Covers: A Casual Look

The Beach Boys recorded 15 Big Ones, mostly a covers album, in 1976. One of the more obscure choices was “A Casual Look”, a 1956 hit for the Six Teens. The oldest member of the group was 17. Doo-wop was an influence on the Beach Boys and other artists as diverse as Frank Zappa and George Clinton. This is what covers are for – bringing back a forgotten old song.

update 11/18/20

Here’s another version from 1956 by Little Clydie and the Teens. Clydie King went on to a long career as a singer. King would have been no more than 13 when this was recorded. I’m glad the Beach Boys version exists to remind us of the song but they can’t capture the innocence of the two versions by adolescents.

Covers: Bucket T

“Bucket T” was a Jan & Dean b-side from 1964. The Who did covered it in 1965.

More on fake voter fraud claims

A look at 5 false or misleading Trump team claims of election fraud. https://t.co/Icv4sl5Z11
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 14, 2020

Let me be 💯 clear:

Over 6M votes cast, there’s exactly 2 cases of criminal voter fraud in PA.

👉 Luzerne Republican voting for a dead mom 👵🏻💀🗳

👉 Chester Republican voting for a live democrat son. 👨🏻‍🦲👩🏻‍🦲🗳

10 days of every Republican frenetically searching: TWO CASES.
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) November 14, 2020

Hey @DanPatrick it’s me again. 🙄

You wanted voter fraud, so here’s a *new* one: Republican father voted, then returned “in sunglasses” to vote for his Democrat son in Chester County.

Two cases out of 6M+ votes in PA.

My dude, isn’t that $2M now? https://t.co/0MS4qB5mYT
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) November 14, 2020

This is a full on public revolt by career prosecutors over Barr’s politicization of DOJ. Absolutely unprecedented. https://t.co/YqUgOmKgyk
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) November 13, 2020

Arizona’s post election audits have been completed. They confirm that no fraud has been found. Never had any doubt.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) November 12, 2020

Trump administration statement this evening, bold type in the original: "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised." https://t.co/gD7BI9Uzfn pic.twitter.com/xz6w5jTh9F
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 13, 2020

Post-election audits in Arizona find no evidence of systematic voter fraud https://t.co/EO53lKqo9K pic.twitter.com/wvPrr2DWXv
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 12, 2020

Wisconsin elections head says still no evidence of fraudhttps://t.co/SELpaFJUG8
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) November 12, 2020

One of the Trump campaign's witnesses who is claiming that her Sharpie vote for the president wasn't counted just testified that she came to that conclusion after she cast her vote from her talking to her family, other voters, some attorneys and from her "research online."
— Alan Feuer (@alanfeuer) November 12, 2020

Once again, Trump’s attorneys tell judges that they aren’t alleging fraud.

They are not willing to put their law licenses on the line by pushing Trump’s conspiracy theories and falsehoods.

Just another indicator that Trump is lying to his followers. https://t.co/4geMrzL89f
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) November 12, 2020

more crazy conspiracy theories –> https://t.co/kQUfsWJpln https://t.co/QoUbAhac6B
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 12, 2020

Fact Checker: Four viral videos falsely suggest "voter fraud" led to Biden’s victory https://t.co/OXbdisdZtA
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 12, 2020

Arizona’s GOP attorney general rejects Trump’s unfounded voter fraud claims: "There is no evidence" https://t.co/cAqeC04UQl
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 12, 2020

Fact check: President Trump wrongly claimed a video that showed election workers collecting legally cast ballots in Los Angeles the day after the election showed evidence of fraud https://t.co/J96Pw2G6Cn
— CNN (@CNN) November 12, 2020

And yet Philadelphia is at the heart of GOP's voter fraud rhetoric, because, well, we all know why.

Stupid Democrats — can't even do fraud right! https://t.co/aCtdxOIyw2
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 11, 2020

QAnon voter fraud theory and more updates 11/13/20

The average membership of 10 of Facebook's biggest (public) QAnon groups increased ~600% from March-July 2020. https://t.co/njQjYM6Kyh
— Dr. Seema Yasmin (@DoctorYasmin) November 16, 2020

For days after the election, adherents to the QAnon conspiracy movement had been trying to get President Trump’s attention with constant false claims about voter fraud connected to a company that makes voting machines.

