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Letter: Hotel was wrong to punish singer

Friday, July 23, 2004 | 8:55 a.m.

I appreciated your July 20 editorial criticizing the Aladdin's treatment of Linda Rondstadt. Finally in this town of lax morality and laissez-faire lip service, someone comes out and says the obvious. Entertainers have the right of free speech, too.

As says the editorial, the idea of mixing music and politics dates back a long ways. When a casino in the world's entertainment capital conducts itself as did the Aladdin, I think the city takes another black eye. How does it look to the world when, in a town where women are generally portrayed shamefully in huge billboard ads, a woman is forcibly escorted from a hotel for expressing a point of view?

Aladdin, shame on you -- you have shamed Sin City. And praise to the Las Vegas Sun -- you have spoken proudly for most of us.

MARGO WHEELER

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