ESPN Panelist: Star-Spangled Banner is a "War Anthem" (Lefty Looney Alert)

The Blaze ^ | 11/6/2013 | Jonathon M. Seidl

[tom h]

If you ask journalism Professor Kevin Blackistone what he thinks about the special and controversial Northwestern University football jerseys adorned with an American flag, he’ll tell you the country should nix the playing of a “war anthem” before sporting events and that the NFL has bought into the “mythology” of a fallen soldier that once played for the Arizona Cardinals ...

[tom h]

I'm guessing that this lefty jackwagon probably went to some PC college and has had a lifetime of indoctrination from public schools. Even so, I'm surprised that ESPN would allow him to defame the "Star Spangled Banner" on cable TV -- he described it as a war anthem and his exact quote was, "why would we conflate a war anthem with a simple game?" in reference singing the national anthem before the start of a college football game.

He's another cowardly lefty - I dare him to make those same comments over the public address system at the 50-yard line before an Alabama-Auburn football game. THEN we would see if he has the courage to be forthright about his opinions.

I'd be surprised if he got out of the stadium alive.

[tom h]

I think we should freep him, everyone. Fill up his inbox, the inbox at ESPN, and the inbox of the head of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

[BenLurkin]

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

You nailed it, Tom.

[steelhead_trout]

Aw, geez ...

[mountainlion]

So what is the lefts surrender anthem?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

War anthem? I thought it was a Whitney Houston hit.

[tom h]

I expect that he considers himself to be an "intellectual" because he wears round glasses.

[knarf]

Because it's not a simple game, asshole ... it's a friggin' GLADIATOR match.

A WAR !!!

[ConservativeStatement]

I guess his favorite song is has the lyrics “War, it's good for absolutely nothin’!”

[VanDeKoik]

The Defense of Ft. McHenry is a “war anthem”?

It’s a telling of people being attacked and not quitting and how the flag that they loved held and served as the symbol of their courage and unity.

Wonder what will happen if this person actually looked at the lyrics of most anthems in the west. They either talk of blood and war like the French or evoked the name of God like the U.K..

[Psalm 73]

Funny - Hendrix didn’t even consider it a “war anthem” - he said he played it because he’s an American.

[ConservativeStatement]

He likely supports the war on babies, otherwise known as “pro-choice.”

[Common Sense 101]

With each passing day, the loathsome, liberal scum continue to spew forth their true selves, and yet not a single solitary person is moved to act against them. Much like the jug-eared moron that currently infests the White House, I wonder if this vile, ignorant POS has ever spent a single solitary moment thinking about the hundreds of thousands of men and women who have given their lives to defend this country, as well as his right to spew forth his idiocy and verbal diarrhea.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Journalism professor? Must be angling for a spot in the administration.

[AKinAK]

They’re looking to lump it in with the South’s battle flag making both racist symbols.

[stars & stripes forever]

Removing the National Anthem as well as the Pledge of Alligiance would prime America for a centralized government.

Everything in it own time...

Acts 17:26
From one man HE made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and HE marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.

[txrefugee]

“I expect that he considers himself to be an “intellectual” because he wears round glasses...”

Where’s the little Black boy, telling us “That’s R-A-A-A-C-I-S-T!”...........

[US Navy Vet]

The ENTIRE “Star Spangled Banner” If this POS HATED the first verse then he is gonna DEPISE the rest of it:
O say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave![12]

[mtrott]

Yeah, it’s a WAR ANTHEM, you ninny. Any cursory review of human history will reveal that freedom mostly has come at the price of war.