where my Fitz at

Shorter Neil Young: “In your face, beeyatch!”

The funny thing about the interview is could have been perfectly cast in Neil’s Greendale.

I’m fitzing too! I just need to…..

I mean she could have been cast

There’s more important stuff to worry about than Fitzing.I’m just saying….

I don’t worry about Fitzing.

I wanted to be the first one on this post, I kept hitting refresh but Sharkbabe beat me to it.

I’ve seen the wingers and the damage done…

Forty freakin’ years. The dude was down here WORKING before babysan was even a gleam in her daddy’s eye. Where do they get these numbskulls?

OT:
Sorry if this is old news (been away a couple days), but Michelle Malkin’s got a brand new blog, one that accepts comments.

You can read them, anyway. To comment, you have to register with a user name and valid email address (a registration passcode will be sent to your address).

Registration period is limited, so hurry while comment slots last. Sign up here.

Canadians have less of a platform? STFU!

How about kettle…meet pot. Why did she interview him…publicity for CNN??? If he’s chasing attention then so is CNN. Can we trade her to Canada?

If that’s the degree of depth she brings, she might be better suited for a story on the pretty spring tulips.

more observations here:

http://www.thoughttheater.com

i watched that interview. it’s great! vargas makes a concerted effort to maintain that cherubic grin, all the while steaming inside bc young is systematically giving her the heisman on every offensive play she tries to pull out of her gucci purse.

I’m sure Sibila Vargas who questions a Canadian’s knowledge was very well informed about all the yellowcake in Iraq and voiced her opinion on how to handle that dire situation …

Thank God for Neil Young.

I can’t wait to hear this album…er CD. His lyrics (at his website) are fantastic. The song about the GIs missing their families is beautiful and the words to the title song kick ass. Please, everyone buy 2 when it comes out. Nothing would pisso ff the fascists more than to see it go right to number 1.

I read an interview with Neil in the Guardian when he was taking his Greendale tour to Europe. The word he kept using to describe the Bush Admin. was “immature”. I could tell something good was coming soon from “Shakey”.

This is going to be an historic CD. Thank goodness Neil was Mr. Cool with that interviewer. I would’ve lost it having to remind her what country we live in, sheesh!

VARGAS: I know that you`re also a Canadian, so people are going to talk about, well, you`re Canadian. I mean, does that give you less of a platform to say these things?

CAN ANY GROWN-UP HUMAN BEING ACTUALLY BE THIS VAPID!? JANE, TELL ME YOU’RE JUST MAKING THIS SHIT UP TO FUCK WITH OUR HEADS, PLEASE!!

AYIEEEEEGGGGGHHHHHH

Bullgoose: The title of that blog pretty much sums her up.

As for the OP, I wasn’t aware FOX News had spies in CNN.

Better questions for Neil Young:

Neil, when you heard “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyred for the first time, what were you thoughts?

Neil, in your song “After the Prelude” you wrote the words “look at Mother Nature on the run in the nineteen-seventies…” Would you say Mother Nature remains on the run?

Neil, if you had the chance to re-write “Heart of Gold” would you change that part about “growing old?”

I tried to watch the whole of that interview, but that snippy, prissy little @#$% got me so mad I couldn’t get through it all.
I thought NY was handling her real well, but I am still steaming!

bullgoose [re: malkin comments] – registration must already be full. pageload is dead. damn!

“Coyote’s staring a hole in his scrambled eggs”

(Joni, singing about Neil Y. on Hejira)

“Well, you’re a Canadian, so your opinion doesn’t really matter, does it? I mean, Canada doesn’t have nuclear weapons, now, does it?”

Together we can suck less!

Generals – check

artists – check
(neil young, flea from ‘Red Hot Chile Peppers, and grrrl Pink sings ‘Dear Mr. President’)

US population 60% neg JAR – check

DEMS?!

This is offtopic. Sorry. But it’s very important. We have a very important action alert:

GOP is telling Republican voters to ask for Democratic ballot

Republicans for Ferris Launched
A Note from the New Chair of Republicans for Ferris, Robert L. Brown

“As a long time Republican, I am asking you to vote for Barbara Anne Ferris, Democrat for Congress on Tuesday, May 2, 2006. When you go to the polls on May 2, 2006, our Primary Election Day, you will automatically be given a Republican Ballot – refuse it and ask for a Democrat Ballot.

Barbara Anne’s name will only appear on the Democratic Ballot, so please ask for a Democratic Ballot and vote for her.

Barbara Anne Ferris brings experienced leadership with a clear vision for the future of our area. Barbara Anne’s accomplishments on Capitol Hill and in over 100 countries around the world fostering economic development are what we need. She is our “Gateway to the World” and has a proven track record when it comes to creating jobs and building economies. Please join me, as a long time Republican, and vote for Barbara Anne Ferris on Tuesday, May 2, 2006.”

–Robert L. Brown, Esquire, Former Director, US Immigration and Naturalization Service

http://www.ferrisforcongress.com/detail.asp?ID=105

This is Kucinich’s district and he is facing a stealth candidate in the Democratic primary, Barbara Anne Ferris. Ferris has been endorsed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

http://www.democraticundergrou…..id=2588292

Also, I am in contact with people in Ohio who are asking for help running parallel elections. Please post if you would like to help run a parallel election in Ohio. The training is set to begin soon.

I don’t understand how they choose “reporters” for these celebrity interview shows. This woman seems to have no empathy, clearly has nowhere near the mind required, and isn’t all that attractive. She’s also just like most of the people I see on these things.

Meanwhile, I’m hoping that there will be an MP3 or Ogg file soon.

This is what happens when you staff the media with a bunch of former Class Treasurers and Student Council Presidents. You get a bunch of people who know nothing and will happily put every single idea into the inverted pyramid structure they were taught in J-school. It’s the only way they know how to think. You can tell this reporter has never heard of Neil Young in her life, but has trunks and boxes of Justin Timberlake remixes.

Sad.

Granted, she conducted a lame interview, and she should be embarrassed. On the other hand she was asking Neil Young to reply to the same lame crap I’ve been reading in some of the comments on this site and Crooks and Liars whenever an artist comes out with a piece of music that is critical of Bush or what Bush is responsible for. I’ve read commenters on these boards say the exact same crap that the interviewer was questioning Young about. So, still, bimboish? for sure, but a little bit of devil’s advocate could have been in play in her thinking.

Although, when I saw how she responded to the guy at the news desk when he stated that it was ridiculous to think that Young had spoken out on this record for the money, that really made me have to wonder where her heart was.

Sorry you anti-fitzers, can’t help meself.

Always surprised at my luck, w/pokey lil’ dialup no less!

While Lynard Skynyrd has been touring for 30 years on “Sweet Home Alabama”, Neil has put out about 25 records.

Sorry ya’ll… I dsagree:
She seems to be laying out the criticisms, to give him a chance to respond… and he knocks every one out of the park. If she didn’t ask him, he wouldn’t get the chance. It’s not hard-hitting, but it’s competent as an interview (even if I don’t like her [I don’t- unrelated]).

I DO agree that Neil Young is VERY impressive. The answer to the “pre/post 9/11 mindset” meme is unbelievably good… should have been a speechwriter, or at least dropped a dime.

Can’t wait to give him 10 bucks for the album.

Neil looks like he could have given her a new hairdo with that look. Punaise, you crack me up.

Where do they find these numbskulls?

On the set of Let’s Play Stain The Couch #29.

AND ‘Dixie Chicks’!!!

I’m seeing orders big on Amazon, and (?) iTunes, too.
—–
ps –> was this interview timed with the release of latest JAR?

