#scott walker
The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
Why Walker’s refusal to answer questions about Giuliani and Obama matters.
After the Rudy Giuliani debacle, Scott Walker was asked if the agreed with Rudy that Obama does not love America. Walker punted – twice. First, he refused to say whether he thought Obama loved America. Given a generous chance at a do-over by the Washington Post, he actually made it worse by refusing to say if he thought Obama was a Christian.
Conservative columnist Matt Lewis called the first non-answer “spineless” and the second “just about the worst possible answer one could imagine.” But in dressing down Walker, Lewis pulls his punches and redirects the criticism to a favorite conservative target – the media:
As you might expect, some conservatives on Twitter are rallying to his defense. They’d rather stick it to the media than find a way to overcome them. They believe that Walker’s answer somehow heroically demonstrated the absurdity of the media. They seem more interested in a candidate who wants to win the argument than one who wants to win the election. And they are less concerned about Walker’s inability to appropriately handle the question than they were by the fact that the question had been asked in the first place. In their minds, Walker is some sort of folk hero for providing that inept answer. But I can assure you, that’s not how the majority of Americans (who aren’t conservative activists on Twitter) will see it.
Again, I’m not suggesting this was a relevant or appropriate question to ask the governor of Wisconsin. I just know how the world works. As the saying goes, I didn’t write these rules, I just abide by them. And, what I am suggesting is that, this is the NFL. When you run for president—when you leave Wisconsin and go to Paris and New York City and Washington, DC and Iowa—you invite all sorts of questions. Some of these questions will be tough, others will be silly or irrelevant or “gotcha” questions. The good politicians can answer them effectively.
Let’s look at this plainly. Rudy Giuliani made an insane (after all, the argument requires mindreading) and offensive comment about the president at a dinner with Walker. Further, Giuliani's belief is shared by plenty in the GOP base – just check Twitter. Is it wrong to ask a presidential candidate if he shares a belief in something crazy with most of the Republican base?
If a Democrat at a Hillary Clinton fundraiser said 9/11 was an inside job and most of the Democratic base believed this (thankfully, they don’t. But this is a hypothetical, mind you), would it be wrong to ask her if she agreed? I doubt anyone on the right would say no. Whether or not a potential president believes something that only crackpots believe is something everyone should want to know.
A GOP presidential candidate should be ready to answer (and definitely should be asked) the following questions:
- Do you believe the president is trying to destroy America?
- Do you believe the president loves America?
- Do you believe the president is a Marxist?
- Do you believe the president is secretly a Muslim?
- Do you believe the president is secretly an illegal alien?
- Do you believe the president is a terrorist, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, or working with ISIS?
And they should especially expect to be asked these questions if someone makes one of these arguments directly in front of them. Are you as crazy as your base? That Walker won’t answer two of these questions is cowardly. These are not “gotcha” questions. These are extremely relevant.
And if Walker thought they were irrelevant, he wouldn’t hedge.
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SCOTT WALKER - ‘JACKIE’
Phillips, 1967
São magníficas as versões de Marc Almond e de Momus (esta última rebatizada como 'Nicky’). Mas a mais arrebatadora das versões deste clássico que Jacques Brel originalmente apresentou em 1966 no álbum 'Ces Gens Lá’ surgiu em 1967, no segundo álbum a solo de Scott Walker. Scott Walker é, de resto, um dos mais espantosos herdeiros de Brel, entre os seus primeiros discos a solo tendo gravado versões que mais tarde reuniu num mesmo álbum.
An amazing Brel cover bt Scott Walker. He recorded several other Brel covers in his first three solo albums and then assembeled them in a compilation.
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Damon Albarn on Scott Walker in “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man” (2006) [yt]
R.I.P. Scott…
“I never got to see him perform – but I performed for him. I sang Farmer in the City [at Drifting and Tilting: The Songs of Scott Walker at the Barbican in 2008]. He’s lovely, a gentle sweetheart. He wasn’t a recluse – he’s a very engaging, articulate person, with a great sense of humour. He’s just not conventional; Scott was unorthodox. There’s a sort of richness to his voice that I don’t really think anyone else ever had, and when you met him physically, he was a much smaller frame than his voice, so there was that otherworldliness about him, too. His records are some of the most important ever, for me. He was also fantastic with words – sometimes quite opaque with them – and I’m really fascinated by that. He opened up the possibilities of the music of Kurt Weill to me, and all that French chanson that he reinterpreted, like Jacques Brel. I discovered so much through him. I love all of it – Scott 1, 2, 3, 4; the Walker Brothers; the 80s stuff; and I love the bleak, singular records that he made towards the end. His latter albums are always something I would listen to religiously and intently in one sitting. They’re incredible film scores to his imagination, which was clearly slightly mad, but only in the sense of that’s where you get the most striking visions, in that area close to madness. He’s filled the world with some sublime music”—Damon Albarn pays tribute to Scott Walker in The Guardian (25 March 2019)
Evan Peters needs to be cast as the lead in a Scott Walker biopic and if I have to write the damn script myself I will.
Dusty Springfield / I Start Counting
Scott Walker / It’s Raining Today
Broadcast / Tears In The Typing Pool
Françoise Hardy / Fleur De Lune
Jeanette / Oye Mama Oye Papa
Quarteto Em Cy / Abre Alas
The Rests / Someone To Call My Lover
Cate Le Bon / Moderation
Orlando Weeks / No End To Love
Sean Nicholas Savage & Better Person / Moonlight Lady
Shiny Two Shiny / Moment To Moment
Air / Cherry Blossom Girl
DJ City / Cirrus Clouds
Martha & The Muffins / Garden In The Sky
D-SIre / Wintertime
Thool / Je Sors
Sepiatone / In Sepiatone
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