Karl Rove off key for James Taylor

[babsbunny]

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/karl-rove-off-key-for-james-taylor-86610.html?hp=r6

By PATRICK GAVIN | 1/23/13 9:11 AM EST

In an interview with Charlie Rose, musician James Taylor issued a harsh rebuke to many aspects of the United States political system — and Karl Rove, in particular.

“To me, the Founding Fathers are the dream and the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln are where the rubber hits the road. That’s where this country sort of manifests it and that’s where the division manifested. And we still suffer from those divisions of the Civil War. We are still fighting the Civil War, I think. And there are people who, to their discredit, there are people who mine and encourage us to refight the Civil War. They find political strength from doing that. I’m talking about Karl Rove here. Reopening those wounds of the Civil War for political base and to hide their political agenda, which is elitist, which you can’t sell to a whole bunch of people because it doesn’t benefit them.”

[Still Sensible]

1. Right on the mark. n/t

[DrewFlorida]

2. I've always loved James Taylor's music, after watching that interview I like James Taylor the person

[stultusporcos]

3. James Taylor should have palyed Fire and Rain Monday it would have been more fitting

[underpants]

5. Two points in my life when I hear that song

we moved out of Richmond and that song was on as we drove out. I will never forget that.

9//11
"Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground"
I think this was on the Clear Channel list of songs not to play after 9/11

I remember reading about him in the Belushi book as they, and their wives, were going through the same thing at the same time

James Taylor is a bit a inside joke to me and my wife. My father-in-law "discovered" James Taylor on TV (probably Austin City Limits) in.... 1992 or so. We still crack up about that. "That guy is going places" my father-in-law said. Too Funny.

BTW - JT hit it on the mark as usual with that comment.

[tularetom]

4. Getting poor whites pissed off at poor blacks didn't start with Karl Rove

It's been going on in the US since ante bellum days.

But Rove and his ilk have elevated it to an art form by convincing the hicks that everything they see is not true.

[WillyT]

6. HUGE K & R !!!