Update: Crooks & Liars has must-see Colbert TV. He tells the White House press corps what we’d all love to tell them if we had them sitting there captive. They respond with a completely predictable lack of humor.
I think it’s safe to say they won’t be playing Neil Young in the White House elevators any time soon. Richard Morin may be indignant at the hubris of anyone other than a political party leader uttering the "I" word, but be that as it may — Neil Young does so on his new album Living With War, as he continues his paeans to the Family Bush he began with Rockin’ in the Free World and the jabs he took at Bush 41 with lines about "a thousand points of light" and "a kinder, gentler Machine Gun hand." (You can stream the album here, including the song "Impeach the President").
Byron York will no doubt announce a conspiracy to rocket the song unfairly up the Amazon charts (where it now sits at #3). So for purely educational purposes, to demonstrate to our wingy bretheren (whose attempts at "rocking out" generally prove an embarassment for anyone in the vicinity) that Neil Young has had, you know, a rather distinguished musical career, here are my top 10 Neil Young songs (in no particular order):
Expecting to Fly (with Buffalo Springfield) (listen)
Mr. Soul (with Buffalo Springfield) (listen)
Cinnamon Girl from everybody knows this is nowhere (listen)
Cowgirl in the Sand from everybody knows this is nowhere (listen)
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) from Rust Never Sleeps (listen)
Live version of Needle and the Damage Done from Unplugged (listen)
Tonight’s The Night — Part II from Tonight’s the Night (listen)
Like a Hurricane from American Stars & Bars (listen)
Harvest Moon from Harvest Moon (listen)
The Loner/Cinnamon Girl/Down By The River (live) from Four Way Street (listen)
It’s not a particularly inspired list, rather traditional but that’s how I like my Neil Young. Now if we’re talking Stephen Stills….
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Fitz!!!
keep on fitzin’ in the free world…
Colbert and Young!
It was kind of an experiment. It bugs me when people do their “random Ipodding” and I can’t click a link and listen to the songs.
It was a pain in the ass to do all the links but I think it worked. Can everyone click on the “listen” and hear them?
Colbert is a God.
Neil!
That was cool!
I listened to it so many times today and was crying and doing the snoopy dance at the same time.. simply amazing. Thanks Jane! You know, I was thinking we should play this album over and over and no more America the Beautiful, then it played and I got total body goosebumps and thought, what would it be like if everybody cared about our country and the world… I really liked Shock and Awe too.
Nedtz!!
I love that you put the links. they’re working. Thanks Jane.
Natural Beauty, from Harvest Moon. Devastating and yet somehow comforting.
Neiltz!
Thanks Jane, I’m hearing them fine…
I’m using WinMediaPlayer and it’s working fine.
Kind of a tease though, time to bust out some old vinyl here.
Neil is, and has always been, a true rock God. I have seen him live w/ CSN, on his own in small clubs, and w/ Crazy Horse. I’ve been to one concert w/ my Dad and it was CSNY.
Jane 4 yeah, thanks.
http://tinyurl.com/a6erq
Oh yes, Jane, your links work– at least Harvest Moon and Mr. Soul. Thank you!
Oh, what the fuck, Kittz! Hi buddy!
Colbert is up again on CSpan… WATCH IT AGAIN ! ! !
Jane,
Check out “Southern Pacific”. I don’t know how to do the Ipod thing :(
Hi Dru!
I vote for Tonight’s The Night and Hurricane, based on personal nostalgia, but it’s all great.
Hey angie and sharkbabe. Funny seeing you two here. :)
Anybody seen a transcript of Colbert yet? C&L says they with have video soon.
Stephen is the only person in the WHOLE world with the balls to speak the truth to Mr. 32% ?
Seems like first half of links to albums don’t work. First one that did was Start n Bars, which is OK with me since I love that cover, and the music’s OK too. I can’t listen to the songs but that means nothing since I never keep track of how those playback thingees are set up on my computer and there is some helpful click box asking me to install something right now.
So, can we post lyrics that we think have implications for BushCo? I got some from Sony Boy Williamson, one starts out “If you go pick my pocket…” I’ll have to look up the rest. Ends up with something about a judge and a trial.
Hey there angie; good time at the bonfire tonight, eh?
Notice Bush laugh at first, then it fades…
Coz and Neuro too. Hi all. I love this place.
“sometimes you want to go, where nobody knows your name….”
Looks like Bush cut and run, just like all the bullies do. He left as soon as Colbert skewered him. Bush can dish it out but he can’t take it. Dems. take note. He is a man who cts and runs…..call them to account and he cuts out. He is a coward
Cool, Jane. Works fine.
Lyrics:
Let’s Impeach the President for Lying
Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s racking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God
wesgpc #23 Your comment is awaiting moderation.
What did I done now!? OK OK, I won’t post no more General Smedley Bulter Republican quotes. I promise.
I still love “Teach Your Children”.
Hi Urban Pirate.
Oh yeah, Dru– I love the smell of roasting yellow bellied sorry coward in the bracing spring air…
Urban Pirate isn’t your real name?
Oh. I thought I had finally found a place where I fit in, where everybody (well, not Jane, but everybody else) had a funny name, where I wasn’t a freak. Now you tell me it’s all a sham?
Thanks shez, I had not seen the lyrics before. And sung by a one time Rockin’ Reganaut too. How times change.
Don’t drink the backwash !
Sharkbabe, IIRC you are a fan of “V”; I thought you might get a kick out of this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9rzMaAucI4
Hate to change the subject, but somehow I think Neal would agree with what I’m about to say.
The US is ratcheting up the rhetoric against Iran, and now NY Times correspondents are going around saying diplomacy is dead — against a country we won’t even negotiate with!
If diplomacy is dead, then, well, that means war doesn’t it? Soon? against Iran? Could somebody pinch me and wake me from this nightmare.
Checkout: Truthout.org’s essay from Robert Fox: Dubya Agonistes…
uh oh…
“Live Rust” helped me hang on to what little sanity I made it through the early 80s with.
Most emotionally evocative though, imo, Tonight’s the Night.
Sorry wesgpc — just saw that. Added a bunch of common spam terms into the filter and it turns out one of them is in your email. I removed it, you shouldn’t have a problem any more.
Dru that funny hahaha.
Cookies. More cookies. Hilarious. Love the haircut thingy.
Ah, Jane… once again, excellent taste in topics and content!
Let’s see here, my top ten Neil tunes, at least at this particular stoned and not-entirely-un-drunken point on a Saturday night…
1.) Powderfinger
2.) Love In Mind
3.) Thrasher
4.) Rockin’ In The Free World
5.) Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
6.) After The Gold Rush
7.) Cortez The Killer
8.) Love And Only Love
9.) I Am A Child
10.) Roll Another Number
watching again – the laughter was not muted since you can hear the most laughter at Colbert’s glacier remark – it’s trendy to be concerned about global warming but not so much to question war it seems
Uh… Clem — you have much more sophisticate taste in Neil Young than me.
To the Generals who have not retired and are brave enough to be pundits: If you are strong enough to stand on a bank of computers, you are strong enough to order men into battle. omg.
Voice #36: yikes. Cannot believe that they will do it. But of course they would, now that there is a unity government in Iraq and maybe, just maybe something might turn up good there, well for these fools, time to create yet another disaster.
Blogs need to be ALL OVER press from here on out. Throw administration’s words back in its face. If everything is on the table, that means actually participating in multilateral negotiations, and if those fail, bilateral negotiations. And that means good faith. Will have to consider how to explain concept of “good faith” to BushCo.
As for pre-emptive A-bombs, seems like a true GOP conservative, Eisenhower, didn’t even want to use it right away to end WWII
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eisenhower
So, what will introducing nuclear weapons in pre-emptive strikes do for the US? But hell, Ike is dead now, and what the hell did he ever do. Ike was a fool who dealt with reality, and loser shit like that.
