Posted on 07/25/2004 3:40:53 PM PDT by wagglebee
One-time girlfriend of quirky California Gov. Jerry Brown in the '70s, singer Linda Ronstadt has been busy lately. She dedicated her song "Desperado" to Michael Moore and his bogus-mentary, "Fahrenheit 911," she got herself tossed out of the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas, and she gave an interview to a newspaper. Although I doubt this was her intention, she has actually taught us three lessons: One, she and many of her fellow entertainers do have a religion – I'd call it "secular fundamentalism." Two, it's open season on Christians, the last unprotected minority in America. Her third lesson, well, I'll tell you that in a minute.
When loud protests greeted her sycophantic tribute to Moore and his anti-Bush movie, she got thrown out of the Aladdin. The casino management ejected her, not because they are all Republicans but because they are all businessmen. Given current political demographics, it is likely that at least half of any randomly chosen audience is conservative, and business professionals dislike their hired entertainers insulting half of their customers.
How could someone who has been entertaining professionally for 35 years not know that people come to a Las Vegas show to be entertained not to be politically polarized? The answer is of course she knows this, but she is serving a higher cause than her career. She has found religion, the religion of Secular Fundamentalism.
Any seriously committed Jew or Christian would put faith before career. Like countless Orthodox Jews over the centuries, I would unhesitatingly jeopardize my career to stand up for my faith. My many Christian friends would do no less. So why should anyone be surprised when Linda Ronstadt also puts her faith ahead of her career?
Just as both Judaism and Christianity each puts a face on evil, so does Secular Fundamentalism. At this stage in America's second civil war, the face belongs to George W. Bush. Linda Ronstadt, as one of the priestly class of entertainers, feels the call to denounce the face of evil, and that call of her faith is more important to her than her career.
Her soul told her to say, "The Bush administration is awful, and so lying and so deceitful. And they're doing so much harm. They're making it more dangerous for us. They have to be stopped, I think. We have to throw the neocons out." (Note to Linda: President Bush is not a neocon.)
Then, in a remarkably candid interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune, the entertainer said: "It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment."
What do you suppose might be the reaction if an entertainer would say, "It's a real conflict for me when I find out someone in the audience is Jewish. It can cloud my enjoyment"? Or what if some politician had once announced, "It's a real conflict for me when I find out that someone in the audience is homosexual. It can cloud my enjoyment"? Of course almost no entertainers or politicians would ever say anything as bigoted.
But singer Linda Ronstadt did. The point is, however, that she didn't insult protected minorities like Jews, homosexuals, Muslims or blacks. She insulted what she calls "fundamental" Christians. (Note to Linda: the term, if you must use it at all, is "fundamentalist.") To quote a line from the lyrics of your song "Desperado," Linda, "Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand."
The media and the do-good-kiddy-clubs all explode in paroxysms of righteousness any time a public figure inadvertently insults one of the protected minority groups, but nobody ever demands an apology when a secular celebrity demeans Christianity. That is because many Americans view Christianity as a problem, an execrable obstacle to America's progress. The rest of us, including many serious Jews, view Christianity as part of the solution to America's problems. We think "progress" is the problem, and what we need is a return to traditional morality. That is largely what today's civil war is all about, and Ronstadt has shown us on which side she fights.
Oh, and I did say that I'd tell you the third lesson we can learn from Linda's antics. It is that she herself has learned little since those far-off days when she consorted with Gov. Moonbeam. She backed losers then and she is backing the losing side now. To quote another line from that song she sang before being banned from the Aladdin Hotel: "We may lose and we may win, though we will never be here again."
This sums up the secularist leftists perfectly.
above all, we don't want our enjoyment clouded.
Thought that was from the Eagles' "Take it Easy".
FMCDH(BITS)
Oh well. So he's not up on music.
FMCDH(BITS)
Ms. Ronstadt doesn't like finding out that there are Republicans or "fundamental Christians" in her audience. Hmmm....not to worry, LinDUH, the more the word spreads of your total bigotry, the less likely you are to find any of us at your shows. Please, oh please let's all quietly show her what we think of her by never again buying her music or attending her concerts. Gee, you'd almost think that someone as washed up as she is would be rather appreciative of ANY fans who continue to support her, no matter their political or religious affiliation. Ungrateful Rat.
LinDUH's behavior reminds me of the sad day four years ago during the Democratic national convention in L.A. when Julia Roberts so astutely pointed out that the word "Republican" falls between "reptilian" and "repugnant" in the dictionary. Why do they have to say that kind of thing? They can't just cheer on THEIR guy; no, they have to insult and alienate half the country (many of whom are fans). Granted, there wasn't much to be cheerful about where Algore was concerned, but still. Why treat your fans like crap? I'm pleased to say that I have not paid one cent to see, in a theater or on DVD, a single Julia Roberts movie since she ran her mouth that way four years ago. It's a shame; I used to be a fan.
I KNOW that most entertainers in this country hate us, but it used to be a vague, collective thing for me. Now I'm always so disappointed when one steps up and identifies himself or herself by name. It's like, "Well, there's one more person whose movies/shows I'll have to quit watching, or whose CDs I'll have to toss (dang DIXIE CHICKS!!)."
Stoopid, stoopid celebrities. Sheesh.
Linda is fat and bloated and looks like she's on drugs.
She look-a like a man
"Linda is fat and bloated and looks like she's on drugs."
Linda is fat and bloated and looks like she needs to be on amphetamines.
Ronstadt comes from the wing of the left that looks at 19 Islomofascist terrorists murdering 3000 of her countrymen and asks "What did WE do wrong for them to hate us?"
She will never get it. Because our ancestors sweat and bled and died to get ths country where it is, we have the greatest nation on the planet. Because we have brave men and women still willing to sweat and bleed and die for us, we remain the best and greatest on the planet. But she thinks we just 'got lucky'. What an ignorant cow.
Hey, take somebody who's not too bright to begin with, feed'em BS all their life, and presto: useful idiot.
Ms. Ronstadt, fat, self-righteous and stupid is no way to go through life, girl!
Secular humanism alert.
I was just thinking the other day, concerning Ronsfadt, about how liberals, with no god of their own, do love to play priest to the rest of us. So solemn they are, so earnest, so self-righteous.
"Celebrity Priesthood"--
I only buy blues albums and old movie DVD's.
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