{"id":82047,"date":"2022-09-29T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/maga-dweebs-lose-their-shit-over-lizzo-playing-james-madisons-crystal-flute\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:37:07","slug":"maga-dweebs-lose-their-shit-over-lizzo-playing-james-madisons-crystal-flute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/maga-dweebs-lose-their-shit-over-lizzo-playing-james-madisons-crystal-flute\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Dweebs Lose Their Shit Over Lizzo Playing James Madison’s Crystal Flute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conservative media stars and far-right provocateurs found their latest outrage cycle this week when pop superstar Lizzo thrilled concertgoers by playing a 200-year-old crystal flute once owned by former President James Madison.<\/p>\n

Rather than appreciate an accomplished and classically trained flutist showing off a priceless piece of American history to her fans, right-wing pundits seethed that Lizzo’s performance was an act of \u201csoft totalitarianism\u201d meant to \u201cdegrade our history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to showing off the delicate instrument at a Tuesday night show in Washington, DC, Lizzo was invited by the Library of Congress to check out its collection of more than 1,700 flutes\u2014including the Madison one, which was given to the founding father in 1813 as a gift from French flute maker Claude Laurent.<\/p>\n

After trying out the flute, she was given permission to play it briefly during her concert this week, with the national library sending Capitol Police and staff as security to watch over the rare artifact. Sharing the history of the flute with her audience, the \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d singer let the crowd know she was \u201cthe first person to ever play it\u201d and how \u201cscared\u201d she felt in doing so.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s crystal. It’s like playing out of a wine glass, bitch, so be patient,\u201d she said before carefully playing a note, causing the crowd to roar. Lizzo blew a few more notes, even tossing in her trademark twerk as she played.<\/p>\n

\u201cBitch, I just twerked and played James Madison’s crystal flute from the 1800s. We just made history tonight!\u201d Lizzo excitedly declared while folding the flute over her head. \u201cHistory is freaking cool!\u201d<\/p>\n

While much of the reaction online<\/a> and in the media was positive, the usual gaggle of right-wing scolds and knee-jerk reactionaries jumped all over the Black megastar’s performance to suggest that it was indicative of a further decline in society due to wokeness.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Library of Congress really took out a 200-year old flute that belonged to James Madison just so Lizzo could twerk with it,\u201d groused<\/a> Greg Price, a former Daily Caller editor-turned-GOP operative. \u201cThey degrade our history and then call you racist if you actually value it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Columbia Bugle, a popular MAGA social-media account, rated about the musician playing Madison’s crystal flute, declaring<\/a> \u201cwe’re going to let Kid Rock crowd surf on Obama’s presidential portrait\u201d if and when Republicans retake the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cA humiliation ritual. They don’t care about our history,\u201d the Bugle wrote in another tweet<\/a>. \u201cThey just want to mock and fashion it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservative radio host Jesse Kelly, who has predicted the American right will soon \u201cpick a fascist,\u201d took the histrionics even further, contrasting the arrest of an anti-abortion activist for assault with Lizzo playing a crystal flute he very likely never knew before yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can figure out the link between raiding the home of a peaceful man who offered to turn himself in and an anti-American singer twerking with James Madison’s flute, congratulations,\u201d he posted<\/a>. \u201cYou know what’s happening and what time it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anti-trans activist and Daily Wire pundit Matt Walsh, meanwhile, fumed<\/a> that the \u201cwoke Left\u201d believes the performance \u201cwas a form of racial retribution\u201d and that there’s no doubt that this is part of the reason why the Library of Congress facilitated this spectacle.\u201d<\/p>\n

The casually bigoted podcaster further grumbled that Lizzo is a \u201cmorbidly obese weirdo in a thong\u201d and he doesn’t \u201cgive a flying shit if it’s an honor for HER,\u201d telling another Twitter user<\/a> it’s \u201cnot the point at all\u201d that she is an \u201cextremely gifted musician\u201d who took an appropriate \u201clevel of care\u201d while handling the instrument.<\/p>\n

Walsh’s boss, conservative media boy king Ben Shapiro, also chimed in with a pseudo-philosophical take on the so-called scandal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Lizzo-flute controversy is a perfect example of what I have termed Face Tattoo Phenomenon\u2122: the phenomenon whereby someone does something deliberately controversial in an attempt to draw attention, and then acts offended when you notice,\u201d he tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shapiro, who seems to be perpetually and cringe-inducingly offended by Black pop musicians and rappers, then added<\/a>: \u201cIf all we had seen was the clip of Lizzo playing the flute in the halls of the Library of Congress while wearing a semi-modest outfit, everyone would have shrugged. But that’s not the clip everyone championed as groundbreaking: it was the clip where she bragged about twerking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shapiro kept the outrage flowing<\/a> for his podcast listeners on Thursday, whining that Lizzo was taking an instrument “that speaks to the, sort of, gentility of America’s founders” and placing it into a “context that is vulgar.” Driving home that point, he added: “It’s the vulgarization of American history.”<\/p>\n

Somewhat surprisingly, Fox News has so far stayed away from this right-wing outrage cycle. of The conservative cable giant’s wannabe TV competitors, however, have jumped on it.<\/p>\n

Over on One America News, the struggling pro-Trump conspiratorial channel that recently lost almost all of its cable and satellite providers, host Kara McKinney insisted that Lizzo twerking was a harbinger of the death of democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember last night when we talked about soft totalitarianism, which is what so-called liberal democracy actually is,\u201d McKinney asserted on Wednesday night. \u201cWell, keep that in mind as you watch Lizzo twerk in mockery of the Founding Fathers and their ideals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newsmax host Jenn Pellegrino, a former OAN host herself, demanded to know when there would be a \u201cseparation between entertainment and wokeness\u201d while an on-air graphic blared: \u201cSORRY, JAMES MADISON.\u201d<\/p>\n

Claiming that \u201ca lot of people are outraged,\u201d Pellegrino also argued that \u201cif you’re complicit in the liberal agenda\u201d then you will be \u201crewarded\u201d with an honor like playing Madison’s crystal flute. The Newsmax star then turned to her guest, Turning Point USA contributor Jon Root, who snarked that it was \u201cstunning and brave\u201d for an \u201cobese celebrity who thinks she oppressed twerking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n