What is it with these performers and their politics? Do they really think that people who pay $100 or more to hear them sing want to hear them utter political opinions? The audience pays hundreds of thousands of dollars to see and hear a performer PERFORM. You want to spout politics, run for freakin office, you moron! When performers use a paid venue to play politics they are abusing the paying audience, the venue, the sponsors and everyone connected to their artistic performance. It\'s an inappropriate venue and inapproprite behavior to voice your political viewpoint, you jerk!

And they wonder why people boo.

Somebody pays a small fortune for their ticket to see them perform and ends up being subjected to a political opinion from someone who makes millions of dollars a year but doesn\'t have a real job, doesn\'t have to live in reality and doesn\'t have a clue about the real world! Yeah, right, tell me about your political views while I\'m sitting here waiting to be entertained by you. That\'s why I came here and that\'s what I paid for isn\'t it, you ungrateful clueless idiot. You want to spout off, do it for free. Yes, free. Why don\'t you perform for free then you can say anything you want to your audience. Then it\'s fair and balanced. Then the audience gets what it pays for.

And what about the incident in Orange County, CA where the performer makes a comment about Linda Ronstadt and audience starts booing and the performer responds with how America used to be a place where you could openly discuss your views. Ha! Twenty thousand people and he\'s the only one with a microphone! Open discussion, my ass.

So, a word to the wise. You want to keep performing, keep making millions, keep living in your fantasy world? Shut up and sing.

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Maya Pinion is a freelance writer and contributing editor for News4Net.