Crickets chirping…the sound of a vacuum cleaner in the hallway

Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled…
David St. Hubbins: What?
Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn’t worry about it though, it’s not a big college town.

While people are clamoring for Obama tickets in Denver, things are going "not-so-well" for the National Review’s Wingnut Welfare Comedy Tour stop in Colorado Springs. The early signs were not good:

Right In The Rockies [Jonah Goldberg]
Okay, I have an idea for our big fund raiser-comedy extravaganza during the Democratic Convention. I think I will bring a camera and ask the audience to stand as one and offer the Obama salute so I can take a picture. At minimum, this will offer some exculpatory evidence that we were loyal to The One during the Democratic Convention should things take an ugly turn after the election. If the picture comes out well, we can make it available to everyone attending. Oh, and if you don’t want your face to show, you can wear your dinner napkin like a handkerchief-mask in the Westerns.

Meanwhile, if any of you folks in the area ever thought of coming to an NR fundraiser, it seems to me this is the one to go to. By the time of the Democratic Convention, there will be so much to laugh at but so few people to laugh with, you’ll be craving for a drink and some like-minded souls to talk to and with whom you’ll be able to share survivalist strategies. You’ll be helping the cause, helping yourselves and having a grand time in the process. And for those of you who think you can’t afford it, just think of it this way: Nancy Pelosi and/or Obama are going to take that money from you regardless come the new year. At least this way you get the write-off and a good memory.

Or maybe not:

Colorado Springs Postponed [Kate O'Beirne]
Regrettably, we just learned that an unavoidable conflict will prevent one of our terrific panelists from participating in National Review Institute’s Right in the Rockies event next week. With the comic chemistry of our trio disrupted, the event will be postponed until a time when we can deliver the much-anticipated program as promised. We will be in touch with those who bought tickets to arrange for refunds. We are sorry for our disappointed guests who are left to imagine the liberal laughs they can look forward to when we make it out west. Springtime in the Rockies?

You know, Colorado Springs is prime wingnut territory so ticket sales must have blown like Larry Craig in a men’s room. Hopefully the National Review can get their deposit back and the Broadmoor Hotel can still rent out the room for a purity ball or something. That way Kathryn Jean Lopez can still get a trip out of the whole thing.