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

On 13 Oct 2006 08:27:50 -0700, "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.

No ****! Good one, Chuck.

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.

Hehe!!

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 imagine that bitch talking politics at a event that was suppossed
to be about singing. That should be our new motto when people post
political trolls in rec.boats:

"Shut up and sing"

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
lol imagine that bitch talking politics at a event that was suppossed
to be about singing. That should be our new motto when people post
political trolls in rec.boats:

"Shut up and sing"

or:

"Shut up and row!"

Harry Krause wrote:
There's something really ironic about any owner of a major sleaze business
in Las Vegas complaining about anything.

Yes, I agree. And what's even more ironic is someone who has claimed to
have a Yale degree, a medical doctor wife and a lobster boat (all
nonexistent) commenting on the situation. Ironic indeed.

"basskisser" wrote in message
ps.com...

Calif Bill wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
news
On 10/12/2006 5:02 PM, 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. ;-)







Most of Streisand's fans know how political she is, and that politics
is
part and parcel of her life, and that includes her professional life.

I suspect just about everyone in audience enjoyed the skit poking fun
at
Bush.

No, the audience was not happy. Especially why it made the news.

SOME of the audience wasn't happy.


Some or all they are all audience. Was at a sales convention during the
Clinton years and they had a Clinton look alike do a parody skit. Did not
go over there, either. They paid for a Striesand show, not Mad TV.

Calif Bill wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
ps.com...

Calif Bill wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
news On 10/12/2006 5:02 PM, 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. ;-)







Most of Streisand's fans know how political she is, and that politics
is
part and parcel of her life, and that includes her professional life.

I suspect just about everyone in audience enjoyed the skit poking fun
at
Bush.

No, the audience was not happy. Especially why it made the news.

SOME of the audience wasn't happy.


Some or all they are all audience. Was at a sales convention during the
Clinton years and they had a Clinton look alike do a parody skit. Did not
go over there, either. They paid for a Striesand show, not Mad TV.

They GOT a Streisand show.

"basskisser" wrote in message
oups.com...

Calif Bill wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
ps.com...

Calif Bill wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
news On 10/12/2006 5:02 PM, 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. ;-)







Most of Streisand's fans know how political she is, and that
politics
is
part and parcel of her life, and that includes her professional
life.

I suspect just about everyone in audience enjoyed the skit poking
fun
at
Bush.

No, the audience was not happy. Especially why it made the news.

SOME of the audience wasn't happy.


Some or all they are all audience. Was at a sales convention during the
Clinton years and they had a Clinton look alike do a parody skit. Did
not
go over there, either. They paid for a Striesand show, not Mad TV.

They GOT a Streisand show.


3/4's of a Streisand Show and 1/4 of a Mad TV or SNL show. You do not have
to pay $1200 for either of those shows.