Music: vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
I have discussed that I gave up a lot of old pastimes in 2008: Recreational reading, movies (my interest went from waning to waned) spectator sports and lastly, music. That last one was unexpected of course. But so many of my pop heroes had gone Jonestown with Obama and if that does not destroy one's artistic integrity, I don't know what would.
I have mentioned my habit of playing Youtube videos of election night news coverage. I don't watch these vids the way I would watch a TV show. I mostly listen as background noise, or more accurately, background music.
These are seven-hour operas. Very formulaic and yet, all very different. The first hour or two on EVERY network is the condemnation of Donald Trump, the demise of the Republican Party, the certitude of an impending Hillary coronation, and questions about how Hillary will govern.
In Act 2, the tension starts to build. Slowly but surely, by hour 4 there is universally, a change of mood and tone in the newsroom: Maybe the Dems won't take the Senate after all. The presidency might not be as big a landslide as we predicted. Trump has a chance. A tornado just hit the Macy's Parade!
As the evening wears on, the artists go free form and start playing from the heart, conductor be damned. They tell us what they really think about their social inferiors who voted for Trump. The race card gives way to the racist card. And yes, there are tears.
A few observations: Pack journalism has given way to hive journalism. One reason the pundits all sound the same is that there are so damn few of them. I guess once you get your talking heads card, you will never again be out of work. Even the British networks recycle the same blah blah people I saw when I used to watch Fox News.
ITV is a private UK broadcasting network, They are more overtly anti-Trump than the pretend-to-be-unbiased Americans and twice as nasty.
Sky News is also British. They have the dullest presentation bar none. It is tough to plow through this performance.
Yahoo is anchored by Katie Couric. I will say that she is a pro and handles the anchor with poise and charm. Unfortunately, she is still Katie Couric. You might tune in early to see Frank Luntz's predictions and his denouncement of the GOP now that he has joined CBS.
For a change of pace, Never-Trumpers from The Blaze provide an interesting variation on a theme. Anyone who says Democrats have a monopoly on smug never met a Never-Trumper. Tomi Lahren, a Trump supporter, steals the show. Beck is funny for proclaiming Hillary's victory and later hedging his bets while stating that he predicted Trump's victory long ago if this and that and that and this and the stars align and...I know money is tight at The Blaze but they might consider getting themselves a sound engineer or at least spring for a few more microphones.
Propaganda is ugly but failed propaganda is art. Sit back and enjoy an art form such as we might never again witness. This is music to my ears.
ITV
SKY NEWS
YAHOO
THE BLAZE
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Saturday, December 2, 2017
Friday, September 23, 2016
Angela Merkel Would Like To Turn Back Time
If I could turn back time...
Germany’s taciturn chancellor surprised the country this week with an uncharacteristically frank speech apologizing for her handing of the refugee crisis. Angela Merkel’s contrite comments came after her party suffered dismal results in state elections this month, losing support to the upstart anti-immigrant party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).
Who knew this might work out so well? Yahoo
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Reading The Tea Leaves Again
Try this at home. Read an online article that is either pro-Obama or anti-tea or politically correct. Read the text and then scroll down to the comments. We might have a Humpty Dumpty situation on our hands.
Case in point: A Fox News blog did a cover story 'Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs.' Get this, use of the word hip-hop is now considered racist. At least when Fox News uses the term. Never mind that hip-hoppers were on hand for the presidential bash. Racism!
A disturbing aside: Fox News scrubbed parts of the original story that Yahoo News called "incendiary." Be that as it may, the Yahoo News story is clearly disapproving of Fox News, either for this transgression or for cumulative and ongoing transgressions. One more "How dare they speak against the chosen one" hit piece. Yawn.
But Yahoo News leaves room for reader comments. Please read them. Even when the article is blatantly anti-Fox/pro-Obama-poor-poor-baby-waaaa the comments are overwhelmingly whiskey tango foxtrot.
Check it out.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/fox-news-website-calls-obama-birthday-party-hip-214154301.html
Case in point: A Fox News blog did a cover story 'Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs.' Get this, use of the word hip-hop is now considered racist. At least when Fox News uses the term. Never mind that hip-hoppers were on hand for the presidential bash. Racism!
A disturbing aside: Fox News scrubbed parts of the original story that Yahoo News called "incendiary." Be that as it may, the Yahoo News story is clearly disapproving of Fox News, either for this transgression or for cumulative and ongoing transgressions. One more "How dare they speak against the chosen one" hit piece. Yawn.
But Yahoo News leaves room for reader comments. Please read them. Even when the article is blatantly anti-Fox/pro-Obama-poor-poor-baby-waaaa the comments are overwhelmingly whiskey tango foxtrot.