So much linkages makes my brain tired. Gonna go get the whole shmear off itunes. Not to be unappreciative, Jane you are the most awesome human on the planet.
Jane H #43: Oh, OK. Don’t worry, no mailorder offers of that kind from this joint. We are not that desperate for $ quite yet. When we are, I let you know and I’ll switch to another e-mail address.
re Iran – don’t miss Juan Cole’s clarification of the IAEA report – the media is once again playing cheerleader for war:
http://informationclearinghous…..e12877.htm
39,40;he-hee! had to hide it from my 14 month old nephew while I shared it with his dad; didn’t want to upset him with “elmo scared all the time”!
wesgpc — yeah I figured you’d get it and laugh.
Oh god. In early 1993 I was covering Clinton’s “Forest Summit” in Portland for Pacifica. Neil and the Indigo Girls played free in the riverfront park in in a dense fog/light rain. Neil did a solo “After the Gold Rush”, accompanying himself on what sounded like an accordian. To hear his thin haunting voice coming through the fog, the eerie accordian, and thinking we had finally turned the corner on 12 years of Republican land rape. All in a dream, all in a dream, the loading had begun. You had to be there.
Dru 35 – my tired home dialup can’t deal – but thanks for the thought, saving link and look forward to enjoying at work
Good Lord, could Newsweek be any further up Rove’s behind? This has Rovian spin all over it. Of course, they are the only people leaking ….
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12554162/site/newsweek/
kaleidescope @ 51– I can only hope we will hear Fitz wailing on his accordian shortly with his working man’s voice telling of indictments and echoing Neil Young so the dream comes alive again.
Holy SHit. Thanks for the heads up Wilson.
Colbert was BRILLIANT. Everyone (except Joe and Valerie wilson and Helen Thomas) were deathly quiet. Holy shit. That was amazing.
p.s. Hey Cleter. My real name is T.Urban Pirate.
“Uh… Clem — you have much more sophisticate taste in Neil Young than me.”
Aw bullshit, Jane… I just got hooked on the live albums Live Rust and Weld many moons ago is all. Most all of my visceral favorite Neil tunes are from those. ;^)
Actually, I already set aside your own list so’s I can make a mix disc of that particular bunch of tunes tomorrow when I’m not hunched drunkenly over the keyboard here like an even more demented Garth Hudson, and can actually run my ripping/burning software in the morning when it will likely take me something LESS than twice the normal time to do it.
Gotta say, though… Powderfinger is one of my favorite songs of all time, let alone my favorite Neil Young song. It’s one of those that I always get friggin’ goosebumps on, even when I’m playing and singing it myself.
(BlahblahBLAHblahblah… oh, great. Patrick… uh, that is UhCLEM… is in stoned postin’ mode again. What do I think, I’m in Mexico where this shit is legal? Crikey!!)
Sharkbabe, cheers!
Bush is lying again. He has only just started to use diplomacy, indirectly
via other countries. The Iranians have been begging months for the US to talk to them, but the Bush administration have stonewalled all along.
(Wesley Clark- one of our truth tellers.)
Uh…Clem: Yeah I’m over at iTunes buying everything in sight. Somebody stop me. I’ve moved on to Stills…
from above:
“Don’t drink the backwash.”
My wife told me a few weeks ago that Colbert is more audacious than Stewart. I laughed. Silly me. We just watched the re-run of the WHPCD.
A turning point. Mark Twain would be proud.
Jane – STOP, please. It’ll be free in some country soon and we’ll find a way around the firewalls and blocks so you can get it.
Would that be THE Urban Pirate? Hmmmmm????
Sharkbabe– the youtubelinky will make you guffaw. out loud. promise.
Jane– it is springtime, time to pull a nutty. ’tis harmless, no?
this Colbert Report zing tonight is important politically. The ice has broken and people are not afraid in the DC Weenie Crowd to openly ridicule the President. True, it’s still ‘edgy’ but the blade is out there for all to see…
I have such a soft spot for Neil Young, it brings tears to my eyes. Thanks Jane, for reminding us what a true human being he is – a ‘real mensch’, as they say.
(And I think it’s hard to come up with just ten great tunes… can’t forget “Ohio”.)
Okay Jane, now you’ve got me in the mood to bust out my old Stephen Stills Live CD…
Now THIS is what I call a late-night weekend topic! ;^)
Damn I gotta get back keepin up with Colbert – he is the new black and gay and Stewart – sounds like his brilliance exponentializes by the day
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio
Watching the aftershow stuff, Ann Compton said “I told him…” to a couple people, I believe in reference that she told Colbert something.
For Jane:
My top (counting) eight Steve Stills songs (sorry, no links):
For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield
Suite Judy Blue Eyes – CSN
Woodstock – CSN
Love The One You’re With – Manassas
It Doesn’t Matter – Manassas
Isn’t It About Time – Manassas
Rock And Roll Woman – Buffalo Springfield
Bluebird – Buffalo Springfield
Now, if you’re talking Richey Furay …
My favorite Neil Young song — Walk On
I love’s me some of that funky guitar!!!
song
http://www.last.fm/music/Neil+Young/_/Walk+On
lyrics
http://lyrics.duble.com/lyrics…..lyrics.htm
I hear some people been talkin’ me down,
Bring up my name, pass it ’round.
They don’t mention happy times
They do their thing, I’ll do mine.
Ooh baby, that’s hard to change
I can’t tell them how to feel.
Some get stoned, some get strange,
But sooner or later it all gets real.
Walk on, walk on,
Walk on, walk on.
I remember the good old days,
Stayed up all night gettin’ crazed.
Then the money was not so good,
But we still did the best we could.
Ooh baby, that’s hard to change
I can’t tell them how to feel.
Some get stoned, some get strange,
But sooner or later it all gets real.
Walk on, walk on,
Walk on, walk on.
“(And I think it’s hard to come up with just ten great tunes… can’t forget “Ohioâ€.)”
See, no kidding! And Old Man, and Winterlong, and Sugar Mountain…
Okay, okay, I’ll stop… I’m gonna get in Neil Trekkie mode pretty soon here. (”Woddya mean “pretty soon” there, matey?”)
Okay, AND Walk On too, yeah! (Watch, kids, as UhClem’s head shorts out like a cheap night light!)
Dru and angie – stop torturing me ya bastids!
:)
crikey and matey– uh…clem, where are you? Down under or across the pond or just next door? love your kindred spirit wherever you are ;)
Colbert is one of the reasons John’s show was (is) so great.
Wilson, I agree that tonite is important. I believe Stephen is the first to bring the attack to washington, and directly to the president. I think he JUST made it ok to ridicule the president and TELL THE TRUTH.
I hope he has a spotless closet. Man, I love that guy.
I can see it now: by tomorrow morning Jane will have done the six degrees thing and posted the ten best by Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn…
Go Neil! Powderfinger, Clem knows.
So I flipped to msnbc at 7:45 pdt and caught Colbert doing the press secretary bit. The ENTIRE time they had Bush’s mug on a split screen. “Uncomfortable” describes it perfectly.
So I watched the replay on cspan, no split screen – was kinda disappointed, but damn…big set of nads on Colbert. Fantastic!
sorry, Sharkbabe. slinking away til Monday… hopefully, the NSA won’t get remove it by then; just joshing. :>0
btw, Ann Jones on CSPAN 2 on her book and experience in Afghanistan. Book is “Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan”
Matt, who’s Ann Compton?
damned typos — won’t get it removed by then.
EPU’d from previous thread:
Shez / bonzarella @ 253:
“I’d like to have me a “Reality is a Well-Known Liberal Bias†bumper sticker.â€
Of course you would
;>)
I like the family values of Fred Thompson’s trophy wife.
“crikey and matey– uh…clem, where are you? Down under or across the pond or just next door? love your kindred spirit wherever you are ;)”
Aw hell, I live in Chicago! Seriously. I’ve just been enough of an Anglophile to cop various slang terms since (apparently) I was about 3 or 4 years old and started finding the Pooh stories uproariously funny because of their Englishness. How I picked that out as being funny at that age is beyond me.
