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Portions of the National Anthem Edited (being beeped out)during the Jets vs. Patriots game.
Nov. 13, 2008 | LastDayz

Posted on 11/13/2008 5:36:16 PM PST by LastDayz

Was it me or did anyone else hear portions of the National Anthem being beeped out, specifically "Land of the beeeep and the home of the beeeep". Someone please verify this as I'm still processing this unpleasant turn of events.


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: nationalanthem
For clarification, this occurred on the NFL Network.
1 posted on 11/13/2008 5:36:17 PM PST by LastDayz
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To: LastDayz
"Land of the beeeep and the home of the beeeep"

You mean it's already been updated to reflect the new Obamanation?

2 posted on 11/13/2008 5:40:46 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: LastDayz

Yes, I heard the same thing, but I wouldn’t make a big deal about it - during the pregame portion of the show ahead of the anthem and kickoff (where a bunch of sports guys sit around a table and bloviate about the game), they had a mixup with the audio where the sound from some kind of sitcom was coming through instead of the sound from the sports guys. So I believe that they were having audio/engineering problems independent of the broadcast of the national anthem...


3 posted on 11/13/2008 5:42:08 PM PST by Zeppo (Every mighty mild... seventies child... Beats me (Metric - Combat Baby))
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To: LastDayz

It was over the last few lines. To be fair, the audio kept cutting out during the whole performance for me. I doubt it is anything nefarious.


4 posted on 11/13/2008 5:42:36 PM PST by thefrankbaum (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam)
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To: LastDayz

A few years ago I was at a Redskins game...amidst the majority black crowd in rather cool weather, it was difficult to spot anyone who’d remove their cap for the National Anthem.

Pastor Manning is correct, in general—”black people hate America.”


5 posted on 11/13/2008 5:42:36 PM PST by VigilantAmerican (We will not waver, we will not tire; we will not falter, we will not fail)
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To: LastDayz

Suggest you go outside and get some fresh air. /s


6 posted on 11/13/2008 5:45:44 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: LastDayz

The sound system was cutting in and out during a rather awful rendition of the National Anthem. As they were attempting to fix it, the beeps occurred. Nothing sinister, IMHO.


7 posted on 11/13/2008 5:49:02 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: sam_paine; LastDayz
NEW OBAMANATION ANTHEM


All hail the Messiah
Obama, Obama
The path to the new socialist motherland
Our savior, our savior
Obama, Obama
The leader more famous than Lindsay Lohan
Bow down and praise The One
Give him your money and your guns
Give us a country that makes your wife proud
Lord Barry, heal the bitter ones
White and Clinging to faith and to guns
Hope for the change of the hope of the change!

Thank you, Glenn Beck...

8 posted on 11/13/2008 5:49:16 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: sam_paine

Evidently so. This is going to be a long 4 years.


9 posted on 11/13/2008 5:49:49 PM PST by LastDayz (Tar & Feather the Lot of Them)
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To: LastDayz

My DH thought it was a disgraceful performance of our National Anthem anyway, so he welcomed the bleeps. We are the sort that like it sung straight — no personal trills or whatever. Just every note the way it was written. Don’t get that much anymore. {{{{{{sigh}}}}}}

But thanks for the explanation.


10 posted on 11/13/2008 5:51:19 PM PST by Exit148 (Founder of the Loose Change Club. Every nickle and dime counts!!)
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To: VigilantAmerican

More like a lack of civics education and quite possibly a total disrespect for this country.


11 posted on 11/13/2008 5:54:53 PM PST by LastDayz (Tar & Feather the Lot of Them)
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To: LastDayz
"Land of the beeeep and the home of the beeeep".


12 posted on 11/13/2008 5:55:52 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: DCPatriot

Heh...Heh...
Already did that and then some.


13 posted on 11/13/2008 5:56:22 PM PST by LastDayz (Tar & Feather the Lot of Them)
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To: LastDayz

It’s a thankless job but somebody has to be ever-vigilant for stuff like this. You never know when there might be a hidden message waiting for you.


