So right now our precious San Diego Blog is getting a smattering of hits for “Ronstadt Fahrenheit” as the search term. Why? Well, the site has run several articles about the freshly defunct alternative newsweekly “Fahrenheit,” and we also pull in feeds from The Reader to show concert listings, and wham. We’re a minor net sensation source of confusion for people wondering — “Why the heck am I here?”
Well, she played here the other night (Sunday) at Humphrey’s by the Bay. And she was written up on the 15th (before the concert) by the SDUT:
“My career has befuddled other people, and it’s befuddled me,” admitted Ronstadt, 58, who finds her fans are polarized by her nightly on-stage salute to “Fahrenheit 9/11″ filmmaker Michael Moore.
“I’ve been dedicating a song to him - I think he’s a great patriot - and it splits the audience down the middle, and they duke it out,” she said.
She couldn’t have known that people might actually duke it out and go mad. She was prescient. Because in Las Vegas the other night at the Alladin Hotel, all hell broke loose:
Near the close of her performance, Ronstadt dedicated the Eagles hit “Desperado” to Moore, producer of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” and the room erupted into equal parts boos and cheers.
She said Moore “is someone who cares about this country deeply and is trying to help.”
Ronstadt has been making the dedication at each of her engagements since she began a national tour earlier this summer, but it has never sparked such a reaction.
Hundreds of angry fans streamed from the theater as Ronstadt sang. Some of them reportedly defaced posters of her in the lobby, writing comments and tossing drinks on her pictures.
Timmins told Las Vegas Sun gossip columnist Timothy McDarrah: “We live in a city where people come from all over the world to be entertained. We hired Ms. Ronstadt as an entertainer, not as a political activist.
And that, my friends, is why you’re here. If you want more, check out the news results on Google News for Rondstadt
Update: Looks like the accounts thus far have been crap