Aww, seems that Scotland didn't live up to this RW nutjob's expectations!

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Published on 25 August 2013

Alison Campsie

AS write-ups of a visit to Edinburgh go, this one couldn't have been more direct.

Mona Charen, a conservative writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, went to the capital to report on the festival season. Instead, she as inspired to pen a right-wing polemic castigating what she called "Socialist Scotland" and attacking the "repellant" offerings of the Fringe.

Neither Scotland nor Edinburgh lived up to her tartanised image of the nation: she was so disappointed she wrote that her visit was "enough to bury images of thistles and bagpipes very deep … we've come a long way from the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomand [sic]".

Charen, author of two books - Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help, and Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong In The Cold War And Still Blame America - was offended by plays including The Radicalisation Of Bradley Manning; Bin Laden: The One Man Show; and Bonk!

However, it appears that she didn't actually see any of the plays that irked her, but read about them. "Just based on the descriptions available in the paper, many of the offerings were repellent," she writes.

Charen, a former speechwriter for Nancy Reagan, was also confused about why the powers-that-be allow such political and artistic behaviour, saying: "The leftist tripe and cultural waste [the Scots are] enjoying is available in every Western capital … The difference, while there still is one, is that the relentless leftism goes almost entirely unrebutted [in Scotland]."


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http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/news/home-news/mcreds-under-the-bed-why-scotland-scares-right-wing-american-republicans.21954729

[arcane1]

1. Wow, those two book titles... I would have believed them to be parody

Do people really read that crap?

[Populist_Prole]

11. Yes. Cons are ready recipients of hunks of raw meat to feed their confirmation bias

My own very RW father has shelves of them, as do his circle of RW friends. All penned by the usual RW loons; Limbaugh, Gingrich, Bush, Glen Beck, and many others in the form of pundits like the one mentioned in the OP. Not only to they read that crap, they, exchange/lend them to each other and share notes about how correct and righteous their views are. Often they'll try to push them on people outside the bubble, to either spread the word in the hopes of creating new satellite bubbles, or to entice them to join theirs. When said person expresses revulsion to these books, they'll get all dismayed and retreat back to the comfort of their cocoons and re-congratulate each other again for being part of such a great group.

[cali]

2. So I went to read Moaning Mona's diatribe over at the National Review

The comments are delicious. Mona gets ripped a new one.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/356188/scotland-brave-no-more-mona-charen

[truebluegreen]

9. That was certainly worth the price of admission!

heh heh

[PDJane]

3. It's hard to believe that Mona's books get sold, but I guess.......

by the way, moaning Mona is a lovely sobriquet.

[Solly Mack]

4. Bless her heart.

[mainer]

5. How can anyone go to the Fringe Festival and NOT have a great time?

It's beyond me.

There are so many different offerings, performers from around the world, that even an angry woman like Charen should be able to find something that appeals to her.

I've been to the festival and it was a giant, city-wide street party with acts and performances going on round the clock. You can find singers performing at 3 AM and comedians in pubs at 4 AM. You can dance with students from India and take a ghost tour that ends in a pub with free whiskey.

Only a true anhedonic would not love this festival.

[loli phabay]

7. never been a fan of the fringe myself just not my thing, now the tattoo rocks

But then again im not a huge fan of Edinburgh as a city, prefer some of the others.

[hootinholler]

6. Good!!! Tell that, um, closed minded mysogenistic slur and her ilk to stay the fuck away!

Edinburgh rocks!

I was there and a Jester wearing an enormous codpiece in the comapny some curvy females and a camera crew were playing lewd shadow games for the camera. I had my 4 year old daughter with me who loved his motley suit and was fascinated with the codpiece. He noticed my frown as I was anticipating questions from her and he broke out with yeah, it's quite rude, which totally cracked me up. Because what they were doing was indeed quite rude, but the shadow images were also quite funny.

SIGH, I love Edinburgh.

Oh, it was worry for nothing on my part, as my daughter was distracted shortly after by a piper.

[NV Whino]

8. What an idiot!

There's so much good entertainment there for everyone. I thought the Fringe was even better than the official festival, although The Brothers Karamazov performed in the nude might have been the high point.

Actually getting snockered on single malt with the BBC film crew was the highlight, but I don't think that qualified as part of the festival, Fringe or otherwise.

[hatrack]

10. "EWWWWW!!!!!!! I went to another country, and it was DIFFERENT!!! EWWWWW!!!!"

"It didn't conform to my Hollywood musical/1950s travelogue image! EWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!"

STFU, you withered brain-dead cow.