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Late Night: Dirty Laundry, 1993 Style

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 12:34:43 AM EST
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From the MTV Inaugural Ball, January 1993. I've had it on VHS all these years and just put it on You Tube. Henley's opening line: "This song is for President and Mrs. Clinton."

Kick 'em when they're up
Kick 'em when they're down

...We all know that crap is king

Give us dirty laundry

We love Dirty Laundry

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    Late Night: Dirty Laundry, 1993 Style | 12 comments (12 topical)

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    That brings a smile to my eyes. (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by BarnBabe on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 12:58:04 AM EST
    First of all, that was when Dennis Miller was a Democrat and really funny. Then it was the memory of the great entertainment at the Inauguration. 10000 Maniacs, Barbra, Stevie Nicks, and a whole slew of cool people. It was promising, it was exciting. I hope to get that same feeling at the end of this year. It is the warm fuzzys for sure.

    And since I did not get the vacuuming done today as the diaries and comments here were so interesting and since it is now 2AM and I have to be at the office at 8, it is time to say sweet dreams. Thanks for rock em sock em day.

    Wow, so much has changed since then.... (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by jerry on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 01:55:32 AM EST


    Okay, this is it... (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by kaffied on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 01:59:50 AM EST
    I am a refugee, been lurking for a couple of months...but, dirty laundry did it...thanks Jeralyn!

    Kaffied, I'm not the official greeter, (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by FoxholeAtheist on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 05:42:40 AM EST
    I'm also relatively new - but a big welcome to TL.

    Personally, as a newbie, I feel that I miscalculated in coming at it rather full-bore from the outset. So, it's good to ease in, familiarize oneself with comment guidelines and consider subtextual cues.

    It'll all be a good thing.
     

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    Awesome :) (none / 0) (#4)
    by GDKitty on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 02:24:28 AM EST
    I might be misremembering, but I think this was the song that Greenwald used on his 'Outfoxed' doc.  

    I miss the old Dennis Miller, too.  I can't believe that was 15 years ago!

    Love it, even Miller was still sane then. (none / 0) (#5)
    by FoxholeAtheist on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 05:28:32 AM EST
    I find these videos inspirational and it rekindles the audacity of idealism in me.

    Henley's intro: "This is for President and Mrs. Clinton". I swear, it gives me a touch of the Chris Matthews "leg tingle". I can only imagine the full-body euphoria of hearing: "This is for President and Mr. Clinton".

    It's all so damn moving. I HOPE we have an opportunity to feel this good again by the end of '08.

    Thanks J, for what Ronald Regan called "getting back to the future" - the difference being that this is a future the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party should be working to get back to.

    Girl, you've got a major cache of vintage footage. Keep mining it for our edification.

    Have a wonderful day.

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    15 years-Seems like yesterday (none / 0) (#7)
    by BarnBabe on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 07:23:39 AM EST
    Don't know where my brain was but I was thinking that it was only 7 years ago when he was President and that is true. Except, this was at the beginning and not the end of his term. Heh. Here's to new beginnings.

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    Thanks, Jeralyn that was rich. (none / 0) (#8)
    by Mark Woods on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 08:50:50 AM EST
    Getting a different tune stuck in my head instead in good, since I keep humming compulsively Stephen Sondheim's 'Where are the Clowns? every time the dirty laundry brigade marches by . . .

    'Isn't it rich? There ought to be clowns; but where are the clowns?'

    thanks for lodging that song in my brain (none / 0) (#9)
    by desmoinesdem on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 08:54:55 AM EST
    where it will now stay all day.

    I only have to read a reference to that song, and that "Kick 'em when they're up, kick 'em when they're down" sticks in my head for hours.

    The song itself (none / 0) (#10)
    by cannondaddy on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 08:57:57 AM EST
    is spot on.  Everytime I hear people complain about the left/right wing media bias, I think about this song.  It's all about the cynical pursuit of advertising dollars, not pushing agendas.

    jump start (none / 0) (#11)
    by Karen KB on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 09:23:34 AM EST
    Thank you for the visual of one of my favorite songs.  I am 67, I was there when rock was born and grew into the joyful presentation like this one.

    How happy I feel this day.  I am so glad things that troubled me about Obama that I couldn't explain, just not believing him, when I listened to his speeches.  I resigned my support early of being a part of his just announced campaign and joined Hillary's.  I have not looked back.  I am for her and am thankful another Clinton is there to fix the wrongs created by Lil George, Rovenstein, and the famous dick Cheney.

    I have faith that Obama's real purpose for "boneheadness", or "not present" at sermon's by his father-like adoration of his minister's, or his mimicry of Denzel Washington/Malcom X "bamboozled, hoodwinked", he is so phoney just try to find a real soul in him.  How the African American community supports him (even though I suspect so many see the same transparent phoniness that Caroline, Teddie and Kerry missed) are willing to place the future lives in the hands of a Lil George Wannabe or Lil George W the second.

    Karen KB

    Ah, January 1993 (none / 0) (#12)
    by litigatormom on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 10:52:30 AM EST
    I had just found out the day before the Inauguration that I was pregnant with my younger daughter.  I remember watching Clinton's Inauguration Speech in a conference room in my office, and several people asked why I was smiling quite so broadly ("It wasn't that good....").

    I remember being bewildered, shortly afterward, by the wholesale attacks by the GOP -- dutifully reported and sensationalized by the MSM -- over what seemed like such silly issues. And the bigger the scandals got, the sillier they were. Unlike the scandals of this president, which have gone to the core of our democracy, and have largely hidden by our press.

    President Clinton left us with a budget surplus and a sound economy.  President Bush will leave my daughters to pay off his horrendous economic legacy: unconstrained spending exacerbated by a costly, wasteful war, an out-of-control budget deficit, a pathetically weak dollar.  Trust me, my teenage daughters understand enough of what is going on to be really, really angry about it. Great way to segue into adulthood. Not.  

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