I just want to talk about the headline — over at Steady — "Dear SCOTUS, Look What You Have Done/The unintended consequences that could affect the election."
Pardon me for fussing over a headline when the country is collapsing into chaos.
Pardon me for fussing over a headline when the country is collapsing into chaos.
I'd never heard of Steady. I see that Steady is "Dan Rather's steady take on a complex and chaotic world." Well, if you have some new enterprise dedicated to steadiness — then connect to cultural foundations. Understand your allusions.
"Dear SCOTUS, Look What You Have Done" seems to reference 2 songs from the White Album — "Dear Prudence" and "Sexy Sadie" ("Sexy Sadie, what have you done?/You made a fool of everyone"). I would tweak the headline to either "Dear SCOTUS, Open Up Your Eyes" or "Sexy SCOTUS, What Have You Done?"
I know. There so many things I could have blogged about before this. A plethora.
ADDED: Helping me proofread, Meade read this post aloud, and halfway through, he was singing a song from The White Album and it wasn't "Dear Prudence" or "Sexy Sadie." It was "Martha My Dear": "Hold your head up, you silly girl/See what you've done/When you find yourself in the thick of it/Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you...."
ALSO: Dan Rather is 92. A 92-year-old man is offering to steady us. The arrogance of the old these days is truly stunning. But who knows the extent to which "Dan Rather" is merely a figurehead? The trouble with a gerontocracy is that we are governed by faceless, unknowable personages. I'm not reassured that they call themselves Team Steady, but I would enjoy it, painfully, if the people behind Joe Biden had a similarly snappy name, something like — help me out here — Team Unify?
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i think Dan Rather wants to be a paperback writer.. Or, perhaps a metermaid?
There's also a Beatles' song titled "What You're Doing" that opens with the line "Look what you're doing."
My thoughts went to "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma," by Melanie.
Look what they done to my song, ma
Look what they done to my song
Well, it's the only thing that I could do half right
And it's turning out all wrong, ma
Look what they done to my song
Look what they done to my brain, ma
Look what they done to my brain
Well, they picked it like a chicken bone
And I think I'm half insane, ma
Look what they done to my song
I wish I could find a good book to live in
Wish I could find a good book
Well, if I could find a real good book
I'd never have to come out and look at
What they done to my song
Look what they done to my song
But maybe it'll all be alright, ma
Maybe it'll all be okay
Well, if the people are buying tears
I'll be rich someday, ma
Look what they done to my song
“Pardon me for fussing over a headline when the country is collapsing into chaos.”
Pardon you? That’s your core brand!
He should always be styled "Dan FBA Rather" .
FBA fo fake but accurate.
We should not revile but revere him. He is one of the people who pulled back the curtain revealing the utter bankruptcy of the news media.
We need to remember that the news has been playing us fast and loose with fake news (as cnn label it) for hundreds of year.
The spirit of Dan rather was baked into the first broadsheets of the 1600s
John Henry
"Sexy SCOTUS, What Have You Done?" Heh. You get better with every sunrise.
Is that hack still alive?
"Unintended consequences?"
Are we supposed to pretend that the Democrat hadn't planned and aren't responsible for the consequences? They only have three things going for them: Hatred of Trump, abortion and election fraud. They also have a compliant media that gives short shrift to their incompetence and ill will.
Unfortunately, that's probably enough.
"should take note of a plethora of unintended consequences that have come from the reversal of Roe"
The cure for blood-lust is called love, love of children, love of other people,
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Pardon me for fussing over a headline when the country is collapsing into chaos...Dan Rather is 92. A 92-year-old man is offering to steady us. The arrogance of the old these days is truly stunning.
The reason the country is collapsing into chaos is because of arrogant liberals like Dan Rather. But, the liberal demographic is like Country Music Radio...it spans all ages. It just seems to be worse when they dig in to cover their corruption (Pelosi, Biden), or salvage a disappearing legacy (Dan Rather).
I do appreciate the recognition of "the arrogance of the old." This is especially true when it comes to their inability to absorb the troubling economic reality facing Generation Z.
Biden came in through the bathroom window.
Since America is on the fast track toward totalitarianism..."Back in the U.S.S.R." would be most appropriate.
