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The drums recall “The Boxer” by Simon and Garfunkel, which Lorne Michaels requested that Paul Simon perform on a post-9/11 episode of Saturday Night Live.

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Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough released this folk song on January 22, 2018 for the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March.

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The Stanley Kubrick motif, while apt, was a relatively late addition copy-paste to replace “Matthew Broderick.” The joke is Kubrick is a recluse who hated to be photographed and let his high-concept work speak for itself.

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There is no Backer in Cambridge. Its nearest equivalent might be Cantab Lounge in Central Square. This bar is a composite of several bars, including “The Backer” in South Bend, Indiana.

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I wrote this story several years ago to ask myself why I insisted on the attention of its subject. It was four times as long then cut to bits.

Question for active reading:
Is there an attention-getting maneuver in the story?

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They live in a bad neighborhood, hence the not parking there at night.

VERIFIED: On June 27, 2017 (cannot embed link), Ezra Koenig told a user it refers to this line:

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Former CBS News contributor, author of Bias which was one of the inspirations for Al Franken’s Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

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Zucker launched from the Harvard Crimson (where Conan O'Brien made constant fun of him from the Lampoon office) to the 1988 Seoul Olympics coverage, then to running the Today show on Katie Couric’s back, sort of a Stephanopoulos-HRC kind of relationship

Pretty much stopped paying attention to his career once he went to CNN (MSNBC loyalist)

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Joe Scarborough’s close personal relationships with Donald Trump and Chris Christie were apparently a subject of great consternation to the senior management of the network. At some point, Scarborough more or less ghosted Trump, with the support of Mika Brzezinski (whose father Zbigniev, a senior national security adviser to the Carter administration with deep feelings about the scars of World War II on Polish Catholics, is a realpolitik guy along the lines of the Clinton people). Trump has threatened to expose Joe and Mika’s long rumored personal relationship on Twitter, as described in this delightful GQ profile by Jason Zengerle.

Scarborough is, naturally, writing a Trump musical to compete with HAMILTON.

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In a fall 2016 “conversation” at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Graydon Carter and fellow magazine editor Terry McDonell reminisce about the numerous times has Trump contacted their respective publications to complain about how he was portrayed, dating back at least to the mid-Eighties. Sometimes he would call them personally to do so. Carter’s magazine Spy was the most notorious of them, for dubbing Trump “the short-fingered vulgarian.” McDonell, who once edited Sports Illustrated, says at one point that Trump and Bill Clinton are apparently the most notorious golf cheaters on the Wall Street circuit.

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