[cake_crumb]

Please allow me to point out that 4,500 people reacted negatively to Ronstadt's anti-American behavior.

I'm not making light of your outrage. I consider the crowd's reaction to be a good sign of the mood of American consumers toward performers. Unfortunately, the tickets had already been bought and paid for, or there wouldn't have been thousands of people to begin with...but how many tickets will she sell now?

[Bob J]

I agree and would like to point out that it was the people who walked out of her concert and it was the people demonstrating public outrage at what she did that has brought it to attention of the media and public in general.

Without that kind of activism, without people seeing other people outraged, some might accept it as the prevailing opinion and then as their own.

People have a herd mentality. When not sure about their own views, they skeddadle to the relative safety of majority opinion. Sometimes they never figure it out for themselves. The left for decades has been using peer pressure as a technique to not only keep their own troops on the straight and narrow, but also to manipulate mass opinion.