Poetry reading at WH?

Last year the president was favored with a performance of content produced by an artist who has written some of the most atrocious things -- a monologue from a character who murdered his own wife. This artist has written about cannibalism, rape, incest, domestic violence, torture, murder, and warfare. His work is peppered with sympathetic portrayals of characters who carry out these crimes -- not to mention explicit sexual references and bawdy jokes. Bawdy. Jokes.

Of course, he's referring to the Bard of Avon, one of the most blood-drenched and sex-crazed poets of the English language. Consider, if you will, "Sonnet 135":

Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'
And 'Will' to boot, and 'Will' in overplus;
More than enough am I that vex thee still,
To thy sweet will making addition thus.
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
Shall will in others seem right gracious,
And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
The sea all water, yet receives rain still
And in abundance addeth to his store;
So thou, being rich in 'Will,' add to thy 'Will'
One will of mine, to make thy large 'Will' more.
Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill;
Think all but one, and me in that one 'Will.'

Let me point out something that's going on in this sonnet. When Shakespeare uses the word "Will," he is mostly talking about genitals: Both his penis and, to borrow another famous Shakespeare joke, "country matters." Yeah, he gave his piece his own name. And he would basically hit anything on two legs.
 
Oh CRAP Satchel: Now you are going to have the Fox News guys out chasing our high school and college English teachers for twisting the minds of the young.
 
This is a total non-issue dreamed up by right-wing media types. Anyone bothering to actually read the poem would find that at the end of the poem the poet rejects those who want the violence mentioned in the one line taken out of context.
This is real silliness, and a real non-issue.
Next.
 
is the WH still standing?

I, for one, know i was greatly impacted by last night's performance. I want to hear your stories.

tough night sleeping? did your meal taste a little differently at dinner? Did 'Modern Family' last night just not have that same zing for you?

how were you impacted?
 
Jon Stewart took on Fox News on this one and it was absolutely hilarious. It showed Common on Sesame Street with Elmo, showed the Fox guys reading his poetry and completely missing the point and finally showed Bush giving an award at the White House to Johnny Cash, highlighting some lyrics of his from which I'm not familiar and "shot a man in Reno just to watch him die." And it showed Hannity friend Ted Nugent suggesting Obama should suck on a machine gun"
The funniest thing is that
Stewart doesn't have to twist any facts to make the Fox News folks look like complete idiots.
 
So the New Jersey Troopers and their union are right wing ? Who knew

From an NBC NY interview
"During an interview with NBC New York, David Jones, President of the State Troopers Fraternal Association Union, took offense to the lyrics in Common’s track “A Song for Assata.”

“The young people who read this stuff, hear this stuff, are getting a very dangerous and deadly message,” David Jones, president of the State Troopers Fraternal Association union told NBC.

“A Song for Assata” pays homage to Joanne Chesimard aka Assata Shakur, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey Police officer during a controversial trial in 1973.

Shakur escaped a prison in 1979 and is currently residing in Cuba under political asylum, although the United States Government is still offering a $1 million dollar reward for her capture.

The State Troopers Fraternal Association Union are upset because Common’s visit comes as they prepare to head to Washington, D.C. to honor slain officers at the National Law Enforcement Memorial."
 
She does have great promotional instincts and she is a savy self marketer. I wish i had that skill and temerity.
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she's just stupid though.
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She's not stupid, she's ignorant. And perfectly satisfied with this state of affairs. It's not like the right holds their 'leaders' to a higher standard anyway. As long as you love Jesus and guns then you've met the Good American Standard and, presto: leadership material.
 
The whole uproar about Common is race baiting plain and simple. Anyone who knows anything at all about him and his career just laughs at the nonsense spouted by the usual suspects
 
Dear NJ state police union,

All your union belong to me. You'll vote for me in 2012 and you know it. Your union will tell you to do so, and you'll act accordingly. Otherwise I'd take your concerns more seriously.

Now that that's all taken care of, your dear leader has some important community leadership duties to take care of (no, not lower the unemployment rate....Jeffrey Immelt is on Line One)
 
i never did get an answer on how you all were impacted by this.

this guy? seriously?

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I want to highlight one line in the OP's posting of Common's lyrics:

'How can we follow a leader when this a corrupt one '


Can I just say, I agree.
 
Haven't you heard? People in the know, fair-minded people who would never let emotion outweigh their reason, say he is a Chicago style thug.
 
See the GM takeover. That is all you need to know about corruption. We are much more like Venezuela these days.
 
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