When That Hard Rain Comes…
…Gimme Shelter:
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(h/t DeLong).
This is another one of those “songs around the world” featured in the Playing for Change documentary. I got my first taste of this project with this little gem.
But I’m with DeLong on this one: I never thought this was a song to cover, given how thoroughly Mick and Keef and the rest own it. But I was wrong. And on a day within a run of days during which the worst among us seek to deny our connections to each other…well why not a little DFH musical open thread to throw in their shriveled, joyless faces?
Have at it, all.
Late Night Open Thread: Bad Moon
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Strange winds are loose upon our once proud nation. John Heilemann at New York magazine tries to gin up his media fellows’ flagging enthusiasm by asking “If Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann decide to run, who will notice the men?“:
… There is, however, precious little extant evidence that Palin thinks about the world this way. Which is to say, as other pols do. Which is to say, rationally. Palin operates instead on the basis of a confounding blend of instinct, caprice, and a defiant belief that she can prevail without paying heed to the stale orthodoxies or hoary customs that govern national politics. It is perfectly possible, I suspect, that she in fact saw her bus tour as a dry run for the kind of anarchocampaign that she would wage if she chooses to run—and I have no doubt that she saw the thing as nothing less than a smashing success.
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All of which brings us, by way of contrast, back to Bachmann. Unlike Palin’s, her approach to gearing up for a presidential run has been methodical, disciplined, and utterly conventional. She has visited key states, given policy speeches, seen the people you are supposed to see. And she has quietly been staffing up, hiring the sorts of top-flight operatives—most recently, the A-list pollster Ed Goeas, who worked for Rudy Giuliani in 2008 and until recently was lined up to do the same for Haley Barbour—that Washington considers badges of plausibility.
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It should go without saying that many people, especially those to the left of Jim DeMint, think that Bachmann is batshit crazy…
“Opinions differ”, as the cliche goes. And yet, outside of the circle of professional media jerks, the argument that Palin makes Bachmann look disciplined & professional, which can only be good news for John McCain the GOP’s general electoral prospects, suggests that fumes are being huffed, hopefully only in the metaphorical sense of a campaign engine running very low dry.
Much more entertaining (as long as you can avoid contemplating how many low-information voters he influences) is Gawker‘s John Cook explicating why “Roger Ailes Wants You to Throw A Rock Through His Window“:
Roger Ailes, the totally paranoid chairman of Fox News, called up Newsweek/The Daily Beast‘s Howard Kurtz over the weekend to fight back against some of the bad press he’s seen over the last couple weeks. Kurtz dutifully wrote down the things Ailes said irrespective of their truth value, and then published them online.
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Ailes seems to be reeling a bit from stories over the last couple weeks in New York magazine and Rolling Stone depicting him as a psychotic and deluded political operator desperately trying to find a suitable GOP presidential candidate to throw the full weight of Fox News Channel behind, so he sought out a friendlier forum in which to announce that he’s doing great!…
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Ailes also denied Rolling Stone’s report that he had blast-resistant glass installed in his office. His proof to Kurtz? “He invited me to throw a rock at the glass — and promised security would arrest me.” That settles it.
Yes. Yes, it does. Well, it was a good run, while it lasted…
Late Night Open Thread: You Kids, Off My Lawn Get
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Because I am old and ADD, I endorse Barney Frank’s insta-news stance, as reported by John Hudson on the Atlantic Wire:
I don’t get news on my phone. I don’t use Facebook or Twitter. I want substance. I’m not betting on stocks. I don’t deal in emergencies and I don’t know CPR. There’s enough possibility of misunderstanding as it is without 140 character tweets. Of course, when you’re talking about somebody getting shot, tweets have been good. But generally, I want more than you can get on a phone.
(ETA: Thanks to commentor Kdaug)
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Early Saturday Morning Open Thread
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Who’s got plans for the weekend?
Open Thread
Cleek reminded me yesterday about a local band called Muler. All proceeds from their current album go to a worth charity, and Bandcamp gives you a free listen, so if you’re interested, give it a shot. A lot of indy bands are using Bandcamp and I really like it. It lets you listen to a whole song (not a 30 second snippet), bands set their own prices, and Bandcamp takes a flat 15% of what the band sells. In other words, it’s fair. Here’s an open thread for a holiday weekend.
Open Thread (the bloghost is on the bottle edition)
Being a child of the 80’s, shit like this just happens after a couple drinks:
It sounds really good with tequila.
*** Update ***
Never let you down with the stereo sound:
Rooster:
I just love the Talking Heads, but what is it about this song that just makes it so likable:
And just like Kaiser Soze, he was gone. I have so much yardwork and gardening to do tomorrow, I have no idea what I was thinking staying up this late tonight. I guess it just had to be done.
Off to spoon Lily.
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