Memorial Day Rant: Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue [View all]

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If you live near DC Memorial day is about unmuffled motorcycles, claims that the Rambo movies are documentaries and ubiquitous karaoke perfomances of Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue.

I honestly don't know what is most offensive about this song...

The wing-nuttery and reliance on a distorted view of reality are not even the biggest problem.

It's that the song is exploits the listener. The song is obviously written for children, even including cartoon imagery. It is not somebody expressing something, it is someone clever expressing what he thinks the most retrograde, self-pitying, bigoted moron would like.

It is written in the language of children and bullies... the language of comic books and professional wrestling.

The self-pitying whining of modern country music is bad enough when applied to the poor oppressed white man who believes in Jesus and drinking home-made liquor no matter what some presumptively gay city-folk have to say about it.

But that mewling passive-aggressive self-pitying narcissistic hokum applied to the USA, the biggest, richest most powerful and impregnable nation in the history of the world as being some sort of scrappy under-dog in a war against people who live in tents... wow.

And the idea that these pathetic whiners think their Jesus and moonshine and racism are responsible for our weaponry that can blow up people from the stratosphere while these lames sit on a bar stool feeling sorry for themselves...

No, those weapons were designed by rocket scientists. You know, that thing you brag about not being immediately before regurgitating another hateful fact-free tirade you picked up from Fox fucking news...

Oh... and anyone who points out that Toby Keith is a Democrat, who cares? So was John Wayne Gacy. A millennium of good works couldn't make up for being the Leni Riefenstahl of America.

Anyway, I guess we are lucky. Congress was probably not far from making this the national anthem in 2003.

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Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue Toby Keith

(The Angry American)

American girls and American guys, will always stand up and salute.
We'll always recognize, when we see ol' glory flying,
There's a lot of men dead,
So we can sleep in peace at night when we lay down our heads.
My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye,
But he flew a flag out in our yard 'til the day that he died.
He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me.
To grow up and live happy in the land of the free.

Now this nation that I love is fallin' under attack.
A mighty sucker-punch came flying in from somewhere in the back.
Soon as we could see clearly through our big black eye,
Man, we lit up your world like the fourth of July.

Hey, Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly and it's gonna be hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell.
And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you.
Ah, brought to you, courtesy of the red, white and blue.

Oh, justice will be served and the battle will rage:
This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage.
An' you'll be sorry that you messed with the U.S. of A.
'Cos we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way.

Hey, Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly and it's gonna be hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell.
And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you.
Ah, brought to you, courtesy of the red, white and blue.