Poets Take Aim at Laura Bush [Maggot Infested, Dope Smoking, Anti War Hippie Alert!]

See-BS News Politics Section ^ | February 4, 2003 SGT | Hillel Italie

[small voice in the wilderness]

...clicking my fingers in support of Mrs. Bush...

[ewing]

'Rita Dove' sounds like a Bubba choice to have her 'serving' under the White House desk..

[zip]

A spokeswoman for First Lady Laura Bush says ....and is opposed to turning a literary event into a political forum.

These "poets" are just anti American leftists, who are not concerned with literary discussions, only dissention.

[pubmom]

Here's some Poems by Connecticut Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson:

Mama's Promise

Excerpt:

I have no answer to the blank inequity
of a four-year-old dying of cancer.
I saw her on TV and wept
with my mouth full of meatloaf.

Can someone explain to me why this is considered good poetry?

[livius]

Rita Dove is entirely talentless.

I was present at an incredible poetry reading years ago in NYC, at which Octavio Paz, Joseph Brodsky, Czelav Milosz, and Derrick Walcot read.

Rita Dove was the Clinton-appointed Poet Laureate at that time. She stood up and favored us with some words (not to be confused with poetry) about her vagina.

[ewing]

Great idea, I say have a hippie field trip down to Gitmo for these 'artistes!'

[Corin Stormhands]

What exactly is the apparent need for poet laureates at the state and federal levels of government?

Exactly. Glenn Beck just quoted some report that says the federal budget amounts to $7,000 per person.

I say we knock that down to $6,999 and ditch the poet laureates...

[ewing]

None really, I think the tradition started under Kennedy..

[ewing]

Two thumbs up from me!

[ewing]

ping

[small voice in the wilderness]

Probably another Vaginaterian. You know, no meat allowed.

[dighton]

She stood up and favored us with some words . . . .

One morning old Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Was wanting a trip in a punt;
But the puntmen had struck,
So he shouted 'Good luck!
Your wage is a social affront!'

-- Robert Conquest.

[SamAdams76]

I read an article a few months ago about how Laura Bush, in an effort to appreciate literature from people of all political viewpoints, invited all sorts of people to the White House for these "symposiums."

I respect what she was trying to accomplish but this is an example of what happens when you give an inch to anti-American scumbags such as this. They take advantage of Laura's generosity and tolerance to push their Marxist, anti-American agenda.

[merak]

The White House's postponment of a literary symposium it believe was becoming politicized led two former U.S. poets lauerate to characterize the decision as an example of the Bush Administations hostility to dissenting voices.

Compared to what? Compared to the Clinton administrations habitual manner of dealing with dissenting voices (i.e. killing them)?

Take Jim McDougal for instance; you'd think a bunch of dissident poets might have a field day with that one (Jim McDougal went to jail; Jim McDougal's heart did fail...)

[mombonn]

dear lovely Laura
poet laureate Rita
one flower, one not

[montag813]

"I think there was a general feeling that the current Administration is not really a friend of the poetic community"

You got THAT right, pal.

[montag813]

This makes my eyes hurt.

Looks like an unreconstructed commie dog. Don't worry, he looks hlf dead already.

[livius]

poetic community

Huh? There are lots of poets who are not scuzzy left-wing gasbags, which seems to be the group above that is referring to itself as the "poetic community." Part of the problem, alas, is that the control exercised by the left over the academy and the publishing industry for the last 30 or 40 years has side-lined anybody who was not part of this self-defined [left wing] "poetic community."

Oddly enough, I have never heard their "poetry" on anyone's lips except their own. Some "poetic community."