Posted on 01/23/2009 5:34:31 PM PST by Michael Eden
Obama got the big pretentious names like Yo Yo Ma, Anthony McGill, Gabriela Montero, and Itzhak Perlman to perform for him. But the performance was for his ears only; everyone else got the "canned music" piped to them in a show of deception that makes one reminisce to Communist China's false presentations during the Olympics.
Live' Inauguration Performance Used Canned Music Written by Sunrise on KGMB9 - sunrise@kgmb9.comThe excuse was that the weather was too cold for the instruments to hold their tune. Two responses: 1) GLOBAL WARMING!!! and 2) Who would ever have figured it it would be cold in Washington DC in January?Remember that amazing quartet that played that beautiful "live" performance at the inauguration? Turns out it wasn't live at all.
The frigid temperatures apparently made it impossible for the four renowned musicians to keep instruments in tune. So a cleaner version of John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" was fed over the loud speakers.
So use canned music in an open, honest manner, or have a brass band play, or whatever. But don't give us one thing while claiming to give us another.
Stop The ACLU was there first, saying:
Unfortunately it was a recording. The classical gas was a mere Milli Vanilli-a-rama...But I would argue that we've already SEEN one facade being thrown up after another from Obama.[I]t remains to be seen if this mild subterfuge will be a metaphor for the Obama administration; a facade thrown up while canned music plays to fool the public.
Let me give two particularly galling examples.
Juan Williams had this to say January 22nd:
During the Democrats' primaries and caucuses, candidate Obama often got affectionate if not fawning treatment from the American media. Editors, news anchors, columnists and commentators, both white and black but especially those on the political left, too often acted as if they were in a hurry to claim their role in history as supporters of the first black president.Obama was "forced to give a speech on race" because it was revealed that the man had spent 23 years in a racist, anti-American church spewing "No, no, no. Not God Bless America. God damn America!" And routinely demonizing white people and white society as completely racist, immoral, and greedy.For example, Mr. Obama was forced to give a speech on race as a result of revelations that he'd long attended a church led by a demagogue. It was an ordinary speech. At best it was successful at minimizing a political problem. Yet some in the media equated it to the Gettysburg Address.
Of course, all that bile Wright spewed was "Just words." Move on, folks. Nothin' to see here.
Barack Obama was inspired by one of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's racist tidbits:
"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!" (Pg. 293, Dreams of My Father).Barack Obama reacted to the revelations of statement after statement dripping venemously from the lips of Jeremiah Wright as his fellow congregants stood and cheered by the thousands by first saying nothing; then by defending Wright; then by giving his "Gettysburg-like" speech in which he said, I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community”; and "I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother"; and ultimately by TOTALLY disowning him a couple weeks later after it became obvious that he needed to do so for political expediency.
He had called Jeremiah Wright his spiritual mentor, a father figure, a role model, and the inspiration for his book Audacity of Hope.
"I spent 23 years smoking Wright's whacko-weed. But I never once inhaled."
So - even as the fact that Obama spent 23 years in Wright's church, had Wright marry him, had Wright baptize his children, appeared in Wright's Trumpet Magazine, etc. - Obama piped a different tune to replace the one that didn't sound so good. And the media - as Juan Williams noted - fell all over themselves buying the "Milli Vanilli" version.
The second glaring example of Obama replacing reality with canned music was when he elected to abandon his promise to accept public funding. He went on to raise FOUR times as much as the McCain campaign while patting himself on the back for what turned out to be his "Milli Vanilli" integrity.
When Barack Obama announced he was breaking his promise to accept public funding, the reason he cited was that he was raising all his money from small donors and therefore his system was even more open and honest than the public financining system. But that was never true. It turned out that Obama's money DIDN'T significantly come from small donors, after all, in spite of Obama's "Milli Vanilli" version to the contrary. The whole version of the truth that allowed Obama to outspend John McCain 3-1 (and 4-1 in battleground states) was a myth.
Given that Obama in all likelihood won this election due to his 3-1 fund raising advantage, it would have been only FAIR to investigate his fund raising. But the media was far too occupied with digging through Sarah Palin's and Joe the Plumber's trash. The McCain campaign vigorously attempted to prevent fraud, while Obama cared only about maximizing his contributions by any means available. The result was ALL SORTS of documented fraud that proved Obama’s fundraising was a disgrace to fairness, or public access, or accountability, or anything else. We find out that Obama took millions from overseas donors. We find out that there were all sorts of fraudulent shenanigans going on in campaign financing that Obama never even bothered to try to correct.
I could also go into detail about the guy who Obama picked to run the IRS being a tax cheat, but what's the use?
I expect one case of blatant dishonesty followed by a media-swallowed case of "canned music" after another from this President and from this administration. And we won't know about most of it, because the media is dishonest and corrupt due to its partisan liberal ideology.
OH. GET. OVER. IT.
It was THEIR music that was being played. It was done because of the sensitivity of the instruments to the weather and performing the music would have been at best difficult and more likely impossible.
And the President probably didn't even know about it.
