Acting Kennedy Center director Richard Grenell goes after American Idol for choosing Lin-Manuel Miranda as a mentor

[highplainsdem]

Called him "radical" - and tagged the truly radical and dangerous FCC chair Brendan Carr to signal he wants Carr to go after American Idol and ABC.

Ron Filipkowski post on Bluesky with Grenell's tweet:

He tags the FCC Chair on his whine. People who don’t want to perform at the New MAGA Trump Center must be punished!

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T11:18:24.376Z

Ron Filipkowski
‪@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social‬

He tags the FCC Chair on his whine. People who don’t want to perform at the New MAGA Trump Center must be punished!



May 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM

[C_U_L8R]

1. Want some cheese with your whine, Dick?

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[underpants]

3. I think Steven Tyler made something like $20M per season he was on

STFU Grenell. NOT working with Trump is an honor especially in the arts. Lee Greenwood isn’t getting an invite because he brings no one and nothing to the table.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. We need to rehabilitate the word "radical" ... it does not mean what so many people think it means.

"Radical" has come to be taken as a synonym for "extremist", which is far from its original meaning. In Latin, "radix" means "root", and has given us the word "radical" -- which as a noun, is used to mean "root" in mathematics, computer science, linguistics, and (originally with that meaning) in chemistry -- as well as the humble "radish". The adjective "radical", and the corresponding adverb "radically", imply getting to the root of the problem, i.e. going after the root cause rather than its knock-on effects, an approach would be expected to be less effective, especially over the long term. Thus, "radical" activists are those who want to address the roots of our problems in a definitive way, hopefully solving them once and for all, rather than settling for temporary half-measures -- or "kicking the can down the road", in current parlance. "Treat the disease, not the problem" sounds obviously good, but letting reactionary "conservatives" re-frame it as a "radical" program turns many people against it, despite "radical" being a decidedly positive term, not a pejorative, as they've intended it. For those on the Left, "not radical enough" is a phrase that makes perfect sense, but the RW press would have a field day if any Dem were to use that phrase publicly.

I realize that sound logic, let alone etymologies, don't carry much weight with a half-uninformed, half-misinformed media audience. But it rankles me to see good, sound, useful language hijacked by repeated and insistent misuse, leaving our public discourse poorer as a result. The Right keeps framing the debate in ways which impoverish our political vocabulary, and we haven't found a way to deal with the fact that dumbing things down is so much easier -- and comes so naturally to so many people -- than smarting things up. Destruction is always so much easier than construction, and it benefits those who seek to destroy.

[Blues Heron]

5. What a meathead this guy is

[displacedvermoter]

7. Much rather have him here than as National Security Advisor

to be honest, though in this maladministration I guess he could do both jobs badly, simultaneously.

Then again, I guess I would rather have him as NSA than Miller. Jeezus, such terrible options.

[Solly Mack]

6. Oh, the humanity! Someone is intolerant of our intolerance.

How dare people judge us for our white supremacy, our misogyny, our homophobia and our transphobia! How dare them not want to support our hate-filled thinking and actions by refusing to be associated with us!