{"id":509,"date":"2010-08-13T14:20:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=509"},"modified":"2010-08-13T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:20:23","slug":"you_know_what_they_say_even_ri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/08\/you_know_what_they_say_even_ri\/","title":{"rendered":"You know what they say: even right-wing nut-job press is good press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shock of the Day! Glenn Beck does not think the arts are worth the money.<\/p>\n

Via Tim Smith’s Clef Notes<\/i><\/a> blog for the Baltimore Sun, <\/i>we have Glenn Beck calling Baltimore’s Lyric Opera House “stupid” and “snotty.” <\/p>\n

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Beck claimed that $750,000 was in the budget
\nfor that historic venue in our fair city, while “cops are on the
\nchopping block. This is like my wife saying we are broke, we have to
\ncut down our expenses on food. I turn around and say, OK, when you
\ngrocery shop, no more meats, organics, milk — we’re cutting that out.
\nJust get Mountain
\nDew and Cheetos … How about we get the rich who never pay their fair
\nshare to buy their stupid snotty opera house? Would you cut the opera
\nhouse or the cops? … What does your gut tell you? That everybody
\ninvolved in this is moron?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Smith points out that the figure is actually $1 million (zing!), and that Baltimore’s mayor has proposed adding 450 cops by 2011.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Here’s the video, for your…enjoyment? Start at minute 4:30.<\/p>\n

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MOUUUUUUNNNTAAAAAAIIIINNNNNN dew<\/i>…and CHEETOS! ***Mountain Dew***<\/i>. And Cheetos. “Mountain Dew and Cheetos: The Amanda Ameer Story”?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shock of the Day! Glenn Beck does not think the arts are worth the money. Via Tim Smith’s Clef Notes blog for the Baltimore Sun, we have Glenn Beck calling Baltimore’s Lyric Opera House “stupid” and “snotty.” Beck claimed that $750,000 was in the budget for that historic venue in our fair city, while “cops […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}