The Vulgarians Take Over

From The Daily Caller:

Here’s an opportunity to relive your high-school poetry classes.

First Lady Michelle Obama has scheduled a poetry evening for Wednesday, and she’s invited several poets, including a successful Chicago poet and rapper, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., AKA “Common.” However, Lynn is quite controversial, in part because his poetry includes threats to shoot police and at least one passage calling for the “burn[ing]” of then-President George W. Bush.

Back in 2003, First Lady Laura Bush held a poetry evening, and she invited several poets to reprise the work of Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman. Although none of those poets had urged violence against a president, Bush canceled the event after left-of-center poets protested and threatened to disrupt the event.

This kind of fake "culture" so beloved by the doyens of left really sticks in my craw, bad art, and grotesque flotsam posing as gems of culture. One longs for the days when yes, even the Democrats had class. Think back, for instance, when JFK and Jackie hosted Pablo Casals in the East Room.

That was then...