But regardless… here’s to kindred spirits!
Heard Living with war the other day, in fact listened to it twice. Wonder if it will get airplay?
Colbert rocked btw.
I think Chicago is one of the most wonderful big cities in America. I love the wind and the people I have met there. Pooh’s spirit is infectious and alive. sweet. and kindred. nice.
Woooo Hooo darkblack! Yea baby! I knew you would come through for us. Do you have your watermark on that?
I like the fact that Greta was wearing something from the Ellen De Generes collection.
“Rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.” Love it! From the Titantic to the flaming Nazi gasbag. Stephen Colbert is God.
It’s Saturday night and I just watched Stephen Colbert emasculate the President of the United States and the Washington Correspondents on C-span at the Washington Correspondent’s Association annual dinner; it was inspiring! His performance was flawless.
In this Orwellian world we live in, the court jester speaks the truth; the king and his court were dumbfounded; and the fourth estate was a little embarrassed and some journalists may even have felt challenged to actually start reporting “reality” (using quotes as Colbert did).
I hope Neil Young watches it. He would definitely approve. It’s being broadcast again at 12:30 eastern standard time.
Well Angie, I definitely dig your kindred spirit as well!
(AWWWWwwwwww… ain’t they CUUUUUTE??) ;^)
Dayam, fastest movin fun thread ever – art culture realness – late & bedtime for us east coasters, and yall just gettin started. I don’t have a gig tonight so will enjoy hitting the rack at a luxurious 1:00+ – & go to sleep in the embrace of the brilliances and humanity here
Btw, Colbert’s takedown of Kristol the other night was also top-notch. He is so quick, just oozing sarcasm, but sometimes I think the guests don’t get that they’re being played. Though in Kristol’s case I believe he knew he got slammed.
I too will be curious to see how the MSM reacts to The Report. It really feels, lately, like the bottom is about to fall out. For the good of America, the sooner the better.
And since we’re on the subject of “Rockin’ Patriots,” anyone else here a fan of Michael Franti? Has some very powerful lyrics! He did a special show here recently, showed his documentary of him going to Iraq and Palestine (talk about ballsy!), then answered lots of questions, and played a solo show. A fantastic human being!
Good night.
Pathetically ridiculous Fox!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, April 30, 2006; A05
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (WTTG), 9 a.m.: White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and incoming White House press secretary Tony Snow .
THIS WEEK (ABC, WJLA), 9 a.m.: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), actor George Clooney and former senator J. Bennett Johnston (D-La.).
FACE THE NATION (CBS, WUSA), 10:30 a.m.: Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Rice .
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, WRC), 10:30 a.m.: Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman , Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), American Petroleum Institute President Red Cavaney , TheStreet.com co-founder Jim Cramer and author Daniel Yergin .
LATE EDITION (CNN), 11 a.m.: Sens. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), former CIA director R. James Woolsey , former Israeli intelligence director Efraim Halevy and Rice .
m’kay– just floating this little itty bitty trial balloon. Dean hammered Noron last eve, Colbert trashed the preznit tonite, Rove went before the G/J for 3+ hours on Wednesday, the IAEA reported that Iran is actually pretty darn compliant, Rush and the Dukestir are in tWouble, etc., ad nauseum. Do you think that maybe, just maybe, this is the plan? Just let the wingnuts fall on their collective swords? It amounts to a steamin’ pile, just sayin’.
southpaw says:
April 29th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Don’t drink the backwash !
Oh man, even though he screwed up his joke, when he called the 1/3 of the glass that’s remaining (Bush’s base) ‘backwash’ I about spit out my cig. Dregs would work too.
To watch it again on my TV this time, all I can say is go Colbert, he filleted them open, pinboned them, and threw them on an open grill. Savory.
Carrie — oooh Manassas.
32% Mr. President. SOme would say that’s half empty. Don’t listen…
…it’s really 2/3 empty.
But, don’t drink it. Everyone knows the bottom third is just backwash.
holy shit
when i heard COLBERT was gonna be at this presstitute dinner thingy i wondered what the hell will do . . .
holy shit: he just blew my mind. it was surreal.
his balls are huge and cast fucking iron. i always liked him but now . . . a hero is born!!!!
and NEIL has always kicked ass. if you have not had the pleasure check out the sountrack to the jonny depp movie DEADMAN — great movie AWSOME soundtrack!
Shez @ 87:
‘Do you have your watermark on that?’
I don’t sweat the ten-minute wonders.
;>)
Not to split hairs, but I think Colbert actually said;
Reality HAS a well-known liberal bias.
http://www.comedycentral.com/h…..sWeb.jhtml
I went over to Comedy Central and wrote a thank you/love note to Steve Colbert for his fine job tonight. Do it now kiddies – since he gave you that wonderful shiny new toy to play with.
I will clarify– the regular dems are just sitting back, watching the heavy lifters doing the work. I dislike the way-too-comfortable couch potato dems, but I think that’s their stratergery.
Did Neil Young really play in Manassas? Please, someone answer this ? that is very important to me.
I didn’t find the Colbert report all that funny — but the fact that he was even invited was a big fat MSM Fuck You to the Boy Blunder.
Angie, no.
Actually, it’s late and just ignore me, it’s brilliant either way.
The White House Correspondent’s Association dinner is being broadcast again on Sunday, April 30th at 12:30 pm eastern standard time.
I agree that Colbert has broken new ground. He’s made it o.k. to talk about the truth. He has said what everyone knows: the emperor is stark naked and not completely in charge of his mental faculties.
Colbert skewered Bush on the intelligence of his gut; Bush didn’t know he was being made a fool of with the glass full/glass empty routine. Too perfect.
Colbert took the Orwellian up is down world we’ve been living in and turned it again; so now it’s ok that up is up and down is down. The journalist who tries to be the stenographer (Colbert’s story about decide-tell-type was too perfect: it’s the president’s job to decide; the press secretary’s job to tell and the presses job to type what they’re told!) is a joke; to be laughed out of town.
Colbert’s courage is battle-worthy. Like someone said, I hope his closet is clean; Rove was in the audience.
sincere goodnight hugs and kisses, every one of you anti-fascsist beauties, goodnight and I love you
“Btw, Colbert’s takedown of Kristol the other night was also top-notch. He is so quick, just oozing sarcasm, but sometimes I think the guests don’t get that they’re being played. Though in Kristol’s case I believe he knew he got slammed.”
Oh, Kristol was just sharp enough to realize he was getting slammed about 3 1/2 seconds after the interview started. My buddies and I watched that clip probably three or four times today in between Grateful Dead, Magic Sam, and Firesign Theatre CDs. What was brilliant was that not only did Colbert fillet Kristol brilliantly and with all conceivable panache and aplomb, but Colbert also refused to let a single one of Kristol’s deflections stick to him, and ended up turning almost every single thing Kristol said back around on him by simply going overboard with the “I agree with YOU, sir!” schtick.
Kristol was left sputtering out a “Hommina-hommina-hommina-hommina…” that could almost have rivaled The Great One himself, if it weren’t for the fact that Kristol SUCKS, and isn’t worthy of tongue-bathing Jackie Gleason’s schnutz, let alone using his material!
(Okay, that was just a wee bit offsides, wasn’t it? Yeah, I thought it might be…)
Manassas was Stills.
Sharkbabe #17
Oh, what the fuck, Kittz! Hi buddy!
Lol.
Jane, I’m so glad that you are as excited about Neil putting that out as I am. Been a fan of his for most of my life. I learned some of my harmonica chops by playing his bit that he played on “Heart of Gold”.
Speaking of which, for those of you all who are Neil fans, and also for those of you all who aren’t really that familiar with his music, go see or rent his movie, Heart of Gold! That will bring you up to speed or reinvigorate your love for him and his music.
