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Thread #71755   Message #1229471
Posted By: GUEST,LUCIA
19-Jul-04 - 09:38 PM
Thread Name: Linda Ronstadt pulls a Dixie Chicks
Subject: RE: Linda Ronstadt pulls a Dixie Chicks
I get so tired of Hollywood people simply assuming we are interested in their opinions-regardless of whether we agree with them or not.
There's a time and a place for everything. If I'm paying big bucks for a concert, I'd like a concert please. Not political commentary.

Amos,Don,brucie-would you want your urologist with his finger up your rear blathering on about how great Geo Bush is? Do you want your barber's opinion on abortion when your paying for a trim? Maybe your dentists views on Jesus Christ as his personal savior while he's drilling away at a cost of hundreds of dolllars per tooth? Of course not. You'd make a fuss just like the people at the concert who disagreed with Linda did, and likely take your business elsewhere next time and not be too concerned with those people's right to free speech. In a social setting such discussions are all well and good, but for gods sake spare me the political opinions when you've got me paying real, hard earned dollars for something else.

Is Bush an idiot, a war mongering, inarticulate untrustworthy tool of big corporate GOP donors? No, he's probably something much worse.

Can Linda Ronstadt sing better than 99.9% of the rest of the white chicks on this planet.Well, I always thought so, but whatever,that doesn't make her views on politics of any interest to me.

We wouldn't accept this kind of behavior if it came from public figures we disagree with. It's time to stop excusing it from those with whom we do agree.