Silly me. All this time I've thought the First Amendment protected people's personal expression or beliefs from government persecution or retribution. It even starts out "Congress shall make no law..."

Apparently I missed the part where it says you have to put up with useful idiots like Linda Ronstadt. She can use your property to praise Michael Moore all she wants and you can't do anything about it. Or so says Michael Moore, whom apparently has never even read the First Amendment:

"What country do you live in?" Moore asked. "Last time I checked, Las Vegas is still in the United States. And in the United States, we have something called, 'The First Amendment.'...For you to throw Linda Ronstadt off the premises because she dared to say a few words in support of me and my film, is simply stupid and Un-American."

Of all people, Michael Moore knows what Un-American is.

I think I'll track down ol' Mikey. I want to stand in his living room and praise George W. Bush, Colin Powell, and of course Rummy. After all, Moore lives in the United States and in the U.S. we have something called 'The First Amendment'. That means I can go over to Mikey's place and say whatever I want and he can't kick me out or anything. If I call myself an artist, I could even charge him $50 for the priviledge.

Meanwhile, the New York Times says that Alladin should have booted their paying customers.

A New York Times editorial published Tuesday said the disgruntled audience members should have been booted.

"Perhaps her praise for Mr. Moore, even at the very end of her show, did ruin the performance for some people," the editorial read.

"They have a right to voice their disapproval — to express their opinion as Ms. Ronstadt expressed hers and to ask for a refund. But if their intemperate behavior began to worry the management, then they were the ones who should have been thrown out and told never to return, not Ms. Ronstadt, who threatened, after all, only to sing."

Hmm.. Your employee offends your paying customers, (perhaps even incites a riot) and you are supposed to boot your paying customers. Now that's a business plan.