I was gobsmacked today to discover that the RWNJs believe this is their country and only their country. Kind of late to this discovery but we leftists aren’t too bright.

Oh, for what the fuck hell by goddamn, these people are nuttier than squirrel poop.

I just laughed out loud at those comments. These people are pathetic.

PATHETIC.

Good thing they didn’t use a quote from a real communist song, like this:

Who more than self their country lov’d,
And mercy more than life.

Mercy? Bleeding fucking hearts. Might as well go around promotin’ the general welfare or some other commie thing.

Parody falls further behind reality.

Fuck those anti-American fuckers.

You’re just now finding out you aren’t really a true American? I’ve known it for years, and considering the looks of the denizens of the local Walmart (good Americans all, no doubt) I don’t find this all that much of a burden, truth to tell.

And that commie songwriter was probably gay to boot. I’m surprised there haven’t been calls for Springsteen to be tried for treason, since a few of his songs have to do robbing banks and rotten capitalists.

Doesn’t she have a house to hose down, or insurance claims to file, or something. Or did the Spaghetti Monster spare her domicile?

“This Land Is Your Land”…In 2002, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

Commies.

It’s hard to run fireworks through the intarwebz. But I guess these maroons would try it.

I bet someone could create a foundation, say called, “American Flag Appreiciation Association” dedicated to “making sure American Flags made in China are treated respectfully” and make a decent living off of it.

Heck, all you’d have to do is write a few letters to Chinese flag makers and you’re golden. I can see there are plenty of donors out there.

Michelle, who’s always carping about the government, has been screeching about the lack of air tankers to fight *their* fire in Colorado Springs, it’s FEMA to the rescue.

Heh, heh.

Hypocrite.

Yea Ol Woody was that bastard the new dealers hired to write all those songs glorifying the dams on the Columbia. See “Roll on Columbia”. You know the commie dams that allowed us to build all of those Bombers and fighters in WWII? Fucking commies

I was wondering if any wingnuts were going to lose it over this Doodle, and figured they probably would. Then again, I go through that same thought process with every Doodle.

Why is it that wingnuts are in a raging rush to get butt fucked by people who would squish them like bugs in a millisecond? I mean, most of these righties are not themselves numbered among the ‘elites’ to whom they suck up.

Woody weren’t no commie. Pete Seeger on the other hand was blackisted ’cause he told HUAC to go fuck themselves.

GAAaa this pissed me off. I was going to santorum the google for my fav porn sites an all I git is Woody! I kneejerked my keyboard into the kittylitter box and when I tried to catch it I gashed by head on the desk cause my pants were around my ankles. Ended up freeridin in the ER cause the exwife narked on my disability scam an my daddy took my insurance away.

Sigh. Freedom is just another word fer….I dunno, whatever the hell I wanna do. God bless Amurica.

Woody would walk among these idiots and BEAT THE LIVING HELL OUT OF THEM WITH HIS GUITAR AND HIS BARE FISTS.

You win the internet.

I’m confused. If, according to the wingtards, this land is in fact not “your land and my land,” then just whose land is it supposed to be, exactly? It’d be real nice to have a shortlist of the “real Americans” who apparently have dibs on it all — that’d really help make the rest of us feel all patriotic and proud and shit. Then perhaps we can start editing other pseudo-fascist bullshit like the pledge of allegiance to start “Your nation, under Dog…”

We’ll wait til Google tells us which side they’re on. Then, the Right will learn history’s lessons.

Or, as Woody told us, Jesus Christ!

It’d be real nice to have a shortlist of the “real Americans” who apparently have dibs on it all

In my neck-o-duh-woods it seems the Scandinavians are the real Americans who own the quarry mines. Could be the Scandinavians are the real Americans mining/shipping all that coal to China from WY and MT.

I’m OK with this because the Scandinavians are white-skinned and jesus is smiling on them.

Just another *facepalm* moment from the loonz.

TBogg, have a great Bassett of a 4th and thanks for the snark.

On we trudge.

For the entire month, too. It WAS good.

This search engine kills fascists!

So does that mean they hate the pledge of allegiance too? Wait’ll they get a load of the original salute to the flag.

i’m sorry to say that a dyed in the wool democrat sent me this today.

greenwarrior, he must really hate you.

Well, SyFy channell is running an appropriately patriotic Twilight Zone marathon. Currently showing is ‘To Serve Man’ which is obviously a cautionary allegory about the Affordable Care Act. Or maybe about a dinner party at the Cheney house. It cuts both ways.