From the post:
"I'm not reassured that they call themselves Team Steady, but I would enjoy it, painfully, if the people behind Joe Biden had a similarly snappy name, something like — help me out here — Team Unify?"
Team Unite or Else.
Dan Rather is an amoral man who was born attractive and could read words on a screen which is little different than hereditary title.
He didn’t produce anything of value in his life but he was given status and wealth by virtue of his service and propagandizing for the regime.
The problem he has right now is the same that all of the regime toadies have. Trump and Trump supporters are going to bring back a merit based system where well heeled Columbia and Harvard and Yale grads have to compete on a level playing field with those awful deplorables.
There is Taylor's "Look what you made me do", which seems to be what Rather is threatening, but the problem is he's already done so much. Rather is and will forever be a poster child for media disinformation.
Dan Rather is the #1 reason I quit trusting the mainstream media. I haven’t watched a Big 3 evening news program in fifteen years at least. Worse than Pravda.
Paul, white album, uncredited, in between Savoy Truffle and Revolution 9 on side 4:
"Can you take me back where I came from
Can you take me back...
Can you take me back where I came from
Brother can you take me baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack..........."
Rather has gone all Manson has he?
There's also Lennon's "War Is Over": "So this is Christmas, and what have you done?
And when he asked what she had done, she gave her father forty one.
People who speak in White Album lyrics should shampoo my crotch.
Chaos, shmaos. The 80/20 rule applies. About 20% of the population thinks that the United States is going to hell in a handbasket and is panicked over crazy dementia Joe Biden communist and fascist doofus crooked Donald Trump. Puleeeeeze.
The rest of us are living life with family and friends while you lot are driving yourselves loco masturbating to a mind vieus algorithm Chun ng out the mental equivalent of ultra processed junk food.
Enjoy your mental diabetes suckers.
My mind followed Wince's, to Melanie.
Ils ont changé ma chanson.
Dan: Rather not.
A 92 yr old man is, most likely, not physically steady. His site title could've been clever if he'd been self-deprecating with it.
Thanks for explaining the word Plethora. It means a lot.
Dan's a musical guy. It was REM who did "What's the frequency, Kenneth".
I'm not reassured that they call themselves Team Steady
Me neither. It sounds like something Barney Fife would name his project to organize the citizens of Mayberry against the threat posed by recent sightings of city girls in short skirts.
Ann is at The No No Song-
Dan Rather that I know just came from Majorca Spain
He smiled because I did not understand
Then he held out a 10 pound bag of Cocaine
He said it was the best in all the land
And I said:
No no no no, I don't [SNIFF] no more…
Please don't apologize for posts about some topics and not posting about other topics. It's YOUR blog, it's unique in that sense, and, at least for me, it's the reason I read your stuff each and every day.
Some topics you post on, they bore me. I might not even open up the continuation, the link or, God forbid, read the comments (Which are the best part -- not because your posts aren't interesting- they are, mightily as one might say. But at least half of the time, you throw a topic out there with maybe a one or two sentence take on it, and then conversation ensues. I get to see many different POVs and occasionally, you will sneak in (I am taking liberty with my description of you making an appearance in the comments section) and clarify, defend, refute, or caution to a certain end.
To "apologize" for a certain topic when there are more "weighty" topics out there to discuss is perhaps similar to those who say, "How can you be worried about (a locally-based topic of concern that a friend on Facebook posted about - say, reducing a perfectly fine six-lane highway to a four-lane highway for the purpose of creating bike lands THAT ARE NEVER USED - sorry, pissed off about that in my town) THAT, when 12,000 children have been slaughtered in Gaza by the JOOOOS?!?"
Guess what, oh keeper of the topics on Facebook and in other's minds: you don't get to decide what's important to me and others. You may comment on my topic, but you may NOT comment on the topic I selected because you give it little importance in your beehive of a mind.
So, Ann, may I urge you to post about whatever the Hell topic you choose and those who think the topic is trivial and that YOU should be posting about Trump, or Biden, or Ukraine, or gender affirming/mutilating care -- well, may I suggest that you tell them in that case, just. Scroll. On. By. or go to another blog you think you can control
Last point by me in this overly-long comment of mine: some of your topics are of interest to me because I never heard of them or considered them to worth my time investigating. I enjoy reading your blog and offer you thanks for your sometimes unheralded service to us, the readers.
