Our Artists’ Interviews Directory here at ClassicRockHistory.com presents a full showcase of all interviews we have done at the site in alphabetical order. The directory is split into two parts. The first half of the directory lists all of our basic interviews, which includes both print and video interviews. The second half features interviews focusing on the “10 Albums That Changed My Life” series.  One can easily access the entire interview by clicking on the listing. This directory is updated weekly. INTERVIEWS Arthur Adams: The ClassicRockHistory.com Interview Laurence Archer of Grand Slam Talks Phil Lynott, Taking on Thin Lizzy Tracks, The post Artists’ Interviews Directory At ClassicRockHistory.com appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

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One leftist is trying to rebrand diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as a badge of honor and admitted something the legacy media has often been keen to deny.  Christina Blacken, founder of a “leadership development and behavior change training company,” The New Quo, wrote a July 30 op-ed for The HuffPost titled with a stunning admission. “Kamala Harris Would Be A DEI President,” the title read, adding, “And That's A Good Thing For America.” In her article, Blacken distorted what DEI is and embraced popular smears against DEI opponents. She even claimed that DEI creates a type of meritocracy, somehow.  The legacy media has viciously lashed out at people who label Vice President Kamala Harris as a “DEI-hire,” calling it “clearly racist” and denouncing supposed “outright racism.” This is despite the fact that in 2020 Biden made it clear that he would put unchosen characteristics over qualifications when he promised to solely consider women for his vice presidential pick. The Washington Post, Politico, NPR, The Associated Press, CNN and other outlets acknowledged the pressure to prioritize race and gender.  Bracken, who called Harris a potential “DEI President” in her title, bristled at anyone on the right who dared to acknowledge this. “[T]hey cast Harris as a DEI candidate to simultaneously discredit her accomplishments while quietly dog-whistling to their brood.” Ludicrously, Blacken casts DEI initiatives as a pursuit of meritocracy: “[A] world where true merit and capability, across demographic backgrounds, are considered.” To be clear, this is a woman who promotes DEI, which puts unchosen characteristics like race and gender above considerations like merit.  Blacken claimed that conservative leaders “create “slurs for their followers to run with.” She added that, “Somehow for those people, DEI ― which actually means creating practices, policies and behaviors that create better financial, mental and physical outcomes that benefit everyone, including white men ― is interchangeably used as a derogatory alternative for the N-word.” But DEI does not benefit everyone, as Blacken claims. DEI is racial and gender discrimination in hiring and admissions rather than simply choosing the most qualified candidate or applicant. Even the legacy media has occasionally acknowledged this.  A report by Bloomberg News, owned by leftist billionaire Michael Bloomberg, laid out how this worked in 2021. According to the media outlet, a mere 6 percent of jobs at major companies they analyzed went to white individuals in 2021. Simultaneously, white people made up 68.5% of layoffs at studied companies that shrank in 2021.  Blacken, however, does benefit from DEI.  She chose to whitewash DEI because she is not a disinterested observer. DEI is her livelihood. According to The New Quo website she, has trained “11,500 leaders across 9 industries” through her live trainings and online courses. She describes her work as “creating equity goals and practices that infuses [sic] DEI into every area of their business,” and  “helping companies create more inclusive language in their content and services.” Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477, CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they report on the dangers of leftist DEI ideology infecting corporate America.

