Posted on 08/14/2004 11:20:23 PM PDT by notforhire
The Times pushes yet another anti-Bush art show in Friday's Weekend section. Reviewer Anita Gates has kind words for Brian Dykstra's one-man political propaganda show, "Cornered & Alone," playing on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
The review is headlined "Unkind Words for Bush, Soft Spot for Nancy Reagan," but "unkind" is hardly the mot juste for this show, judging by the samples culled from Gates' favorable review. Here's a piece of Dykstra's anti-Bush ramble: "My A.D.D.--suffering, dyslexic, drunk-driving Bush Klan president with a 13-minute attention span, leaky brain pan…."
Yet Gates seems to revel in Dykstra's Republican-hating. She clucks, "There are several Broadway shows the Republican delegates won't be attending during their convention at the end of the month, they say. 'Avenue Q,' for instance, might not go over well with the 'defense of marriage' set. One Off Broadway production you can be sure they won't be flocking to is 'Brian Dykstra: Cornered & Alone,' but Democrats and environmentalists are going to find it enormously satisfying. It's always dangerous to equate mere outspokenness with humor, but Mr. Dykstra's exhilarating one-man show, which opened last night at the tiny Triad Theater on the Upper West Side, does more than call names. 'This is a planet that has lost over half its coral reef in your lifetime,' he says. 'I'm talking to the 20-year-olds.' As much as Mr. Dykstra, an actor and writer, dislikes Dennis Miller, his political polar opposite, he has a similar ranting skill and style. And a similar willingness to go over the line. 'I totally understand assassination now,' he says."
So Dykstra "totally understands assassination now." That's a bit more than "unkind," don't you think? And does Gates truly find such talk "exhilarating"?
Gates insists Dykstra's Bush-hating show is thoughtful: "'Cornered & Alone' has a message beyond invective. It even threatens to make audiences think about everyone's role in the state of things. Maybe we're just hoping the planet will expire before the terrorists blow us up, or vice versa, he says, 'rather than get our unconsecrated foot off their Holy Land and our greedy hand out from up under the burka of their oil reserves.' What we're hoping, he says, is that no one notices that this huge mess is 'our fault, as we rack up our year-end bonuses and live in 'Matrix'-like ignorance.'"
Please tell me that Brian Dykstra is not a spokesperson for Slim-Fast.
The biggest reason the President Bush haters don't like him is because they have no effect on him. He keeps his eyes on the prize, not allowing the whiny devils to pull him into their hell holes of hatred.
Boy, what a charmer this guy sounds like. What a miserable existence these people must live.
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They're like spoiled two year olds throwing temper tantrums. Lord they are obnoxious.
Thanks to President Bush and our noble troops who defend us all.
They should thank their lucky stars for their chance to be fools.
The left is so insane with hatred over W, that I really do worry about Bush's safety if he is re-elected.
The above is NOT the rantings of children. I have seen a flurry of assassination themes lately and I hope to HELL they are being taken seriously by the Secret Service.
Not the least bit surprised that the newspaper that sang the praises of mass murderer Joseph Stalin would now encourage and underwrite talk of assassinating a president.
When you boil stuff down and skim away the fat, it's the existance of Israel that seems to be the left's problem.
Israel: America's lacky unfortunately and destablizingly created in the holy land once inhabited by the great ancient Palestinians.
It's a Jewish problem.
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