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Via Crooks & Liars, you too can watch Neil Young have his patriotism challenged by monosyllabic hair-sprayed ding dong Sibila Vargas on CNN who a) doesn't know the title of the album she's supposed to be interviewing him about and b) suggests he's only doing a song called "Impeach the President" because he needs the publicty.
Let's listen in on this hard-hitting interview:
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?
YOUNG: Maybe. I`m proud to be a Canadian. I`m proud to be living in the United States. I`m proud to be paying taxes here for 40 years. I`m proud of my three American children, my lovely American wife, my American family, and all of the people who have supported me here for 40 years.
It just so happens that I came down here because I`m an artist, and I came down here because, in Los Angeles, I could get things happening and so I could make it so people could hear me. That`s why I came down here. This is a great country, and I believe in this.
She's fucking Seymour Hersch with Botox, that one.
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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).
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:
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.
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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!
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.
And from California:
So, what is Section 603 of Jefferson’s Manual?
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
“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”
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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.===
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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.