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From John Whitehouse's Media Matters blog:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/04/watch-a-local-anchorwoman-destroy-conservative/197912
Many conservatives lashed out at Coca-Cola for their Super Bowl advertisement featuring a multilingual rendition of "America the Beautiful." Fox contributor Allen West declared that America is "on the road to perdition," Fox host Eric Bolling complained that it was wrong to use America the Beautiful, and someone at Breitbart News even wrote that the ad shows America is "no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution." And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
But anchorwoman Brenda Wood of WXIA in Atlanta demolished these myths in her segment 'Brenda's Last Word.' Wood explained how diversity is what America is built on, citing Emma Lazarus' sonnet 'The New Colossus' on the Statue of Liberty. Wood also touched on the absurdity of nativists rallying around a language from another country, and she pointed out the identity of the woman who wrote the words to 'America the Beautiful.'
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alsame
(7,784 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)She's probably getting death threats. More power to you, Ms. Wood !
Phentex
(16,334 posts)I guess the boycott of Georgia is over?
3catwoman3
(24,055 posts)...pretty much said it all. Bravo, Brenda!
blue neen
(12,328 posts)lark
(23,160 posts)I didn't know that American the Beautiful was written by a gay woman professor - cool!
FreeState
(10,584 posts)lark
(23,160 posts)SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I caught that.
I wish she had said, "... It's outrageous that anyone would sing 'America the Beautiful' in anything other than 'American' ... Frankly, I see the root of the problem here ..."
old guy
(3,283 posts)Polk Co. Wi. passing a resolution making english the official language here by a vote of 13-9. Sigh.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)grandparents and great-grandparents. But it was German or Norwegian, so it doesn't matter.
Same shit is happening on this side of the St. Croix.
http://www.startribune.com/local/north/99283739.html
Cha
(297,763 posts)about themselves because they're obviously lacking in self-esteem.
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)more right wing heads popping.
I also didn't know that about Bates so I looked her up on Wikipedia and found this
"A lifelong, active Republican, Bates broke with the party to endorse Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis in 1924 because of Republican opposition to American participation in the League of Nations. She said: "Though born and bred in the Republican camp, I cannot bear their betrayal of Mr. Wilson and their rejection of the League of Nations, our one hope of peace on earth."
heaven05
(18,124 posts)YOU GO GIRL!!!!! Smack those sanctimonious jerks back to the 19century.
calimary
(81,519 posts)Wonderful points she makes. And - horror of horrors - the lyrics of "America the Beautiful" were written by a gay woman. SHEESH!!! Haters gotta hate, I guess, and they prove themselves to be rather UN-American, don't they!?!
Gothmog
(145,631 posts)The news person did a great job
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)She has class, kindness and intelligence.
I am proud she is a fellow Georgian!
bullsnarfle
(254 posts)She really knocked that one outta the park! Thanks for posting it, highplainsdem!
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)Vinca
(50,313 posts)I bet she's now on the receiving end of the culture of hate.
BlackX-068
(86 posts)English...England. Native American....American. History doesn't matter to these right wing idiots. Cowards to be frank.
toby jo
(1,269 posts)still can't get over how anyone could derive hatred from it.
groundloop
(11,527 posts)It's not a poll, but I'm sure Ms. Woods would appreciate some positive feedback.
http://www.11alive.com/news/lastword/default.aspx
marias23
(379 posts)(just kidding). Its still colored sugar water and I won't drink it. No matter what the commercial was just that - a commercial designed to get you to like and BUY the product. I will drink just about ANYTHING BUT COKE....
Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)Loved it.
riversedge
(70,322 posts)to see this grand pushback.
Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)Wrote "America the Beautiful."
I say Kathy Bates plays her in a Bio-pic!
And Brenda is my Hero. I say the bio-pic starts with this news clip and Brenda Wood is played by Wanda Sykes! Hello Hollywood? A different story for you to do!
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