George McGovern Told the Truth About Nixon and
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THE MAN who couldn’t beat a lying, felonious crook like Richard Nixon is dead. Headlines blared, but the voter wouldn’t listen. Just look at the ad above and marvel at the willful ignorance of the American people. It illustrates that a man[...]

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Sunday Classics: What can we say Composer Gustav
Holst performed this foul deed himself!

HOLST and SPRING-RICE: "I vow to thee, my country"


From the Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance, Nov. 12, 2011

by Ken

As I indicated in Friday night's preview, in which we saw a technically blah video clip of a pretty decent performance of the "Jupiter" movement of Holst's The Planets, it was slogging through Episode 2 of Series 2 of the new Upstairs Downstairs that set me off on this musical mini-inquiry.

It is, in a word . . . well, the technical term is dreck. It had a reason of sorts for coming into existence when it did, c1921, as Britons tried to rally from the horrors of World War I. But that's an explanation, not excuse. Just by way of reminder, here's where the music came from.

HOLST: The Planets, Op. 32:
iv. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity: central theme


London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, cond. EMI, recorded 1978-79


WHAT'S STARTLING ABOUT THE TRANSFORMATION
OF THIS GLORIOUS MUSIC TO SUCH DRECK . . .

. . . is that the deed was done by the composer himself!

The dreadful poem had been written in 1908 -- thus well before the Great War -- by the British diplomat Cecil Spring-Rice, who a few years later served as British ambassador to the U.S., in the years leading up to the war. The ambassador is supposed to have heavily lobbied the reluctant President Woodrow Wilson to join in the festivities.

Come the postwar period, composer Gustav Holst was asked to set the poem to music, and for reasons left to history didn't have the sense to say "no." Per Wikipedia:

In 1921 Gustav Holst adapted the music from a section of "Jupiter" from his suite The Planets to create a setting for the poem. The music was extended slightly to fit the final two lines of the first verse. At the request of the publisher Curwen, Holst made a version as a unison song with orchestra (Curwen also published Sir Hubert Parry's unison song with orchestra, "Jerusalem"). This was probably first performed in 1921 and became a common element at Armistice memorial ceremonies, especially after it was published as a hymn in 1926. Holst harmonised the tune to make it usable as a hymn, which was included in Songs of Praise in 1926 with the same words, but the tune was then called "Thaxted" (named after the village where Holst lived for many years). The editor of the new (1926) edition of Songs of Praise was Holst's close friend Ralph Vaughan Williams, which may have provided the stimulus for producing the hymn.

But wait, there's more.

Holst's daughter Imogen recorded that "At the time when he was asked to set these words to music, Holst was so over-worked and over-weary that he felt relieved to discover they 'fitted' the tune from Jupiter."

Ah! So Spring-Rice's bilious words "'fitted' the tune from Jupiter"!


IMOGEN HOLST'S WITNESS PROVIDES US WITH
EXPLANATIONS FOR TWO THINGS, I THINK

(1) Why Holst performed this act of musical butchery. Having committed himself to providing music for Spring-Rice's fake-patriotic poetic sludge, and having been unable to do so, for what I would like to think was the obvious reason of good taste, the poor composer seems to have been in a state approaching desperation. In this state he was apparently utterly willing to sacrifice the grandly inspiring "Jupiter" music.

(2) Why the words and music are essentially unrelated. Holst didn't in fact set the text to music. He just pasted it onto a cobbled version of the "Jupiter" music.


YOU SAY YOU DON'T AGREE THAT THESE WORDS
AND THIS MUSIC ARE ESSENTIALLY UNRELATED?

One of the reasons I chose the video version we had at the top of this post was because it's equipped with subtitles. Here's another version, and I know that I for one wouldn't be able to make out more than the occasional word if I didn't have the text in front of me.



I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
entire and whole and perfect, the service of thy love;
the love that asks no question, the love that stands the test,
that lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;
the love that never falters, the love that pays the price,
the love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.

[I heard my country calling, away across the sea,
across the waste of waters she calls and calls to me.
Her sword is girded at her side, her helmet on her head,
and round her feet are lying the dying and the dead.
I hear the noise of battle, the thunder of her guns,
I haste to thee my mother, a son among thy sons.]

