Then you probably haven't seen it either...
Posted on 07/04/2007 4:18:54 AM PDT by Diogenesis
This is great. Rush played it in it’s entirety on his show yesterday. I had never heard it before.
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Then you probably haven't seen it either...
I, too. I had forgotten how welll done it was. After the intro, Skelton abandoned his usual comic voice and read it perfectly, without excessive sentimentality.
Thank you! That’s a keeper.
You're right...it was perfect in tone and sentiment.
You’re welcome. Just came across it today!
Yes, it was great to hear again - too bad kid’s minds today have been indocrinated by the libs before 3rd grade to understand it.
Yes, was delighted he played it as his closer. Anybody who hasn't heard Skelton needs to find the audio.
Happy Independence Day everyone!
You’re welcome.
Pookie18 has provided a link to the audio and video in post #4.
It was not that often that he did it, but he would have the audience laughing in the isles and all of a sudden, boom, he was making a serious point. It always stuck.
Not only have the enemies of freedom been removing ‘under god’ from school. They’ve come into our state and local governments, and into our communities, trying to create the ‘kind of community’ they want - restricting our rights. Compare today to those days - we need government permission for so many things. Building a deck, putting up a fence, building a house, buying a gun, having a dog, a myriad of little things that used to be simple freedoms. And they want more - they want to control what you grow (native plants), what you cut (requiring removal of “invasives”, forbidding cutting of native trees), whether motorized vehicles or horses traverse the land, what size your house is, how much energy you use, the list is endless.
They’ve been working at all these restrictions for decades at the local level, but since they can’t get every community to buy in, they are working at the state level. PA went for state-wide building codes a couple years ago, prompted by a single horrible developer in the Pocono's - those codes have opened the door for government inspection of premises in every part of the state. The state can change the code anytime, expanding from purely safety issues (proper footers) to anything else they slip in with the omnibus bills at the end of a session. A number of other states have state-wide restrictions as well, and more will as radical environmental organizations lobby for them as a tool to get “environmental protection”.
We’re under attack from within by those who would take our freedom, and from without by the Islamists who would take our freedom. Today is the day to reconfirm our belief in individual freedom and individual rights, and to vow to fight it on every front!
I heard Rush play this on his show yesterday. I stopped what I was doing and just listened.
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