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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (66747)	2/29/2012 9:12:31 AM
From: John	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

I completely concur. I used to enjoy watching Andy Griffith's programs and listening to Linda Ronstadt and Barbra Streisand sing, but when they started shooting off their liberal mouths about their highly-offensive political views, it completely disgusted me and turned me off. Consequently, I completely ignore them now. There are countless other examples as well. How stupid does an entertainer have to be to do that? If my livelihood depended on entertaining and NOT offending as many people as humanely possible, I would never utter a word about my personal political views or come out in support of any candidate. If I were a singer, I would sing and talk about my songs. If I were an actor, I would act and talk about my movies or shows. If someone shoved a microphone into my face and said, "Do you support Barack Hussein Obama," I would politely tell him that my personal political views were private, and I would quickly smile into the camera and say, "But I certainly hope that he and everyone enjoys my new movie." How stupid do these entertainers have to be espouse their disgusting political views on us simply because they have talent in the arts and are widely known as a result? That does not make them political experts nor does it make their opinions more important than the opinions of others. -ng- Remember the ruckus that Linda Ronstadt caused in Las Vegas? Linda Ronstadt?!?!? reviewjournal.com excerpt: Aladdin officials said Monday the decision to evict singer Linda Ronstadt from their hotel Saturday was not a partisan political response but an attempt to "defuse the situation" with an angry crowd. "It was a very ugly scene," Aladdin President Bill Timmins told The Associated Press. "She praised (filmmaker Michael Moore), and all of a sudden all bedlam broke loose." "It did not come down to the statements she had said, per se," hotel spokeswoman Tyri Squyres said Monday of the 58-year-old singer, who dedicated her encore song "Desperado" to Moore and encouraged the audience to see his film "Fahrenheit 9/11." "We needed her off the property," Squyres said of Timmins' decision to check the singer out of her room and escort her from the hotel. "She wanted to incite the audience, and she incited them to the point where they were very upset." Squyres said Timmins is a British citizen, and the hotel's position would have been the same had Ronstadt taken the opposite political stand. "It's about using our venue for political commentary versus being an entertainer," she said. "She was hired to entertain, not to preach." Ronstadt's eviction was "very polite, very professional," Squyres said. The singer had no comment on the issue, her publicist said Monday.