Chuck Gould wrote:
JimH wrote:
Folks paid up to $1,200/ticket to see and hear Barbra Streisand sing.
Unfortunately they also had to sit through a skit making fun of GW Bush.

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...DATE/610100388

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/11102006/34...nce-crowd.html

Shut up and sing Barbra........no one cares about your political views.

Link to boating (using Chuck's MO): Folks listen to music on their boat,
including Streisand songs. ;-)

As WJC said, "I feel your pain", JimH

Imagine, somebody injecting politics into a venue that should be
apolitical in nature.
The nerve!! How rude to just impose your personal political views on
an audience assembled for another event. You're right.

LOL, excellent. I don't care one way or another about Babs, but it
seems to me that the liberal political stuff is very much part of her
whole public persona and image now (she's certainly gotten more press
for that than for any specific musical activities in recent years), and
that many of the people who would pay big bucks to see her perform
would and should expect something like to be a component of her show.
It also sounds like the Bush-parodying in this case was extremely mild
and not really that political at all, just sketch-tv-like silliness.
Maybe she took a little too much time with it for what would be
expected, so it's a problem of degree; but offering a customer a refund
sounds like a pretty reasonable accommodation.

richforman