Posted on 06/12/2012 3:45:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Talk show host, Bill Press, doesn’t like the Star-Spangled Banner. Imagine: a liberal talk show that’s not on NPR! His radio show is simulcast on Current TV. Bill Press likes provoking conservatives, but I’m not sure we should be provoked by his outburst against the National Anthem. Bill Press seems to be testing the old philosopher’s question: If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a noise? If you say something on Current TV, does anyone hear it?
Press adds: “It is a major crusade of mine to get rid of the Star-Spangled Banner. Now I know you’re going to say I am not a true American, I’m not patriotic. I don’t think patriotism has anything to do with it. The National Anthem is just absolutely monumentally un-singable. I mean there’s so much wrong with it. I don’t know where to start. It’s an abomination.”
With Flag Day approaching, Bill Press sure chose a bad time to express his liberal disdain for a cherished national institution. He couldn’t top Roseanne Barr, of course, who infamously scratched her crotch while “O Saying,” or Jose Feliciano, who forgot the words.
Still, it’s worth asking: What is it with liberals that they are forever saying and doing things that lead normal people to question their patriotism—and then they howl in rage when folks question their patriotism?
Consider Barack Obama, the most liberal president in history. In 2007, then-Sen. Obama was campaigning in the Heartland. At the famous Iowa State Fair, he raised eyebrows when he failed to place his hand over his heart during the National Anthem. The photograph has been verified. It’s curious. Hillary knew what to do. So did Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. Tom Harkin’s missus. Liberals all, they nonetheless knew that folks expect their leaders to show respect for the flag.
Last year, the Internet exploded with condemnation for our First Lady and the President. Conservative bloggers charged that Mrs. Obama had said: “All this for a d____d flag!” But to determine this, viewers relied on lip reading.
It seems to me that the last time we tried to read a president’s lips, it didn’t turn out so well. “Read My Lips,” was Bush 41’s most memorable quote, and his most unfortunate one. I’d give them the First Couple the benefit of the doubt on that one.
Much harder to excuse was President Obama’s bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia.
This desert despot runs a country where there is no freedom. Converts from Islam are beheaded. Jews cannot live there. Christians cannot wear crosses there, or carry Bibles. And women cannot even drive out of that benighted country.
The President of the United States should bow to know one. No American should bow to a foreign monarch. But even if we did bow, Mr. Obama abased himself (and us) before one of the world’s worst tyrants.
Then, there was the matter of the “Open Mic” gaffe with outgoing Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. Mr. Obama was caught telling the Russian stand-in to let his puppet master in the Kremlin know that the U.S. would be more “flexible” after Obama’s re-election. Surely this was the most shocking instance of collusion at the highest levels in American history.
The man Obama was signaling is Vladimir Putin, the ex-KGB agent who has reinstated Joe Stalin’s Soviet-era anthem and who has replaced in police headquarters a bust of “Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky,” the father of the dreaded Soviet secret police.
For Mr. Obama, this is part of a lifelong pattern. As a teen, he willingly associated himself with the Communist, Frank Marshall Davis. As Grove City College professor, Paul Kengor, Ph.D., has shown in his book-length treatment, Frank Marshall Davis was a strong influence on the young Barack Obama, an influence that Obama himself acknowledged in his first memoir, Dreams from My Father.
Scholar Stanley Kurtz documents the fact that Mr. Obama’s early friendship with his Communist mentor, Davis, was no youthful excess. Obama himself notes that he sought out the most radical professors and students at Occidental College and at Columbia University. At Columbia, Obama admits he attended socialist conferences, but buries that concession in the middle of plays, museums, Central Park, and other Big Apple cultural attractions. Funny, he never mentions Yankee Stadium or the Statue of Liberty.
Only in an Obama Nation could the lyrics of our National Anthem be “an abomination.”
The Star-Spangled Banner calls us “the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.”
Those words inspire us all to action—to keep this Home of Freedom free.
We must NEVER have another administration like the one we have now. The anti-Americanism is abundantly palpable and may be remembered as the one that finally set the US toward hard balkanization along social, political, and religious ideologies.
I see more Americans saying “enough is enough” come early November 2012 by heading to the polls to throw Obama OUT.
I think you missed something here and need to reread it.
For Mr. Obama, this is part of a lifelong pattern. As a teen, he willingly associated himself with the Communist, Frank Marshall Davis. As Grove City College professor, Paul Kengor, Ph.D., has shown in his book-length treatment, Frank Marshall Davis was a strong influence on the young Barack Obama, an influence that Obama himself acknowledged in his first memoir, Dreams from My Father.
Why would you say this?
From my experience in high school and college marching bands the arrangement chosen makes a difference. The most devilish one to play is an arrangement by John Phillip Sousa and Walter Damrosch. However, I ran across an arrangement by Felix Vinatieri, who was band master for Custer's 7th Calvary. This arrangement is short, dignified and would be ideal for sporting events plus it is steeped in American history. A CD with this version of the national anthem and other works composed by Vinatieri played on musical instruments from the 1870s is available here.
attention whore... how else is he going to get any PRESS unless he makes outrageous statements like this??? he can't
Amen Kas!
LLS
Me too. Only fraud or a false flag op could cause him to retain.
Opps, overlooked that one, about the mistake in name referring to. Sorry for the honest mistake. :)
In response to Grove City College, I used to travel to the state of PA, which would include Grove City, PA. The college in question is a small Christian college.
That is a very big FEAR of mine, about voter fraud issues.
No problem, it happens. Dr Kengor, btw writes also for Townhall.com, as he does for the American Thinker, Front Page Magazine, Crisis Magazine, The Weekly Standard, and many more
screeching and wavering and straining towards the high c. makes me feel hostile too.
No question; the 'Land of the Free' is an annoyance; and Home of the Brave; must make them miserable.
The worst rub for these Liberals, is of course; ". . .that our flag is still there". ..
I prefer Dixie
I have a personal preference for Irving Berlin's GOD BLESS AMERICA or George M Cohan's YOU'RE A GRAND OLD FLAG, or even the old patriotic COLOMBIA THE GEM OF THE OCEAN!
And for a anthem without words what could be better than John Phillip Sousa's STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER!
How about a choice of the fIVE depending on the occasion.
> Liberals can’t stand the war/patriotic references in the SSB. If they could write a national anthem, I’m sure it would be all about diversity, unions, universal health care, and gay marriage.
They already did. It’s called Kumbayah.
Albert Brooks did a brilliant piece on this very topic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7JBrN_R6es
or maybe we should just start singing the second verse for a change of pace...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0fQd858cRc
(this one gives me chills every time I hear it!!)
The second one put tears into my eyes as soon as the first person stood up
No, but Bill Press is.
If you want proof that liberalism is a mental disease, just look at Bill Press
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