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Bill Press Hates Our National Anthem, With Its 'Military Jargon' and 'Home of the Brave' Stuff
Newsbusters ^ | 06/06/2012 | By Tim Graham

Posted on 06/07/2012 4:27:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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If my memory serves me right... I believe he did say in the past that he preferred "American the Beautiful" except for the "God" stuff...
1 posted on 06/07/2012 4:27:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing much seems to please Bill Press, now does it?

The doors are always open, he can leave this benighted land and relocate elsewhere, in some venue that meets his personal preferences.

Say, Viet Nam. After all, didn’t they beat the United States?


2 posted on 06/07/2012 4:32:56 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fear and intimidation work. At least on the short term.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I will be the first of many ti say it so here goes....Move to Mexico Bill!


3 posted on 06/07/2012 4:34:44 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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RE: Nothing much seems to please Bill Press, now does it?

If I read him correctly, I think he wants the STAR SPANGLED BANNER replaced by another anthem.

By what, he doesn’t say, but he seems to favor a few already popular ones.


4 posted on 06/07/2012 4:35:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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Don’t let the door hit you on the butt as you go..........


5 posted on 06/07/2012 4:36:12 AM PDT by basil
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To: SeekAndFind
I'll say again what I've said already about this: FOUR WORDS to that Communist puke Bill Press,

GET THE F*CK OUT (of America)


And consider this: that sorry sounuvabitch used to work for the CIA, that's just ONE reason our intelligence operations are probably screwed up today!
6 posted on 06/07/2012 4:44:32 AM PDT by mkjessup (Eternal Vigilance (aka FReeper Tom Hoefling) has my vote for President in 2012.)
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Say, Viet Nam. After all, didn’t they beat the United States?

Uhhh NO they did not. Better brush up on your history there pal.
7 posted on 06/07/2012 4:46:01 AM PDT by mkjessup (Eternal Vigilance (aka FReeper Tom Hoefling) has my vote for President in 2012.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He would prefer the Russian anthem as well as their constitution.

Pray for America


8 posted on 06/07/2012 5:08:54 AM PDT by bray (Power to We the People)
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Actually in Vietnam we simply GAVE UP. IOW, We defeated ourselves. It was a loss of will, and the Democrats in control of Congress then made sure that happened.

Also, the fact that Walter Cronkite would spin a huge defeat for the Vietcongs in the Tet Offensive to a victory for them didn’t help either.


9 posted on 06/07/2012 5:10:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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So which other countries send their youth into battle to defend and protect citizens of other countries? Which country rose up in earnest to free citizenry of other countries subjugated by Hitler's 3rd Reich? And as far as it being difficult to sing? Give me a break. Even I can sing it and sing it well. As far as those who cant carry a tune without a tone thingamajig... well they shouldn't be asked to sing it in public anyway. Maybe Press just wants a rap version of a National Anthem. He's just a busybody wanting us all to forget what we learned growing up. So many of my beliefs and mores are being challenged and rejected today I just want to take these idiots out to the outhouse and shove them in!
10 posted on 06/07/2012 5:13:56 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (OxBAMA!!'s name is all caps as sarcasm to indicate a lack of respect, as he does not deserve it)
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Actually in Vietnam we simply GAVE UP. IOW, We defeated ourselves. It was a loss of will, and the Democrats in control of Congress then made sure that happened.

"We" as in political leadership, you bet. "We" as in our military establishment? They NEVER 'gave up'. And let's not forget the lack of will from Gerald Ford who confined his efforts to evacuating our people and as many refugees as could climb on board those choppers.

Nixon later said that he would have used tactical nukes to stop the North Vietnamese invasion and violation of those so-called 'Paris Peace Accords' to prevent the fall of the South.
11 posted on 06/07/2012 5:18:55 AM PDT by mkjessup (Eternal Vigilance (aka FReeper Tom Hoefling) has my vote for President in 2012.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He is nothing more than a Godless commie.


12 posted on 06/07/2012 5:22:56 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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I ,for one, am EMBARRASSED by Bill Press.If he is so unhappy
with our history Let him go somewhere —like Germany—or the USSR where his politics would be more comforted/less embarrassed by their history and national identity.


13 posted on 06/07/2012 5:23:04 AM PDT by StonyBurk (ring)
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The Congress at the time would not give any money for weapons to the South Vietnamese. Once the “Watergate Congress” was in in 1974 there was never going to be any help from us for the South Vietnamese.

“America the Beautiful” would make a much better anthem than the current one.


14 posted on 06/07/2012 5:24:56 AM PDT by AceMineral (Will work for money.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'll gladly donate to him a one-way to Zimbabwe. I understand the exchange rate is terrific. He's guaranteed to love it there.


15 posted on 06/07/2012 5:33:13 AM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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Maybe he would prefer this song

Stalin, Friend and Comrade--Ernst Busch, 1949

16 posted on 06/07/2012 5:47:12 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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He must really not like the third verse...

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]


17 posted on 06/07/2012 5:48:23 AM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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“America the Beautiful” would make a much better anthem than the current one.

No, it wouldn't.

18 posted on 06/07/2012 5:50:39 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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Nixon later said that he would have used tactical nukes to stop the North Vietnamese invasion and violation of those so-called 'Paris Peace Accords' to prevent the fall of the South.

I have never heard this quote. We wouldn't have needed to use tactical nukes--maybe some B-52 strikes on the massed North Vietnamese troops would have been effective, but if Congress hadn't allowed the South Vietnamese to run out of ammo, theur country might have been saved.

I believe that if President Nixon had managed to stay in office, he would likely have ordered B-52 strikes on the North Vietnamese when they launched their final offensive 1975.

19 posted on 06/07/2012 5:59:39 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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Say, Viet Nam. After all, didn’t they beat the United States?

No, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry defeated the United States.

20 posted on 06/07/2012 6:14:30 AM PDT by Hacksaw (If I had a son, he'd look like George Zimmerman.)
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