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The Washington Post
The Reliable Source
By Richard Leiby
Wednesday, June 9, 2004; Page C03
Man Out of Time: Elvis and Reagan, Through the Years
• Cognitive dissonance department: As fulsome Ronald
Reagan tributes continue to engulf TV and radio chat
shows, some hosts have taken to playing patriotic
songs behind the Gipper's famous speeches. As her
week-long tribute continued Tuesday, conservative
talker Laura Ingraham offered listeners a subtle and
poignant mix including Bob Dylan, Randy Travis, Eva
Cassidy and Elvis Presley. Within the mix happened to
be a 2002 Elvis Costello song, "Tart."
Turn back the clock 20 years, when saluting Reagan was
less trendy, and Costello's sentiments weren't exactly
fitting background music: "There's already one
spaceman in the White House / What do you want another
for?" he asked in 1984's "Peace in Our Time" --
referring to Democratic candidate John Glenn and
President Reagan.
Five years later he viciously assailed Margaret
Thatcher, a great Reagan ally, with the lyric, "when
they finally put you in the ground / I'll stand on
your grave and tramp the dirt down."
Of course, hosts don't always select their music --
and we all make little miscues now and then. Anybody
remember the S&L bailout?
Elvis and Reagan, Through the Years
This reminds me of EC's Tonight Show visit at that same time. Joan Rivers (a big Reagan supporter) was the host and EC played a crazed version of PIOT. You could tell she wasn't to happy with EC. I had a tape of this but it is long lost.
By the way I am VERY a-political so never been a fan of this side of EC.
By the way I am VERY a-political so never been a fan of this side of EC.