Everythingseemsoneat
Well, yeah, but you gotta remember that Lynard Skynyrd is mostly dead, so you gotta cut em some slack.

Can we trade her to Canada?

Hey-Canada doesn’t deserve that!

She’s fucking Seymour Hersch with Botox…

Um, does this mean you have a beef with Sy Hersch, or does it mean that not only is she a bimbo with a mic, she’s an ugly bimbo with a mic? Just wanting clarification. I love this blog, by the way.

Personally, I frown on Global Thermonuclear War.

Today, a trickle, tomorrow a deluge?

Two big states begin impeachment proceedings using the obscure Rule 603 of Jefferson’s Manual. This rule allows impeachment proceedings in the House to be initiated by a state legislature.

The Illinois General Assembly joins a growing chorus of voices calling for censure or impeachment of President Bush including Democratic state committees in Vermont, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada and North Carolina as well as the residents themselves of seven towns in Vermont, seventy Vermont state legislators and Congressman John Conyers. The call for impeachment is starting to grow well beyond what could be considered a fringe movement.

http://www.opednews.com/articl…..nt___t.htm

And from California:

Joining Illinois, California has become the second state in which a proposal to impeach President Bush has been introduced in the state legislature. And this one includes Cheney as well.

http://www.opednews.com/articl…..omes_s.htm

So, what is Section 603 of Jefferson’s Manual?

The procedures which the House of Representatives follow in the impeachment process are governed by three sources: the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson’s Manual on Parliamentary Practice and Rules of the House of Representatives, and actual House impeachment precedents.

B. JEFFERSON’S MANUAL
According to Section 603 of Jefferson’s Manual, “there are various methods of setting an impeachment in motion”: 1) By charges made on the floor by a member of the House; 2) By charges preferred by a memorial filed by a House member; 3) By charges contained in a Resolution introduced by a House member; 4) By a message from the President; (5) By charges transmitted by a State legislature, or a grand jury; (6) By facts developed and reported by an investigating committee of the House.

http://www.inetresults.com/impeach/strategy.html

Who woulda thunk it?

Today a trickle, tomorrow a deluge?

Jane, Redd: Time for a thread on Rule 603?

Sharkbabe,I like to get in a good fitz too,but tonight I’ve got a issue on my mind,one brought up on this very blog and one seemingly important to us all.Yet here we are playing like kids in the comments box.
Sorry my axe to grind,carry on.

didn’t most of Lynard Skynard perish in a plane crash?

with Bush at 32% on the CNN poll, only 5 more points to go before he hits Alan Keyes (certifiably batshit crazy) 27% of the vote for Senator in Illinois. How soon then will it be before Keyes could skunk Bush in a GOP primary?

She’s fucking Seymour Hersch with Botox…

sounds painful for Seymour

trying to help @ 25…

Interesting! We just had the mayoral race Saturday in New Orleans. My boss is a rabid rethug. I checked the voicemail this morning to find a message from a local Republican asking them to vote for one of the Democratic candidates: Ron Forman

He is a classic DINO! He was a lifelong Republican until he decided to run for mayor in Democratic New Orleans! Luckily enough Dems called his bluff. We have two real Dems in the race now!

In any case I wonder if this may be part of a larger national strategy. Here the business people thought they could ordain the next mayor by backing Forman. Might similar groups in highly Democratic areas “put up or encourage” challenger Democrats to split the vote and give Rethugs a chance where they had none? I think we should watch for Rovian tricks since the Republicons are on the run.

Just thinking out loud really and there are so few posts that I can actually get a complete comment!

The ‘Mother Nature on the run..” quote is ‘After the Gold Rush’. (just for the ‘record’)

she was asking Neil Young to reply to the same lame crap I’ve been reading in some of the comments on this site and Crooks and Liars whenever an artist comes out with a piece of music that is critical of Bush or what Bush is responsible for. I’ve read commenters on these boards say the exact same crap that the interviewer was questioning Young about.

???????

Come on, Kitt. I know the silly fitz thing grates on your nerves – but seriously, wtf are you talking about?

Just to emphasize what Kitt said above. The final words spoken by the host were something to the effect of “Anyone who thinks Young is doing this for money or exposure is just stupid”. He was pretty much calling the interviewer on her shit, but I don’t know if anyone noticed.

Slothrop,Neil became good friends with Lynard Skynard later. Look at the cover of Skynards 4th album and one band member has a Neil Young T-shirt on.

I get real sick of these supposed liberals trying to poke holes in Mr. Youngs sincerity. Like saying he was a Reagan supporter because he bit some guys head off one time for blaming all his problems on Ronnie or because he recorded “Lets Roll” as a tribute to the people killed on 9/11. Hell, for writing “Ohio” he should be greeted with praise for life. Do a little research instead of searching for some small moment in his life where he was hypocritical or not idealogically pure.

Keep on rockin in the (barely) free world, Neil.

I’m starting to think President Bush has a tendency to fabricate.

Neil Young: My man. A real warrior. I saw him perform solo in Sacramento and with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young so many years ago in my California formative years. Some things never change. Like real courage. This is what an actual Progressive looks like! Look at that face boys and girls. This IS, the real deal. Mr. Young shall forever be young.

Did you guys not watch the end of the video when the male model in the studio calls her on the “doing it to increase sales” bullshit? Watch the last 20 sec of the clip — and look at how she reacts. Jeez.

Neil, when you were doing acid every night in the lates 60’s and early 70’s, did you ever feel as if the very notion of boundaries such as “America” and “Canada” was a bogus construction of the deluded mind?

Neil Young: Heart of Gold
If you get a chance go see Jon. Demme’s new documentary shot during a two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Filmed a week before Young was going to have an operation on a brain aneurysm that could have gone bad. The movie and concert is a loving, sentimental and musically brilliant tribute to the people and times in his life.
No impeachment songs, but the track “When God made me†clearly leaves room for all believers, and sanctions vision, truth and compassion in religion…several beautiful warm songs remembering his life and advancing his musical art..
@#$ these media wh0res that don’t get it.
Get the album “Prairie Wind†if you like his music.
We need artists like Young to help us find the truth.

By way of Raw Story:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/M…..5Ak02.html

Tehran insider tells of US black ops
By an Asia Times Online Special Correspondent

TEHRAN – A former Iranian ambassador and Islamic Republic insider has provided intriguing details to Asia Times Online about US covert operations inside Iran aimed at destabilizing the country and toppling the regime – or preparing for an American attack.

“The Iranian government knows and is aware of such infiltration. It means that the Iranian government has identified them [the covert operatives] but for some reason does not want to show [this],” said the former diplomat on condition of anonymity.

(snip)

“I’m starting to think President Bush has a tendency to FABRICate.” — could where FDL finds all these ‘threads’ laying around…

Dixie Chicks got guts!

Not to mention the Bridge School benefit concerts he does in the Bay Area every year to raise $ for the school he and his wife helped found for severely handicapped children, including their own. He brings in some major talent every year.

Sharkbabe#45
“???????

Come on, Kitt. I know the silly fitz thing grates on your nerves – but seriously, wtf are you talking about?
–Sharkbabe”
______________

Maybe if you weren’t so hung up on your fitz thing towards me you might understand WTF I was talking about. Read any one of the comments boards on here or Crooks and Liars that are about the Dixie chicks, or Merle Haggard or Neil Young or Pink or maybe some others that I’m forgetting. You will see in those comments boards, Sharkbabe, people who pipe in with the exact same bullshit that Vargas was asking Young about. Most of us on these boards know that it’s lame rightwing, ignorant nonsense.

