Shock of the Day! Glenn Beck does not think the arts are worth the money.
Via Tim Smith’s Clef Notes blog for the Baltimore Sun, we have Glenn Beck calling Baltimore’s Lyric Opera House “stupid” and “snotty.”
Beck claimed that $750,000 was in the budget
for that historic venue in our fair city, while “cops are on the
chopping block. This is like my wife saying we are broke, we have to
cut down our expenses on food. I turn around and say, OK, when you
grocery shop, no more meats, organics, milk — we’re cutting that out.
Just get Mountain
Dew and Cheetos … How about we get the rich who never pay their fair
share to buy their stupid snotty opera house? Would you cut the opera
house or the cops? … What does your gut tell you? That everybody
involved in this is moron?”
Smith points out that the figure is actually $1 million (zing!), and that Baltimore’s mayor has proposed adding 450 cops by 2011.
Here’s the video, for your…enjoyment? Start at minute 4:30.
Wow… and I didn’t think I could hate Glenn Beck more than I already did. It’s really easy to make an argument when you ignore one side of it completely. The Philadelphia mural arts program, besides beautifying the city, gives kids an outlet to get involved in the arts and get off the streets. The city has been using it as a major tool to stop gang violence, and it’s working – http://muralarts.org/about/history. And then he goes on to rail against progressivism? I just don’t understand how that man’s mind works.
“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.” Teddy Roosevelt
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” Winston Churchill
I can’t even watch Glenn Beck for the sake of being entertained. It’s such absolutely pure “Theatre of the I’m-so-slick-I’m-just-pretending-to-be-outraged-so-that-it-will-get-the-tea-party-fired-up-enough-to-rally-against-it” that I couldn’t even get through that 10 minute clip.
It doesn’t shock me that he doesn’t think the arts should be funded, which is ironic for him since he chooses to use theatrics to spew his politics. It’s just sad.