The American singer Linda Ronstadt got a taste of the acrimony of this polarised election year in the US when she was escorted from a Las Vegas casino after she had dedicated a song to the filmmaker Michael Moore.
Calling Moore a "great American patriot" and "someone who is seeking the truth," she urged her audience to see his film Fahrenheit 9/11.
But Bill Timmins, the manager of the Aladdin hotel-casino, took exception to the introduction of politics into the Nevada holiday city.
"It was a very ugly scene," Mr Timmins told the Associated Press. "She praised him and all of a sudden all bedlam broke loose."
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Michael Moore is a great american patriot and is someone who is seeking the truth. I'm urging ya'll to go see his film Fahreinheit 9/11
Remember all the conversations we've had about things working themselves out on the censorship front without government intervention?
Being new to the site, I missed this discussion. It's only censorship if it is forced or a choice is taken away by the powers that be. It's not censorship when a person or group of persons choose not to listen, watch or buy.
It is bad comment when it does not concur to opinion.
LiberalFINGER - you are very much generalizing what I am advocating on the free speech thing. SOME things needs regulation (FCC public broadcasting for example).Quick run-down: The people will make bad stuff go away in a free market Vs. The government needs to regulate.
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