On Thursday, they celebrated. https://t.co/L8CCEiSpyn
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 13, 2020

MCCARTHY on QAnon sympathetic Rs coming to Congress: these are new members — give them an opportunity
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 12, 2020

She fell into QAnon and went viral for destroying a Target mask display.

Now she’s rebuilding her life. https://t.co/K3cmaEIVhD
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 11, 2020

Our first Q supportive (her campaign insists it was in the past) congresswoman puts out a video with the following graphic up top pic.twitter.com/1UbtvZ8VFS
— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 11, 2020

QAnon is supposed to be all about protecting kids. Its primary enabler appears to have hosted child porn domains. https://t.co/ITapRPCrdK
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) November 11, 2020

This is how the QAnon community is reacting to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine news:

"You can keep your vaccine and your microchip"
"NWO wants only 500 million people globally"
"This is not a win for the people in any way" pic.twitter.com/8mLxxogAFl
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) November 9, 2020

Researchers are exploring a possible link between polling errors in states where surveys underestimated President Trump’s support and a higher-than-average volume of QAnon activity in those states. https://t.co/QnJrVdGEiQ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 6, 2020

"Once Trump settled on this narrative, QAnon supporters appeared energized and focused."

Great @kait_tiffany piece: https://t.co/RQSkMr8eHY
— John Hendrickson (@JohnGHendy) November 5, 2020

K-pop fans are "keyword squatting" again, this time disrupting chat about the million maga march with news about pancakes. Here's a good primer:https://t.co/Y85yqzoQDM
— Dr. Seema Yasmin (@DoctorYasmin) November 13, 2020

The QAnon conspiracy theory faces a post-Trump identity crisis https://t.co/qBOYOWZQrx
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 10, 2020

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) donated $2,000 to QAnon congressional candidate Angela Stanton-King, an author and television personality who is very unlikely to win her race. (The @ajc previously reported Loeffler's donation.) https://t.co/1eGGg8FoLP
— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) November 2, 2020

The dozens of Republicans who have voiced support for at least some elements of QAnon show how GOP leadership has allowed QAnon to become a part of the party, even if the GOP hasn’t explicitly embraced it. https://t.co/E52MgHaUen
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) October 30, 2020

In the U.S., QAnon has already evolved from a fringe internet subculture into a mass movement veering into the mainstream. In Germany, it has found fertile ground in the putsch fantasies and anti-Semitic tropes long popular on the far-right fringe.https://t.co/RY8soZ0VBN
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 11, 2020

Flagging for all the reporters who questioned whether the NRCC ads were really QAnon dog whistles. https://t.co/5ru3YWx70J
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) October 1, 2020

Another QAnon mom has allegedly kidnapped her kid.

It's the latest collision between child custody fights, QAnon, and fringe legal theories. https://t.co/t8SxnAe256
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) October 1, 2020

Facebook announced that it will ban any ads in support of the far-right group Qanon and any militarized social movements. – @CNBC https://t.co/Xq5ot9RLVq
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 1, 2020

anyhow maybe they won't screw this up but…idk this isn't the direction i'd go after reading reports like this one! pic.twitter.com/VK87HZDYkX
— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) October 1, 2020

Hours before the first debate, the GOP chairwoman is quoting the first daughter to wink at QAnon as if all of this is normal and not in fact the saddest party ever hoping the votes of a conspiracy cult can save them in the election. pic.twitter.com/pBMFoMppst
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) September 29, 2020

More coronavirus outbreaks

Nearly half of 83 people who attended a recent Ohio wedding test positive for Covid-19, making it the latest super-spreader event amid a nationwide surge. https://t.co/3wRhr1ZCHx
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 18, 2020

177 COVID-19 have been linked back to a wedding in Maine, where guests didn't follow mask-wearing protocols. One of those guests was a jail guard, who infected 46 inmates.https://t.co/eAQJHPruze
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) November 13, 2020

"None of the persons who were hospitalized or died had attended the event." https://t.co/GCZchkjS7j
— Brit Bennett (@britrbennett) November 13, 2020

More than 540 students at the University of Connecticut are under quarantine as of Wednesday amid increased Covid-19 cases on and off campus, the school says. https://t.co/7dfBXRlfVS
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 12, 2020

vivid portrait of incompetence and unseriousness about the virus https://t.co/Ia1JFZGxhg
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) November 9, 2020

up to 44 people affected

Two people who attended one of President Trump's recent rallies in North Carolina have tested positive for Covid-19 https://t.co/lUiiKZjNqJ
— CNN (@CNN) October 30, 2020

