Here’s The Band with The Staple Singers singing “The Weight” from Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz.” For an encore, here they are doing “Cripple Creek” on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969.

Here’s Billmon on old media and the way it’s covering the midterm campaign, particularly the ads: The way the media is currently handling the GOP’s Swiftboat extravaganza is a textbook example of how the conventions of journalistic “objectivity” have become the enemies of truth, not its allies. It shows why so many on the left …

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