Althouse: "The story that I’m trying to create for myself, just through my life, is I want to be the granddaddy of mean right-wing street art, guerrilla art."

March 10, 2015

"The story that I’m trying to create for myself, just through my life, is I want to be the granddaddy of mean right-wing street art, guerrilla art."

"I want people to say five or 10 years from now, 'Yeah, that guy Sabo, he really influenced me.' ... I just want to cement that for myself."

9 comments:

Phil 314 said...: Anger only takes you so far.; 3/10/15, 7:56 AM
Jaq said...: He lives on the far fringe of the right-wing movement

Wouldn't that make him an especially cruel Nazi prison guard?

And notice how they take his quote about blacks living in shotgun shacks in rural Louisiana, a quote about self help, a Booker T. Washington type attitude, and make it sound like he is calling all southern blacks lazy and ignorant?

I wonder if they even know they are doing it, or if they are just completely deaf to his message. According to some experiments by Dr Jonathon Haidt, liberals are absolutely deaf to ideas they don't agree with. It's like they can't hear them. Though the writer did manage to avoid a rhetorical question at the end. Though he does throw in "just a bullhorn for the lunatic fringe."

how long cities will tolerate their public spaces being vandalized, art or no.

Hah! So many stop signs in Burlington were "vandalized" with the most hagiographic Obama posters.. Oddly, not seeing that for Hillary.

But the story gets the facts out there, despite all of the writer's comments. It is sort of like reading a paper on climate science. The facts are correct, and it is pointless questioning, the they rarely support the conclusions drawn.; 3/10/15, 8:05 AM
machine said...: so proud...and yet, so typical.; 3/10/15, 8:14 AM
dbp said...: tim in vermont has it right: Even though the article is obviously a hit-piece, one can get a feel for what Sabo is about.

Take this, as one of many examples:

"an inflammatory guerrilla artist who takes the GOP’s most extreme messages to the streets, illustrating them in ways that, in many cases, have led to charges of bigotry, homophobia, and worse."

1. What could be worse than bigotry? (and the term "homophobia" is by itself, pernicious)

2. Look at the passive voice in "have led to charges of..." Who has accused him of what? If it is someone like Al Sharpton, we can discount accordingly, but it is left nameless. Just an amorphous authority out there.

3. "Most extreme message" The take-away is extreme, do not let whatever the particular message is bother the pretty little heads of Daily Beast readers.

The media loves it some transgressiveness by brave artists, but only when it is in support of the existing power structure. These artists ought to be humiliated by the way they have prostituted themselves. Being idiots, they have easily been tricked into thinking themselves brave.; 3/10/15, 8:34 AM
Jaq said...: This takedown of left wing outrageousness is dead on.; 3/10/15, 10:10 AM
Known Unknown said...: I love this guy.

No one else has been able to do what he's done.; 3/10/15, 10:59 AM
Kyzer SoSay said...: The only artists out there speaking "Truth to Power" anymore are all conservatives. Liberalism has become the dominant pop-culture power, and has been for a while. Thankfully, enough people either enjoy the culture but rightly ignore the message behind it, or simply don't give a crap about pop culture, that the GOP can still win elections. Whether they can win a national election this time around is going to be a combination of many factors, but having a couple Sabo-type folks out there to pierce the armor of the Left is a great idea.; 3/10/15, 1:18 PM
Jaq said...: "Conservatives in the Mist" could have served as well as a title for this piece too.; 3/10/15, 2:31 PM
averagejoe said...: So naturally a liberal propaganda organ like the Daily Beast is going to characterize a republican street-artist as angry, offensive and deranged. For the true anger, derangement and unhinged from reality point-of-view, just scroll down to the comment section and witness the progressive harpies tearing at him with frothing fury.; 3/10/15, 2:42 PM