“a combination of Ronald Reagan, Rudy Giuliani, John Wayne and Pope John Paul II” — you know, the stuff nightmares are made of: equal parts senile war monger, hypocritical douche bag and patronizing Bible thumper. A neo-con Chucky, if you will.

What’s the next “conservative story”? The Gospel According to Matthew?

“Rent,” a musical about yuppie gentrifiers!

Oh Lord. I knew this was going to be painful when I saw the title.

To keep this brief (for my own sanity if nothing else): the dumbest part in that excerpt is his insistence that Valjean is some sort of hooray-capitalism rags-to-riches story. What he left out was the part where he illegally disposes of his parole ticket and takes on an assumed identity. I thought that this might have been one of those elements that was in the book but was cut out for the musical. Nope, it’s in the show as well.

I suppose the question is thus: would out friends at BigHo be cool with an ex-con fabricating an identity to conceal his criminal record if he was trying to start a business? What about an illegal immigrant doing the same? Are those conservative values?

Digg it!

And the movie “Reds” was a tribute to the states that vote Republican.

I swear to god I am not making this shit up because, if I were, Valjean would totally be Scooter Libby.

This puts “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” to shame.

would out friends at BigHo be cool with an ex-con fabricating an identity to conceal his criminal record if he was trying to start a business? What about an illegal immigrant doing the same? Are those conservative values?

We all know facts have a liberal bias, and this further proves the point.

So they’re looking for validation from a broadway (isn’t broadway in, you know, New York?) musical (aren’t musicals often full of “light in the loafers” types? not that there’s anything wrong with that . . . ) from a French (!) novel?

We should be glad the interwebs make it possible for these yahoos to broadcast how stoopid they are.

Stage Right forgot to add the part where he said Victor Hugo is a combination of Glen Beck, Richard Nixon, and Oliver North before the orderlies slipped the white jacket back on and took him to his room.

And IMHO, if they are looking for a more accurate metaphor for conservative leadership in the theater, I would go with Spamalot.

I get it. Let me try. Cross Ayn Rand, Ann Coulter, Ann Landers, and Anchoress and that would get you Norma Rae. How’d I do?

Well, Javert is Cheney and Cosette is so totally Dubya.

In the context of his time Victor Hugo was unapologetically a liberal. Next, please.

Ah, yes, who could forget all those tales of John Wayne, Reagan, and Giuliani donating large sums of their personal fortunes to help the needy? (Granted, the Catholic church does do many charitable things for the poor, granted, they want your soul in return).

Truly, the one thing to take away from Atlas Shrugs is how all the John Galts of the world should give their personal money away to the poor. Its at the very heart of the Randian philosophy.

Because, if the government gives a poor person some financial assistance, it’ll make that poor person lazy and they’ll never learn to be self-supporting, but if that same poor person gets money from a rich guy instead, then he’ll…well, I don’t know, but surely all those conservative arguments about how giving money to poor people makes them lazy and dependent will conveniently disappear. Because whether or not financial assistance makes you lazy freeloader living off handouts totally depends on who signs the checks.

TBogg obviously is showing too much sense to be watching the Grammys right now, but I had to rant that if they think this mishmash will solve their problem of low ratings they are sadly deluded. They are also showing the reason for said low ratings: the same people win every year and as Bruce said years ago, if you stay around long enough they give you one of these. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are examples of both.

(And I gave up what was probably a very good Tu B’Shvat shiur for this!!)

(But they did a very smart thing. They saved Best Rap Album for next to last so that Lil’ Wayne will be able to accept something major. I will shut up now.)

this dude is Victor Hugo’s Mitt Romney.

Right, because when it comes to modern-day self-made men, scraping and scrapping their way in a harsh and cruel world, you just have to think “Mitt Romney.”

Remember Cosette singing about her castle on a cloud?

In the castle, she says, “there are no floors for me to sweep.”

The musical is conservative because it doesn’t shy away from pointing out that poor people are lazy, even in their daydreams. That little girl could have invented an automatic floor-sweeper and made millions or written her fantasies down and become the next J. K. Rowling. Instead she dilly-dallies and dreams her empty dreams. She deserved to go hungry.

Thank God we cut those child nutrition programs out of the stimulus package. Thank God.

Do you hear the wingnuts sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not win votes again!

“Stage Right” is a winner, isn’t he?

And this is how Andy & his merry men (& Debbie Schlussel) will conquer Hollywood & make conservatism “relevant” again, w/ diatribes about the “conservative” slant of a fifteen yr. old musical that was big w/ “the kidz’” grandmothers?

Bring it on, boys, bring it on.

With all of their dreams turned to ashes, they seem to be determined to insure that, at the very least, they can’t ever be successfully parodied.

Hasn’t Les Mis closed on Broadway?

Yeah, it closed several years ago. It’s getting licensed to various companies, so our friend here probably saw one of those versions.

Let’s face facts, people. With no way left to frak up America and the world, since, hehe, they no longer control anything, they have to have something to validate their existence and take their minds off their upcoming extremely long stay in the desert.

So expect critiques of the following pop cultural items (if they haven’t already hit these), which they will prove to their own satifaction are really conservative shout outs: The Dark Side of the Moon; the movies Pinky, The Pink Panther and Pretty in Pink (not almost commie after all! even with the word ‘pink’ in the title!!); all the Bergman films that are in color; the works of Grace Paley; and either Cue or After Dark magazine (probably both).

OMG, just when you think the bag couldn’t get any fuller of shit, they force in a few more pounds!

I really don’t get this need to interpret everything through an ideological lens. Can’t you just enjoy the fucking show? It’s a goddam Broadway musical!

“Conservative” movies, “conservative” rock songs, now “conservative” musicals. Enough already!

what makes it so great is that liberals don’t know it and they can enjoy it without any qualms.

The red flag is for the red states, amirite?

Well played Sir (or Madam)!!

Ha ha, I am old too, & remember those two mags.

Damn, when did they go out of business?