And there's another country, I've heard of long ago,
most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
we may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
and soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
and her ways are ways of gentleness, and all her paths are peace.

[Note: That middle stanza has for the most part discreetly disappeared, thank goodnedss. By the way, can you guess without prompting that the "other country" of the third stanza is heaven?]

-- text by Cecil Spring-Rice, music by Gustav Holst

AS AN EXAMPLE OF MIS-FIT WORDS AND MUSIC,
LISTEN TO THE DOPIEST LINE IN THE POEM

I mean, of course the line in the first stanza "the love that asks no question, the love that stands the test." There's no expressive justification for that sudden drop in pitch, which does nothing except to drop the music almost below the reach of the singer. I suppose you could argue that causing this line to drop out of range is actually an accomplishment. After all, "love that asks no question" isn't love, or stirring patriotism; it's robotic imbecility. The measure of a country's solidity and durability isn't its ability to eliminate questions; it's its ability to recognize legitimate questions and deal honestly and forthrightly with them.

I realize that for many Brits singing or hearing "I vow to thee, my country," this moment of near-unsingability, with its "love that asks no question," is an emotional high point, the voicing of deep emotional truth. Those singers and hearers may imagine that the music is voicing what made the British Empire great. In fact, it's music to accompany the collapse of that empire.


BUT SURELY, YOU SAY, SOMETHING EMOTIONALLY
RESONANT COMES THROUGH ALL THE SAME?

Well, yes, and that's a tribute to the indomitable power of the music, especially when it's decoupled from those dopey words, as it was some of the time in the Upstairs Downstairs episode, where it provided underpinning for the creation of the Kindertransport. Again, per Wikipedia:

The Kindertransport (also Refugee Children Movement or "RCM") is the name given to the rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Free City of Danzig. The children were placed in British foster homes, hostels, and farms. Most of the rescued children survived the war. A small number were reunited with parents who had either spent the war in hiding or survived the Nazi camps, but the majority, after the war, found their parents had been killed.

Still, Holst's hymn version of his music seems to me to represent a crippling debilitation. On the purely musical level, there can be a huge difference between musical themes designed for instrumental performance and those meant for singing. Consider again that pitch drop at "the love that knows no question."

More generally here, music that in its original orchestral form is expansively long-breathed, generating such powerful cumulative force, is reduced to a shadow of its self when sung -- it seems to ramble aimlessly, sounding like an endlessly droning improvisation by a singularly terrible improviser. Sort of reminds you of our own "Star-Spangled Banner," doesn't it? Which is a terrible comedown for music of such potency.


THE POWER OF THIS MUSIC COULDN'T REDUCE TO
WORDS, EVEN IF THEY WERE LESS DOPEY WORDS

For one thing, in its original form Holst is quite open about letting us hear how the noble, majestic central theme is created out of the "Bringer of Jollity" music, and that transformation is an important part of how it generates its emotional force. Let's listen to the beginning of the movement, and note how Holst crystallizes the initial hubbub into his main "jollity" theme, notably at 0:58 of the clip, and then how that theme metamorphoses into its unexpected new form at 2:51 -- when we're probably expecting something more along the lines of the 0:58 moment.

"Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity": opening


Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, cond. Decca, recorded September 1961

For that matter, the actual emergence of the new form of the original motif requires a fair amount of groundwork-laying, or perhaps throat-clearing.

"Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity": setting the stage for "the theme"


Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam), Neville Marriner, cond. Philips, recorded c1977

By the way, "the theme" is brought back at the end of "Jupiter," more or less.

"Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity": conclusion


London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, cond. EMI, recorded 1978-79


NOW IT'S TIME TO HEAR ALL OF "JUPITER,"
IN ALL THREE OF OUR PERFORMANCES

One of these weeks we should probably do The Planets, or at least more of The Planets. But for now let's just put "Jupiter" back together.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone make more of the rambunctious spirits of "Jupiter" than Herbert von Karajan, while Sir Adrian Boult -- in the last of his recordings (five, is it?) -- takes a grandly broader view. Neville Marriner, though he actually times out slightly longer than Boult, seems to me to land happily in the middle. All three orchestras seem to be having a grand time.

