Previous honorees:
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to smash my DVR with a hammer.
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Kennedy Center Changes
- Thread starter TheBigA
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Previous honorees:
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to smash my DVR with a hammer.
The president will host. He will have to revive his AFTRA card. This was the only way he would attend. He's not sitting in the audience and have some comedian tell jokes. He wants to be the focus. No foreigners and no foreign language. He'll stand there and attack the other party for three hours. Which is fine, since none of them will attend.
I'm surprised her name made it through the anti-DEI filter.
Pentagon to remove 'Enola Gay' WWII aircraft photos for violating DEI rules
An anonymous source said the purge could delete 100,000 images in total, when considering social media pages are also being culled for DEI content.
www.nbcwashington.com
Disco primarily appealed to whites. A black woman is way more likely to get through than a black man. No Hispanics. This may be the first time in a while that there will be no Hispanic representation. Strait had to go in before Greenwood. They'll do Lee next year.
I don't see how Gloria Gaynor qualifies.
The rest of the list looks good, if we can accept metal bands. That day was going to come. I find it hard to imagine Metallica, but they certainly qualify as art if any metal band can.
The rest of the list looks good, if we can accept metal bands. That day was going to come. I find it hard to imagine Metallica, but they certainly qualify as art if any metal band can.
Trump seems to be an unabashed fan of Disco, despite its origin being in Black and LGBTQ nightclubs. He always plays "Y.M.C.A." at his rallies, either blissfully unaware or purposely ignoring what it's actually about.
The president has announced his Kennedy Center Honorees:
Sylvester Stallone, George Strait tapped for Kennedy Center Honors, Trump to host ceremony
President Donald Trump will host the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors, with Michael Crawford, George Strait, Sylvester Stallone and more as honorees.www.usatoday.com
Not too awful. Country singer George Strait, actor Sylvester Stallone, disco singer Gloria Gaynor, rock bank KISS, actor Michael Crawford.
No Hispanics.
What would be nice (though she probably won't do it) would be for Gloria Gaynor to decline the award. She's basically a token black in a sea of white faces and the President is most likely going to ignore anything she says about how dark-skinned people are being treated by this Administration.
You say there's no precedent? I did see recently in an email (that I've since deleted) that a gentleman declined an award from the FCC under Brendan Carr ffor his work in helping to start video descriptions for the blind because of the FCC's, and by extension the President's, stance towards public radio and television (the latter being where the service was started).
Attacks on Public Broadcasting Lead US Accessibility Champion to Reject Prestigious Award
Lainey's Introduction As the republican attacks on rights, benefits and democracy continue in the United States, resistance takes many forms. One problem in the country right now is that main stream media normalizes trump and republican activity, as if we are not creeping toward fascism with ever
www.lflegal.com
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Nothing wrong with disco, but it's not art as defined by the Kennedy Center.
The Bee Gees were honored but they did other styles of music.
He's nostalgic for his early 30s. Born in 1946. It was probably the last trend in music that he really connected with.
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I'm surprised to see George Strait involved with this. Stallone and Gene Simmons, I fully expected.
Is that a CB antenna?
Who other than MAGA devotees are going to watch Trump bloviate and perform a MAGA rally for 3 hours?
More likely a mobile telephone.
The photograph of Trump is from 1976, when phones were mounted under the dash for owner-driven vehicles and in the back for those with drivers (certainly Trump, though he had sports cars he himself would drive).
Mobile phones long predate the advent of the cellular industry, but the technology back then was comparatively quite primitive.
Appears to be a half-wave antenna for a mobile phone that operated on high-band VHF, 148-174 MHz, though most seemed to be between 152 and 160 MHz.
This would have been the old-style analog duplex system which could be monitored by anyone with a receiver capable of tuning those frequencies. No privacy.
Some of the duplex systems used 450-470 MHz UHF.
It's funny how some of us forgot that we grew up seeing that kind of phone on pretty much every detective show until Jim Rockford gave us the impoverished P.I. who needed to find a phone booth.
“Is this Winchell’s? I’ll have a dozen of everything….Of course this is Frank!”
And then you have Rockford, with no car phone, who pulls through Jack-in-the-Box for a taco and fries and asks the girl in the window to call the cops to tell them he's being tailed.
Old style mobile phone info: Mobile Telephone Service - Wikipedia