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The Real America
Sarah Palin in North Carolina: “We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation.” The McCain campaign is trying to
Another Jazz Times letter
Once again, a reader attacks my July/August Jazz Times column on music and politics. Alan Embree of Hannibal, Missouri, writes: After reading David R. Adler’s Solo guest column [“Playing Changes for Change,” Aug. ’08] I debated whether to immediately cancel my subscription like I had done several years ago with Time magazine after tiring of the leftist rants of various writers
The week on disc (29)
In case you missed the last one… Nigeria 70, Lagos Jump: Original Heavyweight Afrobeat Highlife & Afro-Funk (Strut) Becca Stevens, Tea Bye Sea (ind.) G. Calvin Weston, Nassira (Amulet) Andrew Raffo Dewar, Six Lines of Transformation (Porter) E.S.T., Leucocyte (EmArcy) Dred Scott Trio, Live at the Rockwood Music Hall (ind.)
Nerve
In recent days, local Republican parties have distributed materials depicting Obama next to watermelon and fried chicken; suggesting that Obama should be waterboarded; and asserting, against a facial close-up that could easily be taken for Obama, “America must look evil in the eye and never flinch.” And John McCain feels he is owed an apology from John Lewis.
McCain on ACORN
All part of the Big Lie, it seems. ACORN is acting responsibly — it is weeding out bogus voter registrations. It is not engaging in voter fraud. And yet mad dogs at McCain-Palin rallies are calling ACORN “the scum of the earth.” For registering voters.
Election rap
With my friend Kevin “Sugar” Shand providing the beats…
“We meet at a moment of great uncertainty”
[Click to enlarge photo.] Barack Obama happened to be in Philadelphia for a series of rallies on the very day I was scheduled to canvass. So I spent my Saturday morning as part of a big, enthralled crowd and heard him speak in the flesh. (I caught the entire thing on video but the file’s too long for YouTube, so