HOLST: The Planets, Op. 32:
iv. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity


Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, cond. Decca, recorded September 1961

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, cond. EMI, recorded 1978-79

Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam), Neville Marriner, cond. Philips, recorded c1977
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On This Week, Rahm Emanuel Slams Darrell Issa As
Reckless

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Rahm is a weasel, but he's a very effective surrogate for the president, as he showed on This Week today. Notice how deftly he gets in that one-two punch on Darrell Issa over the Libya controversy:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let's talk about foreign policy. We can expect to see more tomorrow on the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, and in advance, some Republican members of Congress have been pressing the administration to be more forthcoming about what was known about the security situation in Benghazi. There was a letter sent Friday by the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Darrell Issa, and one of the things he asks is, whether based on political concerns or bureaucratic neglect, the actions of this administration contributed to an inadequate and ineffective security posture in Libya as it emerged from civil war. The American people deserve nothing less than a full explanation from this administration about these events, including why the repeated warnings about a worsening security situation appear to have been ignored.

And you know, that was the question the president didn't directly answer on Tuesday night. Who rejected the request for more security and why?

Now, I don't believe in attacking presidents over this kind of incident. These situations are extraordinarily complex and hard calls to make. But I'll just note here as a matter of interest that no one is answering that question. And that's the sort of non-response that makes some voters uneasy.

EMANUEL: Yes, but George, first of all, I have been fortunate in my life to work on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue, and the president of the United States has ordered an investigation of what happened, who's responsible, and bring them to justice, just like he did Osama bin Laden, Awlaki and the leadership of al Qaeda. That's what you have to do in the Oval Office.

Now, I have also worked in Congress where you have an oversight responsibility. And with that oversight responsibility comes responsibility. And what Darrell Issa did by releasing names in that entire document of individuals who are working with America, put people at risk in Libya, and people around the world will now know that you're at risk if you cooperate with the United States.

That office, that chairmanship of that committee comes with responsibility. And you can't act reckless with it.

Now, we have a foreign policy issue. It is going to be handled. And people that did this will be brought to justice. And how it happened will be investigated so we can never see it again. But the idea that people from A, day one, have been trying to politicize this event in my view is absolutely reckless.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Finally--

EMANUEL: This is a time for the United States to come together, figure out what happened, which is what the commander in chief has to do, found out who did it, which is what the commander in chief has to demand, and then seek justice, which he has done repeatedly. And I would warn again, or at least highlight again, when it came to getting Osama bin Laden, Mitt Romney said that shouldn't be a priority of ours, and the president said absolutely different.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Finally, Mayor, the New York Times is reporting this morning that Iran has agreed in principle to direct talks over their nuclear program. The White House has said there's no deal, though. President Obama first expressed his willingness to have direct talks when you were chief of staff in the White House. Do you believe Iran is ready now for direct talks or is this a stalling policy?

EMANUEL: George, that's a good question. Let me take -- I want to take one step back.

When the president walked into the Oval Office, on the issue of Iran trying to acquire and develop nuclear weapons, the United States was isolated from the rest of the world on Iran. Three and a half years later, the tables have been turned. Iran is isolated from the rest of the world. Now, that was steady, determined, dogged leadership, setting out a course.

We now know for a fact even when some questioned the course, not only have we organized the rest of the world to isolate Iran, we have put in place and the president has put in place, withering, very tough sanctions that are not only having economic impact and crumbling the economic capacity of Iran-- and we have seen the data. The fact that the economy is shrinking and not growing. And it's having a political impact. It's been clear that there's no idea of one-off or one-on-one discussions--

STEPHANOPOULOS: So now is the time for direct talks?

EMANUEL: But -- that's not for me to say and they'll determine that. I don't have all the information. But I do know this, that three and a half years ago, we as a country, the world was criticizing us on Iran. Today, the world is criticizing Iran on its attempt to acquire nuclear weapons. That's a direct change. The tables have been turned. And the result of that is because of the steady leadership and the course the president has done in building a coalition and forcing now a set of sanctions that Europe would never have considered three and a half years ago, to a point that Iran's economy is on its knees.

