Carole King sold 187 bazillion records to baby boomers is it really that hard to figure out why she might be a useful fundraising ally for Democrats?
https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1450211868715401223
More people bought Tapestry than any album by Billy Joel or James Taylor. It’s hard to imagine a political reporter expressing incredulity that either of them could be useful in a fundraising context. I wonder what might be different about Carole King to cause skepticism?
(Also Tapestry is great. Carole King is a national treasure.)
today has been a dumpster fire but at least we didn’t tolerate any Carole King slander 
wrapping up the day the only appropriate way
All this reminds me of the time in like 2007 Slate published some brain-dead piece calling Hillary Clinton a phony for saying she had the Stones, the Beatles, and Aretha on her iPod, as if there was any chance that *wouldn’t* be exactly what she listened to.
(If you want to read like 4,000 stream-of-consciousness words I wrote for @mmfa in 2006 inspired in part by that “Hillary’s iPod” BS, here you go: mediamatters.org/legacy/media-m… the examples are obviously quite dated & the writing sucks but the situation remains infuriatingly unchanged)
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