Check it out.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/fox-news-website-calls-obama-birthday-party-hip-214154301.html
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Notice How AP Buries The Missouri Rejection of Obamacare at the Bottom of The Article?
I don't like to cut and paste entire articles but AP has a habit of revising (and disappearing) content and I want to savor theis gotcha moment.
By LIZ SIDOTI, AP National Political Writer Liz Sidoti, Ap National Political Writer – 52 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Michigan voters fired seven-term Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and chose political newcomer Rick Snyder as the Republican nominee in the race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm in a state severely battered by the economic downturn.
The two outcomes on Tuesday reflected the electorate's strong anti-establishment sentiment and intense desire for new faces just three months before midterm elections that will determine power in Congress.
Other outcomes in races in Missouri and Kansas had been expected in what otherwise has been a primary season filled with unanticipated results as tea party hopefuls shook up races and voters spurned candidates aligned with the political parties.
In Kansas, two-term Sen. Sam Brownback sailed to the GOP nomination in the gubernatorial race. Democrat Robin Carnahan — a member of a famed Missouri political family — and seven-term GOP Rep. Roy Blunt secured spots on the November ballot in that state's Senate race.
Another longtime politician — GOP Rep. Jerry Moran — narrowly topped fellow Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt in the race for the party's Senate nod in Kansas and will face Democrat Lisa Johnston, a college administrator. Moran had the backing of Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., while Tiahrt had the support of Sarah Palin. Victory in the GOP primary was tantamount to a general election win as Kansas hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932.
Kilpatrick was the sixth incumbent lawmaker to lose this year. Sens. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, and Arlen Specter, D-Pa., were ousted by their respective parties. Reps. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., Parker Griffith, R-Ala., and Bob Inglis, R-S.C., have failed in their primary bids.
State Sen. Hansen Clarke of Detroit beat Kilpatrick and, throughout the campaign, stressed the legal problems of her son, Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned as Detroit mayor in 2008 after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice. Kilpatrick tried to overcome her son's legal woes by emphasizing her membership on the House Appropriations Committee and what she called her record of providing for the metropolitan Detroit district.
In the Michigan governor's race, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero grabbed the Democratic nod by beating House Speaker Andy Dillon.
But Snyder automatically became the favorite in the economically ailing state. Michigan has the nation's second-highest unemployment rate — at 13.2 percent — and scores of foreclosures, and that has been a drag on Granholm, the Democratic governor who must leave office after two terms.
Snyder — who grabbed attention with ads promoting himself as "one tough nerd" — overcame Attorney General Mike Cox, Rep. Pete Hoekstra and two others. The former computer executive — he once served as president and chief operating officer of Gateway Inc. — spent $6 million of his own money through mid-July.
Snyder estimates that he's had a hand in helping create 400 Michigan jobs and 1,200 nationally. But he's been criticized for Gateway's decision to drop most of the 9,000 U.S. jobs added while Snyder was in management when it moved much of its manufacturing operations to other countries. He was still on Gateway's board when the change occurred, but wasn't involved in those decisions.
Dearborn resident Jim Kwilos said he voted for Snyder because he believes the former computer executive is the best candidate to turn Michigan around.
"He doesn't have the baggage of a traditional politician," said Kwilos, 54, a sales representative and Republican. "He comes from a different mindset, which I think is refreshing. It's about jobs and productivity and things he can do that will benefit everybody in the state."
In Kansas, Brownback easily won the GOP gubernatorial nomination over a single opponent and already was considered the front-runner for the general election. He is giving up a Senate seat he's held since 1997. A conservative favorite, he made a brief run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination before dropping out.
State Sen. Tom Holland is unopposed for the Democratic nomination. They will square off to succeed Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson, who was finishing out the remainder of Kathleen Sebelius' term. She left office last year to become President Barack Obama's Health and Human Services Secretary.
In Missouri, Carnahan, the daughter of a former governor and a former senator, easily defeated two challengers. Her Senate bid comes 10 years after the death of her father and one of her brothers. They died in an October 2000 plane crash while Mel Carnahan was campaigning for the Senate.
Robin Carnahan, the two-term secretary of state, will face Blunt, who has served in the House since 1996 and whose son is a former governor. He beat eight opponents for the GOP nomination, including tea party favorite state Sen. Chuck Purgason. Four-term Sen. Kit Bond is retiring.
Missouri also became the first state to test the popularity of Obama's health care overhaul law.
Voters strongly approved a new law that prohibits the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them from paying for their own health care. That conflicts with a federal requirement that most people have health insurance or face penalties starting in 2014.