Pardon me for fussing over a headline when the country is collapsing into chaos.
@Althouse, you mean you aren’t bored? Please don’t forget that the FEC limits your contribution to the Trump campaign to $3300.
The arrogance of the old these days is truly stunning.
Hey, lady! I’m 77 and I earned my arrogance. And if you had been a Republican you’d know that Dan Rather has always been an arrogant SOB.
John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson totally destroyed Rather’s credibility. In a decent world, he’d never open his pie hole in public again.
Ultra leftwing loser.
Howard the Fool wants us to believe he has friends. LOL
if the people behind Joe Biden had a similarly snappy name
The Gray Cells.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I’m ninety-four
To Dan Rather: No, Maybe
Dan is a “mook of the Left”.
Much like Excremental Howard.
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Dan's a musical guy. It was REM who did "What's the frequency, Kenneth".
Not sure I would use the word "musical."
Howard, bless your heart. You might want to get back on your meds. Or get some help. And Pareto's Law doesn't apply here as you well know. The percentage of the population that is dissatisfied with current events is growing. I will admit that 20% or less of the crazies (see elite college students) are causing 80% or more of the growing dissatisfaction. At what point will a snapback occur? Looks like we'll all find out sooner rather than later.
One might worry about what will happen when Dan Rather is gone to whoever actually writes this stuff under Dan Rather's name. Fortunately, that which is dead can never die.
Team Push the Teleprompter Closer
The man who helped forge a document in order to change an election says what?
Are we going to forget the throbbing memo?
Rather lather and repeat.
The aborted viability of democracy selected by gerontocracy that deprecated meritocracy.
Beginning with the fifth word of the article: "...this radical-right packed Supreme Court has an obsession..." So - jumping right in with inflammatory prose and unsubstantiated assertions, are we?
Let's skip to the graphics. Much red "Maternity care deserts" in Texas. I am familiar with the pointy end.
Zapata County: Pop 13.5/SqMi; no hospital
Jim Hogg: 4.6/SqMi; no hospital
Brooks: 7.6/SqMi; no hospital
Kenedy: 0.3/SqMi; no hospital
Willacy: 28.1/SqMi; no hospital
Duval: 6.5/SqMi; no hospital
LaSalle: 4.7/SqMi; no hospital
McMullen: 0.6/SqMi; no hospital
Live Oak: 10.9/SqMi; no hospital
San Patricio: 92.5/SqMi/ no hospital
LaSalle and Willacy have a high population density (relative to others listed) but yet are rural, small in area, and neighbor a larger and more populated county with one or more hospitals. Been that way for decades, so no consequence of Roe reversal. Methinks Mr. Rather is just slinging BS here (and, yes, there is literally plenty of bull shit in most of those counties listed).
"The rest of us are living life with family and friends while you lot are driving yourselves loco....
And yet... here you are.
Just running errands and listening to NPR. They're almost hysterical - bloviating about the Supreme Court's apparent disinterest in interfering with Donald Trump's immunity, and the prospect of the courtroom dramas now slipping past the election. It's really something to hear, 3 legal experts using something bordering on playground language to express their dismay with both the court and individual justices - actually re-assessing the election prospects in light of Donald Trump not being a convicted felon, as if they had already baked it in, and dined - and following up with an unrelated story that touches on how bad the court is. You can almost hear the spittle landing on the microphone. Can't wait to hear what it's all about.
Your voice is soothing, but the words aren't clear
You don't sound different, I've learned the game
I'm looking through you, you're not the same.
Wince
"Not sure I would use the word "musical.""
LOL-he's really groovy there!
Rather is the epitome of what's wrong with the news biz.
He was never very smart, but he had the right hair and a concerned furrow in his brow.
He was Ron Burgandy before Ron Burgandy.
'Biden came in through the bathroom window.'
Are you sure he didn't come on the bathroom window while watching his daughter take a shower?
John henry:
We should not revile but revere him. He is one of the people who pulled back the curtain revealing the utter bankruptcy of the news media.
Only because, like the inattentive leaving a restroom, it was stuck to the heel of his shoe.