Should have been a line from the Star Spangled Banner. Francis Scott Key was a real American. Who can forget his stirring words in U.S. v. Reuben Crandall:

“Are you willing, gentlemen, to abandon your country, to permit it to be taken from you, and occupied by the abolitionist, according to whose taste it is to associate and amalgamate with the negro? Or, gentlemen, on the other hand, are there laws in this community to defend you from the immediate abolitionist, who would open upon you the floodgates of such extensive wickedness and mischief?”

Now there is something we can celebrate! Take our country back! Also, too!

A toast to Woody and to all REAL patriots.

Democracy Now had a special today about Woody Guthrie and I guess he got tired of listening to Kate Smith singing “God Bless America” on the radio so he wrote this song. At least that is what was reported. I guess ass-face Malkin heard the program.

Watch their little heads explode

I suppose that when these wingnuts figure out that Emma Lazarus was a Jew that they’ll blow up the Statue of Liberty. This nadir of “stoopid” should be a felony.

They came close enough back in ’03 when they found out the Statue of Liberty was French.

Pete and Bruce were great at the inauguration. “on the other side it didn’t say nothin’. that side was made for you and me.” See they dont steal it from us.

So why do we never hear this song on July 4? We get Ludwig Van and the 1812 Overture, lots of J. P. Sousa, who is at least a murrican, and Lee Greenwood. Something is wrong with this picture, and I have been watching it for several hours now.

They prefer the old classic “This Land is MY Land and ONLY my land and You Can Fuck Right the Hell Off!” It’s real avant-garde, you know? Lots of screaming.

They actually did play “This Land” at the local fireworks show tonight. After reading about all this right-winger bullshit beforehand, I was quite pleased.

I was waiting to find out if the valiant individualists in the Springs had waved away those socialist firefighters, but they couldn’t be fooled. They know that the correct response is to keep sucking that teat with one face while the other continues to rail against the Nanny State.

What really matters is keeping the gravy away from those who need it.

Well played, Colorado Springs! You’re a credit to your faith.

This search engine kills fascists.

If, according to the wingtards, this land is in fact not “your land and my land,” then just whose land is it supposed to be, exactly?

Most of them seem to yearn to be serfs of some powerful lord or corporation, and piss their pants unless they are ensconced in a clear heirarchy, with everyone conforming demonstrating loyalty and obedience to those above. The idea of common heritage fills them with fear.

Revised lyric:

“This land was made for me and . Fuck you.”

I admit to being surprised by this google doodle.

They shoulda make the guitar playable,

like each time you click it moves through the songs chords ;D

Woody said that Jesus Christ was a communist, that’s good enough for them. (And he did say that, and he was right.)

They hate some of the later verses

As I was walkin’ – I saw a sign there
And that sign said – no tresspassin’
But on the other side …. it didn’t say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Chorus

In the squares of the city – In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office – I see my people
And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’
If this land’s still made for you and me.

I don’t know their reaction when Seeger sang these lyrics at the Inauguration. But I can easily imagine.

I hate God Bess America, too. I’m glad they finally stopped playing it during the 7th inning stretch.

“I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own songs and to sing the kind that knock you down farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you’ve not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I’d starve to death before I’d sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.” — Woody Guthrie

Ssh! Don’t tell the Twitchy crowd that the Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist!

“I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own songs and to sing the kind that knock you down farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you’ve not got any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I’d starve to death before I’d sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.” — Woody Guthrie

Sheezus Gaud, that’s beautiful.

And it’s still true today. If you want a career supporting the rich you can always find someone to pay you. Students in top programs are offered internships and all sorts of opportunities to make money and form lucrative connections. All people have to do is enthusiastically praise and abet the rich.

Bound For Glory was just on tv and in the movie Guthrie said he had to be with “the people” because if you separate yourself from them you get lost. The rich have throughly separated themselves from the poor and now they tell themsleves that the poor are scum who deserve to suffer.

People used to be desperate enough to fight to help the poor and for their rights. If the poor and marginalized people don’t have rights than none of us have rights. We just haven’t gotten in the way of the rich yet and so don’t realize it. The first time we tried to stop them, whether through boycotts, political action or violence, we would learn different, just as the Occupy protesters learned that they only have the rights that the people in power will let them have.

