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NASCAR and Our National Anthem
Me. Just me.

Posted on 08/06/2005 5:59:31 PM PDT by Pete'sWife

I just sat down to watch the Busch race from Indy.

Unfortunately, I tuned in too early - early enough to hear the "song stylist" butcher Our National Anthem.

I turned the race off, and will watch something - ANYTHING - else.

Additionally, I phoned the NASCAR corporate offices (1-386-253-0611) to voice my displeasure.

Our National Anthem is regularly mangled, distorted, and abused before most sporting events. It is NOT intended to be a lounge act.

I'm not putting up with it anymore. I will change the channel each and every time a "singer" sings this song as he or she "interprets" it.


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1 posted on 08/06/2005 5:59:31 PM PDT by Pete'sWife
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To: Pete'sWife

Usually the whole opening of national anthem/prayer is very well done, I missed this though so am in no place to comment.


2 posted on 08/06/2005 6:01:02 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Pete'sWife

My sentiments, exactly. Thanks.


3 posted on 08/06/2005 6:01:25 PM PDT by bism
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To: Rodney King

Jeff Gordon should do it next time.


4 posted on 08/06/2005 6:01:45 PM PDT by zarf
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To: Pete'sWife

My sentiments, exactly. Thanks.


5 posted on 08/06/2005 6:02:06 PM PDT by bism
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To: Pete'sWife

What channel is the race on?


6 posted on 08/06/2005 6:02:16 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Pete'sWife

I don't watch NASCAR but I agree that the ridiculous "interpretations" I've heard are really annoying.


7 posted on 08/06/2005 6:03:25 PM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: leadpenny

TNT


8 posted on 08/06/2005 6:04:10 PM PDT by Pete'sWife (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: Pete'sWife

The National Anthem is very difficult to sing. The trick is to start off at the low end of the voice register. But if somebody has the upper range the result makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.


9 posted on 08/06/2005 6:04:23 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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To: Pete'sWife
Uhhhh...the coast is clear. She's done singing. You're missing a good race.

But that was pretty horrendous.

10 posted on 08/06/2005 6:05:57 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If we're The Religious Right, does that make them The Godless Left? Discuss.)
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To: Pete'sWife

Personally I feel the national anthem should be changed to America the Beautiful.......


11 posted on 08/06/2005 6:07:03 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (What is a homosexual Islamic Jihadist going to do with 72 virgins? Can he give them away?)
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To: Pete'sWife
Let's have a little vocabulary test, shall we?

Let's see how many one-word descriptions we can come up with to describe that massacre.

I'll start. Massacre.

12 posted on 08/06/2005 6:07:28 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If we're The Religious Right, does that make them The Godless Left? Discuss.)
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To: Pete'sWife
Well said!!! The National Anthem is not a lounge act !!!!
13 posted on 08/06/2005 6:10:51 PM PDT by Syberyenta
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To: Hot Tabasco
Personally I feel the national anthem should be changed to America the Beautiful.......

I second that emotion. Or God Bless America.

14 posted on 08/06/2005 6:12:02 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If we're The Religious Right, does that make them The Godless Left? Discuss.)
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To: Pete'sWife

I did the same. Turned it off because it was an insult.

Am now watching John Wayne in "Fort Apache" on FMC.


15 posted on 08/06/2005 6:12:05 PM PDT by lawdude (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: lawdude

Tell NASCAR.

1-386-253-0611


16 posted on 08/06/2005 6:14:31 PM PDT by Pete'sWife (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: Texas Eagle

These so-called singers would butcher those songs, too.


17 posted on 08/06/2005 6:15:43 PM PDT by Pete'sWife (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: Pete'sWife

She also managed to hit my pet peeve button.

The word is perilous - not paruless.

Just damn!


18 posted on 08/06/2005 6:21:54 PM PDT by hotshu
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To: Pete'sWife
a "singer" sings

You mean a sqwaller hollers.

19 posted on 08/06/2005 6:22:35 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Pete'sWife

Two of the best I ever heard were K.L.Giffird and Meatloaf. Yes Meatloaf; he really did a job.


20 posted on 08/06/2005 6:32:22 PM PDT by csmusaret (Urban Sprawl is an oxymoron)
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