MSNBC’s tradition of rolling out self-identified Republicans to repeat the kookiest Democratic talking points continued on Friday as former GOP communications director Tara Setmayer joined Ana Cabrera Reports to claim “women voters are looking at this election as a life or death choice.” Against the backdrop of recent comments from Donald Trump about Kamala Harris’s race, Cabrera wondered, “Do you think a debate is more or less likely after all of this?”     Setmayer claimed a debate will happen because Trump’s ego demands it, and that “I'm looking forward to Donald Trump debating Kamala Harris. I think that she will use her prosecutorial skills to destroy him on the debate stage, because if his default is just to name-call and to try to bully her, that is not going to play well.” While Setmayer would be wise to recall those “prosecutorial skills” led her to withdraw before Iowa in the primary, she insisted that “Let's not forget that, you know, the idea of women, now we have a woman at the top of the ticket, and women voters are looking at this election as a life or death choice.” She continued to insist that Harris is the personification of freedom, “The binary choice is democracy or Trump, and for women, it's our lives or Trump, and Kamala Harris embodies the future of this country, embodies freedom in this country now, and Donald Trump and MAGA embody regression and trying to turn things back, and by his behavior, acting like this, continuing to act like this, this only reinforces that choice, particularly for women in battleground states.” Setmayer concluded by reiterating, “So, do I think he's going to debate her? I don't think his campaign wants her to debate him, but she -- or for him to debate her, but I don't think his ego is going to allow him to be called a coward, that he is, if he were not to do it.” With “Republicans” like this, one wonders why MSNBC needs Democrats.  Here is a transcript for the August 2 show: MSNBC Ana Cabrera Reports 8/2/2024 10:24 AM ET ANA CABRERA: So, Tara, I just want to pick up on what we heard at the end of that Chuck Schumer clip. Do you think a debate is more or less likely after all of this? Tara. TARA SETMAYER: I don't think that Donald Trump's ego, I don't think Donald Trump's ego will allow him to not debate her. This is something that he thinks that he's great at, just like he thinks he's his own best lawyer. So, I'm looking forward to Donald Trump debating Kamala Harris.  I think that she will use her prosecutorial skills to destroy him on the debate stage, because if his default is just to name-call and to try to bully her, that is not going to play well. Let's not forget that, you know, the idea of women, now we have a woman at the top of the ticket, and women voters are looking at this election as a life or death choice.  The binary choice is democracy or Trump, and for women, it's our lives or Trump, and Kamala Harris embodies the future of this country, embodies freedom in this country now, and Donald Trump and MAGA embody regression and trying to turn things back, and by his behavior, acting like this, continuing to act like this, this only reinforces that choice, particularly for women in battleground states.  So, do I think he's going to debate her? I don't think his campaign wants her to debate him, but she -- or for him to debate her, but I don't think his ego is going to allow him to be called a coward, that he is, if he were not to do it. 

The stock market reacted negatively to a bad unemployment report, and the Trump campaign lambasted Democrats for what some said are signs of a coming recession. “Kamala Harris has proudly and repeatedly celebrated her role as Joe Biden’s co-pilot on ‘Bidenomics.’ She cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate for spending that put inflation on steroids, and despite the evidence that America’s working families are hurting she tells us these failed plans are working," read a statement from the campaign entitled "Kamalanomics."The jobs report documented a sharp upturn in the unemployment rate from 4.1% to 4.3%, the highest level since October 2021. The Dow Jones index dropped 800 points on the news after losing nearly 500 points on Thursday. The S&P 500 index dropped 108 points, or about 2%, while the Nasdaq Composite fell by 384 points, or 2.2%. Despite the downturn, the stock market had reached historic highs in recent weeks. The report also triggered what is known as the "Sahm rule," which is named after an economist and predicts when the economy is headed into a recession. The Biden administration has been trying to argue that its policies have worked to broaden the employment base and raise wages, even as inflation has eroded Americans' buying power. The economy is a weak spot for Democrats as polls show most Americans blame President Joe Biden for high inflation and believe the economy is slumping. A majority of respondents said they trusted Republicans on the economy while far fewer said they trusted Democrats. "The basic necessities of food, gas and housing are less affordable, unemployment is rising, and Kamala doesn’t seem to care," the Trump campaign concluded. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

September 11, 2001, saw the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United States, killing nearly 3,000 American citizens. And yet, the masterminds behind the onslaught — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two of his accomplices — have accepted plea deals. What Are They NOT Telling Us About the 9/11 Mastermind Plea Deal? youtu.be “What they've done is in exchange for the removal of the death penalty as a possible punishment,” says Glenn Beck, who can’t believe these three men “haven’t even been tried yet.” According to the report, “These three accused have agreed to plead guilty to all of the charged defenses, including the murder of 2,976 people listed in the charge sheet.” “Now if there is anyone that deserves execution, I think it's somebody who killed 3,000 people” and “perpetrated the largest terrorist attack the world had seen,” says Glenn. Stu Burguiere points out that the lack of a trial denies the families of the victims a critical component of their “closure process.” “He just gets to say ‘I’m guilty’ and it’s over,” he says. “What would be another reason not to have a trial?” asks Glenn. “Some might think that if an entire trial were to go on, we might learn some things about how the government handled this situation, who they were dealing with, what arrangements were made for government officials from other countries. There's maybe something they might not want us to know about,” says Stu. To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Two-time Olympic boxing champion Claressa Shields called out the International Olympic Committee for allowing boxers who previously failed gender eligibility tests to box against women.Shields won the gold medal at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and remains undefeated in professional boxing. At 15-0, Shields had a TKO victory to win multiple titles just days before the boxing controversy at the 2024 games unfolded. 