The Talk Shows
Sunday, April 30, 2006; Page A05
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (WTTG), 9 a.m.: White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and incoming White House press secretary Tony Snow .
THIS WEEK (ABC, WJLA), 9 a.m.: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), actor George Clooney and former senator J. Bennett Johnston (D-La.).
FACE THE NATION (CBS, WUSA), 10:30 a.m.: Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Rice .
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, WRC), 10:30 a.m.: Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman , Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), American Petroleum Institute President Red Cavaney , TheStreet.com co-founder Jim Cramer and author Daniel Yergin .
LATE EDITION (CNN), 11 a.m.: Sens. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), former CIA director R. James Woolsey , former Israeli intelligence director Efraim Halevy and Rice .
Urban Pirate @ 101:
You’re just not truthy enough
;>)
Chuckles @ darkblack. It’s ok, I always add your name to the faves I download so that I can cite the credit. Now to find some time to do some posts. *g*
This one will get resized to 2100×700 for a standard bumper sticker. I can resize, I just suck at graphics. Thanks!
Uh…Clem, do I know you? Chicago, the Dead, Firesign Th…ever hang out at DNC (and I’m not talking Dem Natl Conv.)?
During my teenage years I moved to the southern cotton and rice fields of Arkansas. Southern Man like so many Neil songs helped me sing through the prejudice. I was the only kid in that neck of the swamp who did not use the “N” word. Fortunately my house was full of wonderful books and records. Over the years I have had the honor to see Neil solo,CSN&Y, NY & Crazy Horse and Neil with Booker T & The MG’s as his band. Rarely does an artist perform with such determined passion while continuing to create so much for so long. I can’t list ten bad songs.
The president makes decisions, he’d the decider.
The press secretary tells you the decisions
You type.
Make, Tell, Type.
G’nite all. I’m spent.
Thanks Carrie and TUP– I lived in VA and visited that sacred and eerie Manassas battlefield many times. I could never run over the beautiful land there,I had to remain reverent and almost still while walking. It used to make me nuts to see people spitting their chaw because there were no gravestones, but you just knew it was all precious blood and sadness all around and beneath you.
Mr. Stills’ album– don’t have it anymore, but I googled it and realize it belonged to my ex. so no wonder *g* It was great.
“Speaking of which, for those of you all who are Neil fans, and also for those of you all who aren’t really that familiar with his music, go see or rent his movie, Heart of Gold! That will bring you up to speed or reinvigorate your love for him and his music.”
Is Heart of Gold out on DVD yet? If so, I need to make a run to Borders tomorrow!!
Rat Bastahd, yes I do… for years. And perhaps you do know me, at that. We didn’t just spend the afternoon/evening drinking and “certain substance”ing together, did we?
Went back, #56 seals it, Patrick, Uh…Clem.
How’s life? The Politics Folder?
-ya rat bastahd ya :)
C&L has a Colbert clip up.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..html#a8104
Um…Clem,
I,m not sure if it is. I saw it last week at my local theatre. But I think it might have been a special showing. Go to Rotten Tomatoes and punch in the search to see if it’s playing anywhere near where you live.
I highly highly recommend this movie. It just f’ing makes you feel goood!
Interesting backgrounder on CSN&Y —
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C…..amp;_Nash_(and_Young)
Stopped ny dkos on the way to bed and came across this abbreviated list of Repus scandals. Stop by and take a look. What a joke they are.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..15443/6879
Oh, THAT Rat Bastahd!!!!
Hey, compadre, how are ya’s?! ;^)
Where’s my turntable? Have to go listen to the albums…Thanks, Jane;)
Just got home from work…
My wife and I fell in love to Neil back in 1970… got married in 1972 right outta HS. Still have the original vinyl’s and still married. That Neil some pretty powerful medicine… feel like we’re coming full circle. Hard to pick a top ten, love almost all his songs.
Isn’t “Johnny’s Garden” on Manassas? I always liked that song.
Colbert was brilliant! You can tell how confident he was, because he took his time in skewering Bush. For gosh sakes, even Scalia has the ability to laugh at himself. But Chimpy? yikes.
Mr. Stills’ album– don’t have it anymore, but I googled it and realize it belonged to my ex. so no wonder *g* It was great.
(Grins) Great is the first accolade I would give! Glad to have cleared things up, Angie.
LMMFAO. I guess finding you here shouldn’t come as a surprise. Hope you’re raising more hell than ever, I know I am! Whatever it takes…
Anyways, sounds like we are of like mind tonight. Still early here :)
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what did I do wrong?
Shoe … Yes.
Psychological ‘Separation Wall…’
…or ‘Baghdad Green Zone’ of the mind?
Roger Waters launches ‘The Writings on the Wall’ campaign
southpaw 132 –
Too many links — it got flagged by the spam catcher.
Ck #124
Check this out from the Wikopedia writeup!
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have set tour dates for 2006, along with boxed sets slated for release from David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash.
Yip! I want to be there!
A diary at Kos, has another one I loved that Colbert did:
Stephen Colbert smacks Bush down hard
“The government that governs best is the government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.”
I also posted the album link and link to CNN interview video at http://www.wiselaw.blogspot.com.
Jane: you left out a few key tunes: Old Man; Cortez the Killer; On the Way Home (4-way street); Southern Man, and pretty much everything from “After the Goldrush.”
Steven Colbert.
Balls the size of Jupiter.
Does anyone remember the Graham Nash song ” Military Madness” ? I think the album title was “Songs For Beginners”.
You just have to love Neil. What I’ve alway liked about him is that he’s managed to stay angry for all these years. Kinder gentler machinegun hand indeed.
Oops – should have given the direct link:
http://wiselaw.blogspot.com/20…..eedom.html
Rove appeared “jolly” at party after recent grand jury testimony:
On the day of his grand-jury testimony, the man the president once called “the Architect” seemed jolly at a party at a fancy Georgetown restaurant to celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Fox News Sunday.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12…../newsweek/
Special non-truthy third person singular present tense version
;>)
Oh, hell is being raised, Rat Bastahd. It never fails to floor me that there are actually as many Deadheads as there are who are among the 28%’ers… and yet, there are plenty of spin-regurgitating wingnuts over on DNC to this very day. Of course, those who are left who still blindly support Shrubbie are obviously thinking back fondly on the days when they still had straws to cling to. Now, of course, it’s just a matter of their loudly parroting the biggest, most egregious lies that the White House can dream up.
Same as it ever was, only exponentially weirder!!
I’m still reeling from Colbert’s performance, stunning on so many levels. If the Dems don’t get him to do some message work for them they’re insane.
My favorite Buffalo Springfield song is Richie Furay’s “A Child’s Claim to Fame” — it was a response to Neil Young’s “I am a Child”, and a smackdown for Neil’s flaking out on the band.
Apparently Colbert was just getting warmed up when he beat the crap out of PNAC man, Bill Kristol, the other night.
Hey Jane,
Dayum! I love the album. It is raw and great and powerful. FUnny I was just thinking the other day that there were very few artists whose new releases I was excited about hearing. NOW THIS! Great and I played it for my daughter who loved it (trouble) IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT will be echoing down the corridors of power shortly.
Onward
ck,
Not a link in the moderated post. Thanks though.
lol, ck. showing your age… and knowledge of the early days of these boys. (grins)
southpaw – yes, it’s on “Songs For Beginners”. Come to think of it, all the solo efforts those guys put out right after CSNY first disbanded were great. Crosby’s “If Only I Could Remember My Name” is one played so much I wore holes in it.
And I just put the “Harvest” CD on. You’ve really done it now, Jane – back to memory land, eighth grade, listening to Neil, teachng ourselves to play all the songs on guitar, hanging out at the pinball arcade in Westwood Village on Friday nights, getting high on the hill overlooking the VA cemetery, climbing the tower of the Fox theatre in a haze… We were crazy. What else.
