This time, Glenn Beck, it's personal — a Broadway rebuttal

[NYCGirl]

broadwayworld.com's theater critic takes on Beck's review of SPIDER-MAN and finds it wanting.


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You say theatre lovers don't like rock music. Ever hear of a little show called Hair, big guy?

You say we think having actors flying around cheapens the theatre? Yeah, that's why Mary Martin's performance in Peter Pan is so lowly regarded by us all.

And you say we don't like musicals based on comic book characters? Got two words for ya, genius... An. Nie.

Look, you do what you want when you're talking politics, but when you step up to the Sardi's bar to mix with the musical theatre crowd you play by our rules, and that means freely expressing your opinions and then respecting anyone's opposing viewpoint.



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[rfranklin]

1. Glenn Beck--the idiot's idiot...

How stupid can you get?

[Jackpine Radical]

4. A: I dunno--I don't think he's done yet.

Q: "How stupid can you get?"

[Joe Bacon]

13. No limit to Beck's stupidity.

Every time he opens his mouth, he breaks new ground in stupidity!

[hedgehog]

2. Do you suppose he's mad he didn't get free tickets?

[rucky]

3. Glenn Beck: Theater Critic

sounds like an SNL skit.

[Initech]

5. Undisputable fact: The teabaggers hate the arts.

[DCKit]

6. And science, economics, sociology - Education and the Arts, in general.

Educated people are far more likely to think for themselves and everyone knows artists are completely uncontrollable. That is counter to their agenda.

[NYCGirl]

8. And I'm not too fond of anyone who thinks of artists as

"elites." The baggers are so wrong.

The world without the arts would be a much darker, colder place.

[Initech]

10. I know quite a few artists, I would hardly consider any of them to be elitist.

[NYCGirl]

11. Speaking for myself and my circle only, most of us are poor.

That doesn't stop the baggers from screeching about the "elite" (that word sometimes preceded by "Hollywood").

[WinkyDink]

7. Beck: The Arrogance of the Stupid.

[UTUSN]

9. K&R #14 bwah-ha-HAH !1 BecKKK keeps branching out out of his depth & league!1 n/t

[Dappleganger]

12. Throwing pearls before swine.