Daily Ramblings:
It Ain't Me Babe ...12/08/2004 10:13:04 am
Delightful, in a perverse way, is
this idiotic piece of bile from Richard Oxman in the
looney left journal Counterpunch, titled Down With Dylan. In it, he rails against Dylan for the
substance of the 60 Minutes interview, as if Bob
controlled the questions CBS chose to ask, and Bob
made the editing decisions that determined which
handful of minutes would actually air. He even says:
Please don't
bring in anything about the cutting room floor
here. I used to have TV and radio gigs,
interviewing stars (quite a bit lower on The
Ladder), and...that was him, trust me.
Oh, of-course, he's earned our implicit trust.
Especially when he refers to Dylan going through
"30 minutes of such an experience without a
single reference to another star (except
Elvis!)" Don't know what channel he was
watching, but the Dylan segment on 60 Minutes was 15
minutes long, if that, and the actual air time of
interview footage (versus old 1960's clips etc) was
clearly less than 10. And CBS themselves told everyone that Dylan and
Bradley sat down for 90 minutes in
Northhampton, Massachusetts.
I have never had "TV and radio gigs,"
but it seems to me that anyone with a modicum of
experience watching TV, and a reasonable
capacity for critical thinking, can tell when cuts
take place in an interview. One exchange Oxman rips
Dylan apart for concerns Bob's parents. Even a
neophyte can watch that segment of the interview and
see that Bob's answers are clearly cut up. Bradley
asks a question about how Dylan's father considered
it a joke that Bob referred to New York as the
capital of the world, and then it cuts quickly to
Bob, answering not in the tone of someone beginning
an answer, but rather the tone of someone in the
middle of a longer statement. (I just tried to make
an audio clip, but my technical know-how only
extended to recording a loud electrical hum.) This
kind of thing happens frequently in the inteview - as
indeed it must, considering that they cut 90 minutes
down to less than 10. So, Oxman rips Bob for not
being kind to his parents, when any kindlier words he
said are locked away in CBS's vault forever (along
with the closed-circuit footage of Dan Rather
printing out Bush's National Guard records.)
It's amusing that it particularly sticks in
Oxman's craw that Dylan referred to America as the
"land of the free."
Oh yes, no words
about any wars either from The One-Time Master of
Anti-War Song. He would rather be known as a
Zionist and/or a Song and Dance Man than to be
billed as The Archbishop of Anarchy? Y'know,
maybe that was a better line than the one above
about "Land of the Free."
So, the left bites back at Dylan
once again for failing to be their Messiah. It never
ends.
Of-course the piece-de-resistance
is this nugget near the end:
There are things
to do about Arrogance and Greed in this country
whether or not the target is Bush or Bob.
Bush or Bob! When the looney left
starts to equate Bob Dylan with the hated George W.
Bushitler, we here at RightWingBob.com know
that we can afford a satisfied sigh and maybe even a
few hours off.
Ahhh ....
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