CSNY schedule fyi.
http://www.stubhub.com/tix11-t…..20concerts
See you in Maryland Heights, MO on September 7th.
Southpaw, I’m just south of St. Louis… no way I can miss that! Thanks…
Neil Young trivia –
Rumor has it that Sugar Mountain (one of his more treacly songs) was a homage to Sugarloaf Mountain (Boulder County Colorado) and the hippies who lived there in teepees.
Analysts note that seven of the 12 costliest insured disasters in U.S. history occurred in the past two years. At $57.7 billion, private insured losses in 2005 were more than double those of 2004, according to the Insurance Services Office.
Hurricane forecasters predict five major storms of Category 3 or higher in the 2006 Atlantic season, with a chance of U.S. landfall at 81 percent, compared with a 100-year average of 52 percent. In March, catastrophe modeler Risk Management Solutions Inc. raised its estimate of insurance losses this year by nearly 50 percent above pre-2004 baselines for the East and Gulf coasts. RMS, whose estimates are used by insurers to calculate premiums, blamed “higher sea surface temperatures.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01364.html
uh…clem
Why does the dodo bird lay it’s egg in a tree?
Follow the yellow rubber line.
Jane, How could you leave “Ohio” off the list of great Neil Young songs?
Our new radio station, KCUV, played several cuts from the new Neil Young album –
http://www.kcuvradio.com/
The story I heard about Sugar Mountain was that it was a club that Neil frequented but had a rule or something that you couldn’t go there after you turned certain age (18?). Anyway, he was lamenting coming of age and not being allowed in the club any more. Joni Mitchell wrote Circle Game in response to his song Sugar Mountain… at least thats what I recalln (thru all the fog…)
Little known fact on “Teach Your Children”….Jerry Garcia did that fine steel pedal work.
Colbert dumped a turd in the Washington media punchbowl tonight. Seriously, how can these people switch gears and cover this administration’s crimes on Monday, after toasting him on Saturday night?
Clemie, I think you’ll find that the question that the leprechauns used to ask us back when we were mere sprouts in Indiana (couldn’ta been knee-high to a married grasshopper back then!) was: “Why does the porridge bird lay its egg in the air?”
Now then, I’ve re-inflated my shoes, and I’m following the [YELLOW!] rubber line so that I, too, can meet the President here in The Future. (Get ready springhead, here I come…)
Scudrunner # 160 –
Could be — I’m sure that I heard the Sugarloaf story from Boulder hippies, who had a vested interest in it . . .
Innocent Bystander, indeed ol’ Garcia did do that pedal steel line on Teach Your Children. Gotta love his little stint on pedal steel with the New Riders of the Purple Sage as well!
Hey, how come nobody’s mentioned Trans yet?
Actually I sort of respect him for that album …. always reinventing self even when it turns out shitty.
ck 162,
well you know how songs are, they can come from a collection of experiences rolled into one story. But, I always thought that Sugar Mountain was some Canadian club… where exactly I heard that from, I do not remember… curious now and gonna google it…
Scudrunner: yep, that’s the story, all right. I have a 1971 bootleg of Joni and James Taylor doing an acoustic set – she had just released Blue, he had just released Mud Slide Slim – and she sings “Circle Game”, saying in the intro she wrote it for her friend (Neil Young) who had lamented that after turning twenty (”you can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain”) he couldn’t go there anymore. It was a teenage club only.
ck, all kinds of hits on google… club in Winnepeg one of the comments.. (hope its ok to post this…)
“The song refers to an all-ages night club in Winnipeg (actually an underage club — you had to be under 20 to get in). In the early 1970s this song received huge airplay on campus and community radio stations, but is rarely heard today. Joni Mitchell’s “Circle Game” was written as a response to “Sugar Mountain”.
- Ekristheh, Halath, United States
Colbert – THE BEST!
You could understand Bush not being at “laugh out loud” but the press corps sounded either flat out scared to laugh or like a bunch of offende stodgy grandmothers – tsk tsking at having someone call them on what a “so bad it makes us laugh” job they have been doing.
Scalia was the only one there in addition to Colbert who could have cared less and just laughed and enjoyed it. When neither the DNC nor the W.H. press corps can understand that Colbert has people choking on their coffee with his observations and delivery – well, it’s why they are so out of touch no one bothers with them.
Colbert had more nerve (d*mn he held up well to the cold press corps!!!) and funnier stuff than I have seen in a long long time. When he’s on, I don’t know who can touch him (even though I love Jon) – when he’s off, he’s still better than almost anything else on TV.
He needs a chance to watch the tape of his bit with a soundtrack from a group of real people – he really DESERVES to hear that he killed and not many can watch any of it without laughing so loud they scare the potted plants.
I’m very fond of Neil Young, but for the next 24 hours it would take a bulldozer to knock Colbert out of the #1 slot in my heart/mind/soul. The only thing that could have hit harder for Bush would have been if a) he had followed half of what Colbert said and b) if they had dug up Rev. Lowery to give a closing invocation. *G*
Pace looked TERRIFIED of Colbert. I have to stop bc I’m gushing like a proud mom and I’ll promise to knit socks soon. D*MN good stuff Colbert.
Colbert – THE BEST!
You could understand Bush not being at “laugh out loud” but the press corps sounded either flat out scared to laugh or like a bunch of offende stodgy grandmothers – tsk tsking at having someone call them on what a “so bad it makes us laugh” job they have been doing.
Scalia was the only one there in addition to Colbert who could have cared less and just laughed and enjoyed it. When neither the DNC nor the W.H. press corps can understand that Colbert has people choking on their coffee with his observations and delivery – well, it’s why they are so out of touch no one bothers with them.
Colbert had more nerve (d*mn he held up well to the cold press corps!!!) and funnier stuff than I have seen in a long long time. When he’s on, I don’t know who can touch him (even though I love Jon) – when he’s off, he’s still better than almost anything else on TV.
He needs a chance to watch the tape of his bit with a soundtrack from a group of real people – he really DESERVES to hear that he killed and not many can watch any of it without laughing so loud they scare the potted plants.
I’m very fond of Neil Young, but for the next 24 hours it would take a bulldozer to knock Colbert out of the #1 slot in my heart/mind/soul. The only thing that could have hit harder for Bush would have been if a) he had followed half of what Colbert said and b) if they had dug up Rev. Lowery to give a closing invocation. *G*
Pace looked TERRIFIED of Colbert. I have to stop bc I’m gushing like a proud mom and I’ll promise to knit socks soon. D*MN good stuff Colbert.
It takes a certain, special sorta person to mention Trans, rcauthen, and I am clearly not that person! ;^)
Seriously though, while I respect that album for what it was, I also don’t find myself reaching for it very often at all.
Thanks Shoephone..
Scudrunner 167 –
I stand corrected — thanks!!!
ah ha 163 comments before the deadheads came out impressive restraint I must say. Only time I recall Jerry and Neil gracing the same stage in a day was Bill Grahams Memorial in Golden Gate Park. Four hundred thousand children that day.
Just wondering… how much coverage will Colbert get in MSM tomorrow???
Uh-oh, after that Colbert smack-down, this is really gonna get George’s dander up. Because if there’s anything George wants less right now, it’s a diplomatic roadblock to illegally bombing another country:
Iran agrees to allow intrusive inspections
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Ne…..2-sun.html
“My favorite Buffalo Springfield song is Richie Furay’s “A Child’s Claim to Fame†— it was a response to Neil Young’s “I am a Childâ€, and a smackdown for Neil’s flaking out on the band.”
You folks are very young..
I was twelve years old, sitting at my first concert. Neil Young came to Cheyenne and put on a concert to benefit the victims of the 1985 flood that hit our city.
Most celebrities probably don’t know where Wyoming is, but Neil was amazing and a good hearted person to help out such a small community.
I’ll never forget it. I still get chills when I hear the guitar solos on “Down by the River”.
