{"id":8991,"date":"2015-12-01T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2015-12-01T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:53:43","slug":"senate-report-on-federal-follies-includes-silent-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/01\/senate-report-on-federal-follies-includes-silent-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Report on Federal Follies Includes Silent Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Federal-Fumbles-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8992\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Federal-Fumbles-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Federal Fumbles cover\" width=\"350\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Federal-Fumbles-cover.jpg 465w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Federal-Fumbles-cover-115x150.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Sen. James Lankford<\/strong> (R-OK) has issued his first report on wasteful federal spending, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Federal_Fumbles_2015.pdf\">&#8220;Federal Fumbles: 100 Ways the\u00a0Government Dropped the Ball<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 Lankford continues an honorable tradition begun by his predecessor, Sen. <strong>Tom Coburn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt on the report&#8217;s critique of the National Endowment for the Arts for\u00a0bankrolling<strong> Synetic Theater&#8217;s Silent Shakespeare<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>William Shakespeare was lauded for many things: his meter, his verse, his complicated characters. Generations of families have come together to enjoy productions of Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets and plays by film companies, local theaters, and high school drama classes. But was Polonius right in Hamlet when he said, \u201cGive every man thy ear, but few thy voice\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>James Bovard published a piece in The Wall Street Journal on July 13, 2015, entitled, \u201cA Silenced Shakespeare in Washington: Shakespeare without puns is like French cooking without butter.\u201d\u00a0 Performing Shakespeare\u2019s plays using private funds or state-funded arts programs might be even \u201cbutter.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\" align=\"LEFT\">****That <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/17\/shakespearean-fury-twat-troll-usurper-unenlightened-highbrow-scorn\/\">WSJ article generated livelier responses<\/a> than anything I have written in a long time.\u00a0 I was castigated as a twat troll, usurper, unenlightened, highbrow, and a libertarian Soviet commissar bigot. And that&#8217;s not even tapping all the furious Tweets the article sparked. I never knew that writing about theater\u00a0could be such fun!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has issued his first report on wasteful federal spending, entitled &#8220;Federal Fumbles: 100 Ways the\u00a0Government Dropped the Ball.&#8221;\u00a0 Lankford continues an honorable tradition begun by his predecessor, Sen. Tom Coburn. 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