[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.

[stanne]

Is that why they play it on Armed Forces Network at the close of the day every day?

[dfwgator]

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

Blame that on Jose Feliciano at the 68 World Series.