Word: listener
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...stations. He grumbles about the "flavor-of-the-month mentality" among music fans. And he shows his age - endearingly - by refusing to own an iPod. His strange argument, contradicted every time he draws up a set list comprising songs from different phases of his career, is that you must listen to songs in the context of the album they appear on. "Just to take bits and pieces of this and that I think is not as enriching an experience," he says. Jarreau is also more than a little blasé about reaching out to fans via the crucial medium...
...disparity? Is it because rock is inherently rebellious and therefore anti-conservative? Is it because Republicans, according to some studies, have more sex than Democrats and therefore don't need to join or listen to rock bands to prove they're cool? Is it because their smart parents told them you can't make enough money to reap the rewards of tax breaks by starting a band in your garage...
...ensuing Roveian attacks on Obama have also increased the ease with which Obama can link McCain to the tactics of his predecessor. That's fine if McCain wins, but "it'll be interesting to see what happens to Rove's reputation and how much people are willing to listen to his crap if Obama wins," says a frustrated Democratic Senate aide...
...Democratic Party simply by treating Hillary Clinton like a monarch at the convention. These voters are not hers to deliver; Obama has to earn them back on his own with a convention that reaches out to those hardworking Americans who don't drive a Prius, don't listen to npr, don't buy syrah-and assure them that it is still very much their Democratic Party...
Open his book The Audacity of Hope to almost any page and listen. On immigration, for example, Obama first mirrors "the faces of this new America" he has met in the ethnic stew pot of Chicago: "in the Indian markets along Devon Avenue, in the sparkling new mosque in the southwestern suburbs, in an Armenian wedding and a Filipino ball." Then he pivots to give voice to the "anxieties" of "many blacks" and "as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration," adding: "Not all of these fears are irrational." He admits that he knows the "frustration" of needing...