Reply #62: Bush playlist puzzles pundits

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Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Tuesday April 12, 2005
The Guardian

As he ponders the future of the free world, the fate of social security or the state of the brush on his Crawford ranch, President George Bush can turn to one source for solace: his iPod.
A birthday present from his daughters last year, the Bush iPod contains just 250 songs, from the knockabout comedy of Joni Mitchell's (You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care to the straight ahead country blues of Stevie Ray Vaughn's The House Is Rockin'.

Although Mr Bush doesn't do anything so vulgar as download the songs himself -- that duty is performed by an aide - the selection of music has analysts scrambling to de construct the contents of the presidential iPod.

What, for example, to make of the inclusion of The Knack's chirpy yet sleazy My Sharona, a staple of American college life for the last 20 years?

But that is about as risky as it gets.


Oh man. Think of the possibilities.