Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread
By David Neiwert Sunday Nov 30, 2008 5:00am
Joe Jackson, "Sunday Papers," from 1979.
Pretty spare offerings this Sunday. The Villagers' obsessive use of movement conservatives seems to be abating somewhat, but you'll notice once again that very few bona fide liberals are few and far between still:
ABC's "This Week" - Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
CBS' "Face the Nation" - Authors round table.
NBC's "Meet the Press" - First lady Laura Bush; Said Jawad, Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S.; Ted Turner, CNN founder and author of a new memoir.
CNN's "Late Edition" - Sens. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Sajjan Gohel, director of international security, Asia-Pacific Foundation; Ron Gettelfinger, president of United Auto Workers; Gene Sperling, former Clinton administration economic adviser; Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, the commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq.
CNN's "GPS with Fareed Zakaria" - This week, Fareed speaks to world experts about foreign policy challenges facing Barack Obama.
"Fox News Sunday" - Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.
"The Chris Matthews Show" - Panel: David Ignatius, Ceci Connolly, Katty Kay, Mark Whitaker. Topics: Will the right and left give Obama a honeymoon? How will Islamic extremists view Obama's presidency?
What's catching your eye this morning?
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...is the fact that... despite HUGE gains in both the House & Senate, and the election of a Democratic President by a 2:1 electoral vote margin, all demonstrating that the country is moving away from Republican politics and policies...
..it STILL is not possible for the Sunday shows to avoid booking one Republican for every Democrat.
THAT catches my eye.
which has 2 R's and 1 D. The surprising thing is Fox has a D on their show
I notice that they are still giving free election airtime (Chambliss) for their GOP cronies.
Bush Sr. to Limbaugh: How's our man, Ailles?
Fox is interviewing Saxby Chambliss but not his Democratic challenger, Jim Martin. Par for the course. Well, I already cast my vote for Martin in early voting.
This is the first song I ever heard by Joe Jackson. I was still living in Florida at the time and this song same on my car radio. It immediately caught my attention, with its choppy off-kilter rhythm guitar and loping bass. I was an early fan of punk rock, (though by this time punk was 2 or 3 years on), and the song sounded, if not "punk," at least "punky." Plus, it was catchy as hell! As I recall, the dj didn't announce the song or the artist, or I missed it, so it took me a little time to learn this information. Later in the year, I took my first visit to NYC, where I now reside. My traveling companion and I, visiting friends from college who had moved north, were intent on hitting as many of NYC's interesting record stores as our hosts' patience would allow. One of the albums I bought was Jackson's LOOK SHARP!, from whence comes this tune. (I bought the English import version, a double-EP, about half-way in size between a 45" and a full LP.)
Though I haven't followed Jackson's career in many years, I happend to see him just s few weeks ago here in NYC. A friend--one of those two original college friends whom I had first come to NYC to visit--had planned to go with a friend of his who was flying in from Chicago for the occasion. His friend couldn't make it and my friend had an extra ticket. He called me just hours before showtime and asked if I were free and interested. I was and I was, and totally unexpectedly, I found myself at a Joe Jackson concert.
He's reduced his band to a trio, removing, sadly, the guitar, but he still has the essential Graham Maby on bass. Although I was unfamiliar with perhaps two thirds of the set list, I quite enjoyed every bit of the show. The audience, who all looked a bit middle-aged, (in other words, they were of my generation), seemed to have follwed Joe all these years. They screamed requests and shouts of approval throughout the show, as if they were still teens and Joe still on top of the charts. It was quite fun.
(The last concert I saw before this was the reformed Stooges, about four years ago.)
Go figure — this song kicked off the "Sunday Talk" preview on dKos last night, too, giving me a chance to share a picture I took of Joe Jackson here in Atlanta earlier this year.
I also bought the double 10" version of Look Sharp! when it came out. It had a half inch "LOOK SHARP!" button included with it, which I wore to concerts for quite some time thereafter.
Unfortunately by the early 80's he was more like an English Barry Manilow.
Can we get Fareed Zakaria's GPS on CNN in the weekly Bobblehead update?
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/fareed.zakari...
How will Joe Lieberman vote? For that matter, what about Harry Reid??!
I second Zakaria, most of these lineups are sparse and and barren for a reason: They come that way from the factory. Dumbed down for mass consumption.
Well, the first snowfall of the new season is occurring, four heavy, wet inches of snow cling to everything. I'm so glad I planted the white pines outside the living room window a few years back, now have 4 ready made Christmas trees already up and covered in snow to look at instead of that dreadful lineup of talk shows
We're still getting highs in the 70's.
I'm considering pulling out my platform shoes.
and was noted by George Will today. HRC has proven she's neither an effective leader nor an effective manager. Nonetheless, she will be successful I think because of her personality, her connections, and because so many (myself included) are wanting her be successful in the job. That's a big plus.
Obama must appoint a very strong 2nd to run things for her there. If he doesn't, things at State can go really bad, terribly fast.
it seemed to me that bob schieffer was enjoying himself on Face the Nation this morning...
good comment after also... maybe it's the end of 4am super sales?
What's catching your eye this morning?
The Sandman.
I was struck by how little discussion there was of the terrorist incident in Mumbai. After weeks of speculation and punditry about Obama's "challenges", the bailout, the GOP's decline and Sarah Palin's future, one would think there would now be room for discussion about, you know, the world at large. Perhaps if more Americans had been killed it would have warranted attention?
It is astounding how tenaciously George Will clings to his delusion that, because his income and portfolio are healthy, the economy is going swimmingly. For the past 8 years, while the storm clouds gathered and got continually darker and darker, he continued to opine on This Week that Americans were just nervous nellies with no good reason for their lack of optimism about the economy -- everything was just great, we were all just too stoooopid to recognize that this is the best of all possible economic worlds. Now that the economy's implosion cannot be ignored, he continues to insist that, despite all evidence to the contrary, the economy is actually doing much better than we think. It's really jaw-dropping how he. just. can't. give. it. UP.
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