Mel Brooks, in “The Producers”, featured an uproariously funny musical-within-the-musical, titled “Springtime For hitler”. The premise was that the show would be so outrageous, so beyond the pale, in such astonishingly bad taste, that it would close in one day, and they\’d be able to keep all the funds collected to stage it.
That was for laughs.
But this is not.
Excerpted from Tianna DeMartino\’s article at newsbusters.org:
Ina disgusting move, New York City\’s Metropolitan Opera is staging ahighly anti-Semitic, controversial opera composed by John Adams, “TheDeath of Klinghoffer,” based on the 1985 Palestinian LiberationOrganization (PLO) hijacking of the Italian cruise ship AchilleLauro. During the ordeal, the terrorists shot and killed LeonKlinghoffer, an elderly, wheelchair-bound American Jew, beforetossing him and his wheelchair overboard.
Adamsargued that he didn\’t write The Death of Klinghoffer to becontroversial or provocative and was “appalled at how hot some ofthe response was” to the opera. He felt he was trying to show thehumanity in the civilians and Jewish family on board as well as theterrorists and wasn\’t picking sides.
You read this imbecile\’s “explanation”, and – assuming you take it seriously at all instead of just as a smart-ass comment from an anti-Semitic scumbag (which is where I come out), you have to think “This can\’t be real. Mel Brooks must have written this as a sequel to \’The Producers\'”.
Jew-hating terrorists commandeer a cruise ship, take an elderly, disabled Jewish man in a wheelchair, kill him in the presence of his family, toss him and his wheelchair overboard….and john adams is telling us the idea is to show the terrorists\’ humanity – that he\’s not “picking sides”? Not picking sides?
That is the answer of either an absolute idiot, a brain dead vegetable, or someone looking to qualify for lifetime membership in the American nazi Party.
And what about the equally moronic jerks at the Metropolitan Opera, who decided to stage this colostomy bag of an “opera”? What are their names? And would they be at all surprised to see Jewish contributors decide their money would be better spent somewhere else? ANYWHERE else?
If you read Ms. DeMartino\’s entire blog (as I hope you will) you\’ll find that there will be a demonstration in front of the Met at 4:30 this afternoon. Maybe that will provide a wakeup call for the moronic jerks noted above……but I doubt it.
People who would OK something like this can\’t be real smart. And can\’t care very much about whether they offend Jews…or people of any other faith who care about elemental decency.