If you must be hysterical, at least find something worthy of the price of your blood pressure medicine.
This isn't it.
The Milli-Vanilli Prez.........
Big whoop.
When I watched it realtime I was wondering how in hell they managed not to have frozen fingers and assumed they might have been “bow synching” at the time.
There’ll be plenty of reasons to hold Obama’s feet to the fire but this sure in hell ain’t one of ‘em.
A semi-pro violinist I know was wondering how they could have played in that cold. I’m a guitarist who’s played outside gigs in the cold and it’s hell! In ten minutes you can’t even feel your fingers.
Don’t hold it against them. Ashley Simpson might be a no-talent fraud, but top-notch musicians like Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman are don’t have to prove anything to anybody.
The REAL mistake was whomever chose that quartet for the ceremony.
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Isn’t that the point of the article? That Obama is not ‘real’?
It was easy to see on the tv close-ups that they were not ‘really’ playing. Why would premier artists agree to sit there in the cold with bare fingers and pretend to play? Just more suspension of rational decisions by people in love with the Obama mystique. Yo-yo Ma was giggling. It was really weird!
It's been done before in outdoor events and could have been done again.
Yo Yo and the Yo Yos were content to take a page from their Messiah's handbook and used fakery knowing they'd get a pass from the MSM and the lumpen masses.
But I don't think it did their reputations any good, at least, not with me.
Leni
Horseshit.
If playing recordings is OK, then why the attempt at deception?
Why have the musicians there at all?
Why not just pop a CD in the Bose and be done with it?
Or is it really just all about the appearances?
What's it gonna be?
I agree. Yo Yo Ma really gave it away with his chuckles-when he’s intensely playing, he doesn’t respond like that. The music was beautiful and the arrangement was composed by John Williams of great Hollywood music. I questioned how the stringed instruments could even be out in those elements as they would lose their tuned to key sound.
Cordio
Don’t hold it against them. Ashley Simpson might be a no-talent fraud, but top-notch musicians like Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman are don’t have to prove anything to anybody.
Let me quote someone else who posted:
It was easy to see on the tv close-ups that they were not ‘really’ playing. Why would premier artists agree to sit there in the cold with bare fingers and pretend to play? Just more suspension of rational decisions by people in love with the Obama mystique. Yo-yo Ma was giggling. It was really weird!
I don’t hold it against the musicians - although they shouldn’t have agreed to the fraud - but against Obama who convinced them to go out there and do it.
I have the utmost respect for the skill and dedication of these magnificent musicians - who would be anything but “frauds” unless an Obama gets to them - and aim my fire at the Fraud-in-chief.
Big whoop.
When I watched it realtime I was wondering how in hell they managed not to have frozen fingers and assumed they might have been “bow synching” at the time.
There’ll be plenty of reasons to hold Obama’s feet to the fire but this sure in hell ain’t one of ‘em.
Once in a while, I comment on other peoples’ articles.
When I do, I have the basic intelligence, the common sense, and for that matter the basic courtesy to read the article BEFORE posting a mindless comment.
If you actually bother to read my article, do ya really THINK I am outraged over the stupid canned music thing?
The title ITSELF should have tipped you off - canned music as METAPHOR for something ELSE.
"pretentious names like Yo Yo Ma, Anthony McGill, Gabriela Montero, and Itzhak Perlman"
You use your hatred of Obama to insult these outstanding musicians. Pretentious? Pretentious????
You're a jackass.
I’ll wear the “jackass” label, coming from you.
The musicians are truly great performers. But - you stupid, miserable jackass - why did Barack Obama put them on that stupid platform when it was freaking January in Washington DC and it was TOO FREAKING COLD for them to perform?
It WASN’T because they were “outstanding musicians,” you retard; it was because they were big names and Barack Obama is a pretentious weasel who values the substance - EVEN THE PRETEND SUBSTANCE OF GREAT MUSICIANS STRUMMING ALONG WHILE CANNED MUSIC IS PIPED OVER LOUDSPEAKERS - over reality.
So I doubt very much you understand the “strained” metaphor. You don’t understand any other damned thing.
I can’t believe I am being forced to explain a simple progression of thought. But that’s the way it is with liberals, I suppose.
Here goes: the case of the canned music being passed off as the work of live performers is a case of a bait-and-switch. One thing is really going on, but we’re getting a different version. And I am using this canned music thing as a metaphor for other - SERIOUSLY BAD THINGS - that have gone on and saying that under Obama they will CONTINUE to go on.
And one of the reasons that they WILL continue to go on is because of STUPID PEOPLE who believe lies as a matter of course.
But I’m sure you have some other retard thing to say. It’s just the way you people are wired.
It's gonna be a long frickin' 8 years if people don't stop getting hysterical over the non issues.
"You people?"
I've been here since 2000 pal (and lurking before that). Go back and read my posting history before you make an even bigger fool of yourself.
Well to be totally fair to you, I never got to your use of “metaphor.”
I stopped reading at the first paragraph. It was all down hill from there.
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