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