२३ ऑगस्ट, २०१८

I'm reading Isaac Stanley-Becker in The Washington Post again

I noticed him for the first time yesterday — "In Trump’s right-wing media universe, it was a day like any other." I see "Isaac Stanley-Becker is a reporter based in the U.K. He is completing a doctorate in modern European history at the University of Oxford, where he is a Rhodes Scholar." I'm making an Isaac Stanley-Becker tag.

Today, he's already got 2 short articles, both of which interest me. You'll note the bloggerly panache.

1. "Trump tweets the word ‘Africa’ for first time as president — in defense of whites in South Africa." today:
The alleged plight of white South Africans is a major rallying cry of far-right movements across North America, Europe and Australia. An online petition titled “Genocide of whites in South Africa,” which calls on Trump to allow “white Boers to come to the United States,” has garnered [garnered!] nearly 23,000 signatures.

Daniel Dale, a correspondent for the Toronto Star, observed that Trump’s tweet Wednesday marked the first time he had used the word “Africa” on the social media platform since becoming president — “to express support for white people,” Dale said, “on the recommendation” of white nationalists, whose claims had been amplified by the Fox host. An archive of Trump’s tweets indeed reveals that Wednesday’s post was his first as president that included the word “Africa.”
2. "Beyond ‘You’re So Vain’: A new Carly Simon-Mick Jagger duet is unearthed 46 years later." Oh! I am so tired of 46 years of the subject of who the song that talks about who the song is about is about [sic], but...
The Rolling Stones singer did backing vocals for “You’re So Vain”...  In her memoir, Simon recalled... [Mick] testing out a song, which included the lyrics, “Funny, funny, funny, funny, how love can make you cry.”...

A new duet, never before played in public, was recently discovered on a tape... The lyrics recalled by Simon match [the tape], though the two seem to croon the word “change,” not “cry.”...

In an interview with the magazine in 2016, Simon stoked speculation about the long-lost duet. She sang the line she had put in her book, asking, “Does that sound like any Stones song to you?” The interviewer suggested “Fool to Cry”...

“Maybe, maybe,” Simon said. “We had this little back and forth at the piano for about an hour.” But then Paul and Linda McCartney arrived, she said, and the spontaneous collaboration was over....

In her memoir, she wrote that “for Mick Jagger, all women, including me, were his, by divine right.”
Whatever. "Fool to Cry" is kind of my favorite Rolling Stones song. A great soundtrack for crying, if that's ever on your agenda:



But don't you hate that — when you're having a sublimely artistic and romantic experience and Paul and Linda McCartney arrive?

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Birkel म्हणाले...

When you’r a Star like Mick Jagger, they let you?

Also... garner?

Rusty म्हणाले...

South Africa is going to imitate Zimbabwe?
What could possibly go wrong.

Doug म्हणाले...

Yeah ... McCartney shows up, and the grown-up conversation is over.

mezzrow म्हणाले...

I bet Isaac feels more at home in the UK than he did here in the US.

Bay Area Guy म्हणाले...

"Fool to Cry" > "You're so Vain"

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

But don't you hate that — when you're having a sublimely artistic and romantic experience and Paul and Linda McCartney arrive?

LOL. Damn McCartneys!! Their timing sucks!

mezzrow म्हणाले...

great football (soccer) songs that never happened:

Leighton Baines,
I bet you think this song is about you,
Leighton Baines,
I bet you think this song is about you, don't you, don't you...

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

Keeping track of words and subjects that Trump tweets about. He really is in Democrats' heads, isn't he!

David Begley म्हणाले...

“to express support for white people....”

How about support for private property, limited government and the rule of law?

Birkel म्हणाले...

That many articles in rapid succession?
One has to wonder how many people Isaac Stanley-Becker is screwing to get his sources.
Ali Watkins had to do about a dozen at a time, I’m guessing.

wwww म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
The Crack Emcee म्हणाले...

Isaac Stanley-Becker may not realize, as I do, that Trump Might Be a Criminal. But So Is Everyone Else.