So, as some one else a few posts up from me pointed out, the lady actually gave Young an opportunity to respond to what a lot of disagreeable people have been saying or asking of him and the other musicians that I mentioned.

That’s WTF I was talking about.

Nice to hear Neil Young say what he thinks. I don’t know what the interview really thinks, and don’t particularly care. She asked some questions, and he gave great answers, and she let him talk. So, good interview, IMO. Chill.

I never met Young, although I know people who know people who know ol’ Neil.

Without knowing much else, I’d be willing to bet Young immediately dug Sweet Home, both for the great song it is, in general, and the reference to himself, in particular.

He was born ornery, and respects that quality in honest people. Which is why he (apparently) holds GW Bush in such contempt. You can’t be legitimately ornery with the silver spoon you sup with stuck up your ass between meals. Or something like that…

I meant “interview-er” why do I catch those things a split second after I click?

Sounds like Sibila Vargas had no idea who she was talking to. She was so ready with that UNPATRIOTIC” bs…….I love what he said about the 911 mentality. He said I have a 911 mentality but it is different from George Bush’s.

I wonder if she will pin this interview on her “I love me wall?”

Whoa, Kitt, Sharkbabe! You kids play nice.

Stop the violence! We’re all in the same gang!

DMM – sorry but if I couldn’t play a little I’d kill myself :)

I haven’t been keeping up with the Daily Show much but did see Neil there a couple weeks ago – I think he was promoting his concert movie – he was really low-key charming and cool.

(Boy am I old – made me think back to high school and skipping with my pals and getting stoned and listening to “If I Could Have Her Tonight”)

Neil handled Sibila Vargas. She even got slapped at the end of the interview by A.J. Hammer.

(Boy am I old – made me think back to high school and skipping with my pals and getting stoned and listening to “If I Could Have Her Tonightâ€)

Old? Dude, I did that yesterday. Without the getting high part.

Check out the ending of the clip:

Male host: “Anyone who thinks Neil Young is doing this for publicity or to sell records, I think *that’s* ridiculous.”

Vargas: “Hmm”

Slapped down by Neil Young and her co-host all in the course of one interview. A bad day for our little Ms. Vargas.

The last 20 seconds are priceless. The desk jockey comment translates as God you’re ignorant, and she knows it.

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

7/14/06 Winnipeg, MB: MTS Center
7/25/06 Concord, CA: Chronicle Pavilion
7/27/06 Seattle, WA: White River Amphitheater
7/28/06 Portland, OR: Clark County Amphitheater
8/12/06 Washington, DC: Nissan Pavilion
8/20/06 Holmdel, NJ: PNC Bank Arts Center
8/22/06 Wantagh, NY: Jones Beach
8/31/06 Detroit, MI: Palace at Auburn Hills
Still together after all these years.

http://www.csny.net/

…and I’m gettin’ old, lookin’ for that pot ‘o gold.

I just keep looking at stuff

I just got back from a Deval Patrick (Dem. candidate for Gov. in Mass.) gig near Boston. It was very interesting — everything he said is pretty much what we all say. Leadership is about ideals and chracter, dedcision making is a process of becoming deeply informed and then choosing, public education is the most important investment a state can make….

But the most interesting part of the evening was a discussion about Rev. William Sloane Coffin who was a family friend of the hosts. At one point my friend (the host) said, “Everyone was always attacking him for his anti-war stance and his preaching against corporate homogenization, but what they sang at his memorial service was patriotic songs — America the Beautiful, God Bless America — things like that. Bill was a patriot who opposed policy.”

That is how I think of you all: Patriots who oppose policies.

Peace out.

There was a good Neil Young interview on Fresh Air a while back.

damn, when aj hammer gets the upper hand, you’ve really outlived your usefulness…

she had no fucking clue who he was .. somebody’d handed her a bunch of questions (actually commentary) and sent the little chippy off

Thanks for this comment on the clip, Jane. Anyone who has followed Neil Young’s career KNOWS he doesn’t do records for sales. He earns a nice living and has done so for quite a while; more power to him. That’s bought him the freedom to make the records he wants to make, say what he wants to say. Remember his go-round with Geffen in the early ’80’s? He did a country record (”Old Ways”), with fiddles, banjos, mandolins and such. Geffen thought he was getting a bunch of high-penetration crazy Horse records, not something with so little marketability. So he sued!

I was a bit disappointed with Neil when he came out for Reagan. But Neil Young is the real deal, and says just what he thinks.

And the dude slapping the knuckleheaded botox bimbo was priceless!

Thanks again, Jane! I’m a big fan.

anybody seen norske or crc? anyway my philosophical question of the night is why does God create a world where we love our children more than life itself and then rip our hearts out when they grow up and get married and move away why

Sorry, but these tv idiots annoy me to death. Which is why I never watch them. If it weren’t for blogs, I’d be in blissful ignorance of em completely!

Note to self – don’t bait individuals wrt their particular perceptions, which even if I don’t get are as valid as my own. Apologies Kitt, & peace.

egregious,

Good wedding, huh?

My Dad had the answer to your question:

“We raise up sticks so they may beat us.”

Note to self – don’t bait individuals wrt their particular perceptions, which even if I don’t get are as valid as my own. Apologies Kitt, & peace.
–Sharkbabe

I don’t understand your comment, Sharkbabe. I still don’t think you understood what I was talking about. It doesn’t have anything to do with a “perception”. I was stating a fact.

Tony Snow, for fuck’s sake. Anyone know if I can conscientiously object to having any of my tax dollars go toward paying his salary?

# 18 Christopher Higgins

They’re everywhere. Spies and tellers of spies. Shhhhhhh…

# 21 sedrunsic

There’s a notice in the HotAir registration window about AOL users. Could that be the problem? If not, keep trying. The reg. isn’t full yet.
I had no trouble registering, but the emailed login doesn’t work yet.

54: “There has been a marked spike in unrest in Kurdistan, Khuzestan and Balochistan, three of Iran’s provinces with a high concentration of ethnic Kurdish, Arab and Balochi minorities respectively.”
Heads up, folks. While this Vargas girl does the airhead thing, we got some noise on the trip wire. Regime change? That’s what the WH wants…so what’s their plan??? And if splintering takes place among factions….any of this sound familiar?
Vargas is a gal I’d…you know. But we just got a little kajingle out on the trip wire.
Ghostman

dude:
http://www.times-standard.com/local/ci_3739230

â€I know Dick Cheney’s Secret Service guys smoke pot,†Chong said. “The reason I know that is I sold them bongs.â€

This is simply the most encouraging thing I’ve ever read about BushCo.

Sorry of Off Topic post… interesting article on attitudes in Iran. I wonder where there are good sources for reporting from Iran. (Besides Juan Cole, not that I have anything against him, but he is more of a news interpreter rather than a reporter.)

Western pressure irks average Iranians By Angus McDowall, Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Apr 24, 4:00 AM ET

TEHRAN, IRAN – Kaveh Ahmadi, a taxi driver and veteran of the 1980-88 war with Iraq, was quivering with indignation as he wove his aging Iranian-made Paykan at high speed through the heavy evening traffic of Iran’s capital, Tehran. An ad on the side of the road read “Nuclear energy is our indisputable right,” a slogan now seen frequently on television and at public events.

“I’ve got two Iraqi bullets in my leg,” he says. “It was Western countries that supported [ Saddam Hussein] when he used chemical weapons against us. Now they destroy Iraq and lecture us on human rights. America killed more than a hundred thousand people when it dropped atomic bombs on Japan, but they won’t even let us have nuclear energy.”

