This Is Getting Embarrassing

This is the first and last time I will address the phony, stupid issue of foreign-language versions of the National Anthem. Aside from the fact that it scores a perfect 10 on the "Who gives a fuck?" meter, it's a textbook case of the White House playing to their angry, anti-immigrant base, in open defiance of their past "compassionate conservative" roots.

Not only was a Spanish version of The Star-Spangled Banner, not only are there Yiddish and Polish translations of the song (shout-out to my heritage), not only did Kevin Phillips write in his book American Dynasty about Candidate Bush singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Spanish, but now we learn that Jon Secada sang the Spanish version at the President's inaugural ceremony in 2001.

The most surprising thing about all of this is that Jon Secada sung at the White House. But it was before 9/11, a simpler time...

The message here is, don't hype up a fake issue to play to your base if all of these hypocritical statements and incidents are going to come crawling out of the past. It makes you look like a real, er, douchebag. And 68% of the country agrees.