From E&P:
Also in the story, they were serving a drink called “Cheney Shot” with Wild Turkey.
Tim, I’m not that “young”, but it is a testament to Neil’s timelessness that his music still strikes a chord. When I was 16, my girlfriend and I would sit in her bedroom and listen to Neil’s albums she had. We fell in love, married right out of high school and continue to love Neil.
A repost of a quote from Kos…
Very funny!
This expresses what I thought after I watched it on C&L.
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I just went to ComedyCentral.com to write him an email and, fuck, wouldn’t you know it? No way to do it. So I hope he reads this tomorrow:
Dear Mr. Colbert:
I would like to know exactly how large the wheelbarrow is that you carry your balls around in. I’ve seen large ones, but I don’t think I’ve seen one that large.
YOU. ARE. A. MADMAN!
Thank you for that truly inspired moment tonight.
Yours truly,
A fan.
NO PARDONS FOR TRAITORS. -3.75, -5.49
by Bob on Sat Apr 29, 2006 at 10:24:38 PM PDT
Tim,
Yes sir I was born in ‘65. Spawn of Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks hoe down Sat. nights.
southpaw,
lake village, hamburg, smackover, mcghee, camden, magnolia, hope???
sorry Scudrunner; I was being “comic book guy”.
“Child’s Claim” couldn’t have been an answer to “I Am A Child” as it was on the previous album.
I worked w/ these guys.
Matt O
From the EP article, my fav part was re the Wilsons, her response was classy and I laughed at his statement about having a W in his name.
Republicans are using political staffers to rewrite Wikipedia bios on their boys and trashing their opponents.
colbert was devastating. i think it was so quiet because they were mostly in total shock. i imagine the sunday shows will be all about it, no?
Born in Russelville Maws from El Dorado and Paws from England (Keo).
Goddamn hippy freaks.
In my “alternative” HS (seriously, I attended an alternative HS (does it show?) – which was not an Alternative Parallel Universe (often confused with APU – who owns the Kwik-E-Mart in Springfield)), the older freaks* only allowed The Dead and Neil Young to be played in our lounge. Of course, we younger freaks rebelled with Punk and New Wave, although the older freaks would always rip out our tapes and threaten us…..Good times, good times.
So, although to all you he might seem all goodness and light, Sugar Mountain still causes me nightmares.**
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* We really were called Freaks, although there were only Freaks and non-Freaks (no jocks, dweebs, etc. – where do they get all those cliques on TV?). And, the older Freaks really only wanted The Dead and Neil Young to be played when they around (dope smoking fiends that they were).
** Not really. The hints of intimidation are made up. We could play the Clash or Elvis Constello for example, just not a lot of it.
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Ahhhhh…..memories.
BTW – The Loner.
Mary, I just noticed the moon has been in Gemini this evening, the ole angel/devil thang. Colbert rocked.
As much as the press has been complicit in not doing their job for 5 years they deserved every bit of what they got tonight and more. Wouldn’t you love to see Colbert’s notes of what he didn’t pick to say? He’s been flying under their cocktails & weenies hour radar and dropped a mother of a Depth Charge, stunned floaters everywhere. I’m glad they were too scared to laugh, too nervous to breathe, reduced to being about as raw and shakey as Rush is off his meds. They’ve been cheering on a war and a prez that isn’t one bit funny. I hope every one of them have a hard time sleeping, that they relive on tender hooks how uncomfortable they felt, it doesn’t begin touch the horror of the war zones they’re so safe from but guilty of causing. Nightmares are too good for that chickenshit crowd.
brkily 186,
QUIET SHAME. Hope you are right but my wager is they will ignore Colbert like a fine blog. Are you an AR transplant out of Star City ( h/t to Johnny Cash ) to nocal ?
hate to be killin’ everybody’s high, but John Kenneth Galbraith is dead at 97. Another giant lost, and an army of trolls left behind.
wazzup
actually in socal by way of nyc. been around. arkansas is poor, but rich in the poetry of soil. and music and art are deep there, if you know where to look. don’t get back enough the last few years.
There’s a rough transcript of Colbert here (SEE UPDATE 2) -
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=2819
EPU- Loner
I may see the sun rise listening to Neil, good one. At least your APU had freak flags flying. Now you sound young, when Elvis met Costello. The Clash live in Pine Bluff Arkansas was a freak show of the best kind.
Southpaw – there is no APU (other than on the Simpsons); and I don’t feel young.
Colbert is the bravest person in America; and it would be funny (funnier?) if it wasn’t all so sadly true). Truthiness to power?
thanks to liberal realist for the transcript.
I’m up in the middle of the night here in Minnesota, with a puking 10-year-old. Of course he’s having a friend sleep over, too, so we’re probably passing some horrible virus on. sigh.
Not much yet on what the skewered media thought of Colbert tonight. Nice picture of Valerie Plame here:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/w…..581384.htm
Colbert and Helen was brilliant. Hey I live in an APU. well I am off to float the Kings River and try to get some sunrise photos of elk and turkey. See you in the evening.
What do Susan Sarandon and John Hancock have in common ? Prof Cole lets us know.
http://www.juancole.com/
Colbert
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can’t think of a more interesting TV event in the past five years. Gore’s Cooper Union speech blew my mind in a different way. It was easy for the media to ignore that important event. It will be harder to do that re the correspondents’ dinner. But they will find a way.
I don’t go to Drudge very often, but did so a few minutes ago – first time in a couple of months. No mention of the dinner at all.
Everything that’s wrong with the media was brutally exposed as Colbert stood right in front of that arrogant little prick and fearlessly faced him down, point by point, while the spineless access journalists who have failed so spectacularly to do their jobs for 5 years looked on in stunned impotent silence.
Dietrich in “V for V!”
I am somewhat surprised, Jane, that with your Hwood sensitivies, though not so surprised given your left-blogospere interests (which I love) that you and so many commenters give major applause to Colbert’s performance Saturday eve.
Colbert is great with sarcasm and witty cynicysm, but he tends not to be a funny person. His edgy pronouncements, while very successful in these early days of his own show, forecast a short, one- to max three-year run for the Colbert Report.
Ease up on the OrganicKoolAid folks; Colbert wasn’t very funny Saturday, and that narrow, one-man show at ComCent is going to have to change if we are to continue to benefit from his Swiftian perspective.
C-SPAN usually closes down for the weekend when it comes to offering up their programming for downloads. I’m curious as to how long it will take on Monday morning EST for this dinner to appear on their palette. I’ll bet it is the first thing up unless somebody tries to hold it back.
Jimmyjeff,
1. Was this guy supposed to be funny?
2. If so, what kind of funny?
3. How would you change Colbert’s show’s “Swiftian” perspective.
Part of the reason I’m curious is because my wife is way more impressed with his CC show than I am.
Jane,
Great list. “Expecting To Fly” just killed me in ‘68, and it still does today. My only quibble is that I might have put “R’n’R Woman” at the top, but regardless, the list is perfect.
Pam and I saw Neil @ The Greek here in LA in 2000, with my all time fav rock goddess Chrissie Hynde & The Pretenders opening-what a night! Frank “Poncho” Sampedro from Crazy Horse is a good friend, he arranged 10th row seats, and the whole evening, sound, vibe, all, was great.
Anyway, props to Neil, who, as Howie Klein noted, was a Reaganite for a while (based on health care issues) but now clearly speaks, and sings, truth.
rearranging the chairs on the Titanic – no…
rearranging the chairs on the aircraft carrier idling offshore near San Diego – no….
rearranging the chairs on the Swift boat fleet – YES……
rearranging the chairs on the Hindenburg – YAH, MEIN FUHRER…….
