1stRambo
Gold Member
- Feb 8, 2015
- 6,221
- 1,019
- 255
Yo, maybe this Socialist should be fired, and kicked out of the Country!!!
New York journo calls for end to āfascistā singing of āoffensiveā God Bless America
POSTED AT 10:01 AM ON JULY 1, 2016 BY LARRY O'CONNOR
Leave it to the completely unhinged New York Daily News to start your Independence Day weekend off with an outrageous assault on patriotism.
Columnist Gersh Kuntzman is calling on Major League Baseball to singing God Bless Americaduring the 7th inning stretch of select baseball games because itās āfascistā to have people honor America with this song:
Part of my outrage stems from ponderous Mussolini-esque introduction of the song, when fans are asked to rise, remove their caps and place them over their hearts.
Reality check, friends: āGod Bless Americaā is not the National Anthem. The only songs Americans should stand for are āThe Star Spangled Bannerā and āHere Comes the Bride.ā
Even Irving Berlin, who wrote āGod Bless Americaā in 1918, considered it so maudlin and depressing that he stuck it in a drawer. Twenty years later, as the world prepared for war, Kate Smith asked Berlin for a patriotic song for her radio show. He pulled out āGod Bless Americaā and changed one lame line ā āthe gold fields up in Nomeā ā to an even lamer line ā āoceans white with foam.ā You know the rest: Smithās version became as much a symbol of post-war patriotism as the flag, the space program and all the white people moving to the suburbs.
Tony Bennett messes up lyrics to āGod Bless Americaā at Giants game
The song still embodies great things about America, but also our worst things: self-righteousness, forced piety, earnest self-reverence, foam.
And Kuntzman clearly knows a thing or two about āself-righteousness,ā doesnāt he?
Kuntzman goes on to detail how the song āoffends everyoneā as his headline states. However, along with so much else one finds in the pages of the New York Daily News these days, the idea that God Bless America āoffends everyoneā is only true when viewed through the eyes of a progressive leftist:
āGod Bless Americaā is as divisive as American politics: Kaskowitzās research found that 83.8% of people who described themselves as āvery liberalā dislike the song, while only 20.5% of people who called themselves āvery conservativeā have a problem with it.
And more than 88% of atheists dislike the song, Kaskowitz found. (Quick aside: We atheists also hate having āIn God we Trustā on the currency and in the courtrooms of a country whose Constitution bars the āestablishment of religionā ā but thatās a fight for another day.)
I canāt quite figure out if Kuntzman and the Daily News hate America, or if they just hate Americans who love America.
Either way, while we are in the business of banning things that offend, how about some of the recent covers from the Daily News:
Socialist Puppet Media, In Black and White!!!
New York journo calls for end to āfascistā singing of āoffensiveā God Bless America
"GTP"
New York journo calls for end to āfascistā singing of āoffensiveā God Bless America
POSTED AT 10:01 AM ON JULY 1, 2016 BY LARRY O'CONNOR
Leave it to the completely unhinged New York Daily News to start your Independence Day weekend off with an outrageous assault on patriotism.
Columnist Gersh Kuntzman is calling on Major League Baseball to singing God Bless Americaduring the 7th inning stretch of select baseball games because itās āfascistā to have people honor America with this song:
Part of my outrage stems from ponderous Mussolini-esque introduction of the song, when fans are asked to rise, remove their caps and place them over their hearts.
Reality check, friends: āGod Bless Americaā is not the National Anthem. The only songs Americans should stand for are āThe Star Spangled Bannerā and āHere Comes the Bride.ā
Even Irving Berlin, who wrote āGod Bless Americaā in 1918, considered it so maudlin and depressing that he stuck it in a drawer. Twenty years later, as the world prepared for war, Kate Smith asked Berlin for a patriotic song for her radio show. He pulled out āGod Bless Americaā and changed one lame line ā āthe gold fields up in Nomeā ā to an even lamer line ā āoceans white with foam.ā You know the rest: Smithās version became as much a symbol of post-war patriotism as the flag, the space program and all the white people moving to the suburbs.
Tony Bennett messes up lyrics to āGod Bless Americaā at Giants game
The song still embodies great things about America, but also our worst things: self-righteousness, forced piety, earnest self-reverence, foam.
And Kuntzman clearly knows a thing or two about āself-righteousness,ā doesnāt he?
Kuntzman goes on to detail how the song āoffends everyoneā as his headline states. However, along with so much else one finds in the pages of the New York Daily News these days, the idea that God Bless America āoffends everyoneā is only true when viewed through the eyes of a progressive leftist:
āGod Bless Americaā is as divisive as American politics: Kaskowitzās research found that 83.8% of people who described themselves as āvery liberalā dislike the song, while only 20.5% of people who called themselves āvery conservativeā have a problem with it.
And more than 88% of atheists dislike the song, Kaskowitz found. (Quick aside: We atheists also hate having āIn God we Trustā on the currency and in the courtrooms of a country whose Constitution bars the āestablishment of religionā ā but thatās a fight for another day.)
I canāt quite figure out if Kuntzman and the Daily News hate America, or if they just hate Americans who love America.
Either way, while we are in the business of banning things that offend, how about some of the recent covers from the Daily News:
Socialist Puppet Media, In Black and White!!!
New York journo calls for end to āfascistā singing of āoffensiveā God Bless America
"GTP"
