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1 posted on 08/22/2006 12:27:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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And comics. And the mystery novel.


2 posted on 08/22/2006 12:30:11 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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And Blues. And Country. And Rock and Roll.


3 posted on 08/22/2006 12:30:28 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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Maybe Bennett should bestow himself on another country.


4 posted on 08/22/2006 12:30:49 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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Gotta tell ya, when you look at the hip-hop culture and the music, I think Tony has a point.


5 posted on 08/22/2006 12:30:51 PM PDT by NRA1995 (Zarqawi died, liberals cried....)
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Bennett says, "I have travelled around the world to Asia and Europe. They show you what they have contributed to the world. The British show you theatre, the Italians show you music and art, the French show you cooking and painting, and the Germans show you science.

Moron, if it wasn't for the U.S., they'd all be showing you their portraits of Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini.
6 posted on 08/22/2006 12:31:22 PM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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Bob Dylan says modern music is worthless

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7 posted on 08/22/2006 12:31:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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The British show you theatre... and we gave the world moving pictures. ...the Italians show you music and art... I thought we gave the world jazz? Oh, and don't forget the blues, rock n' roll, and I apologize for rap. ...the French show you cooking and painting...three words: bar-b-que ....and the Germans show you science...and we give the world the microprocessor, etc.
9 posted on 08/22/2006 12:34:50 PM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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Hey, Bennett idiot: if it weren't for the US, they'd be lampshades or bars of soap!

Hells bells, we gave the world Fluff & PeanutButter Sandwiches, Jello, Spam, soap operas, game shows... I could go on and on.

Heh.


10 posted on 08/22/2006 12:35:29 PM PDT by butternut_squash_bisque (The recipe's at my FR HomePage. Try it!)
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If it can be called "a slice of Americana" then it is culturally significant and a contribution to the world.


11 posted on 08/22/2006 12:38:04 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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He's gonna be doing a duet with the Banana Boat Man?


14 posted on 08/22/2006 12:40:34 PM PDT by traditional1
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BZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTT. He's wrong:

AlGore invented the Internet....

Of course, whether he's an "American" or not is subject to interpretation.

19 posted on 08/22/2006 12:48:52 PM PDT by traditional1
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I'll give Bennett the benefit of the doubt that he's getting senile. However, this non-existing American culture he's going on about sure seems to be sweeping the world.

Start with the culture of representative democracy. The United States of America was the first and is the oldest functional representative democracy in the world.

Then think of the culture of political parties. We may or may not think this is so wonderful, but the good old USA gave birth to modern political parties.

How about "little" cultural things like the steam engine, electric lights, the assembly line, the polio vaccine, personal computers, skyscrapers, and similar things that Americans have contributed to the modern world? How about that good old brash American can-do spirit that yanked Europe and the world back from the brink in WWI, WWII and the Cold War?

How about the American musical theater, early Hollywood, the golden age of Hollywood, and television? How about the great songwriters who literally invented popular music and gave Bennett his material to sing? The Gershwins, Jerome Kern, Jonny Mercer, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein...the list is very long indeed.

How about Gable, Stewart, Wayne, Cooper, Grant, Bogart, Hepburn (both Audrey and Katharine), Garland, Monroe, Astaire and Rogers, and the whole panoply of stars who defined the very essence of what it is to be a movie star.

How about Sinatra, Garland (again), Crosby, Elvis, and the whole long list of great singers who made American popular music the most pervasive musical form in the world?

How about the moon landings, the space race, and all consumer items that resulted from it?

How about interstate highways, mass marketing of automobiles, the modern advertising industry, bikini bathing suits, transistors, the list of American inventions and cultural contributions goes on and on and on.

So Bennett should sit down and shut up, because he's making a fool of himself.

20 posted on 08/22/2006 12:50:15 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Suffer the little children to come unto Me...for of such is the kingdom of God. [Mark 10:13-14])
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Ol' Antonio has lost it.

He should try spending some time in Appalachia.
Plenty of culture there and it's all-American. Story-telling, cooking, work ethic, music, art...the works.
Mr. Benedetto is a senile old boob.

21 posted on 08/22/2006 12:53:30 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Dawn of light...lying between a silence and sold sources...)
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You know, I really don't care about whether we as a people have created art, literature, and music to the liking of the elites in Europe. While they were playing, painting and writing, we were inventing. Things like the cotton gin, steam engine, steel plow, reaper, thresher, combine, sewing machine, railroad, telegraph, telephone, electric light, air conditioning, air planes, synthetic cloths, the transistor, and computers. The list is unending. Not to mention faster systems of manufacture of nearly everything.


22 posted on 08/22/2006 12:53:49 PM PDT by cotton1706
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Gershwin, I.M. Pei, Andy Warhol, The American Space Program,American cinema and televison,F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Capote, ee cummings, Webster,Frank lloyd Wright, Henery Ford, Thomas Edison, Mark Levin, Abraham Lincoln, George Carver Washington,Ray Charles, Elvis, Little Richard, baseball, Etta James, Blue jeans, Duke Ellington, The Ballet of Harlem, Harry James, Leonard Bernstein, Tommy Tune, Rogers and Hart, Lerner and Lowe.Won WW1. Won WW2 Greatest Generation.

Asians learn english. Moslems hate us becuase of our culture "corrupting" theirs. Europeans envy us. Mexicans are over running us because of our culture.

But I digress....

23 posted on 08/22/2006 12:55:39 PM PDT by llevrok (When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
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Tony Who?


24 posted on 08/22/2006 12:58:29 PM PDT by Draco
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I like Tony Bennett's music. But I wonder if he includes his own work as a part of America's failure to contribute anything to world culture. I doubt that he would, because that would be admitting that he's become very rich and very famous for doing nothing.

If he had taken this in a different direction-- for example, that a lot of artistic expression in America is junk, that would be true. It would also be true for Britain and France and Italy and Germany and everywhere else. But for him to overlook all of the accomplishments of Americans in art, music, literature, film, and even media such as radio, not to mention science and technology, and to boil it all down to jazz which --he says -- none of us appreciates anyway, is astounding.


32 posted on 08/22/2006 1:51:48 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The moving finger writes and, having writ, moves on......)
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Bennett says, "I have travelled around the world to Asia and Europe. They show you what they have contributed to the world. The British show you theatre, the Italians show you music and art, the French show you cooking and painting, and the Germans show you science.

It's safe to say that all the cultural contributions of Europe preceeded World War II - if not 1900. The American Constitution is our contribution to the world, deliniating the best form of government for educated, civilized men and women.
33 posted on 08/22/2006 1:52:06 PM PDT by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.org - Forging a Rebirth of Freedom.)
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Chianti, Italy by Tony Bennett

I think Tony might have a point. /s

34 posted on 08/22/2006 1:58:23 PM PDT by elli1
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America also created this: This item "created" cultural voids about the size of .45 inches in diameter.
35 posted on 08/22/2006 2:01:16 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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