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Village Voice | Theater: Foreman's Wake-Up Call
[theater review by Michael Feingold]
Republicans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm.

Now, I was going to ignore this. It's well-enough covered in the blogosphere, with even the Instapundit drawing attention to it. But then, on a whim, it occurred to me that maybe, as impossible as it seemed given the length of the quote, maybe it was being taken out of context. Here's the paragraph following:

This opinion is presumably not shared by Foreman; you can gauge the breadth of his imaginative compassion from his willingness to extend it even toward George W. Bush, idiot scion of a genetically criminal family that should have been sterilized three generations ago.

Boy, some people make it really hard to give 'em the benefit of the doubt.

Further reading: Christian Science Montitor, Newsroom conservatives are a rare breed.