And I will say this, while you say we're going to turn to foreign policy -- the most important part of that foreign policy debate tomorrow will be, because I think the most important thing we can do as a country on our foreign policy is strengthen our economy here at home. It is our leadership abroad that comes from a strong economy. And the economic argument of who's going to make sure that this country is investing in itself after a decade of fighting wars overseas, I think we'll be sure to bring that peace home, and make sure that America is actually (inaudible).

(CROSSTALK)

STEPHANOPOULOS: Mayor Emanuel, thank you very much for your time this morning.

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On CNN, Jennifer Rubin Flat-Out Lies About
Obama's Benghazi Statement

Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin joined the transcript truther crowd on CNN's Reliable Sources this morning, claiming that President Obama was not referring to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi when he used the term "acts of terror" in his September 12 Rose Garden statement on the attack.

Specifically, Rubin claimed Obama's use of "acts of terror" was "not in the same paragraph with Benghazi." That is flatly untrue. The president's very next sentences were: "Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done."

Current TV host David Shuster, appearing with Rubin, tried to correct her, noting that just two sentences prior to saying "no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation," the president said: "[L]ast night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi." Rubin denied this was true even though, as the transcript shows, Shuster was right:

Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks.  We mourned with the families who were lost on that day.  I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed.  And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it.  Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.  Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America.  We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act.  And make no mistake, justice will be done.

Keep in mind that we're several days out from the debate at which this quibbling over "acts of terror" became an issue. Rubin has had more than enough to time to read over the transcript of Obama's remarks, and she's clearly quite familiar with what it says. That raises the question as to why she's so blatantly lying and mischaracterizing the president's words.

The answer can be gleaned from a comment she made towards the end of the video above about the "acts of terror" flap: "I don't think this hurt Mitt Romney whatsoever. His campaign doesn't think it hurt Mitt Romney whatsoever." That lock-step synchronicity with the Romney campaign crystallizes the broadly held opinion of Rubin's increasingly embarrassing work for the Washington Post.

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Of Freedom and Bridges

Republicans believe the elimination of the commons will make Americans free in ways they aren?t today. We will soar once we are freed from the chains of public education, crossable bridges and drivable roads, from the curse of clean air and clean,[...]

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Voting rights, voter suppression and bullies at
the ballotbox

The First VoteThe Republican Party in its current configuration is openly defying and attempting to destroy the U.S. Constitution. How ironic that the party that once fought for the 15th Amendment is now blatantly and with malice aforethought attempting to take this country back to before 1870, with efforts to disenfranchise a huge segment of the voting population.

The most fundamental right in a democracy is our right to vote. Voting became a right for people of color after fierce struggles during Reconstruction, which resulted in the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The "privilege" of voting that the landed colonial founders did not choose to extend to Native Americans, enslaved Africans, women and white laborers who were propertyless was amended and extended only after battles in both the political and public arena, which continued into the 1960s and are once again a battleground today.

The road to victory for our right to vote was paved in blood.

Right in front of our eyes we are watching successful attempts to erode democracy. We the people, has become "we the corporation," and its shining symbol is vested in the person of Willard Romney?corporate greed personified, wedded to Paul Ryan's tea party express. I have not forgotten the "musings" from teapartiers like Judson Phillips who advocated restricting the franchise to only those who hold property.  

You shouldn't forget them either, because the well-funded and well-oiled machine of voter repression, intimidation and disenfranchisement is coming to a ballot box near you.

One wing of this movement calls itself "True the Vote." In essence it should be called "Screw your Vote."

The Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) has issued a chilling report focusing specifically on voter suppression in North Carolina, but tying them in to a national agenda.  

Read the full report, written by Devin Burghart and Leonard Zeskind, with a foreword by Rev. Dr. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP.

The Tea Party and Narrowing the Franchise
Over the past two years, the Tea Party movement has changed the American political and social landscape. It has given a megaphone to unfounded fears of an imaginary white dispossession and resentment. It has helped reshape the anti-immigrant movement. It has helped enforce measures to limit trade union rights. It has unseated Republican Party moderates such as Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, and elevated anti-choice Republicans such as Cong. Paul Ryan. None of the accomplishments threaten the very fabric of democracy, however, in the same way as Tea Party efforts to suppress the vote.

