You can watch, I won't, as the cretin in chief competes for His Space in the UTube world.

Ruth

I would like to correct a serious error and insensitive commentary on the article about George Bush dancing and drumming with African dancers. The article reads, and I quote, "Somewhere in an alternate universe, that’s what the headlines are screaming. For, you see, George Bush — like so many of our innocent yutes! — has been seduced by those jungle rhythms." I am an African-American woman with roots in Nigeria, West Africa, and I find it offensive and degrading that your writer referred to this music as "jungle rhythms." Africa is not a continent of one large jungle. This music comes from civilized people, and I would advise that your writers take heed to this fact. Obviously, your writer is uneducated as he or she dismisses our music as primitive. This music serves as a basis for modern music, which has patterned itself after this traditional music. You can hear these rhythms in many parts of the world. I would liken referring to African music as "jungle music" to calling European music "forest music." I understand that your writer may not have meant any harm by this; therefore, I am writing this message as a friendly note to inform your staff of what is proper and what is not. Thank you for your time in reading this.

Although, to be honest, she says we are wrong to say the music is primitive but then goes on to say that African music, and rhythm, serves as the basis for modern music. Well, to the extent that modern implies the earlier stuff was NOT modern, ie primitive, then she kind of looses her drift, if you get mine.

Anyway, I feel for the musicians. Bush must seem a little primtive to anyone who gets too close while not innoculated with enough bs.

Jake

That said, I've been going to an African music festival for many years, and over time the music has gotten harder and simpler rhythmically, faster and faster, and more mechanical. Almost frenetic. It must be a continent under fantastic stress, was my reading, FWIW.

NOTE That said, I think "jungle rhythms" was probably irony...

No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.

to the '50s US old-farts descriptions of early rock 'n' roll. A reflection of white male insecurity over issues of ownership of The Body, as explained (much more elegantly) by Eldridge Cleaver in the classic Soul on Ice.

I wish our AC above had signed in, or will when/if she comes back to look at responses. I hate that she took Scar's post as denigration of the musicians rather than what it was, scorn for the Boob in Chief.

And of course (to scorn the B-i-C further) the whole issue of his dancing "abilities" managed to completely hijack the reason the musicians were there, to bring attention to the now completely unnecessary disaster that is malaria.

I hate that she took Scar’s post as denigration of the musicians rather than what it was, scorn for the Boob in Chief.

Apparently, momentarily overwhelmed by her own frenetic rythms.

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Yeah, I guess this post was all-around bad. My reasoning was, the combination of him pretty clearly pantomiming some sort of doggystyle screwing, and that story at the bottom about "making an obscene gesture on live television" and it's almost like a picture from an alternate universe where Dobson and Donohue would be searching for anything to smear Bush on. Right? Anyway, it was supposed to recall the argument that rap music was the real villain in NappyGate. I'm gonna call it... "minimalist".

But I still believe
And I will rise up with fists!!