'I just can't believe that it's being done, and I just couldn't imagine it happening to me.'The Olympics has been critiqued worldwide for allowing two boxers to compete against women despite their previously failing gender eligibility tests from the International Boxing Association. Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) both were disqualified at the 2023 world championships in New Delhi after event organizers from the IBA determined them to be ineligible.The IOC has acknowledged that Khelif was "disqualified just hours before her gold medal showdown against Yang Liu at the 2023 world championships in New Delhi, India, after her elevated ­levels of testosterone failed to meet the eligibility criteria," the Guardian reported. The IOC also noted that Lin was "stripped of her bronze medal after failing to meet eligibility requirements based on the results of a biochemical test."So far at the Olympics, Lin had a dominating victory in the round of 16 of the women's 57kg category while Khelif made international headlines in the 66kg round of 16 by forcing opponent Angela Carini to forfeit in less than a minute."I don't even see how the Olympics [could do] something like this," Shields told Fox News. "It's just unfair. I just can't believe that it's being done, and I just couldn't imagine it happening to me," she continued.The IOC has since stood firmly in its position to let the boxers fight women, saying that it was "saddened by the abuse that the two athletes are currently receiving." "Every person has the right to practice sport without discrimination," the IOC continued, per ESPN.The IOC went on to call the IBA's 2023 testing "arbitrary" and said the two fighters were "suddenly disqualified without any due process." Italian press agency ANSA cited a gay-centric Italian communications company that claimed Khelif actually is "intersex" and not transgender."In contrast to the reports that have been circulating, the Algerian athlete Imane Khelif is not a trans woman," said Rosario Coco of Gaynet Communications. "From the information we have about her, she is an intersex person who has always socialized as a woman and has a sporting history in women's competitions."IBA president Umar Kremlev told Fox News, "Based on DNA tests, we identified a number of athletes who tried to trick their colleagues into posing as women. According to the results of the tests, it was proved that they have XY chromosomes. Such athletes were excluded from competition."Shields told Fox News she could understand the "devastation" the Italian female boxer was feeling after her loss: "It shouldn't be ruined due to a man. And I think that the Olympics definitely dropped the ball.""[At] my first Olympics, I was 17 years old, so I hadn't even fully developed as a woman, so I couldn't imagine getting inside the ring with a biological man," Shields continued to Fox News. "All I'm saying is men should fight against men, women should fight against women, and transgenders should fight against transgenders."Shields wasn't the only boxer to voice an opinion on the Olympic gender controversy. Boxer Jake Paul offered Carini — who forfeited to Khelif after just 46 seconds — a spot on one of his own promotions."To Angela Carini although your dreams couldn't come true today because of the crazy agendas that are at play in our world at the moment, I would love to offer you to fight on an [Most Valuable Promotions] undercard, to show the world your talents on a fair platform and not against a man. Internet help this find her," Paul wrote on X. — (@) Khelif will now fight Hungary's Anna Luca Hamori on Saturday. Lin will match up against Bulgaria's Svetlana Kamenova Staneva on Sunday.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Former President Donald Trump said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called him to apologize about a "mistake" after the social media company was accused of censoring a photo from the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.Meta's Facebook acknowledged that it mistakenly flagged an iconic photo of Trump pumping his fist in the air as "misinformation," the New York Post reported, but eventually resolved the issue.The photo from the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt against Trump was posted by the popular page End Wokeness, which was later reportedly threatened with being removed from the platform over the image.After conservative commentator Charlie Kirk wrote about the flagging, Meta spokesperson Dani Lever replied on X and claimed the "fact check" was initially in response to a "doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling."Trump spoke to Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on the subject and described social media networks as "not allow[ing] any information out about what happened" during the assassination attempt."Mark Zuckerberg called me, first of all, he called me a few times," Trump said. "He called me after the event and he said that was really amazing, it was very brave, and he actually announced he's not going to support a Democrat because he can't, because he respected me for what I did that day," he told Bartiromo."I think what I did maybe was a norm to me. It was a normal response, but I was called by Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, the day before, on this same subject, and he actually apologized. He said they made a mistake and they're correcting the mistake," Trump continued.The former president added that "nobody called from Google." — (@) Zuckerberg made headlines two weeks before by saying that seeing the former president with his fist in the air after getting shot during the assassination attempt was "one of the most bada** things I've ever seen in my life."The Zuck also told Bloomberg that "on some level, as an American, it's ... hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that's why a lot of people like the guy."In response to ongoing criticisms toward the platform regarding the photo, a Meta spokesperson shed some light on the topic in a response to the Post."We know people have been seeing incomplete, inconsistent, or out-of-date information on this topic. We're in the process of implementing a fix to provide more up-to-date responses for inquiries," Meta said. However, the platform added that people may still "continue to see inaccurate responses in the meantime."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

