With the Help of Your Tax Dollars, NPR Promotes Left-Wing 'Revolutionary Nutcracker'

Tim Graham at NewsBusters:

That taxpayer-funded leftist sandbox called National Public Radio promoted the latest work/wreck of “progressive art” on Saturday morning’s Weekend Edition. In San Francisco, they’re twisting the classic ballet The Nutcracker into a radical-left jeremiad. Anchor Scott Simon announced nonchalantly: “‘Tis the season for The Nutcracker. One production in San Francisco is decorated with a grab-bag of liberal political causes. In the Revolutionary Nutcracker Sweetie, the ice caps melt during the Dance of the Snowflakes and Clara is an undocumented Latina maid.”

Liberal reporters think liberals aren’t at all noteworthy so they get no label. When the media elite announces something has “liberal causes,” it’s extremely leftist. Reporter April Dembosky interviewed the show’s writer and director, Krissy Keefer, without mentioning she ran for Congress against Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) from the far left, demanding the impeachment of Bush in 2006:

KEEFER: We are a political dance company in that we try to make work that is socially relevant, that is responding to the real ideas and real needs of people today in the community.

DEMBOSKY: It all starts on the night of the big party at the home of the richest family in town — the McGreeds. Guests mingle around the red velvet couch and chair; four “Swan Lake” ballerinas arrive in tutus, then aerobics teachers in workout gear, and ninjas from “The Matrix.” There is a narrator who stands under chilly twinkle lights reciting the guest list.

MADISON PARKER (as Narrator): Landlord, lawyers wealthy old prunes, a bevy of brokers, a tribe of tycoons, movie stars, baseball stars, Flash with Cash, I hear even Paris Hilton was trying to crash.

There is a dancer playing Paris Hilton, and a woman playing the Mouse King. There were no ballet traditionalists to assess this dancing propaganda.

Read the whole thing here.

The next question is whether or not we taxpayers are in any way funding this junk through the NEA or elsewhere.