I remember when Linda Ronstadt burst onto the scene in 1975 with her covered megahits. I was a burgeoning curious adolescent, and I thought she was just gorgeous. I didn't care she was cavorting with Governor Moonbeam. Politics didn't matter. As time went on she started getting a bit chunky, but I still liked her music. One of the few concerts I ever attended was when she came to my city in 1990. After I became aware of politics thanks to Rush Limbaugh in the early 1990s, I started noticing Ronstadt's decidedly unattractive political statements, including her trashing of Howard Stern's sidekick Robin Quivers on Leno in 1995.
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But i could live with it. I guess my motto towards her was "Just shut up and sing". Then in 2004, she was booed off the stage and escorted from the Aladdin in Vegas for insulting the audience by pushing Michael Moore's whackjob movie, Fahrenheit 911.
Aladdin expels Ronstadt after political remarks - Las Vegas Sun Newspaper
At this point, she was becoming quite the obese hippo. Shortly thereafter, she announced a physical ailment left her unable to sing, but she was still making leftist political statments. My mantra for her was shortened to "Just Shut Up".
Just a few days ago was the last straw for me. She used the occasion of being honored at the Kennedy Center--- in the presence of high level Trump officials like Mike Pompeo who came out to honor her -- to Trash President Trump. I am completely through with her. She is an absolute disgrace.
Linda Ronstadt Calls Out Sec. of State Mike Pompeo for 'Enabling' Trump
As I look back, her life was nothing more than self-absorbed narcissism. Going from shack up to shack up. Letting her body go. Pushing a far-left Marxist agenda. Sorry I was ever a fan.