Tim Blair

She's clearly doing this because it's the only way the audience will sit up and listen. Even booing is better than indifference.

weather you agree or not with a performer,
i will not pay hard earned money to listen to
their point of view. i go to see the performer.
she was very wrong. i lost ALL respect for
michael moore at the academy awards in 2003.
go to a rally to vent.
coming soon to a theater
michaelmoorehatesamerica.com
click on filmmakers journey
moorewatch.com
moorelies.com

mooreexposed.com

I want to know why Linda Ronstadt of all people thought her audience would be receptive to fawnings over Moore. She's a country singer, for Pete's sake. Her fans are the people who bulldozed the Dixie Chicks, remember? Elton John or Phish aren't going to inspire any mass walkouts with stunts like this; but hell, Larry the Cable Guy has more common sense about how to read his audience.

OT: I don't know how anybody else here feels about it but...andrea/minnesota, do you really need to put those anti-Moore URLs into every single post of yours? There's plenty of condemnation of ol' Mikey here already, spamming for those sites (however good your intentions) strikes me as somewhat misguided.

Poor Linda she has been on the outer (musically and politically) ever since the days of Gov. Jerry Brown.

And the Dead Kennedy's stuck it to him - California Uber Alles.

Have you considered another possibility...that the crowd started booing and rioting when she announced she was about to sing "Desperado"? That would send most people I know, myself included, over the edge.

There was an actual audience for the 58-year-old baby boomer 'rocker'?

The encore 'Desperado' was clearly dedicated to them.

You want "Rock and Roll" from Linda?
Try "Canciones de mi Padre" on Asylum. You have to
like Mexican music. She may piss me off with her
politics, but she has a beautiful glottal break.

Apparently the crowd danced to the beat of a different drum.
Were they Stoned ponies?

They weren't booing Linda. They were booing the boo-ers. And I'm almost positive that some of them were saying "Boo-urns."

Mr. Plow is a loser,
And I think he is a boozer
So you'd better make that call to the Plow King

... all the Linda Ronstadt I know.

I didn't realise she still alive. Why wasn't she at Oprah's(50th)Birthday Bash, along with Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder and all the oher old crocks. Oh, I know, at 60 she was probably too young.

andrea/minnesota:

You know, we all know about the MMHA movie, and I'm eagerly awaiting to see it myself. So, maybe, you could stop signing every post with it?

50th)Birthday Bash, along with Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder and all the oher old crocks.

Freddieboy....does Mommy know your playing with the computer again?

What, crispy, you don't know the spanish version?

Senor Plow no es macho
Solamente es borracho...

FreddyBoy — Don't be talkin' down in your throat 'bout Tina, now...

Sortelli... ah, because she moderates this blog? 'sides, I just finished reading Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man and he really deserves kicking...

5000 people were there, according to a reporter sent to cover/critique the show, hundreds left.

And she was not in good form.

Michael Moore is now offering to show his film free of charge viewing to "anyone else in Las Vegas who wants to see it".

While I'm not keen on seeing the film, Vegas is nice this time of year and it would be a pleasure to force Moore to keep his word and show the film for free.

Pack your bags kids, we're going to Vegas Brady Style.

Are you saying "Boo" or "Boo-urns?"

"Booo!!!"

"I was saying Boo-urns..."

Richard--The Andrea that moderates this blog knows how to use her shift key. :)

Richard McEnroe: I also know how to punctuate, and I sign my name "Andrea Harris," and I've never been to Minnesota in my life.

Most amusing this...Desperado is a damn good song and to have her use it to praise Moore is rather disgusting. I wonder why musicians like this silly moo think anyone cares what their dumb-arse political thoughts are. She is listened to her music (some of which is not bad) not her insights into current affairs.

I don't mind Andrea in Mn attaching those links to her posts. A first time visitor might see them, and investigate further. Let's treat our own side with a little more consideration, PW? Cheers, By

Hear, hear B-t-A. And duh! It wasn't half obvious there is more than one Andrea in the world.

(Thank God - I just love Andrea as a name ... it goes back to primary school when I fell in love with at least three ... but unrequited ...

So pro-Moore comments were boo-ed in Vegas?

How the fuck is this a suprise to anyone?

Pffffft.

Andrea — the shift key is a tool of the fascist grammarian oppressors,

And they're really good links.

And what's wrong with Minnesota? They have trees in Minnesota. Crawling with flesh eating black flies, but trees...

Nothing's wrong with Minnesota. I've just never been there.

Let's treat our own side with a little more consideration, PW?

I dunno, I have this arcane notion that spamming is bad, no matter if it's done by people whose opinion I agree with or those whose opinion I do not. Not a matter of consideration, just one of fairness. But no big deal, I'll shut up now.

Well, not ALL Americans like "Desperado." I, for one, can't frickin' stand it.

Well, I liked El Mariachi better, but Salma Hayek was amazing.

I saw a picture of Ronstadt on AOL News. She and Mr. Moore would make quite a pair (pear?).

If Linda has a right to speak out as she did, why doesn't Mr. Timmins have a right to act as he did? Why is it that only those on the left who have rights?

So the First Amendment gives me, an American citizen, the right to speak at the Aladdin in Las Vegas?

Wow. Never realised that the Founding Fathers had such great foresight.

Ronstadt also claims that the US "looks like (Germany's) Weimar Republic to me." She’s old enough to know.

No, actually she isn't old enough to know. Which makes her look all the more ignorant.

So the First Amendment gives me, an American citizen, the right to speak at the Aladdin in Las Vegas?

David, help me out with this one. Are you stating something obvious to highten the irony, or do you not know where Las Vegas is? Apologies if it's the former.

We should of course point out that Mr. Timmins is British and thus probably poisoned by the EU's notions of "free speech."

Let's face it, if Timmins had been James "Las Vegas" Caan, he'd have just broken a couple of her fingers and told her to get back out on stage for the next set...

This is way dead now but that third update was great:

"Whatever I sang, I was burning to sing. It communicated something I felt an urgent need to communicate, and not to anybody specifically, just in a room, by myself."

She should have stayed there. And she should listen to her son:

"It's gotten to point where I don't sing at home. When I do, my son says: 'You sound like a sick parrot!' "

So the First Amendment gives me, an American citizen, the right to speak at the Aladdin in Las Vegas?

David, help me out with this one. Are you stating something obvious to highten the irony, or do you not know where Las Vegas is? Apologies if it's the former.

Sorry, it was heavily sarcastic, and I meant to say that the First Amendment gives me the right to stand on a stage in the Aladdin (a private forum, owned by a private entity, NOT the public) and say things that the owner of said forum disagrees with. It was meant to go along with Moore's evident belief that the First Amendment gives people the right to free speech anywhere. It doesn't, it simply restricts the ability of the government to limit said speech. Private venues have no such limitations, which was supposed to be my point. In this case, despite Moore's claim, the First Amendment does not apply. Apologies for not making that clear enough, and thanks for asking.

Ah, now I understand what you meant. Sorry about that. :)

Actually, it would be cool to have a free showing of "Fahrenheit 9/11," followed by an intermission and then "Michael Moore Hates America," and then an open debate.

You'd have to promise neither Ronstadt nor Moore would sing . . .