Those darn conservatives have such a knack for making the silly seem serious. The latest thing to put their BVD's in a big right-cheek bunch was the Coca-Cola commercial during the Super Bowl. The song America The Beautiful was rendered in various languages, only one of which was English.
For reasons known only to themselves, Conservative America went absolutely ape-shit over this sacrilege, this affront to decency, this liberal attack on Mom, Christianity, baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and the good ol' U.S. of A. How dare they sing in a "foreign" language?
Rush Limbaugh did his usual dyspeptic, angry fat man routine, saying that Coke products must now have "labels in ten different languages."
Glenn Beck rose from the dead to declare the purpose of the ad "is to divide us."
Radio twit Laura Ingraham tweeted, "But illegals will learn English, right?"
Some douchebag on Breitbart.com declared that Coke "used that iconic song, that represents the old E Pluribus Unum view of American integration, to push multiculturalism down our throats." (Oh, wait. E Pluribus Unum. That's friggin' Latin, isn't it? Oops.)
I liked Stephen Colbert's in-character quip: "They were singing 'America The Beautiful' in foreign-talk! Only English can give that song its certain je ne sais quoi."
But I'll give the last word to young son Buster, Jr. He put it this way: "Thank god this country is full of intolerant pricks. We need things to laugh at."
You tell 'em, Boyo!
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