Conservative Wanderer

“A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.” — Ronald Wilson Reagan

Daily Archives: 2 February 2011

Theatre Apologizes For Lyric Advocating Beheading Palin

More on the culture of hate on the left side of the aisle:

On Monday morning, MCT executive director Michael McGill set about the hard business of mending all that had gone awry over the weekend, when word spread across the Internet that MCT’s production advocated the beheading of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

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In the face of it all, McGill had one simple message on Monday.

“In retrospect, we made a mistake,” he said. “Anybody that gets singled out in such a way as that, whether it might be (President Barack) Obama or Palin or whomever, it’s inappropriate. I take full responsibility for that.”

At the center of the controversy was a single couplet, inserted by director Curt Olds into a song sung by the character Ko-Ko, a pacifist executioner. Listing off those people whom he intends to behead, the singer in the Missoula production noted, “That crazy Sarah Palin needs a psychoanalyst / She never would be missed, no she never would be missed.”

“It’s very common practice to amend those lyrics,” said McGill. “It’s how they were amended in this case that’s an issue. There’s a lot of misinformation about what happened, but I don’t want to shirk our responsibility for what did happen.

So why did they amend them? The director explains:

“Sarah Palin was in there because she goes beyond politics; she’s one of the most well-known human beings in this country,” said Olds. “I have no ill feelings about her at all; I included her because she’s a well-known celebrity, and that’s in keeping with the spirit of the song. … I’ve never heard a word of complaint or any type of letter coming out of including her in the song (in the past).”

However, Mrs. Palin was the only–I say again, the one and only–person mentioned by name in the song.

Now, consider if some director had put in a lyric advocating beheading any prominent Democrat or lefty, like Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Al Sharpton, etc… how would the Dinosaur Media have reacted to that?

To ask the question is to answer it, especially in the wake of the Tucson Shooting.

Former Ted Kennedy Staffer Convicted Of Stealing Senate Funds

The Hill:

Sen. Edward Kennedy’s (D-Mass.) former office manager was convicted on Tuesday of stealing more than $75,000 from the Senate.

Ngozi Pole was found guilty on five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of government property. For at least 4 years, Pole submitted fraudulent paperwork that caused the Senate to pay him larger bonus payments than either Kennedy or his chief of staff had approved, according to the Justice Department.

Pole tried to hide the paper trail of these unauthorized payments by “repeatedly transmitting information to the chief of staff that falsely showed that he received only those payments that had been authorized.”

Is anyone really shocked to find a dishonest man working for the Hero of Chappaquiddick?

Ben Nelson Sees The Light

But is it too late to save his 2012 reelection bid?

Speaking to more than 150 insurance brokers, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) called the individual mandate “the biggest sticking point” in the health reform law.

“It’s time to change the mandate,” Nelson told members of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA), gathered in Washington for their “Day on the Hill” event. “People don’t like mandates. I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

Gee, Ben, if you didn’t think the mandate was a good idea, why did you vote for it?

The way I see it, there are two options, neither of which really reflects well on Senator Nelson:

  1. Nelson read the bill, saw the individual mandate, and voted for it anyway. This makes his comment above at the very least disingenuous, at the worst, an outright lie.
  2. Nelson didn’t read the bill, which makes him an idiot for voting for something he hadn’t studied.

I really don’t think Nelson’s last-minute flip-flop is gonna do him any good with the mostly conservative voters of Nebraska.