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From a John Lahr review in The New Yorker:
I first reviewed Les Freres Corbusier’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” (written and directed by Alex Timbers, at the Public) in a studio production last May. The show hasn’t changed much in the interim, but the times have. Since President Obama took office, America has become a whispering gallery of hate-filled teabagger cant—“the Apostles of Anger in their echo chamber of fallacies,” as Charles M. Blow elegantly put it in the Times.
1) As I've noted before, most critics are barely qualified to give out aesthetic opinions. That they think they can teach us about politics is pure arrogance.
2) It's really not worth going into his "analysis," but let's look at the phrase "hate-filled teabagger." Is it possible Lahr misses the irony?
3) It's not enough he wishes to air his opinions, he's got to seek out another who rephrased his foolishness so he can quote him.
4) Lahr apparently feels as a reviewer for The New Yorker he can take a swipe at people protesting big government and all his readers will smile and nod. And he's warning us about echo chambers?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:02 AM
4 Comments:
John Lahr is small potatoes. Look at Bill Clinton, who's telling all the protestors to stop being so critical of the government, and the media agrees.
"It's not enough he wishes to air his opinions, he's got to seek out another who rephrased his foolishness so he can quote him."
Ah, the encyclopedia problem.
He did say 'elegantly'? Bang goes his right to evaluate literature.
I keep finding old comments from Matthew. I should have responded immediately, but we'll have to settle for being a bit over a year late.
Anyway, good point, and it should have been my fifth. To call the awkward and labored phrasing of Blow "elegant" is probably the silliest thing in this selection.
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