For politics' sake - Artists can't fathom why John Kerry lost

The World Magazine ^ | 11-19-04 | by Gene Edward Veith

[muawiyah]

For pete's sake, these guys should have recognized you just can't trust John Kerry. That's why we all voted "Anybody But Kerry"!

[Drango]

"We are now reaping, in election results, the consequences of the colossal reductions in art education."

LOL. I say we cut their budget some more...

[grobdriver]

"Artists" usually live in a make-believe world.
Reality bites them on the a$$.

[odoso]

Some Freeper's tagline reads something like this "Never argue with an idiot you'll lose everytime, they've just had too much practice"

Love it!

[proxy_user]

Former water-colorist who became a political powerhouse?

'Nuff said.

[kx9088]

Absolutely. The leftist elitism and intelligensia truly believe anyone who voted for Bush is stupid. These are the people that believe socialism is utopia.

[NoClones]

It may be that the American people think these so-called 'artists' are too full of themselves to be taken seriously on serious issues!

[Moconservative]

John Kerry was a bad candidate. No artist support was going to make a difference in him winning. The "old media" could not even do it.

[paudio]

Many artists thought thru arts we can find 'the essence of life'... And they don't bother to learn about anything else.

[Terabitten]

"We are now reaping, in election results, the consequences of the colossal reductions in art education."

No, you're just reaping the results, the consequences of the "shut-up-and-sing" movement.

[sheik yerbouty]

They can tell themselves that they lost due to electile dysfunction..

[kahoutek]

Kinda like "Never wrestle with a pig in the mud; the pig likes it and you'll get dirty."

[asgardshill]

I say its time to bring back the concept of the "starving artist". Let's start with eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts and all funding and support for PBS. Then we can let the marketplace perform its magic.

(I claim dibs on sales of black berets and begging bowls in blue states).

[Condor51]

Bruce Springsteen organized his fellow rock stars into the Vote for Change tour, with John Mellencamp, the Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, R.E.M, the Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, and others staging concerts to elect Mr. Kerry. Rapper Eminem put out an anti-Bush video. P. Diddy put out "Vote or Die" T-shirts and got multitudes of rap fans to register to vote, and not for Mr. Bush

Yeah, Alan Woods is correct.
We should have taken the advice of these political mental giants. Why I'll bet that the Dixie Chicks even graduated from High School! Of course none of the rest did (IIRC) but so what, High School dropouts have brains too. Why many HS dropouts have went on to be .. ah.. hmmm... well... Rock Stars.

And so what if James Taylor was a HEROIN JUNKIE for about twenty tears, junkies can have deep meaningful thoughts - just don't let one around your children. And P. Diddy was found not guilty of that shooting, so all should be forgiven.

Yep, 'mr' Woods is right, we should have listened to these "artists".

/s

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Was there no art before government subsidies were provided ?

[finnman69]

I love reading this as a member of the design community in NYC.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Trust me, the NEA and NEH are employers of first resort for people who have no freakin' talent whatsoever.

I'd sooner accept the political wisdom of a cracked up bum living in the Marlboro Houses than listen to some pretentious a-hole who writes for the New Yorker.

In this case, I think that the advice of William F. Buckley would suffice.

[meema]

bttt

[gaspar]

"Serious arts establishment"???? It doesn't exist in the USA. Vulgar "avant garde" mediocrity is piled end on end, and the Blue states (especially New York and California) have seen to that.