I was listening to "Oxford Comma" by Vampire Weekend and I thought of Hillary Clinton's adventures in Tuzla: "Why would you lie about how much coal you have? / Why would you lie about something dumb like that?" Oh well.
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30 Mar 2008 10:04 am
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I like their music okay, but every magazine article I read acts like it's amazing that they went to Columbia. I'm supposed to be impressed that they went to the third best school in New York City?
Why would Obama lie about his father coming over via the Kennedys?
I don't think he felt the need. Sounds to me more like a simple error between 48 and 49 years ago, kind of like someone thinking that senior lecturers aren't professors or some such bullshit.
Seriously Petey, this is bush-league stuff.
I just can't understand how Yglesias can spend fifty weeks of the year recommending music by people that can't sing, and then spend two weeks complaining that other people watch basketball that he considers less than ideal. I like Vampire Weekend, but they ain't exactly virtuosos.
You would lie because of ambition, drive, ego, selfishness and desire.
You know who else ridiculous is starting to look like a keen observer because of Hillary? Maureen Dowd. Reality's really become that absurd lately.
Why would Hillary make that dumb mistake and lie about her Bosnia adventures? The same reason why Bill got in front of the American public and said that he did not have relations with Monica. The same reason why Spitzer, as a former prosecutor and attorney general, would make such careless errors in arranging hookups with prostitutes.
It seems these otherwise smart people get drunk on their power and think they can get away with anything. That's one reason why I think a Hillary presidency would be such a disaster for this nation: Hillary and Bill would act as if they could get away with anything, and the abuses would be huge and staggering.
They say power usually corrupts, and I'd say that the Clintons have had power long enough to become very corrupt.
Here's the thing with Clinton and Bosnia. Let's try to be generous for a minute, and see where it leads.
Let's assume that her memory of the event was faulty. It happens. She exaggerated a little. OK, fine. You can use that to explain the first few times she talked about this.
The real problem, then, is when confronted with a different take (provided by Sinbad, and others), her first instinct was to push the exaggeration further. To me, that's the real issue here. They had plenty of time to get it right, and they simply chose to try and make it go away rather than address it truthfully. It sounds a lot like Bush to me.
Petey, the law that got Obama's father into the country was pushed by JFK in the Senate -- it's not a lie. Your statement is in Frank Rich/Gore invented the internet territory.
What's remarkable is that WaPo put this nitpicky crap on page A01. Shows who the media bias really favors.
What Jake said.
This one isn't even as bad as the FMLA lie. She helped "pass" a piece of legislation that Congress had already passed three times and just needed a President not to veto it?
Honorable Mentions: Tuzla, saying Chelsea was jogging near the WTC on 9/11, asserting Iraq had ties to al Qaeda in her floor speech pre Iraq vote.
Vampire Weekend is a stunningly shitty boy band.
It's one thing to be mistaken about 50 year old family history. It's a whole other thing to lie about personally dodging sniper fire.
As a Columbia student (and someone who also went to high school with Chris Tomson, VW's drummer), I wonder which schools Freddie has in mind when he says that Columbia is only the third best school in New York City. I happen to think Columbia is pretty good, as is NYU of course, but I'm not sure which other school he would be referring to. Juliard? Well, Columbia is affiliated with them. And so it goes...
Vampire Weekend is a stunningly shitty boy band.
Yep. So fucking detached, upper-class, indy-cool that the probably piss lattes.
Well, R., I'm actually just teasing-- I am someone who has very little patience for undergraduate rankings at all, and I don't mean to I do think that Columbia has been in... disarray for a long time, but that's more a function of its graduate programs and research departments than its college. Besides, the notion of good and better colleges is silly and arbitrary to begin with. However, the narrative that's pushed by the music press is that we're supposed to be impressed by the fact that this band went to Columbia, and I'm not buying.
But look, don't take it personally-- like I said, these things are 90% bullshit anyway. And you're in good company; though it enjoys a reputation as the best college in the universe, I think it would be a major stretch to place Harvard's undergrad in even the top 5 schools in the country. Better to jettison the whole notion of college rankings altogether. (But then, you've got to agree to abandon the notion that I'm supposed to think that this mediocre indie band is filled with boy geniuses because its members had the good fortune to go to Columbia.)
Andrew Sullivan still has worst musical taste of any Atlantic blogger, but Matt may be making his move!
That's funny. I've been thinking of some alternate lyrics for HRC to sing along to in recent days:
"Who gives a f*ck about Barack Obama?/
You've seen his latest numbers too?/
Oh poo!"
Hillary lies because for 16 years Clintonista sychophants have lapped up everything she and her donkey manure husband have proclaimed. I'm sure Hillary has told bigger whoppers:
"When our Air Force One pilot had a stroke- I took over the controls and steered that baby straight into Ankara International. Scared? Sure. But, that's what it's all about, amigos." (Cackle, cackle)
Okay, if the Corrs don't do it for you, how about
"Celtic Woman"?
Just downloaded a ton of YouTube videos of this show, which toured the US at one point. Check them out! It's an amazing show.
Nothing like a beautiful Irish girl!
Celtic Woman - New Journey
Intro plus "The Sky & the Dawn & the Sun"
http://pop.youtube.com/watch?v=lQN9gr-Hb_Q&feature=related
"The Voice" is sung by Lisa Kelly with Mairead Nesbitt on the fiddle. (Nesbitt is incredibly good.)
http://pop.youtube.com/watch?v=sfO6JpR5Ip8&feature=related
Lisa Kelly - "May it be" from "Lord of the Rings"
http://pop.youtube.com/watch?v=zo5n0HwaRmQ&feature=related
The real problem, then, is when confronted with a different take (provided by Sinbad, and others), her first instinct was to push the exaggeration further. To me, that's the real issue here. They had plenty of time to get it right, and they simply chose to try and make it go away rather than address it truthfully. It sounds a lot like Bush to me.
All in. It's called going "all in" in poker. And it works until the first time yer called.
sorry, but i believe that line is "how much coke you have"
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Heads in the Sand
"I was listening to "Oxford Comma" by Vampire Weekend and I thought of Hillary Clinton's adventures in Tuzla: "Why would you lie about how much coal you have? / Why would you lie about something dumb like that?" Oh well."
Why would Obama lie about his father coming over via the Kennedys? He has a good enough story without the pathological compulsion to gild the lily.
I guess such behavior must be psychologically revealing about Obama.
Posted by Petey | March 30, 2008 10:19 AM