Rush Limbaugh Jul 16, 2020

The LA Times just ran a long piece by Jody Rosen in calling for a new national anthem.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The l A Times just ran a long piece by
Jody Rosen calling for a new national anthem. Now. He
notes at last month San Francisco protesters pulled down the
statue Francis Scott Key in Golden Gate Park. Scott Key
wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner that the
left now calls racist. Besides, very few singers can do

(00:23):
justice to that difficult too, and it's a British melody anyway,
so the anthem has to go. Now what should replace it? Well?
Mr Rosen claims that songs like lift Every Voice and
Sing and America the Beautiful out of step with the
twenty one century this Land is Your Land. That doesn't
cut it either, Rosen says, because it insults indigenous Americans,

(00:44):
even though it was written by Woody Guthrie, a big
loony lefty imagine by John Lennon. That's another British song
with drippy utopianism. Plus Lennon was super rich. So nobody
buys his day dream of a world with no possessions
because he would never get rid of his is. Well,
then what's the perfect song that should replace the Star
Spangled Banner? Rosen proposes Lean On Me by Bill withers

(01:07):
its messages I'll take care of you, you take care
of me. Everybody knows it, and everybody can sing it.
That's the kind of story we would laugh at twenty
years ago, but not anymore. This stuff can't be laughed off.
These people are dead serious, and don't rule out that
somebody of considerable weight is actually going to suggest this

(01:28):
someday down the road.