Charlie Rose

NeilMacCallister  02/10/2013 09:15 PM Report

Really, weber? ..Mr. Taylor is first "a musician and entertainer"???

Then why does Mr. Rose FIRST play a clip of Mr. Taylor singing at a Democrat's inauguration, ..immediately followed by Mr. Taylor's on-camera statement that "Republicans are elitists"???

'Propaganda' you say?? ..I agree whole-heartedly!!!!!

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And Barack Obama HAS overspent America's budget by $1.5 Trillion dollars a year,..

..while the average American paycheck has dropped $1,000 dollars per year for each one of his four years,..

..and the American GDP growth has declined for every one of his four years,..

..and now lies upon a death-cart -- flat-lined at a "historic" low of 1.4%.

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And yet Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Obama, are BOTH quite satisfied.

In fact, they share their summer vacations -- enjoying together the very 'elite' real-estate of Martha's Vineyard.

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Personally, ..I don't care how rich these men are, ..or where they luxuriate in the summers.

But don't tell me that these men have ANY right at all to name-call those American voters who dislike the poverty that Barack Obama is bringing upon the rest of America by describing us as "high-nosed and uncaring elites".

There is nothing "elite" about the holes worn into MY dungarees!

weber7  02/08/2013 10:37 AM Report

To those who post political diatribes in response to this interview, give me a break! First of all he's a musician and entertainer; he has a right to his political views, whatever they are...why do you have to publicly hound him and no doubt many, many others! Secondly, your words are just propaganda, no matter who they are in response to. Please spare me...your posts are like graffiti that marks up public spaces. Thank you.

NeilMacCallister  02/05/2013 01:50 AM Report

The Republicans are "elitist", James? ..because they want "power to the people"???

While you sing "America the Beautiful" for a man who just overspent his granted budget by 6 TRILLION DOLLARS???????? ..and nobody knows where it went???

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You should go back 40 odd years to:

"There’s nothing like building up an old automobile from scratch and wiping out one of these Detroit machines. That’ll give you a set of emotions that’ll stay with you -- know what I mean? Those satisfactions are permanent!"

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But now, ..you sing for, ..The Machine???????

Richard_DeBiase  02/01/2013 04:48 PM Report

Dear benalu at 01/30/2013 10:52 AM,

I am not President of the United States, and I don’t think you are either. But Barack “The Butcher” Obama could have effectively ended the Drug War his first day in office with the stroke of a pen. Obama is lying when he claims to be powerless, because he is “in-the-pocket” of the prison-industrial-complex.

Best regards. The fact that you responded at least indicates some concern on your part; that appears to be more than we can say for James Taylor.

RichardDeBiase.com

benalu  01/30/2013 10:52 AM Report

Richard Debiase,

If you are an American as is President Obama, then you are also a "butcher" as you claim he is. We are all responsible for the unfortunate deaths in the current Drug War.

tabs  01/24/2013 04:18 PM Report

NCP2:

When we lay dieing our interest in or our ability to engage in the world around us collapses until finally all we can or want to do is to pull the covers over our heads and then let go of this life. As this is happening all our illusions, pretensions, preconconceived notions and stories fall away until all that is left is the white light of our truth/reality. In this life we can strip away most of the illusions etc, but what we can not do is strip away the small biases such as whether we like peanut butter or not.

tabs  01/24/2013 03:43 PM Report

The most interesting thing that Mr Taylor articulated was about how people were born and lived their lives alone, that people talk to each other to test their sense of reality as a "survival" mechanism. One would rather think of it in terms of people living their lives as indivduals rather than being alone, the most poigant part being that we must all face is that we die alone as no one is going to offer to step over the line with us. Facing death by staying emotionaly engaged with a person is the acid test of reality, because death is the ultimate reality. This is how it is, how it happens, and if this isn't real then what is? This is quite diffferent than a person who sees death on a professional level as for them there is no real emotional engagment. It is when we are emotionaly engaged in a persons life and then stepping up to the line by holding their hand in death that we can see things clearly as we have to come to terms with our emotional fears. One can catagorically say that it changes one from having doubts about what the nature of reality is into one who has certainity about their own veracity.

wahljer  01/24/2013 10:32 AM Report

The progressive movement, which I believe is the heart and soul of what we call "America" has always been led by the folksingers - God bless them!

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/23/2013 09:13 PM Report

"Fire and Rain".

The fire in the song refers to his shock therapy.

Rain is the cold showers that follow shock therapy.

"Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you," refers to Suzanne Schnerr, a childhood friend of his who committed suicide while he was away recording his first album.

A deep depression after the failure of his new band The Flying Machine to coalesce--the lyric "sweet dreams and Flying Machines in pieces on the ground"; the reference is to the name of the band rather than a fatal plane crash, as was long rumored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Rain

(And you thought "America the Beautiful" has a lot packed into its lyrics.)

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/23/2013 09:00 PM Report

Sorry James Taylor, no stadiums with the Enron name on them.

The Enron name was removed in 2002. The ballpark was first christened as Enron Field on April 7, 2000, with naming rights sold to the Houston energy and financial trading company in a 30 year, $100 million deal.

Astros management faced a public relations nightmare when the energy corporation went bankrupt in the midst of one of the biggest corporate scandals in American history in 2001, and they bought back the remainder of Enron's thirty years of naming rights for $2.1 million, rechristening the ballpark as Astros Field on February 7, 2002.[10]

The field was unofficially known as "The Field Formerly Known As Enron" by fans and critics alike, in wake of the Enron scandal.

On June 5, 2002, Houston-based Minute Maid, the fruit-juice subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company, acquired the naming rights to the stadium for 28 years at an estimated price of $170 million.[11)

(Yes, perhaps we should have left the Enron name on it as a preventative for the banking crisis that would develop several years later. We might have fared better with a constant reminder of corporate corruption.)

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/23/2013 08:54 PM Report

James Taylor tells us he sings America the Beautiful but not the verse he likes.

America! America!

God mend thine ev'ry flaw,

Confirm thy soul in self-control,

Thy liberty in law.

Ray Charlies places the third verse first, after which he sings the usual first verse.

In the third verse, the author Katharine Lee Bates scolds the materialistic and self-serving robber barons of her day, and urges America to live up to its noble ideals and to honor, with both word and deed, the memory of those who died for their country.

(WOW! All that in this song. Perhaps Obama should have just sung these other verses so the Fox News Hydra could have taken MLK Day as a rest day.)

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/23/2013 08:46 PM Report

Charlie, you have lovely veneers and they make you look very healthy here.

REMant  01/23/2013 03:08 PM Report

Taylor's productions I think are notable and popular for their upbeat take on problems as opposed to that of other singers-songwriters.

Governments aren't exactly noted for their humanity either, so I'd suggest that issue has something more to do with modernity, or our ideals, than any section of society.

Richard_DeBiase  01/23/2013 02:06 PM Report

Dear James,

The Obama Drug War killed 40,000 people in Mexico during his first term. I’m a fan, and I would hate to see your reputation sullied by cozying up to that butcher.

At least Nixon appeared to believe in the Vietnam War. God only knows what Obama is thinking (ask him the next time you see him).