Tag: National Anthem

Army-Navy Game’s Stunning National Anthem Rendition Puts Every Kneeling NFL Player To Shame

Army-Navy Game’s Stunning National Anthem Rendition Puts Every Kneeling NFL Player To Shame. No one here is making multi millions but they respect the flag. If you missed it there’s a video at the link.

Roger Goodell to NFL teams: ‘We believe that everyone should stand for the National Anthem’

Roger Goodell to NFL teams: ‘We believe that everyone should stand for the National Anthem.’ Look’s like Tom Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down” is no longer Roger’s favorite song. Trump should be gloating on Twitter any minute now. #Winning

VP Pence leaves 49’ers-Colts game due to kneeling during National Anthem

VP Pence leaves 49’ers-Colts game due to kneeling during National Anthem. Way to go.

Packers players are joined by fans in linking arms during national anthem

Packers players are joined by fans in linking arms during national anthem. IMO not very many fans locked arms. We deliberately watched CBS until the National Anthem was over and I don’t remember seeing anyone with locked arms in the stands although it appears CBS found 4 guys. The teams standing and locking arms is OK with us as long as  no one’s sitting during the Anthem.

‘Sunday Night Football’ Ratings Down Again On Day Of Player Protests

‘Sunday Night Football’ Ratings Down Again On Day Of Player Protests. There’s a lot of unhappy people who don’t feel players who make 10’s of millions should be dissing the flag of the country that made them rich. Us? We watched NASCAR, they don’t hide, sit or kneel when the National Anthem plays.

Pacifists on parade: Indiana college bans national anthem because it’s too militaristic

This story irks the hell out of us. So may we suggest that you let out a big sigh before you read it. There. That’s it. Let it all out. Relax. Calm yourself.

This story irks the hell out of us. So may we suggest that you let out a big sigh before you read it. There. That’s it. Let it all out. Relax. Calm yourself.

OK, now it’s probably safe to read about the lunatic pacifists in the Midwest:

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Oh, say can you see that not all the students at Goshen College agree with banning the National Anthem

A small northern Indiana college has decided to stop playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at sporting events after starting to do so for the first time last year.

Goshen College’s board of directors says it will find an alternative that honors the country and the Mennonite Church-affiliated school’s pacifist traditions.

The 1,000-student college has been playing an instrumental version of the national anthem, followed by a peace prayer, before games and other events. Some were upset with the school’s decision last year because the song’s lyrics contain references to using war and military might to defend the country.

Art professor John Blosser tells The Goshen News that there is much national pride at the school, but that most people aren’t going to blindly accept what the country does.

Wouldn’t you just know the whole thing would be explained by an art professor? It’s never a professor from the business schoool nor someone from the athletic department. It’s always an art professor.

Source: WTHR.com

Conspiracy theory on crack: Ed Schultz explains why Christina Aguilera screwed up the national anthem

Good luck trying to follow Ed Schultz’ explanation of why Christina Aguilera screwed up the national anthem at the Super Bowl. In poor Ed’s twisted mind it had something to do with Fox.

Good luck trying to follow Ed Schultz’ explanation of why Christina Aguilera screwed up the national anthem at the Super Bowl. In poor Ed’s twisted mind it had something to do with Fox.

And it goes downhill from there.

Seriously. It sounds as if Ed’s teleprompter died somewhere in mid-monologue, so he just started rambling and telling a story about his 8-year old son that had no real point.

Don’t worry, Eddie. We suspect that you’ll soon you’ll have lots of free time to spend with the little tyke.

The trifecta: Roseanne Barr, Keith Olbermann and Olbermann’s eyebrows, all in one story

We googled Christina Aguilera’s screeching version of the Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl and stumbled upon this fascinating video clip.

We googled Christina Aguilera’s screeching version of the Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl and stumbled upon this fascinating video clip.

Let’s go back to 1990 when Roseanne Barr did the all-time worst rendition of the national anthem at a San Diego Padres game.

