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Lighting a fire

POSTED: Sunday, October 14, 2012, 9:09 PM

Jose Feliciano performed a rockin' version of the Star Spangled Banner tonight before the first game of the National League Championship Series (sigh) in San Francisco. It felt like closing a loop to watch it. In my first year as a baseball fan -- 1968, when I was 9 -- Feliciano was asked to sing the National Anthem before the World Series at Detroit's Tiger Stadium, and when he did his soulful, very non-tradional version, it caused a national uproar. This was the year of the RFK and MLK assassinations, the Tet offensive, and riots at the Democratic convention in Chicago, and now people thought the counter-culture was invading baseball. Nothing was safe!

You can read the fairly amazing backstory here. Now it's 2012, and no one says "boo" about the same version. A sign that we've come a long way, baby. Or is it...just San Francisco being San Francisco. The final bizarre kicker is that I suspect the Cardinals and Tigers will meet again in the World Series -- a 1968 re-match.

Programming note: I'm taking a well-deserved day off tomorrow. See you Tuesday for Debate Night in America.

Will Bunch @ 9:09 PM Permalink | 94 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:27 PM, 10/16/2012

So in one post, bp states there were no protests, period, without further elaboration, then in the next he specifies there were no protests at the time of the attack. Again, and the only way to counter these right wing bozos is to repeat yourself endlessly --- eyewitnesses testify to a gathering people outside the compound right before the attack. Initially they were thought to be protestors. Subsequent investigation leads to speculation they were most likely a cover. Perhaps the guards thought it was another protest, just like the previous ones, no need to be too alarmed; at least no need to be alarmed like one would be if they knew an attack was forthcoming. But of course bp doesn't care about no investigation, or the truth. He needs, NEEDS, to spin this into the idea it was a cover-up, and the administration lied. So in other words, bp thinks the administration should have had perfect foresight.

— Murrayman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:39 PM, 10/16/2012

"So in one post, bp states there were no protests, period, without further elaboration, then in the next he specifies there were no protests at the time of the attack."

I'm spinning? I stated (correctly) that there were NO protests at the consulate. Not leading up to the attack, not during the attack, not after. This was a coordinated, terrorist attack. There's no 2 ways about it. The protest you're clamoring to blame never took place at the consulate.

At this point, you've moved onto arguing against the WH and State Dept's latest official versions in order to save face. The Admin lied and did everything they could to not call this what it was...a terrorist attack. And like a good little minion, you continue to spew lies in order to deflect any blame or responsibility towards the Admin...even after they admit as much and completely change their story, you still feel compelled to push the BS that was already debunked. You're beyond pathetic.

So tell us, how do those boots taste, murry?

— bp*philly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:57 PM, 10/16/2012

So now we have bp stating that lied when they 'could not call it what it was...a terrorist attack". Oops, wrong again, bp. Completely and utterly and completely wrong. The article you posted stated, correctly, that there were no protests from the citizenry around the compound. There had been protests in the area in the days previous. Again, the article stated no protests THAT NIGHT. But there were eyewitness accounts of a gathering of people, that turned out to be attackers. So what we see is great deception used from the attackers. So the admin. puts out a statement that turns out to be inaccurate, changes their statement based upon new information -- and its used politically from bp and his ilk to suggest the admin. lied. But oh look the admin. has taken responsibility. President Obama just said he is responsible. But of course bp is insinuating that he and his right wing cronies have a special insight, and anyone who calls them out is a minion, and a boot licker. phish even suggests we are paid operators. Can't make this up. The paranoid androids are attacking.

— Murrayman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:32 AM, 10/17/2012

Your story has been as fluid as this admin's has been...constantly changing shapes to accomodate your overabundance of contradictions. And you lap it all up like a dumb dog.

The perfect dupe...completely arrogant and completely stupid. You're a total boot-licker, murry.

— bp*philly

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