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Vice President George bush was also quick to rally around the beleaguered Beach Boys, who had played in successful fund raising concerts for his 1980 campaign. So was Nancy Reagan, who, Watt said, told him that "her children have grown up with them and they're fine, outstanding people...
Finally, the president himself took Watt along the now well-trod path behind the White House woodshed, and when the secretary emerged, he carried a plaster trophy of a foot with a bullet hole in it and announced. "I've learned a lot about the Beach Boys in the last 12 hours. We'll look forward to having them here in Washington to entertain us again...
...that the incident has died down, we can't help thinking that Watt's biggest blunder was not that he purged the Beach Boys, devout though their following appears to be in the Reagan White House. The more significant faux pas, we feel, was to place them with the most unbearably fatuous entertainer this nation is currently enduring. Wayne Newton. Surely the public outcry would have been diminished if Watt had not selected, out of all the singers in the United States of America, a man whose performances are the musical equivalent of toxic waste...
Nevertheless, we offer an expression of relief that Watt did not err even more gravely than he did in selecting a replacement band. After all, he might have tapped the Clash to play cuts from their popular album Sandinista, a move that would surely have incurred the dangerous wrath of United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who has never been that particular group of Central American rebels' most devoted band that calls itself the Dead Kennedys (best known for its rendition of "Kill the Poor"), thereby annihilating the White House's already troubled efforts to patch up relations with...
Worst of all, Watt might easily have invited Randy Newman to sing his newest hit, with its chorus "Let's drop the big one." Caspar Weinberger might have taken the song seriously, and then where would...