…The threat of Western sanctions or military action has worried some here. Others say the government uses it to divert attention away from economic woes. Still, Western pressure for the most part has inspired widespread anger and defiance.

“I can’t see why others in the world can benefit from the use of nuclear energy but we shouldn’t,” says Hasan Mesbahi, a retired government employee. “If there is a military attack or sanctions, we should resist, defend ourselves, and put up with hardship.”

He was speaking in the Ekbatan neighborhood near the airport in the west of Tehran… Because people from many different social classes and backgrounds live there it is a good place to test opinion in a country where polling is infrequent and often inaccurate.

“It is very difficult to gauge if there is any opposition to the nuclear program,” says Sadegh Zibakalam, professor of political science at Tehran University. “But all the indicators are that many people, including those who oppose the Islamic regime, tend to support the program. In a sense it has become an emotive nationalistic issue for Iranians like supporting their football team. Western opposition has actually benefited the hard-liners here.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20…..m/ojitters

I suppose someone has pointed out that Tony Snow is a former substitute host for Rush Limbaugh?
http://www.klif.com/host-snow.html

fav neil young song:

Old man take a look at my life
I’m a lot like you
I need someone to love me
the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes
and you can tell that’s true.

I’ve always enjoyed Neil Young’s music, and I’m glad he is getting his message out with Living with War. Vargas, I think, was just happy to get a street interview, regardless of her vacuous questions. I’d suggest that *all* tabloid style “news” programs have the same 5th grade level of questions, and Neil smacked her down repeatedly, answering her with heart and plain sincerity.

America has been dumbed down for over twenty years in regards to television “news”. For which I am eternally grateful for the internet.

egregious, 75:”why does God create a world where we love our children more than life itself and then rip our hearts out when they grow up and get married and move away why?”

Life has no choice but to try to perpetuate itself. Children are the vehicle for doing this. It has very little to do with how you feel about it. Sounds cruel doesn’t it? You bet.

Anyway, I’m with you. I have two married daughters, 3 grandkids.

lina #85

i concur

Neil Young=integrity.

The new album will be streaming (for free) from his website starting this Friday/28th.

http://www.neilyoung.com/

Long may you run, Neil.

Nos. 28 and 47: what I took away from the interview is that this is indeed a “monosyllabic hairsprayed ding dong” (Jane… if you rocked any harder, you’d break all known seismographs!! That was just a goddamned museum piece, ROFLMFAO!).

Ms. Vargas has no real political convictions, because, like so many young bubbleheaded media careerists, she’s “not INTO politics”. Sadly, she owns no… um, what’s his name again, Neil Young?.. CD’s, either. Say, what a combination.

So she asks him the MSM-friendly questions about whether he thinks his songs are treasonous, that her producer pipes into her IFB, and thanks Neil gushily after she insults his intelligence.

Anchor is somewhat more intellectually equipped, AND aware of who Neil Young is and what he means to popular culture. Stunned for a second, he reacts by saying, essentially, “You dumb twat! Could you have MADE a stupider statement, on live international television?!?”

Watch her reaction to that. Blank. “Linda” character on “Becker”. Didn’t even realize she was being dissed by her screen partner. “Uh-huh.”

I tell you, that anchor went out and knocked back a few after the broadcast, and asked the beertender, “How the FUCK did I get into this racket?” Precious.

cinnamon girl.

‘nuf said.

“She rides a Harley Davidson…”

Maybe they hired Tony Snow because he doesn’t have a colon. He can just walk into the Breifing Room and empty his colostomy bag all over the waiting Press Corps. They’ll get much the same result as they did with Scotty McClellan in half the time!

Now THAT’S progress.

only love can break your heart

Southern Pacific

More nuf said ; )

http://www.lyricsdomain.com/14…..cific.html

hey everyone,

44 MsAnnaNOLA – is it ok to ask who a progressive New Orleanian such as yourself voted for ?

AAH punaise – just played the live version of ‘Coyote’ today – serious cult music

fave Neil Young – Long May You Run

and what’s with all this Tony Snow talk ? did they make it official ?

MsAnnaNOLA says:

April 24th, 2006 at 7:03 pm

Yes, exactly! But we have to utilize the powerful progressive blogs to stop this. That’s why I posted here. I hope that all of you can garner support at Kos and C&L etc…

Does Tony Snow really not have a colon?

cbl: cnn is reporting that tony snow is “likely” to accept the WH offer for beam me up’s job

Canada has given the world some serious musical gifts – Neil, St. Joni, Leonard Cohen, Jane Siberry, k.d. lang, etc…

Thanks Canada!

Found this E&P article a while back- never posted the link- but my first news about the NY album. Never knew before about NY’s dad. (Also just found related link).

http://www.editorandpublisher……1002344436
===Neil Young, Son of Famed Reporter, Records “Impeach the President” Song
NEW YORK As an E&P “Pressing Issues” column recently noted, rock star Neil Young is the son of a famed Canadian journalist, so it should not surprise many that he recently recorded a song in California with a very reportorial — or at least pundit — feel to it. ===

http://www.editorandpublisher……1002312625 ===Neil Young and Dad: Writin’ in the Free World
–Before specializing in sports, he covered World War II from London for The Canadian Press wire service, as well as the Kennedy assassination. He frequently appeared on the “Hockey Night in Canada” Saturday night telecasts, which I rarely missed growing up just across the border in Niagara Falls, N.Y. So I probably watched Neil’s father before I ever heard or heard of his son. (Given this hockey connection, it’s surprising Neil didn’t title one of his greatest songs, “Hello Cowgirl in the Stands.”)

And how about this: Scott Young gave up his newspaper career in the early 1980s, dismayed by what he saw as a bad trend in the journalistic profession — the use of “unnamed sources.” So, like his son, he was a bit ahead of his time.

When his father died last year, Neil said that he had learned from his father, “The most vivid way to get an idea across was to lay oneself bare in the knowledge that others would identify with the bareness, the sometimes painful truth.” One of his most haunting songs begins, “Old man, look at my life, I’m a lot like you were,” although reputedly inspired by another older fellow.===

For Cozumel:

Powderfinger
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/n/neil-young/99320.html

Cortez The Killer
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics…..iller.html

enough already :~)

As a proud Canadian, descended from proud Americans, who has lived and worked in the U.S. and would do so again if the circumstances were right…I find the jingofied argument that ‘non-Americans have a reduced weight of opinion on matters involving American acts in the global theatre, due to their reduced American-ness’ not only specious in the extreme but offensively paternalistic, also.
Anyone holding such sentiment is free to take a spinning ride on their own thumb ’til they can’t spin no more.

Still, such isolationism carrying ignorance’s water should be expected from those who “just have to look good, and don’t have to be clear”.

helpless helpless helpless helpless

Jane, I think you’ve gone over the line on this one. She asks good questions. Then she gives him a lot of time to answer them. At one point, she says that she spoke to people who were among the crowd that he said gave him a standing ovation. She says “they said it was very emotional, an emotional rideâ€, acknowledging the strong feelings he taps into.

This is a good interview. She doesn’t agree with him, but the only time I became sure of that was in her reaction to the host backing him up. This is just professional journalism. I think you need to cut her a break.

Another hard-hitting interview of Rummy, ;) on Faux “News” light, or Propaganda R/US

Clicky

Professional journalism my ass

darkblack 102 – EXCELLENTLY said and needed saying!

