{"id":14054,"date":"2004-07-20T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/linda-ronstadt-kicked-out-of-casino\/"},"modified":"2004-07-20T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T20:24:00","slug":"linda-ronstadt-kicked-out-of-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/linda-ronstadt-kicked-out-of-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Ronstadt Kicked Out Of Casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Las Vegas Sun<\/i> reports that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/drudged\/517195568.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aladdin casino expelled Linda  Ronstadt after a recent concert<\/a> because she dedicated the song &ldquo;Desperado&rdquo; to Michael Moore.  This is <i>so<\/i> wrong.  Aladdin President Bill Timmins&rsquo; rationalization for this action was that the casino &ldquo;hired Ms. Ronstadt as an entertainer, not as a political activist.&rdquo;  I think that&rsquo;s a loaded statement to start with, but whatever.  Why shouldn&rsquo;t she be able to dedicate a song to Michael Moore (or anyone else, for that matter) if she wants to?  If she dedicated a song to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, that could be construed as political, but I <i>know<\/i> they wouldn&rsquo;t kick her out of the casino for that.  Someone needs to lecture the casino staff on the First Amendment&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109034065596962570?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Sun reports that the Aladdin casino expelled Linda Ronstadt after a recent concert because she dedicated the song &ldquo;Desperado&rdquo; to Michael Moore. This is so wrong. Aladdin President Bill Timmins&rsquo; rationalization for this action was that the casino &ldquo;hired Ms. Ronstadt as an entertainer, not as a political activist.&rdquo; I think that&rsquo;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/linda-ronstadt-kicked-out-of-casino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linda Ronstadt Kicked Out Of Casino&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}