On July 4, NPR Replays How ‘God Bless America’ Is a ‘Syrupy’ ‘Whitewash’

NPR has a habit — call it “counterintuitive” — of trashing popular beliefs on major holidays (or holy days). On Good Friday in 2008, for example, NPR’s Fresh Air chose to replay a four-year-old interview with retired academic John Dominic Crossan, who suggested the Christian belief in the resurrection of Jesus is bunk and it was “pathological” to focus on the suffering of Christ on the cross.

On July 4, 2018, All Things Considered replayed a five-year-old interview suggesting the beloved patriotic song “God Bless America” annoys “many” with its “syrupy nationalism and trivialized faith,” and Woody Guthrie suggested it was a “whitewash of everything that was wrong with America.”   The online headline was “For ‘God Bless America,’ A Long Gestation And Venomous Backlash.” You can’t call the show All Things Considerate.

Does NPR rip into Martin Luther King Jr. on MLK Day? Well, no, liberals know when to be polite and reverential.

NPR anchor Ailsa Chang introduced the replay: “On this patriotic day of stars and stripes and fireworks, we launch a new series called American Anthem. Over the next year, we’re going to take a close look at songs that have roused hearts and minds around a common theme, whether it’s civil rights, a favorite sports team or love of country.” She noted that later this year, “God Bless America” turns 100, and now-retired anchor Robert Siegel whacked at it in 2013: 

ROBERT SIEGEL: Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” has not only endured. It has become a statement of patriotism, of homefront support for troops at war. In the Vietnam era, it was an anthem of counterprotest. And while it has brought a lump to the throat of many an American, it has also annoyed many who hear it as a tune of syrupy nationalism and trivialized faith. One mark of its unusual status – Berlin took no royalties from it. He created a fund that collected them and distributed them to the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts.

Siegel interviewed author Sheryl Kaskowitz: 

ROBERT SIEGEL: I knew it had drawn criticism from the likes of Woody Guthrie, who thought it was a whitewash of everything wrong in America. I didn’t realize that from the right, there had been anti-Semitic complaints about “God Bless America.” But you describe that there were.

SHERYL KASKOWITZ: Yes, there was a backlash against it because Irving Berlin was a Jewish immigrant. And it was boycotted by the Ku Klux Klan and by some domestic Nazi groups.

SIEGEL: You traced the history of how people have sung “God Bless America” ever since 1940. I didn’t know it had been used as the civil rights movement anthem at one point. During the Vietnam War, it became associated more with defenders of the policy who would break into songs of “God Bless America” in the face of anti-war protestors.

KASKOWITZ: If you think about the lyrics to “God Bless America,” they’re very vague. And Irving Berlin is the master of that. I found uses of it in labor rallies, union protests. Early on in the civil rights movement, it was often sung. And what I found was that it was really the Vietnam War that solidified its more conservative uses, as upholding the status quo. Counterprotesters at peace rallies would sing it to represent the administration and support for what they were doing.

These are the same people who replay Crumpet the Department Store Elf’s homicidal thoughts at Christmas.

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Democrats turn on each other over Maxine Waters as Trump has his fun

Apparently, spittle-flicked rage tantrums against President Trump go only so far. So, Democrats are now turning on each other over their own rants, blaming Nancy Pelosi for Maxine Waters’ manic outbursts. Trump has got to be snickering.


Because what’s more pathetic than a bully crying home to mom? Instead of yelling about Trump, as they always do, they are now yelling about House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer:



This really happened, according to ABC News:


Black female leaders and allies are blasting House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for what they see as their “failure” to protect Rep. Maxine Waters from “unwarranted attacks from the Trump administration and others in the GOP.”


“We write to share our profound indignation and deep disappointment over your recent failure to protect Congresswoman Waters from unwarranted attacks from the Trump Administration and others in the GOP,” the group of nearly 200 women wrote in a letter sent Tuesday. “That failure was further compounded by your decision to unfairly deride her as being ‘uncivil’ and ‘un-American.’”


Sounds nice, until you take a gander at what Maxine Waters actually said. Mad Max, as she is known, comes off as a raving lunatic in spittle-flicked rants. Here is what American Mirror reported:


After claiming Trump is “sacrificing our children,” referring to the illegal immigrant [sic] kids separated from their “parents” near the border, Waters again called for the president’s impeachment, triggering loud applause from the baying mob.


“History will record while he tried to step on all of us, we kicked him in his rear and step on him,” she yelled, whipping up the crowd.


“If you think we’re rallying now, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet,” she warned.


“Already, you have members of your Cabinet that are being booed out of restaurants,” she continued as the crowd erupted, “who have protesters taking up at their house, who say, ‘No peace, no sleep.  No peace, no sleep,'” she continued [sic].