Oh, sh*t. Why don’t these people just move to TX or FL and secede! Given the fact that they’re a tax drain on the blue states, we’d all be better off.

I am so disappointed…I used google a few times yesterday and I did not get this Doodle. I would have wasted even more time following links if I had. Lots of programs about Woody yesterday…either it was his 100th birthday or it’s another day this week…I’m not certain and (shock) haven’t googled it.
Thanks for reproducing it, even tho’ I don’t get any audio, at least I get to see it.

I could only get to halfway thru the first chorus before realizing my life was being wasted. Zowie, that is awful — awful in banality, which means it would never cut the mustard as a national anthem. The national anthems I am familiar with — ours, “O Canada”, “God Save the (Monarch Gender Currently Applicable)”, “The Marseillaise”, “Deutschland Uber Alles” have, if nothing else, a degree of human oomph.

I can’t imagine anyone being in the least thrilled by that piece of draggy overproduced tripe. It sounds like it was written under contract.

Just imagine you’re watching “Casablanca”, and you get to the scene at Rick’s where the Nazi officers are throwing their weight around, and the exiled French cabaret singer is suddenly overcome by grieving patriotism … and imagine she launches into “Because my naaaame…is Fraaaance…” (those who haven’t gotten out of the comfy boat to listen to the thing greenwarrior’s Democrat friend linked to will have to imagine a burro yawning protractedly at this point.)

Uh-uh.

Col. Strasse and his boys could immediately have responded with “Schatzi, Schatzi, Don’t Get Hooked on Me” and won World War II right then and there.

Also, what tech98@40 and SusanofTX @49 said. Woody was a free man. That is something that many people find fundamentally frightening and unacceptable.

I can understand why rwnj feel betrayed, especially since they were so chummy with google after they sponsored cpac.

Twit Rene V Rivero writes: Google’s “doodle” salutes a song composed by a communist because he hated “God Bless America”

Irving Berlin didn’t much care for it either– he wrote it for a Army musical review in 1917, but didn’t use it the review (probably thought there was something a little too wet in the lyrics, hee hee).

Twenty years later, he dredged it up, dusted it off, and threw it out the door in response to a request from Kate Smith’s manager to give her something patriotic to sing for the twentieth anniversary of Armistice Day.

Big Deal, So What.

And I’m not aware of Woody Guthrie having ever joined up with the Communist Party USA, as his pal Pete Seeger did in the thirties (Pete, for that matter “drifted away” from the CPUSA in the late forties).

Personally, I wouldn’t mind if the current national anthem was shitcanned, preferably in favor of, say, “America the Beautiful”, which actually has a melody most folks can sing (unlike the Star-Spangled Banner’s stolen English drinking song melody).

Sorry, Izzy. I guess I don’t think much of your song either.

Also, as an aside, laugh all you want, but the best ballgame rendition of the Star Spangled Banner I’ve heard continues to be that of Toni Tennille.

Jesus Christ.

Whoops, he fed the multitudes. He was a communist, too.

John Denver, a cappella. Pure as an angel.

This rendition was a trip to be at.

http://boingboing.net/2010/07/08/the-grateful-dead-si.html

Those people are really stupid. And the wing-nut blowhards in the thread that followed it.

Anybody remember when Jim Watt refused to have any of the songs Woody wrote for the Columbia River project at the 50th anniversary? Again, it was because Woody was a commie.

Wish the version of Grand Coulee Dam by Dylan and the Band at the 1968 Carnegie Hall concert for Woody Guthrie was online but this version of “I Ain’t Got No Home” is pretty kickin’
http://youtu.be/3CmV4aSZNf8

Grateful Dead singing it a capella before one of the games of the 1989 World Series (the earthquake Series).

Fuck me, that’s three times I’ve been told that the singer delivered it “a cappella”, as if that is a sort of imprimatur of legitimacy or something, and it’s starting to piss me off.

Listen to me and listen carefully: Every singer delivering the National Anthem at a fucking baseball stadium is delivering it a capella.

Sorry. It’s just really irritating. And by the way, Bobby Weir is still tone deaf. He’s all over the fucking map in the audio you provide. Sad, really, Singing is an acquired skill, but he never got it.

While I try to cool down from being Mr Fucking Crankypants Singing Nazi, let me say that I agree about John Denver. A great classic Irish Tenor of a voice, and well deployed in the service of the impossible Star Spangled Banner.

Sorry about the rant.

