MMFA: Watch A Local Anchorwoman Destroy Conservative Misinformation About Multilingual Super Bowl Ad

[highplainsdem]

From John Whitehouse's Media Matters blog:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/04/watch-a-local-anchorwoman-destroy-conservative/197912

Many conservatives lashed out at Coca-Cola for their Super Bowl advertisement featuring a multilingual rendition of "America the Beautiful." Fox contributor Allen West declared that America is "on the road to perdition," Fox host Eric Bolling complained that it was wrong to use America the Beautiful, and someone at Breitbart News even wrote that the ad shows America is "no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution." And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

But anchorwoman Brenda Wood of WXIA in Atlanta demolished these myths in her segment 'Brenda's Last Word.' Wood explained how diversity is what America is built on, citing Emma Lazarus' sonnet 'The New Colossus' on the Statue of Liberty. Wood also touched on the absurdity of nativists rallying around a language from another country, and she pointed out the identity of the woman who wrote the words to 'America the Beautiful.'

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[alsame]

1. Awesome response

[steve2470]

2. Brave woman to do this in Atlanta

She's probably getting death threats. More power to you, Ms. Wood !

[Phentex]

4. Coke trumps tea in Atlanta...

I guess the boycott of Georgia is over?

[3catwoman3]

3. Brenda's last word...

...pretty much said it all. Bravo, Brenda!

[blue neen]

5. Beautiful!

[lark]

6. Kind and informative!

I didn't know that American the Beautiful was written by a gay woman professor - cool!

[FreeState]

13. A gay woman who left the GOP over their xenophobia no less!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Lee_Bates

[lark]

29. Could it get any better?

[SaveOurDemocracy]

7. Excellent response! Really well done.

[cthulu2016]

8. #SpeakAmerican... priceless

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. Yeah ...

I caught that.

I wish she had said, "... It's outrageous that anyone would sing 'America the Beautiful' in anything other than 'American' ... Frankly, I see the root of the problem here ..."

[old guy]

9. This on the heels of my county

Polk Co. Wi. passing a resolution making english the official language here by a vote of 13-9. Sigh.

[geardaddy]

11. They all probably had non-English speaking

grandparents and great-grandparents. But it was German or Norwegian, so it doesn't matter.

Same shit is happening on this side of the St. Croix.

http://www.startribune.com/local/north/99283739.html

[Cha]

18. I hope it makes them feel better

about themselves because they're obviously lacking in self-esteem.

[PumpkinAle]

10. Brilliant

more right wing heads popping.

I also didn't know that about Bates so I looked her up on Wikipedia and found this

"A lifelong, active Republican, Bates broke with the party to endorse Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis in 1924 because of Republican opposition to American participation in the League of Nations. She said: "Though born and bred in the Republican camp, I cannot bear their betrayal of Mr. Wilson and their rejection of the League of Nations, our one hope of peace on earth."

[heaven05]

12. SNAP!!!

YOU GO GIRL!!!!! Smack those sanctimonious jerks back to the 19century.

[calimary]

15. NICE!!!!!

Wonderful points she makes. And - horror of horrors - the lyrics of "America the Beautiful" were written by a gay woman. SHEESH!!! Haters gotta hate, I guess, and they prove themselves to be rather UN-American, don't they!?!

[Gothmog]

16. This was a great response

The news person did a great job

[CottonBear]

17. Brenda,Wood is my favorite Atlanta news anchor.

She has class, kindness and intelligence.
I am proud she is a fellow Georgian!

[bullsnarfle]

19. BAM! ZOOM!

She really knocked that one outta the park! Thanks for posting it, highplainsdem!

[diabeticman]

20. OMG! This woman needs to go national.

[Vinca]

21. What a great piece of commentary.

I bet she's now on the receiving end of the culture of hate.

[BlackX-068]

22. Facts...are Facts!

English...England. Native American....American. History doesn't matter to these right wing idiots. Cowards to be frank.

[toby jo]

23. The commercial was touching...

still can't get over how anyone could derive hatred from it.

[groundloop]

24. Here's a link to leave feedback for Brenda Woods

It's not a poll, but I'm sure Ms. Woods would appreciate some positive feedback.

http://www.11alive.com/news/lastword/default.aspx

[marias23]

25. I may have to START drinking coke

(just kidding). Its still colored sugar water and I won't drink it. No matter what the commercial was just that - a commercial designed to get you to like and BUY the product. I will drink just about ANYTHING BUT COKE....

[Liberal_Dog]

26. Mike Malloy Played It On His Show Last Night

Loved it.

[riversedge]

27. Too bad @FoxNews viewers are immune to the Truth but great

to see this grand pushback.

[Scruffy Rumbler]

28. Katherine Lee Bates...Lesbian, Professor, daughter of a pastor!

Wrote "America the Beautiful."

I say Kathy Bates plays her in a Bio-pic!


And Brenda is my Hero. I say the bio-pic starts with this news clip and Brenda Wood is played by Wanda Sykes! Hello Hollywood? A different story for you to do!
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