Posted on 11/08/2013 8:36:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Via the Blaze, a possible sneak preview of the left’s next sports-related cause celebre once they’re done making “Redskins” unfit for polite conversation among the enlightened. To be clear, it’s not all pre-game patriotic music that this guy objects to, just the national anthem, and not because it’s the national anthem but because it’s a “war anthem.” The theory, I gather, is that the glory of victory in sports reflects on the song, which in turn reflects on the subject of the song, which in turn conditions people to think that war is awesome and a big game. But all of that depends on the unlikely assumption that most people have the slightest idea what “The Star-Spangled Banner” is about. Here’s an idea for Jimmy Kimmel’s next man-on-the-street feature: Ask people to explain the meaning of the SSB in their own words. There’s something in there about rockets and bombs bursting in the air, and … that’s about as far as the average Frank Drebin can take you, I’d bet. In which case, how much of an ad for militarism is it really? Blackistone seems to think that it persists as a pre-game tradition because it’s about war when obviously it persists because it’s the national anthem, irrespective of its subject. This argument would make more sense as a critique of using sports to instill national loyalty than it does as a critique of militarism.
Fair point, though, in noting the occasional Air Force flyovers at football games. As a young Robert Downey Jr once warned us, football is a cryptofascist metaphor for nuclear war. Exit question: How come we don’t sing the national anthem before movies and concerts too?
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But “My Country ‘Tis Of Thee” is to the tune of “God Save The King (Queen)” isn’t it?
Forgot to add that “We Are The World” is now nearly 30 years old, dating back to 1985.
Well kevin I’ll give you a choice, it’s either “Star Spangled Banner” or “America - F Yea”
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Yes, it is. And how suitable that is depends on whether you think it’s an insult or not to write Yankee lyrics over that tune. Is it a stick in the eye to Americans to use British music, or a stick in the eye to British to overwrite the King/Queen?
“I vow to Thee My Country,” from Gustav Holst’s “The Planets,” is a sublime patriotic song that could be an anthem.
Toby Keith is a bit of a lefty, but “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue” works as well.
The guy’s a racist America-hater (like our “President”.)
The words were added to Holst’s music.
But it has been nice watching them have to eat crow about Oregon football being all dominating and soon to remove FSu from contention.
FSU can still loose. The National Championship could end up Baylor & Stanford, who Knows. Even Oregon might come back into the chase.
But it is nice to see ESPN with egg on its face.
Gotta be another moronic redskin.
in the world of liberals, omelettes are made without breaking eggs, and there is no dispute that cannot be resolved without the exchange of unicorns.
I hope we all know the setting of its composition, and the spirit of it is the farthest thing from bloodthirsty.
I suppose we *could* replace it with “The Battle Hymn Of The Republic”. I wonder if that would suit him?
Or Dixie. [chuckle]
"How about the Camptown Ladies?"
Francis Scott Key told a story through these words from his perspective. He was aboard an enemy ship trying to secure the release of prisoners, and he was not allowed to go ashore because he might divulge the disposition of the British ships. The British attacked his country and the only way he knew that the United States was still fighting was by the flashes of the rockets and explosives which illuminated the flag through the night. By dawn’s early light he saw that the flag was still flying. His nation was still free. He was able to communicate this to the prisoners on the ship. To those who think this is some kind of anthem glorifying war I say that they are simply effing retarded Obama morons who can go take a flying .... at the moon.
Throw his ass out of the country!
Anti-American racist.
George Soros is still busy as ever cutting checks to the media, I see..
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