This one, from OpinionJournal, talks about her largely-unnoticed work with the NEA … and this one from the Boston.com (via Andrew Sullivan) brings up a certain work by Tony Kushner that reminds me why just so many of my fellow conservatives loathe modern artists* in the first place.
For what it’s worth, $20M in increased funding for a NEA that’s funding Shakespeare and jazz concerts is… well, I’d have been happier if they’d diverted funds from agricultural subsidies, and I do recognize the ‘million here, million there and pretty soon we’re talking really money’ argument, but still… sorry, this one isn’t particularly enraging me. Bad Rightie! Bad! No biscuit!
Moe
*Note the specific noun used. I really hope that Angels in America was worth the price of admission, ‘cuz frankly Kushner comes across as a grade-A schmuck in this article.
Two Minutes Hate Gets Fifteen Minutes Of Fame
Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright Tony Kushner employs his skills as a provocative and probing examiner of the human condition to write “Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy,” a play bashing the First Lady, because, you know, she had…