Once he does, he'll be screaming bloody murder, as well.

Tom Grey म्हणाले...

I really like this Stone's song, too. But I like the radio studio version so much, this one misses something for me.

White genocide is being promoted in Zud Africa. Where are those who didn't care about Hutus murdering Tutsis in 1994, those who don't talk about continuing killing in the Congo (5 million or more dead, and counting); where was Black Lives Matter? Or Obama? Or most Dems. Many whites didn't care much (nor about the Cambodian Killing Fields).

There are two white tribes, and over 10 black tribes, but the white Boers have long been the key farmers. (I've just been reading about Winston Churchill's war-mongering anti-Boer inciting war in 1898, since the English failed to win the earlier Boer war against Huguenot decedents who wanted to be left alone, more than wanting the most gold or diamonds.)

The blacks deciding to steal white land will not turn out well. Glad I didn't stay at the Free Market Foundation in SA.

Jaq म्हणाले...

The song is about Carly Simon and how she always lets rich powerful men grab her by the pussy and then gets upset about it later.

Phil 314 म्हणाले...

Now I wanna make sure, this ISN'T a cafe post?

D 2 म्हणाले...

"Fool to Cry" is the song - that whole album really (Black and Blue) is when the Stones stopped being a British rock n roll band and sounded like an American one. There. I said it. I have no proof, of course, except listening to the record for 30+ years. (I can't say I am old enough to have bought it in '76.

Hmm. Maybe it works better if I linked my opinion with "Here are five reasons why..." or "And you won't believe what happens next" or "You need to know about this right now...." or "Carly Simon did not believe it"

James Pawlak म्हणाले...

It is the "Washington Compost".

gilbar म्हणाले...

you're having a sublimely artistic and romantic experience and Paul and Linda McCartney arrive
this pretty well sums up the whole Beatles thing

Charlie Currie म्हणाले...

Has anyone ever actually seen Mick Jagger and Carly Simon together in the same room?

Bill R म्हणाले...

...and Paul and Linda McCartney arrive.

First laugh of the day. Good one!

Jaq म्हणाले...

BTW, it was a day like any other. We have been feed these stories that never pan out about how this, THIS, is finally the thing that will bring down Trump!

Jaq म्हणाले...

since the day he rode down that escalator.

Birches म्हणाले...

How date Trump care about property rights. Those people are white!

tim maguire म्हणाले...

1) Of course it's "far right" to care about injustices visited against white people. The enlightened good people only care about the plight of those with pre-approved skin tone.

2) My favorite part of who the song is about is how ironic it makes the refrain "you probably think this song is about you" because that person is right. It is about them.

robother म्हणाले...

When the trailer's rockin' Paul & Linda shouldn't be knockin.

dustbunny म्हणाले...

Charlie Currie beat me to it, the resemblance is eerie. IMO, Simon has always been insufferable.

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

"Black and Blue" is when I realized the Stones were no longer any good.

Churchy LaFemme: म्हणाले...

Charlie Currie beat me to it, the resemblance is eerie. IMO, Simon has always been insufferable.

But the two No Secrets on that cover inspired a lot of us in those pre-Farah days..

Jaq म्हणाले...

that person is right. It is about them.

Yep, Carly sure seemed to fall for rich guys. "I ain't sayin' she's a gold digger, but she ain't messin' with no broke niggers."

iowan2 म्हणाले...

President Trump has force the media to admit that the govt of South African is taking land from owners due to the color of their skin. The media has ignored this bit of governance, until President Trump. The talking heads have alluded to it, one black commentator even laughed about the murdered white farmers,"ha ha, whats it been a couple of white farmers have died? ha ha, a couple, really?"

Killing those whiteys, what a hoot.

Char Char Binks, Esq. म्हणाले...

Save the Boer! Bring them here.

I applaud SA for taking white farms. They'll starve to death, like they did in Rhodesia. They can't even keep the water running in Cape Town. The sooner they garner wha they deserve, the better.

Tank म्हणाले...

Birches said...

How date Trump care about property rights. Those people are white!



