Where Be Your Roller Skates Now?

Linda Ronstadt was removed from The Aladdin in Las Vegas for dedicating a song ("Desperado") to Michael Moore (check the CNN link above). Let's break this apart bit-by-bit, shall we?
 
First of all, the actual dedication itself -- what's the point? I understand dedicating a song to a loved one or someone recently deceased, but to a friend (maybe?) who's had good financial and perhaps political success with a documentary? Does she really need to be drumming up business for the man? Did she really think it would help him to let the 4500 people at the show know that she liked his efforts? Curious.
 
And this seems like some really harsh behavior for crowd that, although they might not liked her politics, must have had some desire to hear the woman sing. Patrons "spilled drinks." This to me sounds like it was even unintentional. "Oh, my goodness, who's she dedicating the Eagles song to? Michael wh---? Oh, jeepers, I was so startled I upset my mai tai."
 
But the report also states that patrons tore down posters. This is where it really gets interesting to me.  Linda Ronstadt fans -- not normally, I would guess, prone to riots, were so upset by her words that they took to the destruction of property. I can just imaging the Aladdin Ballroom turning into a raging inferno as 55-gallon drums full of refuse are overturned.
 
Then the article talks about pretty stupid comments from both sides. Ronstadt was quoted as saying earlier that she hoped to be so annoying that she wouldn't be invited back. What sort of financial straits are you in when you want one more Vegas gig, but just ONE! And a statement issued by the Aladdin says "Ms. Ronstadt was hired to entertain the guests of the Aladdin, not to espouse political views." I love the suggestion that these are two concepts whose Venn diagrams never intersect.  "She was there to do music," I imagine Mr Aladdin saying. "There's no politics in music!  Where did that come from?" All music, obviously, has some point of view.  But apparently if its stated obviously (or liberally), it becomes objectionable to the producer.
 
weird, weird, weird.