I am about to debunk virtually everything you’ve been told, including from much of your so-called conservative media, about how elections work and what we need to do to win. Let's start with Republicans and the black vote over the last 40 years. Here is the percentage of the black vote relative to the overall electorate, followed by the percentage of black voters who voted Republican: Reagan 1984: 10/9 Bush 1988: 10/11 Bush 1992: 8/10 Dole 1996: 10/12 Bush 2000: 10/9 Bush 2004: 11/11 McCain 2008: 13/4 Romney 2012: 13/6 Trump 2016: 12/8 Trump 2020: 13/12 These numbers all look very similar regardless of the style of Republican in the race. In 2016, Trump got 8% of the black vote on the way to victory, and then Jared Kushner convinced him to empty the prisons through “criminal justice reform.” In return, he got 12% of the black vote and a loss in 2020, failing to improve on Bob Dole’s margin with black voters in 1996 despite an all-time high black turnout. Now ask yourself if the level of GOP media obsession with this segment of the American electorate is worth it. The GOP has a white voter problem that won’t be solved by giving up on the culture war and having a black bisexual ex-stripper speak at the Republican National Convention. So what should we be obsessing over instead, Steve? Glad you asked, because it's actually white voters where the GOP’s problem lies. Let’s examine the white women vote over the last 20 years, since I couldn't find reliable exit polling data before 2000: Bush 2000: 38/49 Bush 2004: 41/55 McCain 2008: 39/53 Romney 2012: 36/57 Trump 2016: 37/52 Trump 2020: 32/55 John McCain won white women over Barack Obama by six points in 2008. Then at least 4 million white voters, many of them women, didn’t vote in 2012 after voting four years earlier. Had Mitt Romney replicated McCain’s turnout, he would have defeated Obama even in the face of record black turnout. In 2016, Donald Trump won white women, 52% to 48%, despite going up against Hillary Clinton, who was looking to become the first female president in American history. Four years later, if Trump had just turned out white women at the rate McCain did, he'd not only have won re-election but probably the popular vote as well. Now let’s look at the white married vote since 2000: Bush 2000: 60/53 Bush 2004: 63/57 McCain 2008: 60/53 Romney 2012: 59/56 Trump 2016: 59/52 Trump 2020: 56/53 George W. Bush got 57% of the married vote in 2004 when it weighed in at an all-time high of 63% of the overall electorate. When that dropped to 60% four years later, McCain got rolled while still beating Obama with married people. Between 2016 and 2020, Trump gained one point in the percentage of the married vote but lost three points in the overall turnout of that demographic, leading to his election loss. If Trump in 2020 had performed with married people at Mitt Romney’s level in 2012, he would be finishing his second term right now. Wanna get nuts now? Let’s rank states by black population to find out how truly lost we are in our electoral strategery: Mississippi 39.08% Louisiana 34.23% Georgia 31.4% Maryland 31.27% Alabama 26.23% South Carolina 26.04% Delaware 22.44% North Carolina 21.8% Virginia 20.57% New York 17.44% Wait, you mean to tell me that most of the states (seven out of 10) that have the highest black population are never contested and are either solidly red or solidly blue? Only three out of 10 of those states would be considered battleground states. So once again I ask if these numbers line up with the level of obsession that occurs in conservative media about how to win elections. They do not. So here are some vital conclusions if, you know, you are tired of losing like I am: Six of the top 13 states with the highest percentage of black voters are reliably red states that Republicans haven't lost since before 1980. Only 7.22% of California's population is black. In fact, Kansas has a higher percentage of black residents than California. Yet California is considered the strongest Democratic state in the union. So why are we always desperately trying to prove we aren’t racists if the numbers show it doesn’t even matter? There are no good answers to that. Only 12 states in the union have Hispanic populations greater than 15%. Among those, only four — Arizona, Nevada, Florida, and Colorado — are considered battleground states. The other 11 are states that have not changed parties in a presidential election so far this century. So why are we even considering amnesty with this information in mind? Again, there are only bad answers. To be clear, the GOP has a white voter problem that won’t be solved by giving up on the culture war and having a black bisexual ex-stripper speak at the Republican National Convention. That’s not how this works. It won’t even make a dent in the Democrats’ minority vote stranglehold and will alienate frustrated white voters who simply want their kids to be safe from illegal aliens and groomers. You know, little stuff like that. Many people in this industry don’t know this data and are likely following the narrative fed to them by Fox News. But the narrative is wrong and explains a lot about how and why we lose. Democrats don’t stigmatize white voters because they don’t matter; they do it because white voters do matter! Democrats guilt white voters into voting for them and guilt conservative media and strategists into chasing DEI fantasy gibberish. I insist we get off that ride. Because I actually want to win before the lights go out for good.