Texas cheerleaders honor 9/11 with routine set to music, panicky phone calls, and news reports

[RandySF]

A video uploaded to the Internet on Facebook and YouTube on Friday has been viewed over 18 million times and shows a cheerleading squad at a Texas high school performing a tribute to the victims of 9/11 accompanied by patriotic music interspersed with panicked phone calls from the day along with snippets of President George W. Bush addressing the nation.

Crystalynn Petoskey, a student at Lumberton High School, uploaded a video of the routine to Facebook on Friday, writing, “Cheerleaders 9/11 routine. So good, it’ll make you cry.”

The routine begins with some cheerleaders being held aloft to Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to Be An America” only to begin tumbling and doing gymnastic flips as audio describing the Twin Towers collapsing is played.

The bizarre routine ended on an unsurprising patriotic note with the cheerleaders holding up the letters U-S-A.


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/watch-texas-cheerleaders-honor-911-with-routine-set-to-music-panicky-phone-calls-and-news-reports/comments/

[Monk06]

1. What's next, 9/11 The Musical ? Criminy

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

13. Followed by "The Iraq War....on ice!"

Word is, the skater playing Saddam does a mean triple axel.

[Skittles]

2. I know they thought they were honoring......something

but I must say, it is so terribly misguided and endorsed by so many people you have to wonder....WTF is going on

[Fast Walker 52]

8. I dunno-- I thought it kind of worked

If nothing else, it was seriously American heartland material.

[Scootaloo]

3. Well... they... tried, I guess?

[Human101948]

4. Honoring the real lesson of 9/11!

Rah rah rah America! Now let' go to war!

[frylock]

10. +1

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I'm sitting here wondering just how tasteless this could be,

but I can't bring myself to click to find out.

[Fast Walker 52]

7. I hate that song but this was actually an impressive and oddly moving performance.

Even brought a tear to my eye.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. The next remake of "The Producers"? nt

[Javaman]

9. as I wrote on another site...

if anyone knows bullshit jingoism, it's texas.

I live in Austin.

[HughBeaumont]

11. Several people on my FB feed linked to that.

I'm probably right in not wanting to entertain that sort of thing.

It just seemed like it would be a deluded exercise in bad taste and massively inappropriate.

[tabasco]

12. Sounds absolutely barf-inspiring

"gymnastic flips as audio describing the Twin Towers collapsing is played"