There he goes again

It must be tough being a theatre critic in New York. Unless you write for The New York Times, you have no clout. I suppose the urge to spice up the copy must be irresistible.

Still, Michael Feingold of the Village Voice has abused the privilege. His infamous remarks about Republicans last year--tossed into a review, mind you--got a fair amount of play. You forgot what he said?:

"Republicans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm....[Then there's] George W. Bush, idiot scion of a genetically criminal family that should have been sterilized three generations ago."

Okay, so he blew his stack. You figure he'd calm down and heed the warnings not to drag his politics into another review, even in the Voice. So I'm reading his review of Spamalot:

"Personally, I'd rather see a musical in which all Republican congressmen had their brains removed onstage—preferably by people forced into bankruptcy through a family medical disaster—with the removal of the feeding tubes that kept them alive for a finale. I feel this would evoke much more laughter than Spamalot, though locating brains in Republican congressmen might prove a difficulty."

You hear the chuckles, Michael? I think it's people laughing at you.