“And guess what,” she predicted, “we’re going to win this battle because while you try and quote the Bible, Jeff Sessions and others, you really don’t know the Bible.


“God is on OUR side!” she declared, as the crowd went wild.  “On the side of the children.  On the side of what’s right.  On the side of what’s honorable.”


“And so, let’s stay the course.  Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” she yelled.


Waters [sic] remarks were then marred by a screeching microphone.


Remarks like that hurt Democratic Party prospects for a blue wave come November. So you can see why Nancy Pelosi is backtracking in a bid to save the downwind candidates trying to take back Congress for the Democrats.


But egos are bruised and Mad Max and her allies aren’t standing for it. They want Pelosi to get behind Waters’s intemperance, and are whipping out the race card, not on Trump as they always do, but on Pelosi and Schumer in their bid to get them to support Waters as she turns up the screech volume.


What this sounds like is truth, way in the back of their leftist minds, is sinking in. They know that yelling about Trump isn’t working. They can’t stand it. So now they go yell at Pelosi and Schumer, who are easy pushovers for the political winds. Pelosi of course has already bent down and issued conciliatory words to Waters. She bends for any leftist crazy – she pandered happily for the DREAMers when they shouted down at her, blamed her, and screamed at her, when their real issue was President Trump and the will of the majority of the voters. She’ll bend for anyone.


But what we are now seeing here is Democrats eating their own.


The only person responsible for Maxine Waters’s lunatic meltdown statements is Maxine herself. She can expect to be parodied and made fun of by Trump to the end of her days, because it was her own behavior that just invited making political hay. Trump has had a field day with her own words and behavior, as he just did at a rally in Montana yesterday. According to Fox News (and you gotta see the video, Trump is having great fun):


Trump also took another dig at California Rep. Maxine Waters, whom he called “the new leader” of the Democratic party.


“Democrats want anarchy,” Trump said, saying they would allow gangs like MS-13 “run wild” in America. “And they don’t know who they’re playing with, folks.


“I said it the other day, yes, [Maxine Waters] is a low-IQ individual. Honestly, she’s somewhere in the mid-60s, I believe,” Trump added.


If you act dumb, you can expect to be called dumb. Waters can’t stand this. What’s gonna happen next? Trump is going to go make some more fun of her. Nothing funnier than a bully who picks on the wrong person.


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Apparently, spittle-flicked rage tantrums against President Trump go only so far. So, Democrats are now turning on each other over their own rants, blaming Nancy Pelosi for Maxine Waters’ manic outbursts. Trump has got to be snickering.


Because what’s more pathetic than a bully crying home to mom? Instead of yelling about Trump, as they always do, they are now yelling about House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer:


This really happened, according to ABC News:


Black female leaders and allies are blasting House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for what they see as their “failure” to protect Rep. Maxine Waters from “unwarranted attacks from the Trump administration and others in the GOP.”


“We write to share our profound indignation and deep disappointment over your recent failure to protect Congresswoman Waters from unwarranted attacks from the Trump Administration and others in the GOP,” the group of nearly 200 women wrote in a letter sent Tuesday. “That failure was further compounded by your decision to unfairly deride her as being ‘uncivil’ and ‘un-American.’”


Sounds nice, until you take a gander at what Maxine Waters actually said. Mad Max, as she is known, comes off as a raving lunatic in spittle-flicked rants. Here is what American Mirror reported:


After claiming Trump is “sacrificing our children,” referring to the illegal immigrant [sic] kids separated from their “parents” near the border, Waters again called for the president’s impeachment, triggering loud applause from the baying mob.


“History will record while he tried to step on all of us, we kicked him in his rear and step on him,” she yelled, whipping up the crowd.


“If you think we’re rallying now, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet,” she warned.


“Already, you have members of your Cabinet that are being booed out of restaurants,” she continued as the crowd erupted, “who have protesters taking up at their house, who say, ‘No peace, no sleep.  No peace, no sleep,'” she continued [sic].


“And guess what,” she predicted, “we’re going to win this battle because while you try and quote the Bible, Jeff Sessions and others, you really don’t know the Bible.


“God is on OUR side!” she declared, as the crowd went wild.  “On the side of the children.  On the side of what’s right.  On the side of what’s honorable.”


“And so, let’s stay the course.  Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” she yelled.


Waters [sic] remarks were then marred by a screeching microphone.


Remarks like that hurt Democratic Party prospects for a blue wave come November. So you can see why Nancy Pelosi is backtracking in a bid to save the downwind candidates trying to take back Congress for the Democrats.


But egos are bruised and Mad Max and her allies aren’t standing for it. They want Pelosi to get behind Waters’s intemperance, and are whipping out the race card, not on Trump as they always do, but on Pelosi and Schumer in their bid to get them to support Waters as she turns up the screech volume.