Help please- somehow this lyric just came to mind- probably not quite correct- is it NY related? -Stop please what’s that sound everybody look what’s comin down– I just am baffled as to why this suddenly came into my mind.

HA HA HA HA
She gotthe smack down from neil AND her pretty boy anchor…Loser!

Clusterfuck has now butchered 2600 troops in Iraq.

VG

Buffalo Springfield — Somethin’s happen here, what it is ain’t exactly clear….

Someone should tell her not to snort the BOTOX. It makes you look and talk like an idiot.

Sigh. And to the person who posted something saying the Illinois legislature begins impeachment proceedings, don’t I wish! But alas, the Illinois legislature, with both sides controlled by Democrats, hasn’t even decided whether to discuss the impeachment resolution.

(Which is sponsored by my parents’ State Rep Karen Yarbrough! Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, who once was a fundraiser for my boss among others!and a rep I don’t know from downstate, Eddie Washington.)

KIRKUK, Iraq — Hundreds of Shiite Muslim militiamen have deployed in recent weeks to this restive city — widely considered the most likely flash point for an Iraqi civil war — vowing to fight any attempt to shift control over Kirkuk to the Kurdish-governed north, according to U.S. commanders and diplomats, local police and politicians.

Until recently, the presence of the militias here was minimal. U.S. officials have called the Shiite armed groups the deadliest threat to security in much of the country. They have been blamed for hundreds of killings amid mounting sectarian violence in central and southern Iraq since the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in February.

WP

Whoops- I’d call this a turn for the worse.

The kurds- by the way- are sunnis.

VG 111

song title “For What It’s Worth”

thought that was Stills song (in Buffalo Spfld)

I wish to revise and extend my earlier remark at #106…heh

heres some info about professional journalism

http://www.spj.org/ethics_code.asp

Breaking on Rawstory:

CNN says White House offers press job to Fox host

Geez, I’d forgotten. Young did endorse Reagan, didn’t he?

Well, I once thought Bill Walsh was making a BIG mistake benching Steve DeBerg and starting Joe Montana.

Still… Reagan?

OK. Right. That’s why pencils have erasers.

Dues time, Neil. So far, so good.

imm- thanks! Now I’ve gotta figure out where the connection came from…

And, one upside to this- at least I didn’t have to watch Katie Couric interview Neil Young.

VG – Stills song – lyrics here:

http://people.clarkson.edu/~wi…..ffalo.html

I sing it in my head often – all too often

you people dissing neil for liking lynnard skynnard, etc:
he’s been in the public eye for something like forty years. neil also wrote “southern man” which takes on racism and hatred head on. like whitman said “i embrace multitudes…” “do i contradict myself?” etc.
another pertinent thought by emmerson: “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”
neil doesn’t worry about ideological uniformity. he writes what comes to the surface of his consciousness. he’s not consistently at the top of his form but i dare you to name a single song that is more passionate and true than “ohio”. that song was so radioactive AM radio refused to play it! and this was in the days before Clear Channel and it’s inane, lockstep clones started dominating the airwaves.

VG,

Steven Stills = Buffalo Springfield as in Crosby, Stills, Nash and (Neil) Young

Connection complete. There is some story about Stills or Young driving a hearse in LA when they met. Too tired to remember/check it out.

Gotta go til domani.

Neil Young has been noted throughout his career for opportunistic musical shifts in direction like Reactor, Old Ways, Rust Never Sleeps and Greensdale.

Seriously, without seeing the interview, I would guess Sylvia was ill-prepared indeed.
Neil, being the gentleman he is, didn’t gnaw all the flesh from her bones; he’s saving that for his next solo.

BK #115- thanks too- maybe recorded by CSNY? I am shocked! (seriously) at the weird twists of memory.

fahrender 121
Walk On

fahrender,

Sweet Home is a response to Southern Man

Valleygirl#119
mm- thanks! Now I’ve gotta figure out where the connection came from…
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Buffalo Springfeild, which consisted of Neil Young and Stephen Stills wrote the song about war resistance in the 70’s. “Battle lines being drawn. Paranoia strikes deep.
And so on. The title of it is “For What it’s Worth”.

VG, 108:”I just am baffled as to why this suddenly came into my mind.”

Neil Young was a member of Buffalo Springfield, who had their first big hit with that song, “For What It’s Worth.” Your memory went into overdrive and came up with it because of this thread. Feel better?

bonzarella 82

not pot — Afghanni HASH

To this day I can’t hear “Ohio” without getting chills and tears in my eyes.

darkblack — i wish i could be a canadian, but i can’t survive in the cold.

Suin- thanks for the lyrics- I see now why googling didn’t help me when I first tried- almost right, but not quite.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb….._4-24.html

RAY MCGOVERN: We’re not talking about petty crimes or misdemeanors; we’re talking about war crimes. She was cognizant of war crimes. She needed to do something about that, from a moral and a legal perspective. And she chose this way to do it, because the other ways were blocked for her.

Neil Young is very articulate and unflappable. Can we get a frikkin candidate like that? Also, I love it when the main host comes back and the end and not-so-subtly disses the crap out of the bimbo interviewer.

immanentize @ 122:

Bruce Palmer and Young had just driven Young’s hearse into L.A. in ‘66 when they spied Stills going the other way on Sunset.
Young knew Stills from when they had played folk/teen clubs in Ontario on the same bills, and Young was looking to make the hookup again, which happened totally by chance…And thus, the Buffalo Springfield was born.

‘Long may you run’

;>)

I could care less that he’s Canadian. CNN must have aquired Ms. Vargas in the Glen Beck trade….

Easy Ms. Hamsher. Of course she’s an idiot but shit.

>Sweet Home is a response to Southern Man

What about NY’s Alabama. It came after Southern Man, but was it also after Sweet Home Alabama?

Musically I think Young’s song Alabama is the best of the three.

mack,

opportunistic, ummmm, maybe but i think in part just a restless mind that didn’t want to go stale. in that way i think neil is similar to dylan. people really freaked when he went electric nad then took off in different religious directions……..

Lina @ 131:

‘Cold igloos, warm hearts’…It’s a state of mind (north of Minnesota)

;>)

OJS #128 Your memory went into overdrive and came up with it because of this thread. Feel better?

OJS- thanks. I am so glad it was reality-based. But, still, very weird experience for me, as I have never been a music geek (no offense, Sharkbabe). Just the other day I had a conversation with a friend who is an amateur musican / conductor wherein he said that musical memory is completely different from other kinds of memory in his experience. My first data point.

Sweet Home Massabama – god what a piece of crap & such cheap rhymes – the bane of every cover band including my own

lina @ 131

i wish i could be a canadian, but i can’t survive in the cold.

Don’t worry about the cold. It’s actually quite warm in our igloos, especially once we bundle together in our furs. Quite cozy, in fact.

Tonight’s the Night.

Best Neil Young album ever.

I’m sure many disagree.

What was the name of the one that came out around 1977, with a song called “Hurricane” and another one about a salmon swimming upstream? I really liked it. It’s packed away somewhere with all my old LPs in my garage attic. Don’t have a turntable anymore.

I enjoyed the interview. He handled it well.

Sharbabe#99: You forgot THE BAND, and that’s a sin.

inman,

I saw CS&N (before Young) at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco – November 15, 1969. Moratorium Against The War (the other one) ; )

fahrender
that was a tad of sarcasm
those albums were all comercial disasters, a habit he has repeated throught the years
i’m a big fan – and cannot wait for the new album, which by the way has taken his record company by surprise,
they haven’t really gotten to promote Prairie Wind, a beautifully accessable follow-up to the virtually incomprehensable Greensdale experience
typical neil
and let us not forget the Sonic excursion that was Weld
heh heh heh

Troll

VG 108
Here’s a link to the song lyrics.
http://people.clarkson.edu/~wi…..ffalo.html

Free Bird!