It’s playing again right now at 5:30 am eastern time. I dunno if it’s playing at 12:30 pm Sunday. Here’s the full transcript at Update 2 for anyone who misses it. I liked the first half too that wasn’t on Crooks & Liars. The number of points he hit was incredible. This was a blistering coup…
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=2819
OK, I’m not sure on this, but didn’t Colbert look right at Bush after the Hindenburg comment. If he did, that has to be the best of the best. It would be like saying “You big gasbag, you’re going to burn, no matter what you do. Uh-Oh, W, don’t touch anything. Your static electricity is fucking toxic, moron.”
If Colbert was black, they’d be rolling up his cousins already.
Some days living in, as Mike Medved puts it “The greatest country on God’s green earth” or something like that, are better than others.
This from the kos forum on the dinner from a guy named Rahm:
“When he was in the American Embassy in Iraq during the first Gulf War, Hussein made some threats about hanging Americans or using them as human shields (lazy, sorry — not going to look it up).
Anyway, Wilson gave a press conference from the American Embassy wearing a noose for a necktie and basically telling Saddam he knew where to find him.
So it’s not surprising that he’d show up at this function, especially if he’d been tipped off to what Colbert was going to do. Even with out it, it’s pretty much an “in your face” to the guy who let your wife’s NOC status be blown as political payback.”
well, goodnight ed*ard. soon come, another day, another scandal…
LGF is claiming Colbert’s balls are being cloned by the Iranians to help their uranium enrichment program, and that he should be rendered hither unto Guantanamo.
Kidding?
Maybe Colbert was hired by the WH to deflect curiosity into hookerwater, or whatever we’re going to call it….
We really need to do a “hats off” to Jon Stewart for his groundbreaking “Why are you hurting America” stand wherever that was last year.
I suppose Jon is less jealous than proud of Colber-.
Looks like the MSM really didn’t like Colbert. Front web headlines on CBS, MSNBC, and ABC all talked about the President poking fun at himself, that was the main thrust of the article (they all had the AP article) with a sentence down in the article mentioning Colbert.
My concern is that this comedy routine by Bush is a way to kick start a new PR offensive of faux “humility”, which everybody knows that ratings go up for anyone, like we’ve seen with celebrities when they do that. So what does the MSM do, they go along as usual, at least what i have seen so far. They follow the bush’s PR team, probably Snow’s idea, rather than a much more hugely important story of a person who hit every major corrupt scandal, debacle, and unethical behavior 10 feet away from the president who had to simply sit there and take it. That is the story that should be told. It completely upstaged the presidents lampooning act which occurred immediately prior to Colbert.
Colbert didn’t just skewer them, he savaged them.
At times I couldn’t even laugh, he was relentless and it made me fear for him.
And it was sexy, too. In a way he reminded me of a fine lover, who took his time to do the job right and would not be rushed.
Jeebus H. Christ!
Colbert ripped him a new asshole. Bush looked angry yet impotent when the camera focused on him.
a few questions;
how did colbert get booked in the first place, didn’t anyone know his neo con ness was tongue in cheek?
do you think oberman felt a snub?
do you think colbert expected to finish?
do you think he prepared a bit to go off with him if he was escprted from the stage?
I’ll tell you what;
I have a new respect for this man, I don’t think he expected to finish, I think he expected to get escotred from the stage and I think he was prepared for that event.
this man spoke truth to power, in front of the intire army of the people he was speaking his truth too.
this man stared down the barrel of a gun to speak truth to power.
I can’t believe how calm he was in this bit, becuase with no doubt what so ever he knew he was challenging the administration and everyone that supports him.
scary stuff, I wonder what the future holdes for cobert.
cobert, my sincere thanks for your service, you brought some kind of respect back to the fourth estate, let’s hope your collegues appreciate the example
welll done
how did colbert get booked in the first place, didn’t anyone know his neo con ness was tongue in cheek?
i believe it was steve scully the incoming whpa pressident from cspan, who invited him. but i bet that was based on his daily show bits –not the colbert report.
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The Deciderer sure can do all that deciderererin’:
Charlie Savage today’s Boston Globe online lede:
http://www.boston.com/news/nat…..s_of_laws/
“WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.”
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btw: NO vetoes yet.
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I can tell ya, reading that first thing in the morning sure woke me up real quick.
I kept saying “oh my god” as I watched, as one does at a party when some drunk reveals an uncomfortable truth. Magnificent. Colbert just became iconic.
Stewart tried to do it at the Oscars, but with a much lower batting average. I only wish that Colbert, when giving out Bushistic nicknames at the “press conference,” had called Helen Thomas “that old Arab.”
Don’t have CSpan (and I haven’t yet C&L…) but TODAY just went w/body double. But they let the Cheney thing run. Mentioned Colbert only in passing as host.
Peter Jackson 216
Early returns indicate you are prescient.
A covering up; The Purloined Skewering — hidden in plain view.
Agh, I have to reboot to listen to Neil or to C&L Colbert!! Damn, sounds like the cosmos really lined up last night, like the sh*t will hit the fan on Monday morning.
(p.s. Redd, offensive comment two threads back, towards the end, needs removing. Must have trolls who deliberately wait to trash the end of threads when we’ve moved on.)
OMG, Jane. Expecting to Fly. Just opened up a whole flood of gorgeous steps down memory lane. Love that song. And then everything else everyone added to the mix. Feelin’ the love, captain and crew.
as long as we’re talking neil young,
remember ambulance blues:
i never knew a man
could tell so many lies
had a different story
for every set of eyes
and i couldn’t understand
just who he’s talking to
cause i know it isn’t me
and i hope it isn’t you-1974
He’s a great song writer, but his version of “On Broadway” is my favorite. Oh, and “Piece of Crap” has been an anthem in our house for years
!ztiF
EPU time, kids. New thread.
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meanwhile, back to neil young:
jane, i haven’t read the whole thread which i will do after i write. it’s 5:42AM on a sunday. i was busy last night until after 11:30 so i forgot to post when the thread was starting to grow. even so, i woke up about 5:00 thinking about “the pledge of allegeance”! is it un-american? shouldn’t we be pledging allegeance to the constitution instead? the flag is a symbol. the constitution is the framework of our beliefs as a nation. it is the bedrock, the essence of what we are, or at least, what we should aspire to be.
so, what’s this got to do with neil young?
for americans, maybe the two most important songs that neil has ever written:
“Ohio” and (as immediately followed on the record by CSNY) “Find the Cost of Freedom”.
these two songs are, especially together, incredibly poignant and reverent. they achieve a quality of expression that transcends rock and popular music. woven into their fabric is american history and tragedy. they are as relevant today as the day they were written. “Find the Cost of Freedom” could have been sung at the funeral of every soldier who fought for this country, every person who died on 9/11.
Colbert’s performance was flawless. He took his time to deliver his zingers…and his zingers were meant for the entire elitist crowd of Washingtonians, president and press corps.
I would not praise Scalia for laughing at Colbert’s volley at him; Scalia’s laughter was a cover-your-ass kind of guffaw; Colbert made Scalia look like the petty-ass plutocrat that he is.
There was nothing accidental about Colbert’s presence and performance. The new Correspondent’s president had the balls to invite Colbert and Colbert had the balls to seize the opportunity and turn truth right-side-up again. Both these guys come from large families; does that have something to do with their ballsiness?
Bush looked like he was going to burst into what? Tears? Invective? Spent helium? Bush was not happy and looked that way. I think the stress is getting to him; having opened a Pandora’s box of horrors is he finally having a sleepless night?
Colbert’s skit with Helen Thomas was perfect, turning her into the nightmre that should haunt Bush in his sleeping and waking dreams.
Helen Thomas has her own gigantic pair. Let’s hope her colleagues grow some as they face the in-coming Snow-job.
Some of my favorites are:
Danger Bird (Zuma)
See the Sky about to Rain (On the Beach)
Will to Love (American Stars and Bars)
It’s a Dream (Prairie Wind)
Words (Harvest)
I generally like his stuff with Ben Keith best.
san mateo (#232)
you know, it really is like the old French and British courts with all of the hypocritical courtiers currying favor for some odious gain or possible favor from the king or his henchmen. they’re ALL completely out of touch with the average american. Robert Altman must make a film around this scene……….
