MSNBC Poll: Should Linda Ronstadt have said what she did at her concerts?

[Cannikin]

Sure, it's her show, she can say whatever she wants
57%

No, she should keep politics out of it
43%
* 793 responses


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5479648/

[TeacherCreature]

1. Of Course she should speak up

Singers are citizens too. She spoke up, she accepted the consequences. What is the big deal? I am tired of the idea that people are not supposed to talk about politics. I don't even care if teachers do. How do we teach kids to think about life and society if we never demonstrate the process?

[yelladawg]

2. If rush can speak out for the neocons

Linda should have evry right to speak out.

[mandyky]

3. 58 to 42

We're moving it!

[Bronco69]

4. Done

Should Linda Ronstadt have said what she did at her concerts? * 924 responses


Sure, it's her show, she can say whatever she wants
58%

No, she should keep politics out of it
42%

[freetobegay]

5. I voted!

Sure, it's her show, she can say whatever she wants
59%

No, she should keep politics out of it
41%

[nickinSTL]

6. yes 59%

n/t

[LuCifer]

7. Done

1092 responses:
Sure, it's her show, she can say whatever she wants
has 59%
and
No, she should keep politics out of it
has 41%

Pathetic that "No" would even have 1%.

LAND OF THE FREE? WHERE IS THIS PLACE??!?!?!

Lu Cifer

[Jacobin]

8. done

[cosmicdot]

9. 60% yes

Should Linda Ronstadt have said what she did at her concerts?
1121 responses


Sure, it's her show, she can say whatever she wants
60%

No, she should keep politics out of it
40%

[Cannikin]

10. kick

[Bridget Burke]

11. She only made her comments at the encore.

She herself said she didn't want to make things too political.

And recent accounts of the show say the reaction was far weaker than the (soon to be former) manager of the Aladdin claimed.

[Cannikin]

12. I've also heard...

it may have been exaggerated by Aladdin b/c of negative comments she had made about the casino itself, earlier in the show.

[Cannikin]

13. kick

[SoCalDem]

14. The accompanying story tells a lot

By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 2:06 a.m. ET July 22, 2004Linda Ronstadt isn’t piping down.


Undaunted after being booted by the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas for making pro-Michael Moore comments, the singer did an encore speech in a concert on Sunday night, again igniting the audience. “Half the crowd heartily applauded her praise for Moore, the other half booed,” reports the San-Diego Union-Tribune. “In an instant, the intimate outdoor venue on Shelter Island filled with a roar of cheers and jeers that grew to a near-fever pitch, “Ronstadt made a few other political references that evening, as well. She dedicated “Straighten Up and Fly Right” to “the good folks at Enron who brought us the energy crisis.” She also poked fun at California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s controversial “girly men” comments, saying, “Now I’m wondering. What if you’re a female legislator,” she said, according to the Union-Tribune. “Does that make you a ‘manly girl’? Or a manly woman’?”

Unlike the bosses at Aladdin, the folks running her San Diego concert didn’t boot Ronstadt for her comments.

Politicians don’t want controversy

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“The media was going to do the same thing to that they did to Whoopi,” Cho’s manager, Karen Taussig, tells The Scoop. “It’s terrible. It’s really bad for the gay community. They’re being treated like second-class citizens. . . .It’s amazing how skilled the Republicans are at setting the agenda.”