The thing I find hilarious, I was just reading that Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Limbaugh all gush about how much them LOVE Bruce Springsteen, and “Born In The U.S.A.” Limbaugh even openly claimed to know the lyrics! New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is hurt because Springsteen won’t even speak to him. I wonder how THEY felt about Woodie Guthrie.

gmoke writes: Jim Watt refused to have any of the songs Woody wrote for the Columbia River project at the 50th anniversary

Thank you and that takes me back: James Watt is famous for having declared that the Beach Boys attracted “the wrong element” to the Independence Day concert on the mall in DC, and instead booked the more wholesome vegas lounge reptile Wayne Newton, who I suppose Watt believed attracted “the right element.”

Wayne Newton was soundly booed when he took the stage, and so was the clueless James Watt, who was in addition awarded a plaster foot with a hole in it by members of the white house staff. To top it all off, Ron and Nancy both said that they actually quite liked the Beach Boys, and apologized for the deeply abiding stupidity of the dunceboy Watt.

Plans were made to shoot him out of a cannon for the ’84 festivities, but alas, James Watt resigned in late ’83, in the wake of his appallingly racist comments to the US Chamber of Commerce (“I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.”).

Watt absolutely despised environmentalists and environmental scientists; You might think that this would be sort of a handicap for the Secretary of the Interior, a man charged with looking after the environment, but, well, you’d be wrong, you stupid tree hugging commie.

Finally, the little shit was indicted on 25 counts of felony perjury and obstruction of justice in 1995, for actions he performed as a lobbyist in the late eighties, and bargained out to a single misdemeanor count for which he paid a fine of $5000 and performed 500 hours of community service, and I’d give anything to know just how useless that service was.

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, in the meantime, was honored by the legislature of the great state of Washington, which declared his composition “Roll On, Columbia, Roll On” to be the official state folk song in 1987.

That’s two for Woody, by the way. As you might expect, the state of Oklahoma had similarly adopted Guthrie composition “Oklahoma Hills.”

Guess I’m not having much trouble deciding which of these two people is the more patriotic.

Yeah, but when they segued into the 15-minute solo, Weir laid back and let Jerry … Wait, was I peaking? Actually, it was a lovely moment of mutual acceptance, baseball and the Dead, and I remember enjoying it thoroughly (on TV) — besides, no cappellae were permanently damaged.

Yeah, okay, very good, Petesh, and to all Dead fans, I’m sorry for making fun of the band about which I once said “sorry, there’s not enough acid on the fucking planet to make me appreciate these dull bastards.”

Oh dammit, I just did it again, didn’t I– Shut UP, ChrisV, just shut up.

Well, I confess to having seen the Dead (at Ally Pally in London, back in the day) on an occasion when it was clear that their drugs were much better than mine. But then I have also seen them when, if anything, the reverse was true — and some of what I heard, to my ears, leaked into the recording. This sentiment seems appropriate …

Fair enough, and I am well rebuked, petesh.

And well reminded, and God knows I needed it, that I still do indeed believe in the magic that can set you free.

Tom reminds us, in his tag for the weekly “random ten Itunes” post, that “your favorite band sucks,” to underscore the personal nature of musical appreciation, and I hereby award all Dead fans the opportunity to make fun of the mincing and prancing of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull, which recorded and toured “Thick As A Brick” forty years ago this summer, which concert is one the most memorable of my lifetime.

Have at it, deadheads!

Kumbaya (Soweto Gospel Choir)

Fish, barrel, not sportin’

Hah!

Not the first time I’d seen the band by the way– in the late sixties, I lined up to see the Moody Blues at the Pasadena Civic, and they were carting around a full orchestra and a couple of new English bands no one had heard of with really silly names– “Jethro Tull” and “Led Zeppelin”.

By the time the Moodies finally hit the stage, at around midnight, the audience was pretty much worn out by the performances of the warmup talent, and barely was able to muster any applause for the boys. But we did, they were magnificent.

Good times, good times.

The Moodies were the first band I ever saw in a club, the Marquee — with Denny Laine and before “Go Now” when they were still doing Sonny Boy Williamson and James Brown covers, roughly as documented on their first album “The Magnificent …” I was never able to stomach the orchestral/synth stuff myself, but hey I didn’t have to, there was plenty more around.

These damned, durty Goopers are TRULY intellectually, morally, tempermentally and spiritually RETARDED – YES I’m using that word.