[stanne]

Superbowl 1991, ten days into the Gulf War (Desert Storm)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmdu_I_0zI

[LoveUSA]

Thanks. That made me cry and I actually felt compassion for Ms. Houston.

God employs Man's strengths, but Satan exploits Man's weakness.

[JimRed]

Superbowl 1991...

Best rendering of the National Anthem at a Super Bowl, ever. Monitor just went blurry, must need an adjustment.

[ErnBatavia]

I read the other day that she lip-synced the Super Bowl....studio recorded a month or so before the event.

[ArrogantBustard]

Yes ... Whitney's infamous performance of OUR National Anthem.

Her performance, there, epitomizes and legitimized the foul practice of making OUR National Anthem all about the performer, and not about OUR Country.

Her job, there, which she refused to do, was to LEAD the crowd in singing it. With her unpredictable phrasing, she made crowd participation almost impossible. Her imitators complete the job.

Roseanne Barr merely butchered OUR National Anthem.

Whitney, and her imitators, do far worse: they try to take it away from us.

Bottom Line:

OUR National Anthem is bigger than you, Whitney. You CAN'T "own" it. Don't try. It just makes you looks small.