Rather, like many on the left, has no idea as to the breadth and depth of knowledge we commoners have. It took one man with a typewriter fetish to glance at Rather's prize memo one time to think 'That was not done on an Army typewriter of the time.' and not just explain but demonstrate how so. Wiki: Charles Foster Johnson 's animated GIF image comparing a memo purportedly typewritten in 1973 with a proportional-spaced document made in Microsoft Word with default settings in 2004.
That pulled the loose thread on their sweater.
Team ............ pause for 6 seconds Unity
I am associating myself with Marcus Bressler's statement about how Ann runs this blog.
Don't change, Ann
JOhn Henry
I don't know about the rest of you, but Howard's overwrought, slightly insane insults have become my favorite part of this blog.
All due apologies to our hostess, I still appreciate the content she puts up. Then again, maybe Howard is an alt-troll account by Althouse herself. Or Meade. I've never seen Meade and Howard in the same room together. Wait a second, by that logic Howard is also Batman.
Baghdad Howard said: " The 80/20 rule applies. About 20% of the population thinks that the United States is going to hell in a handbasket .. "
Howard implies 80% think the US is doing just fine. Does Howard believe that? Of course not.
Team Steady is led by an esteemed toady. Dan Rather is the most busted name in news. I think it's counterproductive for the Biden people to enlist his services...I remember when Siegfried Sassoon wanted to enlist Robert Graves' efforts in his petition to end WWI. Robert Graves said that it would probably be better if someone named Siegfried didn't lead the anti-war efforts.....Any appearance by Rather is a subliminal though not subtle reminder of how biased the news people are.
Rather could be "Nowhere Man" - but that's already taken (by Biden, in case anyone's that slow on the uptake).
If we’re talking about songs with a “Dear X” motif, my first thought is Traffic’s “Dear Mr Fantasy”.
I, also, immediately thought of the Melanie song when I read the headline.
Wiki: Charles Foster Johnson 's animated GIF image comparing a memo purportedly typewritten in 1973 with a proportional-spaced document made in Microsoft Word with default settings in 2004.
I saw that GIF on "Free Republic" the very same evening he released it. In five seconds it was obvious that the whole thing was a crude and blatant forgery. What a glorious time to be alive, and know beyond all doubt that the leftist propaganda peddlers of the news media had been caught red-handed in a gigantic filthy lie for partisan political gain. That day is when their downward spiral began, and boy did they work hard to earn it.
There was additional corroboration of the memos' falsity by multiple lines of inquiry later. Most devastating was an analysis of the jargon showing it was written by an Army man rather than the Air Force officer who was its purported author. Plainly it was manufactured by Army Lt. Col. Bill Burkett, an angry leftist piece of shit willing to commit forgery and perjury to undermine the re-election of his Commander in Chief.
On a side note, the story of Charles Johnson is a sad one. He somehow lurched into the far fringes of the Left a few years after exposing the Dan Rather hoax. His "Little Green Footballs" blog, which had previously been the venue for much lively and freewheeling debate, instead became known for the kind of uncompromising conformist left-wing censorship that later characterized Facebook and the old Twitter. I quit going there when basically every comment I posted would be removed and I was warned I was close to a perma-ban. Haven't seen the site for fifteen years. I wonder if my old password still works.
Here's another ditty just for you Dan...
You're breakin' my heart you're tearin' it apart
So Fuck You.
Or maybe one he holds dear
Watchin the River Flow...
Or maybe one he holds dear
Watchin the River Flow...
I often wonder whether people like Rather and his supporters really are delusional or if they're just acting like it to keep the grift going.
"Dear SCOTUS, Look What You Have Done/The unintended consequences that could affect the election."
Should the SC base its decisions on what the consequences of those decisions might be or on what the Constitution actually says?
He somehow lurched into the far fringes of the Left a few years after exposing the Dan Rather hoax.
Excitable Chucky was always to the left. 9/11 woke him up temporarily, but he returned to his roots.
But back then, it was a great blog ... especially during the three weeks of the Tour de France.
He's just concerned about those young whippersnappers running for president.
Courage.
"Sexy SCOTUS" makes sense if, like I do, you think Amy Coney Barrett is still a JILF.
Roe v Wade was a big self-made error by the Court, Dodd was an attempt to unmake that error. Unbreaking an egg has been a cliche for an unsolvable problem forever. How much harder then is unbreaking a sperm and an egg?
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