In previous reports, IREHR has documented the existence of Tea Party national leaders opposed to voting rights for people without property, and Tea Party leaders who advocate the repeal of the Fourteenth Amendment, and equal rights before the law promised by it.  IREHR has pointed out some of the most prominent white nationalists in the Tea Party ranks, and those Tea Partiers who simply act like racists and bigots. In this report, the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights details voter suppression efforts in North Carolina.

Colorlines has been following their efforts for months now, and reporting on the push back against them, most recently from Congressman Elijah Cummings.
Colorlines Infographic on the spread of True the VoteMelissa Harris-Perry discussed True the Vote, and interviewed Congressman Cummings.

(Continue reading below the fold.)

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Columbus Dispatch Hides Economic Reality To
Endorse Mitt Romney

The Columbus Dispatch relied on cherry-picked economic data to endorse Mitt Romney for president, painting a distorted picture of the Ohio economy and ignoring Romney's opposition to the successful rescue of the auto industry.

In its October 21 endorsement, the Dispatch wrote:

After nearly four years of economic stagnation, massive unemployment, record-setting debt and government intrusions into the economy that have paralyzed the private sector, the United States needs a new direction. For this reason, The Dispatch urges voters to choose Republican Mitt Romney for president in the Nov. 6 election.

The Dispatch backed up its endorsement by distorting a key economic indicator: the unemployment rate. Specifically, the endorsement cited the right-wing canard that the national unemployment rate was "above 8 percent for 43 of the past 44 months." This masks the fact that the national unemployment rate has been dramatically falling for the past year, part of a broader 2-year decline that has brought the unemployment rate to its lowest level since Obama took office.

And the Dispatch, one of the largest newspapers in Ohio, made no mention of how the Ohio economy has fared under Obama.

In fact, the unemployment situation in Ohio completely undermines the Dispatch argument that Obama's economic stewardship has failed Ohioans. The Ohio unemployment rate was 8.6 percent in January 2009, when Obama took office. The current unemployment rate in the state is 7 percent. The unemployment rate in Ohio is almost 20 percent lower since Obama took office. This is part of a larger trend: the unemployment rate dropped in 41 states in September.

The Dispatch also defended its endorsement by touting what it described as Romney's "wealth of executive experience in the private sector and the public sector," arguing that "Romney's adult life has been spent turning around troubled private and public institutions."

But in championing Romney's business experience, the Dispatch made no mention of the successful auto rescue that Obama oversaw and Romney vociferously opposed.

Romney has gone to great lengths to hide his opposition to the auto rescue, dishonestly claiming that he supported the same managed bankruptcy that the Obama administration used to rescue the auto industry in 2009. In reality, Romney's position would have deprived GM and Chrysler of the money needed to get through bankruptcy, and likely would have led to the auto companies being forced into liquidation.

The auto industry accounts for 850,000 jobs in Ohio. It's journalistic malpractice for the Dispatch to ignore the auto rescue while defending Romney's record investing in struggling companies.

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Rubio Develops Romnesia While Trying To Explain
Romneys Position On Contraception

Last week, President Obama joked that some Romney surrogates are suffering from “Romnesia” — an ability to forget the candidate’s old positions on major campaign issues, in favor of his new positions. On Sunday, during an appearance on Meet The Press, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was presenting severe symptoms of that condition, spending a good [...]



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Seminal Study: Climate Change Footprint In North
America, The Continent With The Largest Increases in Disasters

“Climate­-driven changes are already evident over the last few decades for severe thunderstorms, for heavy precipitation and flash flood­ing, for hurricane activity, and for heatwave, drought and wild­-fire dynamics in parts of North America.” So concludes Munich Re, a top reinsurer, in a major new study that, for the first time, links the rapid rise [...]



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Seminal Study Finds Climate-Change Footprint In
North America, Continent With The Largest Increases in Disasters

“Climate­-driven changes are already evident over the last few decades for severe thunderstorms, for heavy precipitation and flash flood­ing, for hurricane activity, and for heatwave, drought and wild­-fire dynamics in parts of North America.” So concludes Munich Re, a top reinsurer, in a major new study that, for the first time, links the rapid rise [...]



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