Wow, now I’m thinkin about “Broken Arrow” – and Stills’ “Bluebird” – and –

time for bed

Sleeps with Angels
indeed

Nite all

You forgot THE BAND, and that’s a sin.

Holy crap! My EXTREME bad!!!

Bionic — I love Nelson, B.C.

So, on the music thing- and speaking with no authority whatsoever… and seemingly unrelated… but before things got so bad (pre BushCo.) I remember discussions (where? don’t know) about why Boomers felt that they were the center of the universe, even moving into middle age. My answer? It’s the music, stupid.

This choice of Tony Snow looks like the Bush folks are going into the bunker for God’s sake.

A half an hour of tooling the net should bring a pool of the verbal vomit that “Rush Limbaughs’ Replacement” has spewn for the last decade.

Guess Bush is trying to ride the tiger to see how low he can go before getting his poll numbers out of the rat infested dumpster.

-GSD

GSD- any thoughts about where the “idea” came from to hire Tony Snow?

Re Snow: there can’t be a very large pool of candidates who would want that job right now.

eh? (for the Canadians)

Sharkbabe! I am so glad you repented of your BAND diss … I was worried there for a moment.

KD Lang and Robbie Robertson – talk about hot canadians … oh my!

hugh hewitt on colbert!

VG 155

Indeed.

But, curiously, that phrase netifies to shorthand:

ITMS.

BAH HA HA

This reminds me of the time some mindless American news person questioned Bob Marley about rasta men having a “bad reputation”, the dreads – alla dat.

At first he was just answering trying to educate…then he stops at one point and you can tell he just can’t believe what he is hearing. He can’t believe in someone who is not willing to learn.

Read that.

valley……….

yes, musical memory be different all right. it’s been used to stimulate the minds of alzheimer victims in a very heartwarming way.

olfactory memory is another. you go some place and smell some odor or fragrance that you haven’t smelled in a long time and it will evoke related memories. some times when this happens to people they have no idea as to why they suddenly are having a particular memory come to mind.

I love Buffalo Springfield, CSN&Y, and Mr. Young and will listen til the end of time…

I on the other hand, dislike Mr. Snow and am glad he survived cancer and that’s about it…
from wiki, a most telling little excerpt from the decider’s new mouthpiece:
>>>>>>

I’m a commander in the right wing coup

I love the claim most recently initiated by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and picked up by former vice president Al Gore that right-wingers are controlling the media.

I’ve got a unique perspective on the controversy, because I’ve worked with all the major players in the purported coup.

I came to Washington 15 years ago as editorial page editor of the Washington Times, worked in the first Bush White House, spent five or six years as the principle substitute host for Rush Limbaugh, and now have the privilege of working for Fox News. I can tell you with perfect assurance that Messrs. Gore and Daschle have a bad case of the fevers, and they know it.

Let’s be practical: In our business, we thrive when we tell you things you didn’t know and need to. If we spout party lines or distort the facts, people will catch on and we’ll fail.

The so-called mainstream press has become a trickling tributary because its practitioners have gotten lazy.

But they’ll snap out of it — and when they do — they, and we, will be stronger for it.
>>>>
as Christy would say, blergh.

Well, he is a media insider of longstanding, but if seems amazing to me that with the walls closing in that they would hire Rush Limbaughs Ass Cyst to help stabilize things.

I mean, the base may need some propping up, but, my God. Yony Snow? That pretty much thumbs the 68% percent of the nation that has dropped the cups of Kool-Aid and are running away from the temple.

The politically astute decisions are no longer being made….It makes me fearful.

Reading about the ongoing agitation in Iran is making me even more so. That whole region is like a Coke can stuffed in a microwave with the seconds ticking away.

The Apocalypse Presidency marches onward.

-GSD

How many more?

lina

Just an FYI wrt the correct usage of eh.

It’s part of the actual sentence, rising intonation at the end, so it is also like a question, eh?

So your sentence should be, in order for us Canucks to understand:

Re Snow: there can’t be a very large pool of candidates who would want that job right now, eh?

And now I understand you, I agree, eh?

*g*

Angie, are those actually his words and not a distillation?

Whoofah.

-GSD

bionic:

roger

Ba haha
Even the guy back at the studio gets in on it. And what he says is true, its great to hear Neil Young speak – and nobody with half a brain is going to get in the way of someone who can speak well.

Heck talk about backlash the guy wrote “Southern Man” like 20 years ago, and “Ohio”.

Buffalo Springfeild, which consisted of Neil Young and Stephen Stills wrote the song about war resistance in the 70’s. “Battle lines being drawn. Paranoia strikes deep.
And so on. The title of it is “For What it’s Worthâ€.

Hate to bust on this, but FWIW was written and recorded back in 1967, and it was about the riots caused by the shutdown of Pandora’s Box, a Sunset Strip rock club.

You may be confusing FWIW with CNSY’s “Ohio”, which was indeed written literally immediately after the National Guard’s massacre of protestors at Kent State.

Yes GSD, his own words– here’s the original article– barf.

http://www.jewishworldreview.c…..120502.asp

Cozumel: I was at the Polo Field that November in ‘69, fighting for my (as-yet-still-too young) ass not to get shipped to Vietnam. Do you remember what Young sang that day? I can remember the weather (overcast), but not much else. The newly released ‘Come Together’ blared before people started blabbing, and I seem to recall Tim Leary haranguing the 100,000 strong crowd. But, for the life of me, I don’t recall Young, or what he performed that day.

I know that we are talking about Neil Young but did any of you see this article?
Bush Says He Tried to Avoid War ‘To The Max,’ Explains How God Shapes His Foreign Policy

By E&P Staff

Published: April 24, 2006 4:45 PM ET

NEW YORK President Bush today said he had tried to avoid war with Iraq “diplomatically to the max.”

Speaking to a business group in Irvine, Ca., he admitted mistakes were made in planning for the Iraq invasion, but he defended the troop level, saying “it was the troop level necessary to do the job,” and he would commit the same number if given a second chance.

The remarks came as another former general joined seven others who in recent days have called for the resignation of Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, saying he had mismanaged the planning and execution of the war.

Bush also explained, in unusually stark terms, how his belief in God influences his foreign policy. “I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true,” he said. “One, I believe there’s an Almighty. And, secondly, I believe one of the great gifts of the Almighty is the desire in everybody’s soul, regardless of what you look like or where you live, to be free.

“I believe liberty is universal. I believe people want to be free. And I know that democracies do not war with each other.”

A new CNN poll released today shows Bush with his lowest approval rating in any poll so far, at 32%.

Taking questions from members of the Orange County Business Council, Bush said the United States erred in attempting large reconstruction projects soon after the invasion was completed. This “didn’t make any sense,” he said, because they “became convenient targets for the enemy.”

Bush said he’d sat in a California church on Sunday near a mother and stepfather grieving for their son who had been killed in Iraq. “I also want to let you know that before you commit troops that you must do everything that you can to solve the problem diplomatically,” he commented. “And I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq, knowing what I know today.”

One decision he questions: After the successful invasion, “preparing an Iraqi army for an external threat. Well, it turns out there may have been an external threat but it’s nothing compared to the internal threat.” He did not explain what external threat the Iraqis were being trained for.