The legal effect is questionable, because federal laws generally supersede those in states. But its passage send a clear political message to Obama and the Democrats.
By LIZ SIDOTI, AP National Political Writer Liz Sidoti, Ap National Political Writer – 52 mins ago
WASHINGTON – Michigan voters fired seven-term Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and chose political newcomer Rick Snyder as the Republican nominee in the race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm in a state severely battered by the economic downturn.
The two outcomes on Tuesday reflected the electorate's strong anti-establishment sentiment and intense desire for new faces just three months before midterm elections that will determine power in Congress.
Other outcomes in races in Missouri and Kansas had been expected in what otherwise has been a primary season filled with unanticipated results as tea party hopefuls shook up races and voters spurned candidates aligned with the political parties.
In Kansas, two-term Sen. Sam Brownback sailed to the GOP nomination in the gubernatorial race. Democrat Robin Carnahan — a member of a famed Missouri political family — and seven-term GOP Rep. Roy Blunt secured spots on the November ballot in that state's Senate race.
Another longtime politician — GOP Rep. Jerry Moran — narrowly topped fellow Republican Rep. Todd Tiahrt in the race for the party's Senate nod in Kansas and will face Democrat Lisa Johnston, a college administrator. Moran had the backing of Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., while Tiahrt had the support of Sarah Palin. Victory in the GOP primary was tantamount to a general election win as Kansas hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932.
Kilpatrick was the sixth incumbent lawmaker to lose this year. Sens. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, and Arlen Specter, D-Pa., were ousted by their respective parties. Reps. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., Parker Griffith, R-Ala., and Bob Inglis, R-S.C., have failed in their primary bids.
State Sen. Hansen Clarke of Detroit beat Kilpatrick and, throughout the campaign, stressed the legal problems of her son, Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned as Detroit mayor in 2008 after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice. Kilpatrick tried to overcome her son's legal woes by emphasizing her membership on the House Appropriations Committee and what she called her record of providing for the metropolitan Detroit district.
In the Michigan governor's race, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero grabbed the Democratic nod by beating House Speaker Andy Dillon.
But Snyder automatically became the favorite in the economically ailing state. Michigan has the nation's second-highest unemployment rate — at 13.2 percent — and scores of foreclosures, and that has been a drag on Granholm, the Democratic governor who must leave office after two terms.
Snyder — who grabbed attention with ads promoting himself as "one tough nerd" — overcame Attorney General Mike Cox, Rep. Pete Hoekstra and two others. The former computer executive — he once served as president and chief operating officer of Gateway Inc. — spent $6 million of his own money through mid-July.
Snyder estimates that he's had a hand in helping create 400 Michigan jobs and 1,200 nationally. But he's been criticized for Gateway's decision to drop most of the 9,000 U.S. jobs added while Snyder was in management when it moved much of its manufacturing operations to other countries. He was still on Gateway's board when the change occurred, but wasn't involved in those decisions.
Dearborn resident Jim Kwilos said he voted for Snyder because he believes the former computer executive is the best candidate to turn Michigan around.
"He doesn't have the baggage of a traditional politician," said Kwilos, 54, a sales representative and Republican. "He comes from a different mindset, which I think is refreshing. It's about jobs and productivity and things he can do that will benefit everybody in the state."
In Kansas, Brownback easily won the GOP gubernatorial nomination over a single opponent and already was considered the front-runner for the general election. He is giving up a Senate seat he's held since 1997. A conservative favorite, he made a brief run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination before dropping out.
State Sen. Tom Holland is unopposed for the Democratic nomination. They will square off to succeed Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson, who was finishing out the remainder of Kathleen Sebelius' term. She left office last year to become President Barack Obama's Health and Human Services Secretary.
In Missouri, Carnahan, the daughter of a former governor and a former senator, easily defeated two challengers. Her Senate bid comes 10 years after the death of her father and one of her brothers. They died in an October 2000 plane crash while Mel Carnahan was campaigning for the Senate.
Robin Carnahan, the two-term secretary of state, will face Blunt, who has served in the House since 1996 and whose son is a former governor. He beat eight opponents for the GOP nomination, including tea party favorite state Sen. Chuck Purgason. Four-term Sen. Kit Bond is retiring.
Missouri also became the first state to test the popularity of Obama's health care overhaul law.
Voters strongly approved a new law that prohibits the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them from paying for their own health care. That conflicts with a federal requirement that most people have health insurance or face penalties starting in 2014.
The legal effect is questionable, because federal laws generally supersede those in states. But its passage send a clear political message to Obama and the Democrats.
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