Super spreading at the country club: wedding infects 56, leaves nearly 300 in quarantine. via @NYTimes https://t.co/r0A2qmQd4G
— Brent Staples (@BrentNYT) October 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/hshaban/status/1321984365287669760?s=11

More than 130 Secret Service officers have COVID-19 or are quarantining

!!: More than 130 Secret Service officers are said to be infected with coronavirus or quarantining in wake of Trump’s campaign – ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ https://t.co/ROlmfAaXft
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 13, 2020

NEW: Secret Service vets were floored by Trump's decision to stage a drive-by while infected. His agents would "follow him over a cliff, no questions asked, but that's not the point," a former agent told me, adding that POTUS' decision was "unconscionable" https://t.co/Jpin5x1dnN
— Sonam Sheth (@sonam_sheth) October 6, 2020

Some Secret Service agents outraged at @realDonaldTrump's Sunday night drive . How could.Trump’s desire to be seen outside of his hospital suite justify the jeopardy to agents who protect him, they ask https://t.co/15MifhWqGP
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) October 5, 2020

“Secret Service agents expressed their anger and frustration to colleagues and friends Friday, saying that the president’s actions have repeatedly put them at risk. “He’s never cared about us,” one agent told a confidant.” https://t.co/zP6RQpxdF2
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) October 3, 2020

Biden won the counties that contribute most to the GDP

In spite of what the Trump cult claims, the blue states subsidize the red states.

President-elect Joe Biden's support came from America's most economically productive counties.

Columnist @hiltzikm explains: https://t.co/GLVrQAUuRe
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 12, 2020

Joe Biden won just 477 of America’s 3,141 counties — but those counties account for an incredible 70% of the nation’s GDP.

By contrast, Clinton won counties that add up to 64% of GDP, Gore in 2000 won 54%. https://t.co/enwHlhxU22
— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) November 11, 2020

Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America's economy. What does this mean for the nation's political-economic divide? https://t.co/UqcR6QixP2 via @BrookingsInst
— Thomas Edsall (@Edsall) November 10, 2020

Likewise in @BrookingsMetro study, seats held by House Ds now produce 50% more GDP on average than seats held by House Rs. How wide could that gap get if Rs further retreat in suburbs of TX, IN, NC, NE, OH (?) PA (?) etc @MarkMuro1 ? https://t.co/yIy8nErS8G https://t.co/ggs9stnMEF
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 11, 2020

He won almost all of the largest counties, too:

Biden beat Trump in the two largest counties the president carried last time: Maricopa (Phoenix) and Tarrant (Fort Worth).

When all the votes are counted, Suffolk County, on Long Island, may be the only one of the 50 largest counties that Trump won https://t.co/Bust0tuAEZ
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) November 12, 2020

White House likely to fire official who posted accurate election information

He didn’t go along with Trump’s lies so he will be canned.

White House appears ready to fire a top U.S. official for posting information intended to reassure voters — but debunked the false narrative advanced by the president. Orwellian. https://t.co/gc5kWIR9Aw pic.twitter.com/z18QT1XZyk
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 12, 2020

Deceptive anti-Biden video

It was altered. More lies. Sad!

From @donie: the latest in the long series of videos dishonestly altered to make Biden look confused was viewed more than 1 million times on Twitter. https://t.co/PDHkWciCRi
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 2, 2020

That video people are sharing of Biden saying “Hello Minnesota” in front of a sign saying Tampa is doctored.

He was in Minnesota. The sign has been altered to say Tampa.

See 28:30 here:https://t.co/ZqK3dV2tkV
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 1, 2020

Biden picture without a mask was from 2019

Another lie

There’s a reason Joe Biden was on a plane without a mask in a photo that’s circulating online: It was taken in 2019. Some social media users suggested the lack of a mask was hypocritical. But, as @AmandaSeitz reports, the photo predates the pandemic. https://t.co/m9dx8DLGQ4
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) November 2, 2020

A combined 27K RTs on photo from 2019 before there was a pandemic. These people tweet in all caps about fake news. pic.twitter.com/n8J9icJkyc
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) November 2, 2020