A tweet from The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin:
that Broadway would dim its lights for Vidal tells us volumes about cultural elites today
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) August 3, 2012
Um, I think what it "tells us" about the theater's "cultural elites" is that they're honoring a man who just passed away and who currently has a play on Broadway, one that's won two Tony awards and been nominated for eight others in its original 1960 production and two revivals. What it "tells us" is that, y'know, Broadway considers Vidal one of its own, and wants to honor him accordingly.
Ahhh, but his politics were left-leaning and he was a big fag, so Rubin doesn't think that's right. So noted.
I'm pretty sure they dimmed the lights* at National Review when crypto-Nazi Bill Buckley died. Just saying.
ReplyDelete*Which, since the bulbs there are pretty dim to begin with...
Why is this person a major media blogger? She's like a cross between Breitbart and Liz Cheney. Everything she writes is vile.
ReplyDeleteThe consolation is, of course, that long after Jennifer Rubin's name is forgotten (which may or may not be after her demise), GV's name will be instantly recognized by most literate people. Rubin's pitiful snark is simply the squawk of the insignificant.
ReplyDeleteAs a writer, Rubin's not a festering pimple on a follicle of Vidal's ballsack.
ReplyDeleteAnd make that, as a human being, too.
What a sychophantic little weasel.
I'm pretty sure that when David Mamet shuffles off this mortal coil, they will dim the lights for him, and he's a vocal right-wing convert.
ReplyDeleteWhat does it tell us that WaPo continues to publish a hack like Jennifer Rubin?
ReplyDeleteThe Jewish right has hated V for decades for reasons well known to them but surely not so much to anyone else.
ReplyDeleteBut she thought it unnecessary to offer the least explanation of her remarks.
Everybody is surrounded by others of his own kind and thinks they are the whole world.
Let me get this straight. A prominent blogger from one of the largest media outlets in the world isn't a cultural elite?
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