What this sounds like is truth, way in the back of their leftist minds, is sinking in. They know that yelling about Trump isn’t working. They can’t stand it. So now they go yell at Pelosi and Schumer, who are easy pushovers for the political winds. Pelosi of course has already bent down and issued conciliatory words to Waters. She bends for any leftist crazy – she pandered happily for the DREAMers when they shouted down at her, blamed her, and screamed at her, when their real issue was President Trump and the will of the majority of the voters. She’ll bend for anyone.


But what we are now seeing here is Democrats eating their own.


The only person responsible for Maxine Waters’s lunatic meltdown statements is Maxine herself. She can expect to be parodied and made fun of by Trump to the end of her days, because it was her own behavior that just invited making political hay. Trump has had a field day with her own words and behavior, as he just did at a rally in Montana yesterday. According to Fox News (and you gotta see the video, Trump is having great fun):


Trump also took another dig at California Rep. Maxine Waters, whom he called “the new leader” of the Democratic party.


“Democrats want anarchy,” Trump said, saying they would allow gangs like MS-13 “run wild” in America. “And they don’t know who they’re playing with, folks.


“I said it the other day, yes, [Maxine Waters] is a low-IQ individual. Honestly, she’s somewhere in the mid-60s, I believe,” Trump added.


If you act dumb, you can expect to be called dumb. Waters can’t stand this. What’s gonna happen next? Trump is going to go make some more fun of her. Nothing funnier than a bully who picks on the wrong person.


Image Credit: majunznk, via Flickr // Creative Commons 2.0




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REPORT: Strzok Created a Fake Timeline of Weiner Email Recovery in Order to Leave Misleading Record

REPORT: Strzok Created a Fake Timeline of Weiner Email Recovery in Order to Leave Misleading Record


FBI official Peter Strzok

Trump-hating FBI official Peter Strzok created a fake timeline of the Weiner email recovery in order to leave a misleading record for the file.

Strzok also created this document to get everyone in Comey’s inner circle on the same page.

This is similar to what Susan Rice did when she sent herself a bizarre email on the same day Donald Trump was being sworn into office.

Investigative reporter Paul Sperry reported on this Thursday night.

BREAKING: In an 11/3/16 doc, Strzok created a fake timeline of the Weiner email recovery in order to leave a misleading record for the file, after the fact, for the purpose of CYA & getting everyone in Comey’s inner circle on same page. (Similar to Rice’s 1/20/17 email to self.)

Peter Strzok is going to testify in front of Congress next week.

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BUSTED: Here’s Indisputable Proof Little Miss Socialist Is A Bug-Eyed FRAUD

She only likes socialism when it suits her. ………………………………… ……………………………………………………. ………………………………………………….. …………………… ………………………………… ……………………………………………………. ………………………………………………….. …………………… Like every other liberal […]

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Sick! Violent Leftist Arrested for Stealing MAGA Hat from Teen Has GoFundMe Page Launched in His Honor

Sick! Violent Leftist Arrested for Stealing MAGA Hat from Teen Has GoFundMe Page Launched in His Honor

A violent leftist named Kino Jimenez lost his mind and hurled a drink at a teen diner and stealing his Make America Great Again hat at a Whataburger restaurant in Texas on the 4th of July.

Kino was later fired and arrested for abusing the children.

Now this…
Kino Jimenez’s leftist comrades started a Go-Fund-Me page following his firing after the video of him assaulting the Trump-Supporting teen went viral.

The Go-Fund-Me page was quickly deleted, as Big League Politics first reported:

The political left almost made another gigantic mistake that would have added to a string of poor public relations moves over the past few weeks.

“Kino Jimenez is currently the victim of a witch hunt,” a GoFundMe account started on behalf of Jimenez said. “His rash retaliation towards a couple of teenage boys was unnecessary and they DO deserve an apology, but currently right-wingers have opted for an unethical approach to the viral video.”

The page was quickly removed, presumably when the founder of the campaign realized that raising $85,000 for a 30-year-old deadbeat who assaulted and cursed out 16-year-old boys would be a bad optic for Democrats.

On Thursday evening, Jimenez was arrested and charged with felony theft following his Wednesday outburst. 

As reported by Heavy:

The above photo is a 2017 mugshot of Jimenez, according to Bexar County. The current one was not yet available. Jail records indicate that Jimenez is being booked on a felony state charge for theft from person.

Kino Jimenez could serve up to 6 months in jail and be fined up to $200,000 if he is convicted of felony theft.

 

 

 

 

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Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Had Very Different Views When She Ran A Business

Newly unearthed reports from socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s past shows that the progressive political candidate had very different views on taxes when she used to run a business.
Ocasio-Cortez, who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has campaigned on expanding big government welfare programs through raising taxes on businesses and wealthy Americans.

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