Ronstadt’s Vegas row fuels debate

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LOS ANGELES - Who says what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?

Singer Linda Ronstadt’s eviction from a hotel in America’s ”sin city” of Las Vegas, for mildly praising filmmaker Michael Moore during a stage show, mushroomed Wednesday into the latest celebrity free speech controversy to dog the highly charged 2004 presidential campaign.

For some, the incident was the latest example of an increasing tide of anti-Bush remarks from prominent entertainers that has become a side-show to the battle for the White House.

But for others, it was a sign that the 2004 election is going to be one of the most passionate and divisive campaigns since the height of the Vietnam War.

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