Hey, Patti, you also have an inalienable right to shave that 'stache.
Posted on 12/05/2017 1:08:41 PM PST by drewh
Patti Smith’s long, slender fingers trembled just thinking about being a writer during the presidency of Donald Trump. “I don’t know how people are even able to contain themselves and contain their rage,” Smith said, “I always felt, even if I didn’t agree with whomever was our president, I felt that I could still walk tall wherever I want. I still was myself. But there’s something about this current administration where I feel tainted as a human being.”
On Monday night at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan, Smith and Salman Rushdie commiserated about Trump and otherwise compared notes on everything from the writing process to their favorite painters. They were guests at the annual “Chairman’s Evening” hosted by the MacDowell artist colony and were interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and MacDowell chairman Michael Chabon. MacDowell has a long history of bringing artists together and previous Chairman’s Evening pairings have included Martin Scorsese with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Paul Simon.
Both said that current events have made it harder for them to focus, but also more determined. Rushdie said the artist’s role was to “create beauty” and to “move beyond” Trump, at least in the writing process, because he’s “not interesting enough.” Smith said she saw her job as keeping “an eye on everything,” in case “we have to do something drastic” politically, and otherwise maintain a well-rounded existence.
“And I can’t let this guy (Trump), and what they’re doing, keep me from my inalienable right to do my work, to have some kind of joy in life,” she said.
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Tainted love...nah, that was FYC
Isn’t she in her 80s?
Trump. Living rent free in yet another air-head’s head.
Think about all of the truly evil people throughout history. And out of everyone, she says that Trump is the one who makes her feel “tainted”.
Liberals really don’t know just how absurd they sound sometimes.
Is she the one whose married to John McEnroe?
I remember Rushdie, who had a Muslim Fatwa put out for his life after he published a book. Otherwise rather obsure.
His face always held the expression of someone in midst of smelling a stink someplace.
This idiot cocoon dweller wants her “joy” back.
What Trump has reversed and instated has simply delayed her preference for falling into her Marxist regime utopia, commonly known as Venezuela, and other South America Peron tendencies.
It must actually hurt to be that much a nitwit.
Oh Wow. Is that Patti Smith or Robert Plant?
I thought it was Soft Cell.
Well Patti...now you know how we felt during the 8 long years of Mullah Obama the sodomite (piss be upon him).
She’s a NAZI and doesn’t even know it. Wow.
It’s a shame that somebody with so much talent is so stupid.
In my view,compared to the president you probably
are tainted.
What is wrong with these people, I mean just how psychotic can they be? Do these asswipes ever state exactly what it is the President has done that causes them react in this irrational way. When some yokel writes a column like this, I would ask they be specific and ask the nut to give examples. Unbound rhetoric all based on some nebulous feeling is nothing....it is dribble.
And as for Salmon Rushdie he can spend some time visiting with the Mullah’s in Iran if he’s uncomfortable here.
Hey, Patti, you also have an inalienable right to shave that 'stache.
MY EYES DEAR GOD
These “artists” all sound so idiotic. Trump and no one else are stopping them from doing anything they want to do, but they speak as if they are under some kind of dire threat.
Look at this moron...People with the exception of the insane are saying to themselves "Impeach him for WHAT? He just took office! Why are the rich so hellbent in getting Trump out of office?" The Democrap party is utterly screwing itself.
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