Bush listens to Van Morrision's Brown Eyed Girl on his iPod

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Bush listens to Van Morrision's Brown Eyed Girl on his iPod

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Great. Just great.

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblo ... ipod_user/



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Probably needed the Secret Service to start the damn thing for him.
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They have to turn two keys simultaneously to activate it
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Van Morrison my ass. I'll bet he plays the theme to ROCKY on repeat.
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I hate that song.

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Karl Rove probably focus grouped the song choice.
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I bet he's playing King Kongby the Kinks

I'm King Kong and I'm ten feet long,
Got a big six gun and everybody is scared.
I'm King Kong, got a hydrogen bomb,
I can blow up your houses so you better beware.

Everybody wants power,
Everybody wants fame.
Everybody wants money.
La-la-la-la-la, King Kong.
La-la-la-la-la,
Little man's weak and big man's strong,
Everyone wants to be King Kong, oh yeah.

I'm King Kong, I got so much money,
I can buy anybody who gets in my path.
I'm King Kong, and I'm big and strong,
I can blow up your houses so you better beware.
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I think we can be sure he's not listening to EC.

If Bush WERE an EC fan -- or even knew he existed -- it would be weird.
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bobster wrote:Karl Rove probably focus grouped the song choice.
It seems like they already passed a law requiring that BEG be played at every wedding in the U.S.... so I'm sure it was an easy choice.
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bobster wrote:I think we can be sure he's not listening to EC.

If Bush WERE an EC fan -- or even knew he existed -- it would be weird.
Well that's a semi-interesting little thought experiment: if Bush DID like an EC song, which one would it be? I'm thinking it would have to entail Reagan-esque mis-comprehension, a la Born in the USA not being the jingoistic jingle he (or his writers) thought it was.

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King of Confidence wrote:Well that's a semi-interesting little thought experiment: if Bush DID like an EC song, which one would it be? I'm thinking it would have to entail Reagan-esque mis-comprehension, a la Born in the USA not being the jingoistic jingle he (or his writers) thought it was.

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Too obscure. Probably something like "Pump It Up".
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selfmademug wrote:[It seems like they already passed a law requiring that BEG be played at every wedding in the U.S.... so I'm sure it was an easy choice.
It's not just in the US Muggy - in the UK it is compulsory to have the following played at your wedding:

Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Congratulations - Cliff Richard and
New York New York (as the final song of the night) - Frank Sinatra.

:roll:

As far as George Bush is concerned, I'd like to think he'd frug away to 13 Steps Lead Down. But somehow I don't believe this has ever happened, nor is likely to :lol:
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Brown Eyed Girl is on a box set called Happy Hippie Hits. W's source, maybe?
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Here's what Joni Mitchell had to say about being on the Bush iPod:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s ... b=CanadaAM

Go to the Video section, Part 2. Great interview.
(Part 1: Rhino and Starbucks compliations, etc., Part 2: why America is like communist Russia, and why she hates music, Part 3: on Ray Charles, dealing with polio as a child.)
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