A beautiful, classy, succinct and totally brutal takedown.

[ProSense]

A beautiful, classy, succinct and totally brutal takedown.

by LaFeminista

This gets my vote for best new thing in the world:

BRENDA WOOD: But the fact that people are outraged over this ad is outrageous itself. People indignant that others would have the audacity to sing 'America the Beautiful' in a language other than English, when America was built on opening its arms to the world? The quote on the Statue of Liberty doesn't say 'give me your English-speaking only, Christianity-believing, heterosexual masses.' It says 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses tempest-tost.'

Have we forgotten that every one of us 'Americans' except for Native Americans, are descendants of foreigners?

That the English language is from England?

What makes America different from everywhere else is that we are a melting pot. We are not homogenous. It is our diversity that built this country.

How dare there be indignation over the very thing that makes us great.

And why not honor the beauty of that in song? What's so sacrosanct about this song that it can't be sung in other languages by other ethnicities, by those of diverse religions and diverse lifestyles?

A relevant question considering the words of 'America the Beautiful' were penned by a gay woman, Katharine Lee Bates, in 1895, an English professor at Wellesley who also wrote lovingly of her longtime committed relationship with another woman.

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

I cannot add anything to this wonderful mocking of the crazy.

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[ProSense]

1. Kick! n/t

[mindfulNJ]

2. Nice!

[rhett o rick]

3. Very cool. Thanks for posting.

[Moonwalk]

4. Oh! I didn't know that about the author of "America"—That's a keeper for dinner parties....

[awoke_in_2003]

42. Push them over the edge...

and hit them up on the history of the Pledge of Allegiance

[FiveGoodMen]

5. K&R!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. oh, that WAS perfection!!!!!!

I love this woman!!!!!

[maddiemom]

38. Blanche: love the cat video. Whatever sent him/her off?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

40. isn't that a laff riot?

I crack up every time i see it myself!

Found it while searching for funny gifs, so i have no idea of the backstory.

[tosh]

7. Thanks for posting the video.

THAT...was beautiful!

[Jack Rabbit]

8. K/R

[homegirl]

9. Immigrants

One of my most cherished memories is returning to the USA after my first trip to Europe. As New York harbor and the Statue of Liberty came into sight a group of immigrants gathered on deck and sang "God Bless America." I still feel the same rush of emotion as I did that day and I still cry feeling what they felt. The year was 1955.

[Ferretherder]

37. Thank you for sharing that, homegirl...

...glad to have you here with us.

[3catwoman3]

10. Zi-i-i-i-i-i-i-ing!!!

[Cha]

11. Good Find, ProSense!

"A beautiful, classy, succinct and totally brutal takedown." The Very Best!

The ultimate indictment of teabagger hate inc.

Mahalo!

[WoodyD]

12. Oh you ferriners with yer funny-sounding words

My immigrant grandparents spoke Norwegian. Mr. WoodyD's immigrant grandparents spoke German. But that's probably okay because they spoke funny-sounding words while being white.

Well done, Ms. Wood.

[rickyhall]

13. Did you see Colbert last night?

[tanyev]

14. Good for her. Hope she's ready for all the hate-filled screeds headed her way.

[Number23]

18. Oh you know they're coming. The right wing will excoriate a black woman for daring to speak

without permission and idiots on the "left" will minimize her because she's Southern.

I'm sure that she has already updated her spam filter for the death threats and screams for her to "go back to Africa" that are surely heading her way.

[steve2470]

21. That was my thought also

A few death threats will be included, I'm sure.

[dougg]

15. Conservatives must have gone berserk

when Bush sang the National Anthem in Spanish on the campaign trail.

What's that you say? It's OK when a republican does it?

[Enthusiast]

34. Well, we know that Republicans are safe. Because they aren't commies.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. We all KNOW the Tea Bagger rebuttal....

It goes something like this: "Shut up bitch and go make me a sandwich."

[Iliyah]

17. K & R

Beautiful!

Side note: Please do not apologize and please don't fire her just to please the totally insane, i.e. the GOP party.

[DinahMoeHum]

19. Dear Twitter twits. . .

[11 Bravo]

20. I saw that earlier, and while I am more from the Rude Pundit school of smackdowns ...

I must agree with you ... classy, succinct, and brutal!

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. Holy shit.

I am totally gobsmacked that this was on local TV news in Atlanta.

[steve2470]

26. Coca Cola is headquartered in Atlanta

I think that's *possibly* one reason this was allowed on their channel. Still, she was very courageous to say all that. I'm pretty confident she will get death threats for her courage.

[Spider Jerusalem]

27. I'm aware of that, I used to live there.

I recognised both her and the station (local NBC affiliate) right away.

[Hekate]

23. Beautiful!

[Drew Richards]

24. Bam! Goes the Dynamite!

[Ed Suspicious]

25. It's too bad it brought out "America the Ugly", but I guess dragging the ugliness out into the

sunlight and giving it the once-over is the best way to pretty that ugly up.

[blackspade]

28. That was quite a take down.

Thanks for posting.

[spanone]

29. k&r...

[niyad]

30. k and r for truth--and a very courageous person.

[gLibDem]

31. I'm ashamed of our friends on the other side of the aisle.

[Thespian2]

32. Thanks

for posting a great response to the low-information right-wing-nuts. Truth will never change people holding the idea that American should belong only to whites.

[Fumesucker]

33. K&R for Brenda, well said

[Enthusiast]

35. She made the Righties® sound like a bunch of intolerant ignoramuses.

And it filled my heart with glee! [url=http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php][img][/img][/url] [url=http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php][img][/img][/url]

[bulloney]

36. They don't need her help to sound like a bunch of intolerant ignoramuses.

The outrage over the Coke ad is the result of around 25 years of RW hate radio and Faux Snooze empowering the ignorant. There was a time when these types of people knew their place and they kept low for fear of being shouted down and humiliated. Not anymore. Hell, they even run for political office and get elected.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

41. you've got to read Charles Pierce' s book,

"American Idiots" ( I might have the name a little off.)

I think you'd love it. i sure did....great book.

[calimary]

39. This is EXCELLENT!

Recommended. HIGHLY and enthusiastically!!!

[Raffi Ella]

43. Well, I'll be damned-

Straight from the Heart of Dixie no less. Gotta go send her an email in support cuz I know she's probably getting a lot of hate mail for that! haha, Thank You, Brenda Woods.