Posted on 11/08/2013 8:36:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Via the Blaze, a possible sneak preview of the left’s next sports-related cause celebre once they’re done making “Redskins” unfit for polite conversation among the enlightened. To be clear, it’s not all pre-game patriotic music that this guy objects to, just the national anthem, and not because it’s the national anthem but because it’s a “war anthem.” The theory, I gather, is that the glory of victory in sports reflects on the song, which in turn reflects on the subject of the song, which in turn conditions people to think that war is awesome and a big game. But all of that depends on the unlikely assumption that most people have the slightest idea what “The Star-Spangled Banner” is about. Here’s an idea for Jimmy Kimmel’s next man-on-the-street feature: Ask people to explain the meaning of the SSB in their own words. There’s something in there about rockets and bombs bursting in the air, and … that’s about as far as the average Frank Drebin can take you, I’d bet. In which case, how much of an ad for militarism is it really? Blackistone seems to think that it persists as a pre-game tradition because it’s about war when obviously it persists because it’s the national anthem, irrespective of its subject. This argument would make more sense as a critique of using sports to instill national loyalty than it does as a critique of militarism.
Fair point, though, in noting the occasional Air Force flyovers at football games. As a young Robert Downey Jr once warned us, football is a cryptofascist metaphor for nuclear war. Exit question: How come we don’t sing the national anthem before movies and concerts too?
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The Marsaillaise was banned in Vichy France and German occupied areas during World War II. Merely singing it was regarded an act of resistance. Since then the anthem has become controversial in France because of its lyrics. Some consider the French National anthem to be militaristic and xenophobic, and propositions have been made from time to time to change the lyrics or drop the song altogether...
http://www.midi-france.info/06141202_marseillaise.htm
“Why are we playing a war anthem like “The Star-Spangled Banner” before sporting events?”
because liberals are stupid?
ESPN is unwatchable. I haven’t watched those pretentious gasbags since the mlb network was launched. Wait - my alma mater had a football game televised by espn, and I watched that. it took me a couple of minutes to find the channel. I couldn’t remember where it was.
they need to go back to broadcasting sporting events and showing highlights. the rest of their broadcast schedule is sheer crap.
. . . And don’t even get me started on the x games.
Because we are war-like, duh! We should sing some sappy “Goodbye my Susianna” or something? Or “Let’s just all get along”?? I think NOT.
“How come we don’t sing the national anthem before movies and concerts too? “
Been there done that, for movies at least. Always on a military base.
Besides which, sports fans tend to be more patriotic than the average movie or concert attendee, especially the latter.
Except for country music.
y’all are just tryin’ to make my head explode ain’t ya?
Libtards wage war on America every damn day and they’ve got their panties in a twist? Imbeciles and traitors that need to be hanged, these bastards.
Personally I like YOU’RE A GRAND OLD FLAG BY George M Cohan.
You’re a Grand Old Flag
by George M. Cohan
You’re a grand old flag,
You’re a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
You’re the emblem of
The land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev’ry heart beats true
‘neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there’s never a boast or brag.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep your eye on the grand old flag.
You’re a grand old flag,
You’re a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
You’re the emblem of
The land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev’ry heart beats true
‘neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there’s never a boast or brag.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep your eye on the grand old flag.
It’s not hard to understand why the Marsaillaise has stood the test of time as the French national anthem: it’s one of the most stirring of anthems. And over the years anthems gain tradition. As for the US anthem, it may be hard to sing, but it can be sung, and played by a good band it too is stirring. It also has 83 years of tradition going for it. If the progressives stay in power long enough I fully expect them to try to change it to something “more peaceful.” Can’t think of what that might be. Any ideas?
Because we hate blacks and Mexicans. THERE, that’s what you want to believe, isn’t it? Does it even matter what anyone answers at this point?
The song I’ve seen most often suggested as a replacement is “America The Beautiful”.
Please record my vote to retain the Star spangled Banner as our national anthem. It has tradition. And it can be sung if one starts in a lower key.
I wrote that idiot an email. Asked him why he hated America and our military. Asked what if the Nazis had won the war and would he have liked for his patents and possibly him to be in the death ovens. No reply. Chicken lying liberal.
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