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Politico Lead Story: 'Is It Time to Ditch the Star-Spangled Banner?'
NewsBusters.org ^ | September 13, 2014 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 09/14/2014 4:44:39 PM PDT by Kaslin

There is apparently no more important story or issue right now at the Politico than Ted Widmer's question about our national anthem: "Is It Time to Ditch the Star-Spangled Banner?" It is currently the lead item at the web site, complete with a huge picture of the American flag. The "beheading by ISIL of a British aid worker" and Wisconsin's court-granted ability to implement voter-ID in the fall elections are both apparently less important. - See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/09/13/politico-lead-story-it-time-ditch-star-spangled-banner#sthash.B4XsZOqY.dpuf

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lefties; nationalanthem; politico; starspangledbanner; tedwidmer
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1 posted on 09/14/2014 4:44:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
For most of the Politico wonks the Internationale is more to taste. BTT
2 posted on 09/14/2014 4:46:06 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Kaslin

Someone please post the “not this shit again” picture.


3 posted on 09/14/2014 4:46:44 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Kaslin

I’d best not comment on that moronic question.


4 posted on 09/14/2014 4:47:12 PM PDT by bgill
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I have heard it is difficult to sing but it sure sounds good.

One of the best National Anthems there is.


5 posted on 09/14/2014 4:48:27 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: Mastador1

lol Agreed.


6 posted on 09/14/2014 4:49:23 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: yarddog

When it began being sung(badly) at Football games and car races it lost some of it’s glory. When you are standing at attention on foreign soil and hear it being played, it is one of the most beautiful sounds on earth, with apologies to our current Commander in Chief who finds the same attachment to the Muslim call to Prayer.


7 posted on 09/14/2014 4:55:07 PM PDT by billhilly (Its OK, the left hated Bush.)
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To: Kaslin

Is it time to ditch Pollutico?


8 posted on 09/14/2014 4:55:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: billhilly

“You could always use the fake East German National Anthem from “Top Secret”

Hail, hail East Germany
Land of fruit and grape
Land where you’ll regret
If you try to escape
No matter if you tunnel under or take a running jump at the wall Forget it, the guards will kill you, if the electrified fence doesn’t first.


9 posted on 09/14/2014 4:55:57 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Manchuria Called. They want their Candidate Back!)
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To: Kaslin

They could have said, “Is it time for a new national anthem?” But no...they had to talk about DITCHING it. I truly hate these people...and they know they elicit that kind of response, which makes me hate them even more.


10 posted on 09/14/2014 4:56:33 PM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: Billthedrill

They might as well make it The Internationale, the leftists’ choice would be that Commie Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.”


11 posted on 09/14/2014 4:56:56 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

whitney houston star spangled banner


12 posted on 09/14/2014 4:57:30 PM PDT by stanne
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To: billhilly
When it began being sung(badly) at Football games and car races it lost some of it’s glory.

Roseanne Barr's singing certainly didn't help...


13 posted on 09/14/2014 4:59:07 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

My favorite line from Top Secret!

Hillary Flammond: My uncle was born in America.
Nick Rivers: Oh, really?
Hillary Flammond: But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency.


14 posted on 09/14/2014 4:59:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin
I won't comment on what Polutico can do but Whitney Houston's version of the Star-Spangled Banner is one of the best!

Whitney Houston - Star Spangled Banner

15 posted on 09/14/2014 4:59:29 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Kaslin
It's time to ditch it at sporting events unless people just sing the song and don't ad-lib and make it all about them.


16 posted on 09/14/2014 4:59:36 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: bgill

A guy wrote a great response to a question like this and how we should just break up the country and we would take our traditions, customs and heritage that the left is ashamed of, and they could do what ever they wanted to, just get out of our hair. I liked it. But I didn’t keep it


17 posted on 09/14/2014 4:59:36 PM PDT by reefdiver (The fool says there is no God. And the bigger fools sees direct evidence and rages against it.)
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18 posted on 09/14/2014 4:59:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Kaslin

They want to ditch it because none if their liberal voice “arteests” can sing it without screeching and screwing it up.


19 posted on 09/14/2014 5:00:33 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Dr.Deth

https://www.youtube.com/embed/YaxGNQE5ZLA


20 posted on 09/14/2014 5:00:48 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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