In his remarks, the president repeatedly referred to the need to stay in Iraq to deny terrorists a “safe haven.” He asserted, according to the White House transcript that, “Iraq has — had weapons of mass destruction and has the knowledge as to how to produce weapons of mass destruction.” He also said that our enemies “know, and it doesn’t take much to realize, that when you put carnage on our TV screens, it causes us to weep.”

He also said: “It’s not easy work, by the way, to go from tyranny to democracy. We had kind of a round go ourself, if you look back at our history. My Secretary of State’s relatives were enslaved in the United States even though we had a Constitution that said all were — that believed in the dignity, or at least proclaimed to believe in the dignity of all. The Articles of Confederation wasn’t exactly a real smooth start for our government to begin. And what you’re watching on your TV screens is a new democracy emerging.”

E&P Staff (letters@editorandpublisher.com)

Links referenced within this article

Jane, amazing use of video on the site. Just a-mazing. This must have taken huge effort for you to move from implementing Blogger (up to a few weeks ago)l, then moving to WordPress, and now to supporting video on the blog.

I thank you! I hope it’s the first of many multimedia-enriched posts. Wow.

Nothing like watching Young’s calm, reasonable demeanor to underscore that the babe-ette is in over her head by miles. Good thing the anchor guy made clear that SOMEONE on that program knows Young’s iconic status.

Kudos Jane, and thanks again. You’re providing an incredible resource here. And it just gets better and better.

Hope you have a good, long walk with the dogs. You deserve it.

“I feel I tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max…” -bush

Oh, like deciding to go to war no matter what, before you had the intelligence to support such a decision? Telling the CIA to only give you intelligence that supported war? Ignoring anything to the contrary? Then lying about it to Congress and the people?

To the max, indeed.

cbl at 95

I had a really hard time deciding. I decided about an hour before I went to vote. I really think Nagin has gotten a bad rap since Katrina. (many reasons but comments are really slow now.) I ended up with Mitch Landrieu in the primary which was my Anti-Forman (DINO) vote. He doesn’t have any ideas. Virgina Boulet had some good ideas but she was not in contention (1,700 votes). I may vote for Nagin in the run-off if for no other reason than he is not a career politician like Mitch. I like the fact that he is not constantly trying to spin me.

I used know a woman who was cousins with his wife. He got into this mayoral thing because he really loves this city not because of political opportunism. I like that. I respect that. I like to think if politics wasn’t so nasty more novices would step up and serve. He did fight corruption. That helps as well.

That said, I will watch the debates and reserve judgement. This is too important to take lightly. I think either one is probably going to do a decent job. We have term limits (2 -4 year) so this would be Nagin’s last term. He could be a potent force with no re-election campaign to mount.

“She’s fucking Seymour Hersch with Botox, that one.”
Stop sugar-coating it, Jane, and tell us how you really feel about Sy.

I would like to draw a distinction about the interview with Neil Young conducted by Sibila Vargas. It true she comes across as empty-headed, but I don’t think that’s the major point. After all, this was an entertainment segment, and I don’t think the networks assign a lot of PhD candidates to that beat.

What bothers me about the interview is that there is a standard script being used here, one which we’ve all become accustomed to, in which “conservative” talking points are spouted by the interviewers as though they were obvious conventional wisdom.

I’m not interested in the child who read these 100% pure propaganda questions on the air.

Instead, I want to know who wrote them and who decided that they would show up on Vargas’ teleprompter.

MSNBC is advertising Hardball tomorrow–about the CIA chief in Europe (what is his name?) who was on 60 Minutes last night. Should be interesting to see how Tweety tries to spin it.

what this woman (and everyone who parrots the same crap-ass discourse) is missing is that the current anti-bush sentiments have been in the making for a long time. about every album i listen to these days has at least one anti-imperialist (embodied by the bush administration) or anti-INVASION statement song… from james blunt’s “No Bravery” (on the “Back to Bedlam” album) to the Justin Timberlake collaboration piece entitled “Loose Ends” (on the Black Eyed Peas tribute album to Sergio Mendes entitled “Timeless”) to jack johnson’s “cryin shame” on his “In Between Dreams” album.

none of these songs/albums were written and recorded only last month… or in the last 6 months for that matter.

i’m sure there are many MANY more examples.

to say that Neil Young is tailgating bush’s incredibly bad ratings “bump” is just more “up is down” psyops.

to esme, with love and squalor

I am in total agreement with orangejumpsuit in #39 (unless it becomes #38 after I post this, as this comment facility seems to be doing) regarding the state-initiated impeachments under House Rules, Jefferson, Sec. 603: this is big news! Go Illinois! Go California!

Former Bush speachwriter FRUM is a Canadian, and he got to put the phrase “axis of evil” right into the president’s mouth.

Nobody called HIM on THAT

Canadians who drink the KOOL-AID are entitled to more of a PLATFORM.

i’ve been demasked ;) by #182. actually the title is “For Esme With Love and Squalor.

Adam #174

Captain Cod continues to amaze: “…..it was the troop level needed to do the job…..”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

does he still not know how badly that mistake screwed our people there? or does he think no one is really paying attention (to the truth of the matter OR, to the big fat stinking lie that he is telling)?
no matter if you were for the war or against. a democrat, republican or mugwamp. the place got completely out of hand, at least in part, after the “mission accomplished” fiasco, because we didn’t have nearly enough troops on the ground (or anywhere near the place).

i mean, generals in the pentagon said that we didn’t have enough troops committed for the pacification/reconstruction process, before the war started. colin powell said it.

the only answer: early senility onset.

esme:

have you heard from seymour lately?

I had never seen that woman before. You are correct. What a dingbat! And I wonder why such an allegedly young woman needs 20 pounds of makeup. Is she really 65?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear them drumming
four dead in Ohio.

What an embarrassing interview. Did she really think Neil Young needs publicity? She should stick to interviewing Brittany Spears. That way both the questions and answers will be monosyllabic.

Aaaah, give Sibila Vargas a break. She was just auditioning for a spot on Faux News.

I don’t understand Jane’s comparison of Vargas to Seymour Hersch………

Nice a couple of people here remembered Scott Young (Neil’s father). He was articulate and knowledgeable and obviously had some sort of major impact on his son. The voices are identical BTW. Interchangeable. ‘There is a town in North Ontario….’

When the Young recording comes out in a couple of weeks, I expect a lot more of this anti-Canadian line to surface. Well we have a lot more where he came from up here in The Big Pink. There’s Bruce Cockburn expressing the heartfelt desire to shoot down American helicopters in El Salvador or Nicaraugua in ‘If I had a rocket launcher’ for starters.

I am hoping for a big big splash for this recording. Not convinced music causes revolutions though it clearly can help grease the skids. I am still waiting for a NASCAR crowd to break out into The Internationale spontaneously. Could be waiting awhile longer. Some of the Cousins are a bit slow, a bit blinded by the light, not quite ready for the Renaisssance just yet.

Yes, Vargas is right.

Neil Young, his entire career marked by a dearth of creativity and social inaction, needs to steal song ideas from the Gallup and Zogby poll results.

And, gosh darn those Canadians, with their opinions, anyway! What next? Brian Adams? Apparently just because Canada sits on our border, supplies us with timber and other resources, and sacrifices soldiers in Afghanistan, this guy and others of his ilk feel they have the right to express an opinion about our country.

If Young doesn’t like our President he oughtta go back where he came from!!!

(And, BTW, his reply is priceless. He’s probably paid more taxes than Bush and Cheney combined. And he and his family have done more good in a day than most of these GOP ninnies do in their entire careers.)

heh. Labia Vargas.