Helen and Colbert. Thank you!!!!!!!!
(sigh) “Expecting to Fly” has considerable personal resonance for me as I danced with someone I loved to it on a New York rooftop a long time ago. He’s dead now.
Hey Jane,
Good list of Neil Young. I liked “Don’t Let It Get You Down” and “When You Dance You Can Really Love” (After The Goldrush) recorded with the 17 year old Nils Lofgren.
As I
medicatemeditate on the huge difference between what is spoken on these here blogs and what is spoken on talking-heads-sunday it strikes me that blogs like Glenn’s and FDL represent the minor league players logically in the running to be major league players upon an opening in the big-league’s roster. Glenn and Redd replacing G. Will and C. Roberts on This Week, as an example.That would come true should the structure remain the same. But it won’t. The structure itself is shifting. The chairs on the Titanic aren’t going just going to be moved from one side of the boat to the other. The talking heads, glued to their corporate chairs, are going to be moved overboard as the structure tilts, comes apart, and sinks.
It’s hard to think about what’s going to happen, post sinkage, to blogs like Glenn’s and FDL. How will they handle blog bloat? Will blogs, and e-thingees like them, form the backbone of the new structure that’s not quite the “big leagues” as we know them today but will be a target destination for superstars like Glenn, Jane, and Redd?
It’s sure a poser!
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There is an artist, Janet Bates, who started writing and singing songs the day the war started in Iraq. She is now hard at work on her third CD, go and give her a listen http://janetbates.com/
Thanks for the link to the album, Jane. It’s playing right now, with occasional interruptions when the CPU is needed for other purpose, like reformatting this paragraph. Good list of Neil Young’s songs, too. I’d have added “Rockin’ In The Free World”, but maybe that’s implicitly part of your list.
I haven’t read all these comments, so I might be echoing someone else; better yet, I may be contradicting someone without knowing. I’m contrarian enough to prefer that state.
It appears that Richard Morin isn’t so much objecting to “amateurs” asking for the President to be impeached as he’s objecting to having to take such calls seriously enough to do his job and find out what public opinion is. He’s wrong, I think, but that’s what he’s wrong about, ISTM. If there’s sufficient interest in the general population, that’s important even if the Democratic leadership is still asleep at the switch.
The idea of an impending shift in structure announced with “Titanic” metaphors begs the question about what “structure” we’re talking about.
Well take your pick!
Let’s try the rhetorical symmetry approach to develop the new modern metaphor: The Titanic was sunk by an iceberg. Coastal cities were sunk by melting icebergs causing a Titanic rise in sea level.
See what I mean?
Good progressives spreading good metaphors will talk about “transformation” processes too, just like the secdef. It’s just that we won’t use that term. The best term for progressives to use will be “recovery” because that’s what we’re all going to be doing — recovering from that which is shortly to be.
Why?
The reason is most people in this here country believe in some sort of “bad thing a comin’ real soon now”. The reason for that is because that’s what everyone perceives and believes is going to happen. Take your pick o’ pots of information — myth, science, religion, economics, politics, stories from daddy…whatever. All the signs point to one approaching thing that will disrupt everything else.
People just call it different names. Cynical people exploit the “fear rampant in the land” using short-term profit and gain machinations in the spheres of society, politics, and enterprise. They’re cynics, after all, the acme of “true believers”. They believe for certain it’s all going to end badly. Who cares if the Titanic’s bank gets robbed?
The approach to the “time of big change” always is fought with misgivings of one sort or another. Perhaps there’s even a one-to-one correspondence between the magnitude of the big change and the dread associated with its inevitability.
Who knows?
Everybody sure has done a really good job of scaring everybody else. People are scared-in-stero, with dolby and THX to boot. The current of fear is the dominant directional flow of the U.S. river of humanity.
I don’t even want to think about this flow direction and the rocky horrors just ahead applied to the rest of the peoples of the world. It’s Herman Kahn tough enough to think about what’s going to happen to my neighborhood, let alone my city, state, country, or the rest of the world.
I shudder in antici………………………………………..pation.
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Listen, you people.
Give us back Our Neil.
Or at least let us have him for a week or two, because Canada needs him – now!
Because, in case you all haven’t noticed, we’ve recently been taken over by our own viscious gang neoStraussians who are cranking up to have a go at all things progressive, full throttle.
I mean, cheese willikers, we’ve even got Frank Luntz up here at the moment, doin his best to to help us destroy our sovereignty from within while he makes sure we hide our war dead from Afghanistan….
Sheesh.
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My own, Canuckisan-heavy take on Neil’s latest is here/
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What about these?
1. Mr Soul
2. F—in’ Up! (live version off Weld)
3. Over and Over (Ragged Glory)
4. Change Your Mind (Slleps with Angels)
5. This Note’s For You
6. Once An Angel (from Old Ways)
7. I Am A Child
8. Cortez the Killer (makes you think of Bush)
9. Downtown
10. Love and Only Love
1) Little Wing (from “Hawks and Doves”)
2) Birds (”After the Gold Rush”)
3) Cortez the Killer (”Zuma”)4)
4) Only Love Can Break Your Heart (”After the Gold Rush”)
5) Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (”Everybody Knows This is Nowhere”)
6) Down by the River (”Everybody Knows This is Nowhere”)
7) Cowgirl in the Sand (”Everybody Knows This is Nowhere”)
8) The Needle and the Damage Done (”Harvest”)
9) This Old House (CSNY – “American Dream”)
10) Like a Hurricane (”American Stars ‘n Bars”)
Did anybody else notice that haircut makes Neil look like a young Judith Miller? Is it just me?
I’d list my favorite Neil Young songs, too, but I don’t want to use up all your bandwith.
Since I’m actually using my real name here and if Neil, or Pegi, or Elliot, or anyone who has worked with him may read it, I’ll just add some that have yet to be mentioned which are indespensible to having a full appreciation of this man’s work. Mr. Shakey will understand.
In no particular order:
Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, The Losing End, The Loner, I am a Child, Sugar Mountain, Old Man, Mr. Soul, Helpless, Journey to the Past, Mideast Vacation, Country Home, Vampire Blues, The Needle and the Damage Done, Tonight’s the Night, Homegrown, Expecting to Fly, Unknown Legend, One of These Days, Days That Used To Be, Natural Beauty, Down by the River, Running Dry, Alabama, Out on the Weekend, Southern Man, Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown, Hey, Hey, My, My (Into The Black), This Note’s For You, Motion Pictures, Cowgirl In The Sand, Love Is A Rose, Long May You Run, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Lotta Love, Comes A Time, Over And Over.
Oh, and I’m sure I forgot another dozen or so.
i really wish he’d release time fades away on cd.
Only 10, well here goes (hope the links work)
Feel Your Love — http://tinyurl.com/nyrh6
Tell Me Why — http://tinyurl.com/s57p9
Oh, Lonesome Me — http://tinyurl.com/nknx8
Four Strong Winds — http://tinyurl.com/nuzbo
Welfare Mothers — http://tinyurl.com/omqfj
Long May You Run — http://tinyurl.com/ongya
Wonderin’– http://tinyurl.com/m4mm4
Cinnamon Girl — http://tinyurl.com/rqrl5
Helpless — http://tinyurl.com/rc86l
Already One — http://tinyurl.com/op2nx
Fav Neil:
Ambulance Blues & Motion Pictures from On the Beach
Tonights the Night- Tonights the Night
Time Fades Away – Time Fades away
Don’t Be Denied – Time Fades away
Powderfinger – Rust Never Sleeps
Helpless
Comes a Time – Comes a time
Ohio
Hey Hey My My – Rust never sleeps
i highly recommended listening to ‘on the beach’ and in particular ‘motion pictures’
I’d add “Borrowed Tune” to the others already listed.