Happened to listen to Rush while I was driving around at lunch. Apparently some news source is reporting that President Bush plans to ask for more money for the National Endowment for the Arts. (The downside to not listening to Rush for three hours is that I miss some things. The upside is that I haven't been driven insane). He then read an article on President Bush's man at the NEA and how they are changing how they fund the arts.
He read a very positive article about how the current NEA guy, Dana Giora, is doing a great job at funding the classics, the works of art that we all love, instead of, say, crucifixs soaked in urine. What was hillarious was listening to Rush try to keep his disdain for even the classics out of his voice. I mean he sort of wanted to attack the Bush adminstration for funding art, not attack art per se. But he really couldn't keep his disdain for the art world out of his voice.
He must have realized how he was coming off because he said twice words to the effect of "Now I'm not attacking Art." But it's pretty clear that he doesn't just dislike artists and people who want government to fund art, he dislikes it in general.
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