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Chicago Tribune Columnist Disses National Anthem
American Thinker.com ^ | July 19, 2017 | Daniel John Sobieski

Posted on 07/19/2017 4:29:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

Exercising the freedoms of speech and press that so many have given their last measure of devotion for, Chicago Tribune contributor Diana Goetsch has penned an op-ed defending disgraced and unemployed former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his infamous taking the knee during the national anthem. Not stopping there, Goetsch goes on to slam the national anthem as a “pompous battle number” that wasn’t played before sporting events until 1942 in the dark days of World War II.

One wonders if Goetsch has pondered the possibility that were it not for the sacrifice of veterans during World War II she just might be plying her trade writing her tirades in Japanese or German. The flag the national anthem celebrates was raised at Iwo Jima and never stopped flying at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

Let us make the obligatory stipulation that both Kaepernick and Goetsch have the right to express their opinions through their actions and words. But they have the obligation to recall that this and other rights came at great expense in blood and treasure. Men, and women, have died or been maimed for life for their right to be obnoxious and insensitive to the heroic sacrifice of others. As Aaron Bandler writes at the Daily Wire:

"Unlike the magisterial 'America the Beautiful,' 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is a pompous battle number," wrote Goetsch. "Spurred by a petition bearing 5 million veterans' signatures, Congress designated it the national anthem in 1931, but it wasn't until 1942, and our entry into World War II, that it was played on loudspeakers daily before games."…

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; antiwar; dianagoetsch; nationalanthem
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To: Morpheus2009

Misspelled.


21 posted on 07/19/2017 5:18:37 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Kaslin
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22 posted on 07/19/2017 5:22:04 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: Liz

I recognize the former president but who is the goofy looking jug-eared skinny guy?


23 posted on 07/19/2017 5:24:03 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: Kaslin

When you are listing far left idiots who write for the Chicago Tribune, don’t forget Clarence Page, the anti-veteran, extreme FAR left idiot who is also a member of the Tribune Editorial board. The Tribune isn’t even suited to line dog cages.


24 posted on 07/19/2017 5:25:41 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Three of those men were killed on Iwo Jima. I wonder if this brainless confused idiot who thinks he’s a girl knows ... or cares.


25 posted on 07/19/2017 5:25:47 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Kaslin

Pompous battle number? What do you call over paid, trash talking athletes who attempt to demean their opponent? In comparison, the anthem is pretty mild.


26 posted on 07/19/2017 5:26:13 AM PDT by rey
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To: rey

This extremely confused, mental defective is alive and free because many sacrificed for this country and defended freedom. What an in gracious idiot.


27 posted on 07/19/2017 5:34:12 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: Kaslin

Exercising my freedom of speech, I would say she needs a paper bag covering that face.


28 posted on 07/19/2017 5:37:43 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

LOL.....goofy is a good description for Boobamaba.


29 posted on 07/19/2017 5:41:22 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Kaslin

Time for Misseder Sobieski to go to South Chicago and do a couple, he’ll never make it past the first, interviews with the inhabitants. We’ll never hear from him again!


30 posted on 07/19/2017 5:43:01 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s a good series.


31 posted on 07/19/2017 5:53:54 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: IrishBrigade

Wasn’t it renamed “Adams and Liberty” during the Revolutionary War?


32 posted on 07/19/2017 5:55:06 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Kaslin

If the people want it changed, it will be. Until that time, it’s the one. What this is really about is hating this country, just as the failure Colin Kaepernick does.


33 posted on 07/19/2017 5:55:39 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting consistently in contradiction with one's human nature is de facto evidence of insanity.)
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To: EC Washington
don’t forget Clarence Page, the anti-veteran, extreme FAR left idiot who is also a member of the Tribune Editorial board
Many years ago, I emailed the scumbag and asked how he dodged the draft since his on-line bio made no mention of military service.
He never replied, but his bio was updated a few days later. Feckin' commie.
34 posted on 07/19/2017 6:10:18 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Kaslin
. . . both Kaepernick and Goetsch have the right to express their opinions through their actions and words. But they have the obligation to recall that this and other rights came at great expense in blood and treasure. Men, and women, have died or been maimed for life for their right to be obnoxious and insensitive to the heroic sacrifice of others.

Kaepernick does not care about treasure, as he demonstrated when he single-handed took down the NFL's ratings. Goetsch, as a Chicago Tribune writer, does not care about blood - look at how indifferent they are to Chicago's daily violence except as it supports their far-left political agenda. They are free to say and do what they wish, and we are free to make sure not one cent of our money goes to the NFL or the Tribune when they do so.

35 posted on 07/19/2017 6:19:32 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: NorthMountain

Three of those men were killed on Iwo Jima.

Harlan Buck, Franklin Sousely, and Mike Strenk...as well as the photographer of the color film, Bill Genaust...


36 posted on 07/19/2017 7:58:33 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: elcid1970

Wasn’t it renamed “Adams and Liberty” during the Revolutionary War?

not during the war; it was the first ‘campaign song’ during the election of 1800...


37 posted on 07/19/2017 8:03:16 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: EC Washington

The name Clarence Page didn’t mean anything to me, until I did see his picture. He did look familiar. Most likely from the time when I was still watching the fake news channels


38 posted on 07/19/2017 8:17:21 AM PDT by Kaslin (Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur - Politicians are not born; they are excreted. (Cicero)
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To: Kaslin
I can't say that I dislike the national anthem, because it has some really good things in it, particularly the last verse, which almost no one knows. That said, I really prefer America the Beautiful.

O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes 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!

39 posted on 07/19/2017 11:57:49 AM PDT by zeugma (The Brownshirts have taken over American Universities.)
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