MEDIA LOSER: Kara McKinney Media figures have compared a number of public figures to former Italian leaders this week, as Italy elected its first far-right prime minister since Benito Mussolini and ... Lizzo played the flute? Yes, you read that correctly. While conservative media figures seem completely fine with Giorgia Meloni's victory, they've completely melted down because Lizzo played a crystal flute that belonged to James Madison during her concert this week. Lizzo, a classically trained flutist, made headlines for playing the 200-year-old flute during a D.C. concert, prompting some commentators to spiral on air. OAN host Kara McKinney went as far as to compare Lizzo's flute playing to Nero, the fifth emperor of Rome and the last of Rome's first dynasty, playing the fiddle while Rome burned in the year 64. “They say Nero watched as Rome burned in a devastating fire playing his fiddle as the events and morals played out below. Well now as America Burns, Lizzo plays a 200-year-old crystal flute that was lent to her by the Library of Congress. It originally belonged to founding Father James Madison, whose home was also being wokified as we speak,” McKinney began. McKinney was likely referencing news that the team that oversees Madison’s Virginia home, Montpelier, launched plans to build a national slavery monument on the grounds of the estate. “Remember how last night we talked about soft totalitarianism, which is what so-called liberal democracy actually is? Well, keep that in mind as you watch Lizzo twerk and mockery the Founding Fathers and their ideals. We are being colonized by leftist ideologues and they laugh in our faces as they do it,” she concluded. There are a lot of opinions about the playing of the flute. But it's safe to say comparing it to the madness and savage neglect the historic idiom entails is way over the top. |