Something amiss at the Missoula Children's Theater (Billings, Great Falls: home, school)

[Walter Greenspan]

From today's Wall Street Journal's "Best of the Web" column, Curt Olds, the Lord High Executioner:

Eliminationist rhetoric against Sarah Palin: a production of the Missoula Children's Theater.

[MTSilvertip]

Thank you for the link Walter.

Sad, but not surprising the mindless vitriolic rants and attacks that are now commonly part of the arts culture underline the lack of civility that exists in so many venues today.

I wish I could say that such a thing could only happen in far left Missoula, but it happens commonly in other larger Montana Cities as well. I read the Bozeman Comical, Helena Incoherant, Great Falls, Billings and Missoula papers daily and if you want to see unbridaled hatred for the values of Montana and the senseless hatred for folks like former Governor Palin, read the letters to the editors and responses on line.

It is a sad commentary on the state of the country at large.

I know quite a few people across the political and ideological spectrum who live in Montana, and working in Helena I see the protests and rallys.

I sincerely belive most folks here just want to live their lives without having big brother looking over their shoulder or taking everything they make in taxes.
I think the basic Montana family simply wants to go to work, come home to their family, go fishing or hunting on the weekend, maybe have a beer with their friends once in a while, enjoy a fair or rodeo, and not have their kids indocrinated in school to a philosiphy they don't share.

The hatred expressed in your link underlines what is wrong with the people of a small virolent yet well publisized minority.

Everybody has the right to free speech, and the right to their opinion without someone saying it would be funny to have them beheaded.

Claiming such things are "funny" or "entertaining" are beyond reprehensible.

[Walter Greenspan]

There is a very interesting discussion about this situation going on over at the Electric City Weblog: Missoula Children’s Theater Gets A Notice In The WSJ | Electric City Weblog

[MTSilvertip]

For all the folks who think Montana actually accepts the kind of small minded hatred esposed by a certain segment of the population,

Missoula community theatre apologizes for lyric about beheading Sarah Palin

The garbage put forth at the Missoula Community Theatre did not stand.

There is justice for folks here who don't subscribe to the anger of the liberal arts community when we stick together and don't allow the vitriol to stand.

[Rickers]

Who is Sarah Palin ? I forgot already. No I haven't but the ultra hate filled liberals are either super frightened by her, bored with no answers and a sincere desire to sport their hatefulness or they are just plain morons.
I am not talking about normal liberals, we need two sides to run our country in the wobbly way that we do but the ones obsessed with Sara Palin need to get a life already.
I am not surprised that liberal production personnel keep trying this crap. We all know that liberal professors have been politically indoctrinating students for years now.

[Walter Greenspan]

The Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web's James Taranto comments on the Missoulian's comment on Friday's comment by James Taranto about the Missoula Community Theater story (you'll have to scroll down to the second item, titled, 'Oh Man, We Made a Mistake').

[montygarlic]

There's an "apology-of-sorts" article on the AP news service today. The manager of MCT is quoted as saying they "made a mistake, a really, really BIG mistake."

I wonder if that'll be the end of it? It is hardly credible that they didn't actually KNOW what they were doing...

mg