Well it's not just property rights. They are murdering the farmers and their families, raping the women, torturing the children.

Tank म्हणाले...

We should allow open refugee status to all SA farmers and their families, in fact to all SA Whites who are already in the early stages of being victims of a genocide. Unfortunately, the farmers can't sell their farms to move here; they are now worthless because of gov't action.

Michael in ArchDen म्हणाले...

The president who has been best on African issues (in my lifetime, at least) was GWB. But he got zero credit for it from either side, so I can't blame Trump for benign neglect...

Birches म्हणाले...

Australia is doing a lot for these farmers. I guess Australia is racist too...

Dad29 म्हणाले...

So now it's racist to defend property rights, eh? Just like it's "racist" to notice that Mollie Tibbett's murderer/rapist is an illegal.

OK, then.

Birches म्हणाले...

In her memoir, she wrote that “for Mick Jagger, all women, including me, were his, by divine right.

Because it is true. Seriously. To my generation, Mick Jagger has always been an old man and yet there is something about him that is so incredibly sexy. Even now! It's ridiculous.

Jupiter म्हणाले...

Tank said...

"Well it's not just property rights. They are murdering the farmers and their families, raping the women, torturing the children."

Of course they are. It's what they do. It's the only thing they're good at.

JEP म्हणाले...

"alleged plight of white South Africans" I was in Namibia a month ago. One weekend during the visit there were 12 white farmers in SA killed; one of them was a friend and business acquaintance of the people I was staying with. The SA government has been quite open about changing the constitution to allow taking without compensation, and has recently decided to try taking some without even passing the constitutional warrant. The government was upset that the takings list was leaked. They wanted the element of surprise. Those people face ruin and death. So what the fuck is "alleged" about this? It's fact.

I suppose it will be largely overlooked, but the existence of those game farms in SA has been a huge factor in the recovery of species elsewhere poached to extinction. They will not long survive the ownership transfer.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

In her memoir, she wrote that “for Mick Jagger, all women, including me, were his, by divine right.”

That doesn’t say she turned him down, does it? Did she give him “Satisfaction”?

PhilD म्हणाले...

Strange thing, diversity being so good shouldn't there be a call to diversify 'black Africa'? Why is this 'white nationalism' (a rhetorical question I know)?

richlb म्हणाले...

It's no "Chopping Broccoli".

Sebastian म्हणाले...

"Trump tweets the word ‘Africa’ for first time as president — in defense of whites in South Africa."

Which, as a grateful Rhodes scholar, Isaac surely applauds, right?

Sebastian म्हणाले...

"In her memoir, she wrote that “for Mick Jagger, all women, including me, were his, by divine right."

Cuz, when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.

So, who will get to Mick first, #MeToo or the Grim Reaper?

"Because it is true. Seriously. To my generation, Mick Jagger has always been an old man and yet there is something about him that is so incredibly sexy. Even now! It's ridiculous."

When you're a star etc. I mean, it's obviously not his body, his mind, or, God forbid, his voice.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

It’s easy to predict the result of South Africa’s driving off the white farmers; circa 2000 Mugabe did much the same in Zimbabwe, and within two years the country was deep in famine. By 2015 Mugabe was pleading for the farmers to come back. South Africa will be no different, but this time the farmers will be dead and unable to come back, and perhaps this time the West will know better than to send relief supplies to bail out s terminally stupid government.

Cookie won’t believe this, but starvation on a nation-wide is not always capitalism’s fault.

PhilD म्हणाले...

"Cookie won’t believe this, but starvation on a nation-wide is not always capitalism’s fault."

Seeing that (small c) capitalism is an economic system and not a moral one (that's not a criticism of capitalism, only observing that it is incomplete. Morality has to come from outside it) capitalism is as far as I know almost never at fault (but a 'capitalistic' society might sometimes, partially, be (*)). The 'starvation' ex-colonial societies are the ones who went the socialist way, or who had starvation imposed upon them by 'progressives' (like a Pol Pot or an 'Uncle Joe' or the Kimmies). In general, starvation policies need political power concentrated to few people and capitalism, together with a moral society, tends to distribute power to many people.
Soemthing a Red Nazi like Cookie will never understand.


