Haikus: The New Political Medium

By Michelle Albert Political haikus Skewer talking heads to roast Pass barbecue sauce If you need an outlet for politically-based anger, want to flex your poetic muscles or just need a laugh, Haik U Glenn Beck could be the answer. The blog, supported by Jewish Funds for Justice and spearheaded by Mik Moore (co-founder of the 2008 Great Schlep), posts reader-submitted haikus in response to what they consider a particularly irksome quote by Beck, a conservative pundit with his own Fox Network television show. Jewish Funds for Justice, according to its website, is a public foundation that aims to combat causes of "domestic, economic and social injustice." The foundation started Haik U Glenn Beck with Moore to stress their idea that social justice can be used to bring people of all faiths and ideologies together and to refute Beck's belief that...

Continue reading