Fri 7 Jan 2005
From the contributor:
George Varga, the San Diego Union-Tribune’s pop music critic, recently reviewed a Linda Ronstadt concert during which the Ronstadt praised filmmaker Michael Moore. Varga called Ronstadt “brave” for expressing her opinion even at the risk of alienating some of her audience. Needless to say, Ronstadt’s words and Varga’s response to them generated a lot of letters to the editor. Here is an extract from a letter published August 8, 2004:
If I could, I would shake Varga’s hand for his influential words of truth and thank him for standing up for the Constitution of the United States, which is, in my opinion, the most important law of the land.
Marianne Chun Ping Seavers
Mission Valley
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040808/news_1a8vargalets.html
Only in her opinion, huh?
June 20th, 2006 at 4:32 pm
This is directed at Chiara Whiting and the publishers of We Made Out, whom obviously, without my knowledge, printed a portion of my letter to the San Diego Tribune. Next time, read the entire article that I responded to as well as my letter and maybe you’ll get the point that I was making that anyone can call themselves a patriot, but when it comes to standing up for the freedom of speech, it seems there were few people far and in between at Linda Ronstadt’s concert.