(*) thinking about the potato famine in Ireland and the 'laissez faire laissez passer' UK society of the time. Of course, anti-Catholicism didn't help.

buwaya म्हणाले...

They dont want the South African whites because they know they'll vote Republican.

dustbunny म्हणाले...

‘But then Paul and Linda McCartney arrive’,is the ultimate humble brag.

iowan2 म्हणाले...

Cookie won’t believe this, but starvation on a nation-wide is not always capitalism’s fault.

Indeed. I'm not a historian, but a quick scan of my memory, tells me 99.9% of those dying of starvation, was at the hands of the left side of the political spectrum of governance. That that was not intentional,(Stalin, Pol Pot, etc) were due to failed ideology (Valenzuela) There might exist a capitalist governance that is responsible for wide spread starvation, and I'm sure the smart commentators here that will enlighten me and others to those facts.

Anthony म्हणाले...

They'll wreck SA just like they did Rhodesia.

And it will all be ignored.

Jaq म्हणाले...

Australia is doing a lot for these farmers. I guess Australia is racist too...

They need people whose accents are even funnier than theirs.

Christy म्हणाले...

When I need a good cry I read the last scene of Cyrano.

RigelDog म्हणाले...

White farmers and their families have been targeted for murder and terror for years now, and it's escalating. I saw an interview with a woman in South Africa who is part of a cleaning crew that specializes in cleaning up scenes of murder and mayhem. One horrible aspect of the interview was seeing how exquisitely careful the women had to be in explaining what they do and what they've seen, in the sense that they had no real freedom of speech at all. I can't even bring myself to describe what she said was her most disturbing scene, where a twelve year old boy was tortured to death. Twelve years old.

RigelDog म्हणाले...

It's no "Chopping Broccoli".}}}
One of our favorite bits by Dana Carvey! Our daughter was a toddler at the time who loved broccoli and so we would sing this to her but we changed the lyrics to "Baby Broccoli, she's Baby Broccolah, she's the Baby Broccoli and she's the baby that I see and she's the Baby Broccolah!"

Openidname म्हणाले...

Trump's tweet was about South Africa, so of course it had the word "Africa."

The relevant question is not whether he 's used the word "Africa" before; it's whether he's used the name of a country in Africa before (Angola, Benin, Botswana, etc.).

P.S. If he had tweeted about "Africa" before, they'd be accusing him of racism because he was making generalizations about a whole continent.

Gordon Scott म्हणाले...

Back in the early 1960s Carly and her sister had an act, The Simon Sisters. It is alleged that they were traveling across the Atlantic on the same liner as Sean Connery. Connery proposed a Simon Sandwich. Carly and her sister declined. But Carly discovered later that her sister had hooked up with Connery alone that night. Allegedly, she was so disgusted that she soon ended the joint performing act.

Carly apparently overcame her disgust for one-night stands with famous men.

LA_Bob म्हणाले...

‘But then Paul and Linda McCartney arrive’,is the ultimate humble brag.

"Yesterday.....
Paul and Linda seemed so far away.
Now I'm hoping they don't plan to stay.
Oh, I believe in Yesterday...

Why they
Had to come I don't know, they wouldn't say.
Now our collaboration is done, and we can't play-ay-ay-ay...."

Jaq म्हणाले...

BTW, I haven't spent a lot of time in OZ in a couple decades, but at the time, it was the most racist place I had ever been. Of course the government had decided that the population needed to be much more Asian and was importing large numbers of Chinese to fill out the voter rolls, so that may have been part of it.

DavidD म्हणाले...

Carly Simon and Mick Jagger have the same lips.

MickJag68 म्हणाले...

Women are my divine right. True that.
Hussein Obama was born a Brit like me, that's why he was not a natural born Citizen, and not eligible.

MickJag68 म्हणाले...

Were you trying to conjure me up Althouse?