Brief item in the Gambit:
In January 2007, The New York Times ran a guest editorial by Randy Newman. It was, appropriately, the lyrics to a song, “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” which condemned the current state of American politics through a clenched-teeth grin, belittling modern leaders in light of the more accomplished imperialists of Nazi Germany and ancient Rome. Perhaps the most flattering Times music review ever, the placement drew Newman’s acerbic ire for what didn’t run: several lines about incest in the time of Caesar. “What are they protecting, Tiberius?” Newman told NPR. “These people have been dead 2,000 years. … Kevin Caesar isn’t going to come out of the woodwork and sue them.”
Anyone heard anything about this before?
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