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reviewjournal.com -- News: Aladdin officials defend eviction of singer after...: "Aladdin officials said Monday the decision to evict singer Linda Ronstadt from their hotel Saturday was not a partisan political response but an attempt to 'defuse the situation' with an angry crowd.
'It was a very ugly scene,' Aladdin President Bill Timmins told The Associated Press. 'She praised (filmmaker Michael Moore), and all of a sudden all bedlam broke loose.'
'It did not come down to the statements she had said, per se,' hotel spokeswoman Tyri Squyres said Monday of the 58-year-old singer, who dedicated her encore song 'Desperado' to Moore and encouraged the audience to see his film 'Fahrenheit 9/11.'
'We needed her off the property,' Squyres said of Timmins' decision to check the singer out of her room and escort her from the hotel. 'She wanted to incite the audience, and she incited them to the point where they were very upset.'

Moore's Web site, http://michaelmoore.com, headed its home page Monday with Ronstadt's "Living in the USA" album cover and the phrase, "Thank you, Linda Ronstadt!"

Some concertgoers took issue with the Aladdin's accounts of angry patrons tearing down posters and throwing drink cups.

"I was so stunned to read in the newspaper that anyone had a negative reaction," said KLAS-TV, Channel 8, news anchor Paula Francis. "Everyone who was leaving when I was leaving was just thrilled. They thought it was a good concert."

At the end of an hour's worth of singing, "she got a standing ovation, then she came out and did the (`Desperado') encore," Francis said. "There were loud boos and there was quite a bit of applause. But everyone calmed down right away and seemed to enjoy the rest of the encore." "


By MIKE WEATHERFORD
REVIEW-JOURNAL

Linda Ronstadt Message Board Thread

Puhleeze!

Question everything. News reporters have become lazy. They don't fact check anymore. If there is an AP story they copy the quotes and run with the story. If you read all of the press releases about the concert you'll see that they all describe the scene exactly the same. Why? Because Timmins gave a press release and told them so! Where are the eye-witness accounts of what actually happened?

From: Amys995