When Crazy Cons Attack
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Apparently conservative Christians take offense to dirty words, pour water on monologist Mike Daisey.
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Which I guess is marginally better than throwing pies at Ann Coulter when you disagree with her eh?
Daisey isn’t running around calling people “rapists”, “fags” and “ragheads”.
Anne Coulter supports domestic terrorism. If all she gets thrown at her is a pie, she should be very lucky.
ahhh yes… our left wing collegues demonstrate how they value freedom of speech in america…how typical.
Pedro, I have a serious question. Why do you bother? Why do you bother spending your time writing posts that say nothing?
a biting commentary on the left wing of american politics complete disregard for freedom of speech is not “nothing”
Typical Christianist Jesus-freak pussies.
Wait a minute. I think this deserves reconsidering.
His opponents didn’t disrupt the show (well, at least not to the point of shutting it down so others couldn’t see it). They didn’t hurt anyone. Heck they didn’t even pour water on the performer like Oliver first said–they poured it on his notes.
And “no better than the ghouls who burned the Great Library of Alexandria”? Yeah, right. Pouring water on a comic’s notes is just like destroying the entirity of the known history of all civilization. No difference at all.
OK, OK, their complaints seem trivial, but at least they carried off their protest with a bit of theatre appropriate to the setting.
Lighten up.
“a biting commentary…”
Again, you write a post and say nothing.
Legally, what this not-so-random gang did was an assault/battery (his “person” includes what is immediately adjacent to his body like pencils, workpapers, a cane, etc.), malicious destruction of property and disorderly conduct.
I hope a few of these little fascists get jail. In fairness, I hope that the people who pied Ann Coulter got jail, but I don’t know if they did.
What these people’s precise beef with the show was, we’ll never know, if their lawyers are smart, they will start taking the fifth if identified.
Quaker, it’s never appropriate to do what these people did and your covering for them is asinine.
“I hope a few of these little fascists get jail. In fairness, I hope that the people who pied Ann Coulter got jail, but I don’t know if they did.”
If I recall, they were charged, Anne never showed up to the trail, they were left off due to lack of evidence, and then Anne complained about liberals being given special treatment.
Ah, yes – it’s an affront to free speech to criticize conservatives that act like untamed apes in public.
So Pete, tell us all why you think that people with conservative credentials are the only ones entitled to free speech.
The theatre blogosphere has been jumping with this story for a few days now…apparently those who left were members of a church group who took offense at the language.
So there are two scenarios here.
(1) These 87 people didn’t realize that Daisey’s show contained profanity. This makes them people with no ability to research the show they plunked down money for; ergo, stupid, ergo, my sympathy is lacking for them.
(2) These 87 people knew exactly what they were going to see and decided to attend specifically for the purposes of vandalizing Daisey’s show. But you know…he still got their money. And he went ahead and finished his show for the rest of the audience. Yet again, the group was stupid, but in this scenario they are also so filled with hate that they’re willing to spend money for the sheer thrill of walking out of the show and pouring water on Daisey’s notes.
It’s telling that nobody wished to talk with Daisey about what their problems were. He called them cowards on the way out and that’s exactly what they were.
There’s a basic contract between audience and performer…you pay to sit and observe, and if you don’t like the show you quietly exit or at the very least you bitch about it afterwards. Up until the water, the walkout was unsettling but otherwise reasonable.
I was waiting to see if there was more to the story than some “crazy Christian conservatives” doing this and sure enough, there was.
Not that there’s any excuse for pouring water on the guys notes, but it appears that this was a public high school choir from California and not a church choir.
Glad that’s cleared up, and I apologize for repeating that it was a church group when it was not.
What I don’t understand is how, even after being told that there was adult language and situations, they went ahead and bought the tickets anyway. There was clearly some kind of communications breakdown somewhere.
Mind you, I find the image of anybody having sex with Paris Hilton to be offensive, but don’t these kids know the industry of their home locale? They’re from the San Fernando Valley, which unless I’m mistaken is where most American porn gets made.
Mind you, I find the image of anybody having sex with Paris Hilton to be offensive
Yikes, I certainly do with as much traffic as she has seen.
I agree with you however that somebody wasn’t paying attention unless they thought ‘adult language’ was limited to words like ‘damn’ and ‘hell.’
Of special note is the observation that the kids were fine with the language. Of course they were. They’ve not only heard worse, they’ve already said it.
This “think of the children” trope–which appears on both sides of the aisle–just continues to be obnoxious.
OMG IT WAS A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHOIR MY WORLD IS SHATTERED HOW COULD OLIVER BETRAY ME LIKE THIS OMG MIND BLOWN MIND BLOWN
In all seriousness, the Alexandria thing is overreaction but you just don’t do that. That’s the most ridiculous, jerkish disrespect in the world and I hope they get kicked in the nuts or something.
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