On today’s new Theme Time Radio Hour on XM Radio, after playing Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl, Bob Dylan said this:

That was Van Morrison. In April of 2005, the White House announced that Brown Eyed Girl gets regular rotation on George W. Bush’s iPod. Hmm. I’m glad he’s got good taste in music.

Perfect. People who hate President Bush will hear that as, “At least he has good taste in music.” And they’ll be happy. But that’s not what he said. Of-course, what he said wasn’t an endorsement either, of anything, aside from just what he specified: Bush’s taste in music. Conservative Dylan fans will take it. What’s missing is as important as what’s there — and what’s missing is the kind of scorn and vitriol that comes out of the mouth of so many other figures in the entertainment world when the name of President Bush comes up.

Nice diplomacy, Bob.

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