14 posted on 11/13/2008 6:05:34 PM PST by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: hole_n_one

ROTFLMAO


15 posted on 11/13/2008 6:06:51 PM PST by LastDayz (Tar & Feather the Lot of Them)
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To: LastDayz

“Land of the beeeep and the home of the beeeep”

The NFL Network is probably concerned that the slaves and the craven will feel disenfranchised.


16 posted on 11/13/2008 6:07:16 PM PST by haroldeveryman
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To: Exit148
My DH thought.....

Delicious Husband ?

Dyslexic Hamster ?

Diminutive Hobbit?

17 posted on 11/13/2008 6:07:44 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Exit148

Agreed.
I’ve certainly heard much better renditions.


18 posted on 11/13/2008 6:14:10 PM PST by LastDayz (Tar & Feather the Lot of Them)
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To: LastDayz
No, it was "Sheeeep" and "Sheeeep."
19 posted on 11/13/2008 6:34:24 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: LastDayz

Were there actual beeps or just parts that went mute? On both digital and HD channels, I watch programs where the sound goes in and out, but no actual beeping as if being censored by the network.


20 posted on 11/13/2008 6:36:16 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: hole_n_one
My DH thought...

Dumber Half?

21 posted on 11/13/2008 6:38:47 PM PST by TexasNative2000 (Graham Harrell for Heisman!!)
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To: hole_n_one

Designated Hitter?


22 posted on 11/13/2008 6:48:21 PM PST by VoiceOfBruck (I personally believe...)
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To: VoiceOfBruck
I totally missed that one.

Sometimes the obvious is so obvious you can't even see it.

23 posted on 11/13/2008 6:52:14 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: VigilantAmerican

I spent a couple of summers working on the boardwalk of a resort town in New Jersey, it was in a restaurant that was right in front of the US flagpole. Every morning at 10 and evening at 5 the flag was run up or down and the national anthem was played. I only ever saw two groups of people stop, take off their hats and look at the flag, on both occasions they were black families.

While working in the restaurant a handful of times I saw families pause to say grace before eating their meals. On each occasion the families were black.

On one or two occasions I was harassed by drunken or aggressive jerks who got mouthy or wouldn’t pay their bills. Oddly on all of those occasions the people were white.

We must move in different circles.


24 posted on 11/13/2008 7:25:27 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
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To: LastDayz

Was it being sung by a rapper?


25 posted on 11/13/2008 8:04:30 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Thanks, I needed that.


26 posted on 11/13/2008 8:14:12 PM PST by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: mass55th

It sounded like actual censoring beeps, not a loss of sound.
For a moment I thought, no friggin way.
I mean the rendition was bad enough but to beep out certain words was really weird.
Must be the full moon or something.


27 posted on 11/13/2008 9:13:57 PM PST by LastDayz (Tar & Feather the Lot of Them)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Gotta get that wax cleaned out.


28 posted on 11/13/2008 9:18:26 PM PST by LastDayz (Tar & Feather the Lot of Them)
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To: LastDayz
"Must be the full moon or something."

Look for a permanent full moon effect during the next four years.

29 posted on 11/14/2008 8:31:30 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Notice that my observation pertained to mainly general behavior in a large group. Your examples referred to specific instances of comparatively individual behavior.

My racism is reluctant, yet has developed over decades of painful realization (despite years of early PC brainwashing) and sometimes traumatic personal experiences that have indelibly impressed me concerning the general character of races—albeit with the recognition that individuals’ characters often defy norms.

We all know, or should know, that within the context of general group characteristics (stereotypes exist for good reasons) there are exceptions. Many blacks are clearly superior to most whites in character, patriotism, civil conduct and reverence, impulse-control, etc...however taking in aggregate accumulations of data concerning abjectly pandemic crime and depravity, along with my extensive observations and experiences over the years whenever I’ve encountered the conduct of blacks in groups and/or in concentrated populations such as those where I’ve had to work and defend myself, I cannot accept the liberal dogma of general racial equality.


30 posted on 11/14/2008 10:34:06 PM PST by VigilantAmerican (We will not waver, we will not tire; we will not falter, we will not fail)
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