Tony Snow – bet he’s unable to emulate poor ole Scotty’s greatest value, which was to say nothing and say it again and again.

“She’s fucking Seymour Hersch with Botox, that one.”

Seymour Hersh? Wtf? Why do you insult one of the few hard working real journalists there are left? You drunk?

Get your comparisons straight.If you would say that Vargas girl is Barbara Bush on botox, that would be ok.

I don’t think that poor child had any idea who the man she was interviewing is. You get a chance to interview a legend and that’s the best you can do? Sad, really…

Let me add my voice to the chorus of those asking for clarification about the gratuitous swipe at Seymour Hersch. Am I supposed to hate him now, too? It’s so hard to keep up!

I don’t think Jane was criticizing Seymout Hersh in her last comment. It was a sarcastic crack about Vargas’ lack of ability as a journalist, Gray # 197.

Yes, I too would like to see some clarification about the Hersch reference. I very much admire Hersch’s tenacious journalism. And if this is not meant as a cut toward him, then the author ought not to be so careless. Absurd at worst, sloppy at best.

Oh, please. Give the damn interviewer a break, she was just asking questions, she wasn’t questioning Neil’s patriotism. Can we keep the focus on where it belongs, please, and cut the holier than thou attitude?

Whoaah! Wait a minute. Neil Young is Canadian? This is the first time I’ve heard this. And after 40 years of undercover, he’s been *outed* by intrepid “patriot” E-reporter.
I like the way she says “muuusic” with a little bit of a sniff. It’s not the same American Idol “muuusic” that these E-tonight seem to *wooorship*.

I love interviews like this! Some MSM flack puts amurikan questions out there and smart ole’ Neil Young bats ‘em out of the ball park, looks like a genius and a nice guy to boot.

I don’t know the interviewer (live in euro-land and watch CNNI), but she just did a public service. AND look how it ended up – with the studio guy praising the singer. Cool.

Silent sniff. Yes Sibila, we all have to be *concerned* about being considered *unpatriotic* whenever we express any difference of opinion with ChimpCo. It’s incredibly sad when people like Sibila think ChimpCo=America.

Neil Young – A true Canadian/American Patriot!!!!

Stupid c**t Vargas deserved that slapdown at the end.

She was more interested to see if Ashlee Simpson was coming out of that record company building next.

What is it with these people? I just started a blog last week, mostly bitching about gas prices and making fun of the decider(nothing hateful) and i already have hate mail. This dude questioned my faith AND patriotism. He Blamed everything on Clinton, and even brought up Billy friggin Carter!

Oh yah, I also love how she uses the phrase “as Bush’s popularity slides” or something.

His popularity has slid all the way to the bottom of the septic tank. When is 32% still considered good approval?

What is it with these news robots?

She was more interested to see if Ashlee Simpson was coming out of that record company building next.
Wait a minute. Who’s Ashlee Simpson? Is she the blonde or the brunette? I am ashamed to say that I have a hard time differentiating any of this–what seems like– meat and potatos fare for the record companies except buy hair colour. I like the idea of using all the colors of the rainbow for each and every one of them.

They’ve got more uniforms than Devo. Except Devo was lot cooler.

Jane, amazing use of video on the site.

readerOfTeaLeaves

Well, you can copy and paste the code from youtube to any site on the net in 2 secs. They have specific instructions below each vid. Not that amazing.

“She’s fucking Seymour Hersch with Botox, that one. “

What do you mean by the above comment??
I Don’t get it???
We love Seymour Hersch and Neil Young with or without Botox??????

maybe i shouldn’t speak for jane but “she’s fucking seymour hersch with botox, that one.” is irony. get it? you know, when you say one thing and you mean just the opposite………..

right after 9/11 some pompous types were going around saying “irony is dead.” irony will never be dead, even though there are some people who just. don’t. get it.

there are other types of irony but jane’s type is often used. wingnuts generally don’t “get” irony. typically, they are literalists. just like fundamentalist bible thumpers.

To #99, Sharkbabe, I like your list and would add to the etc some of my other favorites…Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Cockburn, Cowboy Junkies and Kathleen Edwards. Yes, thanks Canada! Have been enjoying Neil’s music and his spirit for over 36 years and looking forward to the new CD.

#213, your explantation of the Hersch comment seems correct, your delivery a tad harsh. So thanks for the illumination, no thanks for the snark.

#213: Thanks for pointing out how lame and humorless we all are. What would we do without you? In our defense, though, I would have gotten the sarcasm better if Jane had written “She’s Seymour Hersch on fucking Botox.” That’s how we do it in this post-9/11 world.

Neil handled Sibila Vargas. She even got slapped at the end of the interview by A.J. Hammer.

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yeah, and her closing reaction to that particular slap around was the crown jewel of the whole thing…she grunts like she’s just had to taste a big ol turd

ha ha ha..i wish i could see one overstuffed/overblown member of the MSM pushed around like that everyday..that was priceless.

Sibila Vargas… Is that what journalists do in America: conduct interviews while not knowing what they’re talking about? It is literally VILE and embarasssing to speak to The GREAT Neil Young that way… UGH, it makes me want to barf. And since when did he support Leaker-in-chief or any other rightwing nutFREAK? Honestly, since freakin when? I don’t understand why, when being interviewed by a knuckle head, the questionee (in this case Neil Y.) doesn’t throw the absurd commentary back in the news-bunny’s face. He should ask if her questions are tailor made to bring her publicity… Judging from my enraged reaction… I guess it’s working….LOVE N.Young, LOATH empty-make-up-face Sibila Vargas BARF.

kth#171

“Hate to bust on this, but FWIW was written and recorded back in 1967, and it was about the riots caused by the shutdown of Pandora’s Box, a Sunset Strip rock club.

You may be confusing FWIW with CNSY’s “Ohioâ€, which was indeed written literally immediately after the National Guard’s massacre of protestors at Kent State.”
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You’re right about when “For What it’s Worth” was written, and why it was written. I see that now. But, no, I’m not mistaking it for “Ohio”. I know why and when Ohio was written.

The reason I remember FWIW in the way that I do is because it was radio played frequently during the 70’s draft for Vietnam era. I guess it was a rebirth for the song at that time rather than a birth.

Thanks for the historical correction. I didn’t know that.

Actually, I loved this interview because it makes the anti Bush people seem sane and is another dent for the “oh the evil liberal media” perception.

THe funniest thing about that clip is that the interviewer lacked not ony substance but style. How does an ugly woman who can’t even speak fluently on camera get a job in the tv industry?(and it not the accent, it’s her lack of polished speaking style, it’s like some 3rd grader was pretending to intereview someone).

Loved the way the studio host made the vargas bitch uncomfortable with his indirect comment on her stupid patriotism question.

Lets find out if Neil is a shill for the latest trend for money. Take it away Neil:

“This Note’s For You”

Don’t want no cash
Don’t need no money
Ain’t got no stash
This note’s for you.

Ain’t singin’ for Pepsi
Ain’t singin’ for Coke
I don’t sing for nobody
Makes me look like a joke
This note’s for you.

Ain’t singin’ for Miller
Don’t sing for Bud
I won’t sing for politicians
Ain’t singin’ for Spuds
This note’s for you.

Don’t need no cash
Don’t want no money
Ain’t got no stash
This note’s for you.

I’ve got the real thing
I got the real thing, baby
I got the real thing
Yeah, alright.

’nuff said.

Hi.

Bumped into a Norwegian Neil Young Cover band on web: http://www.realneils.com
They sounds absolute afantastic. Take a peak!!

She’s got great tits. Ha huh. Sweet tits.