Theater of the Absurd?
A former editor of mine now works for a blue-dog Democrat in the U.S. Senate. He put a picture up on Facebook of a Tea Party protester with a sign that said "BIG GOVERMENT MEANS LESS INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM!" His caption said that he "could take the Teaba##ers a little more seriously if only they could learn how to spell." And then his Facebook friends gave the post thumbs up and added comments. Mine was "As long as we all apply smug condescension and sexual slurs against our political opponents, we'll be all right."
Anyway, I thought of this when I read on a local blog about an upcoming theater production in the 'hood:
Gross National Product returns to Washington to mock the vote with a parody of the Mid Term elections entitled “Don’t Tea on Me” which highlights the lowlifes and multiple issues including Tea Party politics from rights for zygotes to banning Social Security and beyond.
What a great idea: combining the pain of normal community theater with the self-righteousness of modern liberalism. To be sure, the group says that it's known for skewering the powers-that-be. With this title and description, I have no doubt that the Democrats who control the House, Senate and White House are going to get it good and hard.
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May '10
Re: Theater of the Absurd?
Combined with John Stewart's Smugapalooza, this is a perfect storm of moral vanity.
Jul '10
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"Don't Tea on Me"
That cracked me up.
Jul '10
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Perfect! Keep it up folks. I find that insulting the voters is a highly effective technique.
It's not so much the arrogance and condesension that strikes me. It is the utter myopia. Is scoring brownie points with one's liberal peers really more important than trying to understand why hordes of the citizenry are profoundly discontented? (rhetorical question.)
Re: Theater of the Absurd?
I wouldn't be so sure that the tea partier didn't intentionally misspell 'government.' Maybe he was trying to use a spelling variation more subtle than 'gubment' to veil his racist undertones.
Jul '10
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Mollie Hemingway:
What a great idea: combining the pain of normal community theater with the self-righteousness of modern liberalism.
Isn't that the Public Broadcasting Corporation's mission statement?
Jun '10
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I just heard on the nightly news that during a speech by Obama, the presidential seal fell off the podium. It would appear that Nemesis likes to toy with her victims before devouring them.
Jun '10
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One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, pompous elitists had their blackface minstrel shows, that they all thought were real funny, and in 2010, pompous elitists have their redneck teaba##er shows to cackle over. Different target, same superior attitude. History will treat the "comedy value" the same--zero.
Oct '10
Re: Theater of the Absurd?
Yup
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obamas-presidential-seal-falls-off-during-speech/
May '10
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Speaking of theaters, did you hear (in these times of economic strife) NSF just gave a $700K grant to a NY theater to do a production on climate change??!! It's audacity, alright, but not of hope.
Aug '10
Re: Theater of the Absurd?
So now you don't have to, you know, work hard at doing actual science to get an NSF grant? Bleh.
And that GNP non-laugh-and-a-half reminds me of my very ex-boyfriend the playwright (wonder whether he wrote it...) I think he's made a career of combining the pain of normal community theater with the self-righteousness of modern liberalism. Double bleh.
What a way to start the morning.