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.
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.
Well, way to go. I hope anyone who reads one of your articles from now on stops reading and comes to an idiotic conclusion as a result. And then proceeds to tell you that you should learn all about them because THEY’VE been around since 1999, and are therefore clearly VIP people.
I read quit a few articles. I don’t comment to them very often. But when I do, I have the intellectual courtesy to read the entire article so that I understand the authors’ point.
And for that matter, when I actually bother to comment, it’s usually because I think the author did a good job or revealed an important point. So I guess I don’t understand the mentality of someone who reads one or two sentences and then goes around saying, “You’re stupid.”
You don’t even bother to read past my first paragraph, and then you have the balls to expect me to have checked your whole damn history? Unreal. Absolutely unreal.
It’s gonna be a long frickin’ 8 years if people don’t stop getting hysterical over the non issues.
And you’re damn right. It’s GOING to be a long frickin’ 8 years (noticing you’ve already re-elected your bozo obama). And more and more people like me are going to make sure of that.
I remember noticing how well tuned the instruments were.
Having played flute and sax for many years I can tell you it is extremely difficult to keep instruments in tune at low temps, and my experience is limited to situations much warmer than was experienced during the day of the inauguration.
No big deal — there are real issues out there and this isn’t even close.
What are the ASCAP/BMI royalties for a public performance of a recording with that audience? Bars and taverns pay pretty hefty fees to cover royalties on jukeboxes, radio and tv enjoyed by patrons - wonder if they waived the “law” in this instance.
I remember noticing how well tuned the instruments were.
Having played flute and sax for many years I can tell you it is extremely difficult to keep instruments in tune at low temps, and my experience is limited to situations much warmer than was experienced during the day of the inauguration.
No big deal — there are real issues out there and this isn’t even close.
Oh, my, GAWD! Now I understand why Obama got elected in the first place!
Now I understand how 57% of Obama voters were so freakin’ stupid they didn’t even know which party was running Congress the last two years.
Here goes again. Fortunately I copied/pasted this:
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 an entirely different version of reality broadcasted to us. 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, or who don’t have a freaking CLUE what the hell they’re even talking about.
Are you seriously flaming me because I’m not getting whipped up over a recording of Yo-yo Ma?
Seriously? Are you trolling? Looking for conspiracy in the airing of a classical music trio? Where were you when Rick Astley lip synced during the Macy’s parade? Propaganda!
You’re as bad as the Bush haters. It was a beautiful ceremony regardless of party, and I was suprised that I enjoyed it, but I did. Watched it on MSNBC for the hi-def as well (horror of horrors); I imagine they color corrected and white balanced their video too. Maybe we should be outraged about that too?
Heaven forbid the country looks moderately professional and proficient during a broadcast aired around the world.
Are you seriously flaming me because I’m not getting whipped up over a recording of Yo-yo Ma?
No, I’m “flaming” you because you apparently lack either either the intellect or the courtesy (or both) to actually read an article before inferring a point that has virtually nothing to do with what I wrote.
I don’t know how many times I have to explain this: I use the word METAPHOR in the damn title for a reason.
METAPHOR: I am using the canned music to represent something else. Only an idiot focuses on the canned music instead of the “something else” that I was calling attention to. But as it turns out, there are a ton of idiots.
Is it some kind of heinous moral crime that Yo Yo Ma and his quartet pulled a Milli Vanilli? No. All of you friggin’ dumbasses: NO! That’s NOT what I’m saying, and you are gigantic idiots for thinking it is.
Does the fact that Team Obama pulled a little fast-one bait-and-switch - pretending one thing was going on (i.e. great musicians performing live) while in reality another thing was actually going on (canned music) - display itself in the way Obama has acted and will continue to act? And I’m saying YES. And I give two or three examples of bad stuff.
If you had bothered to actually read with a fourth grade level, you would have seen THE EXAMPLES of how Obama has played out this Milli Vanilli with IMPORTANT things like his 23 years spent in a racist church and his campaign financing lies that got him elected. And THAT’S what I’m talking about. The canned music thing is a minor but obvious example of what has been and will continue to be a major pattern of behavior. Why will you people not understand that?
Please. PLEASE. Don’t comment on an article unless you actually bothered to read it.
As I’ve said before, the uncomprehending comments to this article are themselves a METAPHOR for how Obama got elected. A bunch of ignoramuses who think they have a clue when they don’t end up jumping to completely idiotic conclusions, and look what happens as a result?
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