{"id":355,"date":"2004-07-21T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T17:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/remember-the-dixie-chicks\/"},"modified":"2004-07-21T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T17:51:37","slug":"remember-the-dixie-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/remember-the-dixie-chicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Dixie Chicks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Las Vegas casino boots Ronstadt for lauding Moore’s <\/p>\n

‘Fahrenheit 9\/11’<\/a><\/p>\n

“It was a very ugly scene,” Aladdin President Bill Timmins said.<\/p>\n

Timmins, who was watching the show, said <\/p>\n

he didn’t allow Ronstadt back in her luxury suite and she was escorted off the property.<\/p>\n

Hotel spokeswoman Tyri Squyres said it <\/p>\n

wasn’t Ronstadt’s message per se that management objected to, but, “She wanted to incite the audience, and she incited them to the <\/p>\n

point where they were very upset. . . . She was hired to entertain, not to preach.”<\/p>\n

Ronstadt Will Continue Praising Moore<\/a> Rapid <\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/p>\n

“This is an election year,” she told the Los Angeles Times Tuesday. “I want people to get their head up out of their <\/p>\n

mashed potatoes and learn something about the issues and go and vote. … I’m not telling them how to vote. I’m saying, get information <\/p>\n

about the issues.” …<\/p>\n

Ronstadt, 58, told the Times her remarks were “modest,” adding: “They didn’t throw me out.”<\/b><\/p>\n

“I <\/p>\n

didn’t even know there was trouble,” she said. “Those places operate like little city-states. They are all-powerful. And I had already <\/p>\n

said I never want to come back.”<\/p>\n

Our Opinion: Real desperado<\/a> Tucson Citizen<\/p>\n

The hotel-casino is a private entity; its managers <\/p>\n

can hire or remove whomever they choose.<\/p>\n

The booting of Ronstadt did not violate her right to free speech. But it did constitute <\/p>\n

one of the worst public relations moves imaginable<\/b>. People love or hate Moore, but almost everyone savors Ronstadt’s music. A <\/p>\n

more circumspect reaction would have been wise.<\/b><\/p>\n

”Circumspect” sounds suspiciously French to the Radical Right. <\/p>\n

mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Corner on National Review Online<\/a><\/p>\n

My wife & I were at the Linda Ronstadt performance in question, at <\/p>\n

the Aladdin in Las Vegas, and quite frankly, Aladdin President Bill Timmins’ account of what happened is complete crap. There was mixed <\/p>\n

booing and cheering at Ronstadt’s pro-Michael Moore comment, and that was about the extent of the “bedlam” that supposedly broke out. <\/p>\n

… Frankly, my suspicion is that Timmins is way overdramatizing what happened, in order to justify giving Ronstadt the boot. It simply <\/p>\n

wasn’t that big a deal. [mjh: Thanks, NewMexiKen<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Of course, we should trust the <\/p>\n

corporate stooges. After all, Lush Limbaugh calls Ronstadt ”the 50-year-old hippie relic” (she’s 58 — Lush doesn’t care about <\/p>\n

accuracy) and a kook.<\/p>\n

It is interesting to note that this casino is in bankruptcy. If you’re looking for a buyer, it makes sense to <\/p>\n

appeal to the people with money. Probably a lot of government regulators involved in such things, as well. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

mjh’s Weblog Entry – 03\/19\/2003: Dixie Chicks – who is being disloyal?<\/a><\/p>\n

Dissent is NOT disloyalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Las Vegas casino boots Ronstadt for lauding Moore’s ‘Fahrenheit 9\/11’ “It was a very ugly scene,” Aladdin President Bill Timmins said. Timmins, who was watching the show, said he didn’t allow Ronstadt back in her luxury suite and she was escorted off the property. Hotel spokeswoman Tyri Squyres said it wasn’t Ronstadt’s message per se … Continue reading Remember the Dixie Chicks?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}