maybe THAT'S at least part of her agenda. Resuscitating her otherwise washed up singing career. These people are under the impression that any publicity is better than none. Wrong!

It will backfire on her, and others of her ilk (Raitt, Jon BonJovi, Johnny (sellout) Couger. They all make me sick. They're too stupid to realize that it's the hard working people of this great country who've lined their pockets and bank accounts for years. No more!

[Fintan]

But Ronstadt’s bigotry is enough to make any right-thinking person reconsider purchasing anything that would put money in her pocket.


 

...or mashed potatoes in her mouth.

[Poohbah]

You know why she sang so slow in the 1970s?

She had a Governor on her.

[Amelia]

More & more I wonder if this wasn't calculated on Ronstadt's part. It's got to be the most publicity she's had in 20+ years. Who was paying attention to her before all this?

[RGSpincich]

Another "has been" uses Bush to eek out another fifteen minutes of fame.

[Carolinamom]

She looks like she's been hitting the mashed potatoes. She's supposed to be an entertainer, not a lecturer. I check the source before entertaining any information given.

[rewrite]

Linda, Linda, Linda,...You used to be kinda hot. Now you're a cow who needs to be introduced to Jenny Craig. Too bad we can do anything about that pea brain of yours.

[Revenge of Sith]

Ronstadt was attacked by liberals during the 80's when she defiantly toured South Africa and then sang backup on Paul Simon's "Graceland," which was recorded in Johannesburg.

[GVnana]

I remember seeing an interview with Kenny Rogers where he said he worked hard to give a good performance even at the smallest venues because he knew many people in the audience were spending an entire paycheck to see him, and it would probably be the biggest night out they had all year.

Ronstadt has no class.

[genxer]

never liked her anyway.

[oceanperch]

She also pissed off her audiance in Livermore California. I use to live in SF East Bay and Livermore isn't a lib area IMO back then anyway. It was a farming community that was built over with homes for the wealthy professionals. Drs. ect.

When she started her crap in Livermore hundreds got up and walked out.

Some say we came to here her sing but we won't put up with her political views.

[jonrick46]

Their bigotry against the Judeo-Christian culture is the same root reason there has been persecution through the ages: the Judeo-Christian culture has an allegiance to a different object of rule than that which is manufactured by man. The left has as its utopian goal a perfect government that will be large enough to answer to every need for every person. To bring about such a order between the individual and the state, requires a compliance from the individual that is contrary to man's basic nature. To overcome man's basic nature, which the left sees as man's faulty nature, requires efforts to exact compliance: fascism. That is why These lefties would be the first to burn bibles and have their Christian victims thrown in the same fire. What is frightening is how easy it is for this hatred to be generated in our society. It is almost as easy as flipping a switch and a blind response which aims to persecute the Christian is generated. I would think that after we have seen the stupidity and horrors that such thinking has suffered down through the ages, that a culture as advanced as ours would have evolved to become immune to such retarded behavior. We are seeing a repeat of history before our eyes.

What we must not forget is that our capitalist system of free markets is the most successful and brings the maximum benefit to more people than any other system. It is the result of an evolutionary process. Read this carefully: capitalism requires that system of values found in the Judeo-Christian culture. It such a system that acknowledges mans faults but offers forgiveness and atonement. Those who transgress are treated with dignity and respect in hopes there will be redemption. It is that system of morality that brings trust between humans in the endeavor of goods and services. Without that trust there would be no risk. Without risk, there would be no capitalism.

Those who oppose capitalism use the above mechanism I have described to attack the Judeo-Christian culture. With a click of a mouse and the flip of a switch, they influence enough useful fools to spew venom and use the mechanisms of power to attack. What is alarming to me is we are watching the apparatus of the Democrat party being taken over as if it had been invaded by some computer virus, to pitch the Judeo-Christian culture overboard. The Democratic Party acts as if it has been compromised by anti-capitalistic forces to destroy religion and the core backbone of our society, the human family unit.

WE SHALL OPPOSE THE DEMOCRATS WITH THE STRENGTH OF OUR VOICES.

[FITZ]

This is an election year,” she told the Los Angeles Times after the event. “I want people to get their head up out of their mashed potatoes and learn something about the issues and go and vote.

Someone her size should be a bit more careful about implying others have their heads in the mashed potatoes --- who is Linda Ronstadt anyhow? Wasn't she just a 70's flower child who had a good voice and sang a couple of good songs but none she wrote herself and had a pretty short singing career? Wasn't she a high school drop out who slept around a lot and did a lot of drugs? Now what gives her the authority to lecture anyone?

[Dog Gone]

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[Toespi]

However, there is a tremedous disparity here. We, the average people can not get our message out, I can not imagine anyone paying $275.00 to hear me sing and then listen to my political views. Quite an advantage you have there Linda.

[Bob J]

"Desperation" Sung By Ronstadt to Moore