Patriotic songs that pissed you off.

[Dangerman]

Name any "patriotic" song that really peeves you.

My two cents...

"God Bless America"
"God Bless the U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood

[AspenRose]

1. The "boot in your ass because it's the American Way" song.

Toby Keith

[greekspeak]

22. Seconded

All it made me want to do was to stick a boot in Toby Keith's ass.

[Joe Fields]

30. and thirded.

Battle Hymn of the Republic also comes to mind.

[bdamomma]

2. those songs are irrelevant right now

we are no shining beacon no more, unless we get this man out of office.

[SteppingRazor]

3. "Have you Forgotten" by Darryl Worley

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[dogday]

4. They don't piss me off

I love those songs.. It is just a shame that our country has been hijacked and our freedoms which we sing about trampled upon...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Maybe not to some,

but to me, Green Beret-because I'm always remembering the John Wayne turkey about how wonderful Viet Nam was.

[Duer 157099]

6. Nowadays? ALL of them

I can barely stand being at events where they are sung anymore, it's so hypocritical it's beyond sickening

[cdb]

7. America: We stand as one

see it here if you dare

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AIaeAtus5jU

:puke:

[CornField]

20. LOL!

That's actually the best laugh I've had all week! Thanks!

I especially like the surf coming in as an American flag and the flashback to the firefighter/child photo from the OKC bombing.

Major cheese... :D

[cdb]

26. Then you'll probably like this obscenity laden parody too....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R1cSngpUiow&search=america%20fuck%20yeah

[CornField]

37. OMG!!

:rofl:

[C_U_L8R]

8. "I'm a freeper, you're a freeper"

"wouldn't cha like to be a freeper too"


(the answer is no.. hell no)

[Touchdown]

10. LOL! My baloney has a first name...

It's F-R-E-E-P. My baloney has a second name it's E-R-ONE-ONE-EXCLAMATION POINT.:rofl:

[Daphne08]

9. What's your problem with patriotic songs, may I ask...

[expatriot]

13. God BLESS America....

I have always thought to be a little selfish. We have it pretty damn good in comparison to a lion's share of the world's people and if you're going to ask God to bless a land and/or a people, why not ask Him to bless Africa or East Asia or Latin America.

[Dangerman]

Well...

Ever since we invaded Iraq in 2003, I believed God bless America is like God bless the Nazis.

Everybody knows that we should have not invaded in the first place and these "patriotic" songs I believed saying that God still bless the aggressor. I don't believe that God blessed aggressor armies, like the Nazis before them, and George Bush and his delusional vision that suggests that God still bless America even if it committed heinous war crimes.

I am a little paranoid about "God Bless America" but I am right about spitting at "God Bless the U.S.A." for it's hypocritical lyrics and the suggestion that God only bless America and not anywhere else.

I am more ashamed of being an American these days then "proud".

[Robbie Michaels]

11. ???

Patriotic songs don't piss me off. It's the false patriots who wrap themselves in the American flag and call the rest of us traitors who do. That's why I'm taking the flag back. It's ours.

[Touchdown]

12. Greenwood's song is sickening...always was.

Sooooooo schmaltzy. so la-di-da. So syrupy. So plasticly jingoistic I need a shower after Malloy plays it as a joke.:puke:

[The Great Escape]

16. My Biggest Problem With That Song Was...

in my boot camp days back in the eighties...we had to perform "Extra Military Instruction (punishment doled out in the form of calisthentics)," with that song blaring. I associate that song with bad memories!

[Touchdown]

35. See the USA in your Chevrolet.

America's the greatest land of all"...

It's perfect for our country. Crass commercialism meets cold war jingoism.:puke:

[dogday]

14. Yes, let's make the Democrats

look like the unpatriotic party shall we... Isn't that the platform the republicans are running on?

It is all our fault for not conforming to the war and the country and the President...

It is not the songs, it is the Administration that pisses us off.. It is not the soldiers, it is the war that pisses us off....

[cdb]

15. Maudlin jingoistic crapola does not equal patriotism n/t

[dogday]

23. No it doesn't that was the point of my

post... It is not the songs that are the problem... If we are going to pissed, it is at the issues, not the tunes....

[cdb]

24. It is the issues

but why should we have to hear these stupid songs??

[dogday]

25. I like the songs, the words ring hollow

right now for me cause my son fights in Iraq and this Administration had made such a mess of our country.....

[cdb]

28. I am too cynical, I guess, to respond to the words, I imagine

you must be pretty burnt out on hollow rhetoric as well... best wishes to you and your child in Iraq...

[dogday]

31. Thank you, I hope one day

America will be a better place for all of us... With greed and power as foes, it is hard to take her back.....

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

All of them. Nationalistic crap.

"Patriotism is the most foolish of passions, and the passion of fools." - Schopenhaur

[MindPilot]

17. I really hate that medley of military anthems

Halls of Montezuma flows into Wild Blue Yonder which blends with Anchors Away...it is blasphemy

[porphyrian]

18. What's the one they drug out during reagan's reign...

...that sounds like an Amway convention intro? That one.

[The Great Escape]

19. Here Is One That Makes Me Laugh!

Freedom Isn't Free
by Team America
album:
What would you do
If you were asked to give up your dreams for freedom
What would you do
If asked to make the ultimate sacrifice

Would you think about all them people
Who gave up everything they had.
Would you think about all them War Vets
And would you start to feel bad

Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?

What would you do
If someone told you to fight for freedom.
Would you answer the call
Or run away like a little pussy
'Cause the only reason that you're here.
Is 'cause folks died for you in the past
So maybe now it's your turn
To die kicking some ass

Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
Now there's a have to hook'in fee
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?

You don't throw in your buck 'o five. Who will?
Oooh buck 'o five
Freedom costs a buck 'o five

[otherlander]

29. *sigh* I will NEVER understand that Price-of-freedom thing...

I mean, really, all nations have wars, not just free ones. Most wars are unnecessary, but the 'necessary' ones are needed to preserve ALL governments, free or oppressive... If anything, the price of freedom is the freedom of those who you disagree with.

[MADem]

21. I actually get a huge, sick kick out of

John Ashcroft's "Let the Eagle Soar." It cracks me up. http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html

Of course, when the eagle flies, that means you are spending your paycheck. I suppose when it soars, that means you are racking up the credit card debt. And I guess the damn eagle is soaring all over the place, from the gas station, to the real estate tax office, to the grocery store. And crapping all over us at it flies by!

[greekspeak]

27. That song is so REPUBLICANNY

A bloated, fundivangelical middle aged money grubbing white guy belting out (AWEFULLY) a series of empty platitudes and various and sundry schmalz-laden gibble gabble. I think my poodle could do better, both as writer and singer. :eyes:

[NVMojo]

32. I hate "God Bless America". All I can think of is the Native Americans

who were slaughtered to get "God" here.

[onecent]

33. When I first heard the song by Alan Jackson, "Where were you" or

something to that affect...I about puked...cuz I knew then the damn thing was planned. I knew it that day...just the way the buildings fell. (or didn't fall)...

My husband was getting all teary eyed and I wanted to puke! He is not aware that I think the 9/11 event was LIHOP OR MIHOP..BUT it certainly changed America into bushyworld.

[LiberalEsto]

34. Just 1 line from America the Beautiful...

"God shed His grace on thee"

I'd greatly prefer "God shed His/Her/Its/Its Noodliness's grace on thee."

[BlooInBloo]

36. Anything by toby keith.