The Politics of David Bowie, With Michael Moynihan, at Noon ET on SiriusXM Channel 121

How people impose their lame politics on a dead rock star

Time

All week long I've been hosting the Insight Hour (Channel 121) on SiriusXM at noon ET. Today we're taking a break from American politics (well, mostly) and instead talking about how our sad modern discourse has attempted to wrestle with the transformative figure of David Bowie since his death this week. Joining me in that effort for the full hour (I mean, if he wakes up) is beloved former Reasoner Michael C. Moynihan, and then later in the program Jeffrey Blehar.

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Comments

[Sevo]

"talking about how our sad modern discourse has attempted to wrestle with the transformative figure of David Bowie since his death this week."

Singer/actor died. Pretty sure that's the story.

[SusanM]

Before we get too misty-eyed, let's remember that not everything he did was amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ

[Citizen X]

Clearly, you have no idea what "amazing" means.

[SusanM]

Yes, a poor choice of word, that.

[MJGreen - Docile Citizen]

As I asked yesterday, will recordings of these shows be available?

[Notorious UGCC]

Eternal Memory

[Lord Humungus]

What about the politics of dancing?

[Citizen X]

"Put on your red shoes and dance the blues"

Sounds pretty centrist to me.

[american socialist]

He did this... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-2I9QOXAo -- a pretty underrated song in an underrated anti-militaristic movie. I was a teenager when I saw this movie and it fed my growing distrust of governments and the military. If people ask me why I fear my government and thus identify an a libertarian socialist it's because of this appalling notion that politicians could kill billions over geopolitical concerns (i.e. A Ruisian plane straying into NATO airspace for a few seconds) that I don't care about.

[Citizen X]

As a socialist, you'd prefer that politicians do their killin' over domestic concerns, hey?

[Rufus The Monocled Derp Slayer]

'Libertarian-socialist'

Again with the oxymoron.

[Citizen X]

If you leave out the 'oxy-' prefix, you're still right.

[kbolino]

Libertarian-socialist

Which seems to mean:

"Doing mean things to foreigners is bad; doing mean things to citizens is good"

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Moynihan? What a gyp.