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Offline JB88

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« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2006, 10:37:36 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2006, 11:07:48 PM »
LOL.. imagine the poor man's shock when he found out Babs was a lib!!


Of course he had to heckle.

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« Reply #17 on: October 11, 2006, 11:13:40 PM »
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Huh?

Agree or disagree with the performer, but this is just nonsense. Heckling isn't polite or nice or even OK in any circumstances. He could have just walked out and asked at the ticket booth for his money. Dangit man... you're kidding right?


I think there's a strong argument that given this was a concert, not a political event, that the person doing the heckling was actually BS.

Wikipedia says "a heckler is a person who shouts an uninvited comment, usually disparaging, at a performance or event, or interrupting set-piece speeches, for example at a political meeting. A heckler is almost always regarded as unwelcome by the person with justifiable claim to be the centre of attention. The audience too may find the interruption an unwanted distraction; however they may sometimes find the interjection amusing or apposite."

It sounds to me that BS's political ranting constitutes an uninvited comment to the audience within the context of a musical performance.  Maybe BS should learn to be polite.  She is, again within the context of the performance, being paid by the audience to perform her music, anything else is outside of the scope of her employment.  Just my opinion.
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« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2006, 11:16:02 PM »
Yep...too true...he would have had to have been living on Venus not to have known.

Yet...I consider her conduct to be as rude as any heckler's.  I would never impose my views on an audience that had gathered for what I had billed as a concert.

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« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2006, 11:22:25 PM »
Linda Ronstadt, who I consider to be head-and-shoulders above Streisand in terms of talent, pulled the same stunt a couple of years ago....and was roundly booed by a considerable portion of her audience., and rightly so.

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« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2006, 04:04:50 AM »
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I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
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« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2006, 04:07:29 AM »
Whatever happened to the old adage, "The customer is always right"

The heckler was a customer.
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« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2006, 04:35:51 AM »
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I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
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« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2006, 12:44:05 PM »
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Why is it that so many in the entertainment business are hellbent on shoehorning politics into their acts?  



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« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2006, 01:12:22 PM »
Oliver north... as in the contras Oliver North? He sings?
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