Let’s go back to when Keith Olbermann was the sports guy on a local Los Angeles TV station commented on that event.

And let’s go back to when Olbermann’s eyebrows seemed to be independent life forms.

Cyndi Lauper look-alike screws up national anthem at Super Bowl

There may not have been cheerleaders at the Super Bowl game, but there was one giant boob. Pop singer Christina Aguilera delivered her version of the national anthem, which varied slightly from Francis Scott Key’s version.

There may not have been cheerleaders at the Super Bowl game, but there was one giant boob. Pop singer Christina Aguilera delivered her version of the national anthem, which varied slightly from Francis Scott Key’s version.

Here’s the video. Both version of the lyrics follow.

“Oh, 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.” (real lyrics)
What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last reaming.” (Aguilera version)
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”

Is it just us or is Christina Aguilera beginning to look waaaaay too much like Cyndi Lauper?

Racist Indiana school district tells 16-year old girl her version of the national anthem sucks

An Indiana school district that told a black teenager to perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” in a “traditional way” after receiving complaints about her performance is drawing questions now about whether the complaints and directive were racially motivated.

Let us say right up front that we don’t get it. Yeah, she added a few flourishes here and there that vary from the original, but jeez, we’ve heard a lot of singers do a lot worse things to the National Anthem. Roseanne Barr comes to mind.

Here’s the story from Yahoo News:

An Indiana school district that told a black teenager to perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” in a “traditional way” after receiving complaints about her performance is drawing questions now about whether the complaints and directive were racially motivated.

Shai Warfield-Cross, 16, has performed the national anthem at sports events at Bloomington High School North over the last year without incident. But school officials said they received complaints about her performance during a game in Martinsville.

Principal Jeff Henderson told The Herald-Times in a statement that people had complained that while the words to the anthem were the same, the tune was unrecognizable. He declined to comment to The Associated Press.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KVQUjxrgrM

Here the part we really hate. Note that the first paragraph of the story pointed out that Shai is black. And this following paragraph will point out that the complaint came from a town that is “predominately white.”

Some who complained after the game in Martinsville – a predominantly white community about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis – also said they felt the rendition was disrespectful to current and former members of the military, Henderson said.

It doesn’t say that the complaint came from a white person. It doesn’t say that the complaint said that Shai’s rendition was “black.” In fact, there’s nothing in the story to suggest that the complaints had anything to do with race except that Shai is black and the complaint came from the ominously-categorized “predominately white” town.

Well, you know what that means. The complaint must be raaaacist!

Warfield-Cross’ family says athletics director Jen Hollars told the teen last Friday that she would not be allowed to sing the anthem unless she modified her version and sang in a more traditional way. Hollars declined to comment and referred questions to Henderson, who said school officials told Warfield-Cross the performances should be more “traditional” to ensure the song’s tune is recognizable.

Our take: Whoever complained is a horses’s ass. The principal is a horse’s ass. The athletic director is a horse’s ass. And whoever wrote Yahoo story and inserted the racial angle is a horse’s ass.

We’re also horses’ asses, but that a completely different story.

H/T: KimmyQueen

History repeats itself: Obama doesn’t get that national anthem thing

Remember back during the campaign when Obama didn’t quite get the concept of the National Anthem (bottom photo)? Based on recent Veterans Day ceremonies (top photo), he still doesn’t get it.

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Remember back during the campaign when Obama didn’t quite get the concept of the national anthem (bottom photo)? Based on recent Veterans Day ceremonies (top photo), he still doesn’t.

Maybe things would have been different if they’d been playing the Kenyan national anthem.

Democratic National Committee introduces the new American national anthem

In keeping with the socialist tone of the times, and in the tradition of those overblown, overly dramatic anthems of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites, here’s America’s new national anthem.

In keeping with the socialist tone of the times, and in the tradition of those overblown, overly dramatic anthems of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites, here’s America’s new national anthem, titled Obamaland über alles.

It comes from the twisted mind of Glenn Beck.

Damn, we love this guy.

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