Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

What’s on the president’s iPod?

Opinion
Apr 12, 20051 min

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The International Herald Tribune reports that between returning from Pope John Paul II’s funeral and meeting with Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, President Bush spent some quality time mountain biking last weekend on this Texas ranch – with his iPod.

What’s on the presidential pod? A heavy mix of country and “boomer rock”: George Jones, Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, Van Morrison, John Fogerty, Joni Mitchell, John Hiatt and The Knack, among others.

Joe Levy, Rolling Stone deputy managing editor, notes: “One thing that’s interesting is that the president likes artists who don’t like him.”

IHT reports that an aide downloads songs from iTunes onto the First iPod, which currently holds only 250 songs, a small fraction of its 20G-byte capacity. The president received the iPod from his daughters last July as a birthday present.

Via Drudge Report