newspaperman Harold Evans
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Something that makes me really happy is the fact that my favorite documentary about Tina Turner is now on You Tube.
I don't think it's on DVD, so I had believed I might not see it ever again...
You just type in, "The Girl From Nutbush" -- it's an hour and a half. (There are some clips on there that say, Part 2 or part 3, but we don't have to watch it in different parts, the complete video is there, it says "1:29:46.")
In this film Ike Turner talks about "Fool In Love" -- he had some guy who was going to record the song but he did not show up -- a "no-call, no show" so to speak; as long as Ike was paying for recording-studio time, he had Tina record the song.
He was planning to then later find the original intended singer and record him over her vocals.
But everyone who listened to the demo said, "Man, that's great. Put it out! Put it out!"
So they put it out and, Ike says, "Damn thing was a hit!"
He adds, "That's why she's straining so, on that record, hollerin' like that? -- 'cause I had it in the key that he would sing it in."
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some of today's New York Times headlines
Trump Again Sows Doubt About Election as G.O.P. Scrambles to Assure Voters
President Trump declined for a second day to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost the election, while Republicans, including Mitch McConnell, implicitly rebuffed him, promising an "orderly transition."
Battles Over Voting Rules Fuel Concern About Postelection Fights
Louisville's Police Force Feels Besieged on Two Fronts
Officers say that city and police officials were slow to release crucial details in the Breonna Taylor case. Protesters are fed up with what they consider abusive tactics. Calm seems a long way off.
Ocean Heat Waves Are Directly Linked to Climate Change
Young Women Take a Frontline Role in Thailand's Protests
Harold Evans Dies at 92; Crusading Newspaperman With a Second Act
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"The Election That Could Break America"
written by Barton Gellman
The Atlantic
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...Donald Trump may win or lose, but he will never concede.... If compelled in the end to vacate his office, Trump will insist from exile, as long as he draws breath, that the contest was rigged.
Trump's invincible commitment to this stance will be the most important fact about the coming Interregnum.
It will deform the proceedings from beginning to end.
We have not experienced anything like it before.
-------------- Maybe you hesitate. Is it a fact that if Trump loses, he will reject defeat, come what may? Do we know that? Technically, you feel obliged to point out, the proposition is framed in the future conditional, and prophecy is no man's gift, and so forth. With all due respect, that is pettifoggery.
We know this man.
We cannot afford to pretend.
Trump's behavior and declared intent leave no room to suppose that he will accept the public's verdict if the vote is going against him. He lies prodigiously -- to manipulate events, to secure advantage, to dodge accountability, and to ward off injury to his pride. An election produces the perfect distillate of all those motives.
Pathology may exert the strongest influence on Trump's choices during the Interregnum. Well-supported arguments, some of them in this magazine, have made the case that Trump fits the diagnostic criteria for psychopathy and narcissism. Either disorder, by its medical definition, would render him all but incapable of accepting defeat.
Conventional commentary has trouble facing this issue squarely. Journalists and opinion makers feel obliged to add disclaimers when asking "what if" Trump loses and refuses to concede. "The scenarios all seem far-fetched," Politico wrote, quoting a source who compared them to science fiction.
Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, writing in The Atlantic in February, could not bring herself to treat the risk as real: "That a president would defy the results of an election has long been unthinkable; it is now, if not an actual possibility, at the very least something Trump's supporters joke about."
But Trump's supporters aren't the only people who think extraconstitutional thoughts aloud. Trump has been asked directly, during both this campaign and the last, whether he will respect the election results.
He left his options brazenly open.
"What I'm saying is that I will tell you at the time. I'll keep you in suspense. Okay?" he told moderator Chris Wallace in the third presidential debate of 2016. Wallace took another crack at him in an interview for Fox News this past July. "I have to see," Trump said. "Look, you -- I have to see. No, I'm not going to just say yes. I'm not going to say no."
How will he decide when the time comes? Trump has answered that, actually. At a rally in Delaware, Ohio, in the closing days of the 2016 campaign, he began his performance with a signal of breaking news. "Ladies and gentlemen, I want to make a major announcement today. I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters, and to all the people of the United States, that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election."
He paused, then made three sharp thrusts of his forefinger to punctuate the next words: "If ... I ... win!" Only then did he stretch his lips in a simulacrum of a smile.
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