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It didn't used to be -- that's a phrase we use a lot these days, isn't it? -- but the Fourth of July festivities bring out the angriest guff from the left. In 1991 Boston Globe arts critic (and aspiring poet) Patricia Smith decided to refashion the national anthem in the leftist rag The Nation.
"Oh say, we've seen too much," she began. "The Star-Spangled Banner pushes like a cough through America's mouth and the twilight's last gleaming is just that, a sickly flash above our heads as we ride unsuspecting in the bellies of sleek trains, plop to our knees in churches, embracing truths that disgust us."
That stupidity never gained traction. But that doesn't mean the idiots don't keep trying.
The folks at the New York Daily News have embraced a mission to become the most provocative jerks in the Big Apple. One day it's personal attacks on those praying for the victims of terrorism, the next it's declaring the National Rifle Association to be murderous. In keeping with this stream of insulting behaviors, columnist Gersh Kuntzman has issued a demand, saying, "Major League Baseball must permanently retire 'God Bless America,' a song that offends everyone."
Everyone? Surely, this man could find a handful of people in midtown Manhattan who aren't offended by "God Bless America." That isn't what he meant, however. By "everyone" he means his circle of friends, professional and personal, which says something more about his circles than his complaint.
Kuntzman began: "It's time for God to stop blessing America during the seventh-inning stretch. Welcome to the July 4 weekend -- when once again, baseball fans will be assaulted by the saccharine-sweet non-anthem 'God Bless America' at stadia all over this great land." The song, he says, "should be sent permanently to the bench."Read the rest of Brent Bozzel's and Tim Graham's op-ed HERE.
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