WEBVTT - Rush Limbaugh Jul 16, 2020

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<v Speaker 1>The l A Times just ran a long piece by

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<v Speaker 1>Jody Rosen calling for a new national anthem. Now. He

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<v Speaker 1>notes at last month San Francisco protesters pulled down the

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<v Speaker 1>statue Francis Scott Key in Golden Gate Park. Scott Key

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<v Speaker 1>wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner that the

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<v Speaker 1>left now calls racist. Besides, very few singers can do

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<v Speaker 1>justice to that difficult too, and it's a British melody anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>so the anthem has to go. Now what should replace it? Well?

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<v Speaker 1>Mr Rosen claims that songs like lift Every Voice and

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<v Speaker 1>Sing and America the Beautiful out of step with the

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<v Speaker 1>twenty one century this Land is Your Land. That doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>cut it either, Rosen says, because it insults indigenous Americans,

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<v Speaker 1>even though it was written by Woody Guthrie, a big

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<v Speaker 1>loony lefty imagine by John Lennon. That's another British song

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<v Speaker 1>with drippy utopianism. Plus Lennon was super rich. So nobody

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<v Speaker 1>buys his day dream of a world with no possessions

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<v Speaker 1>because he would never get rid of his is. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>then what's the perfect song that should replace the Star

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<v Speaker 1>Spangled Banner? Rosen proposes Lean On Me by Bill withers

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<v Speaker 1>its messages I'll take care of you, you take care

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<v Speaker 1>of me. Everybody knows it, and everybody can sing it.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the kind of story we would laugh at twenty

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<v Speaker 1>years ago, but not anymore. This stuff can't be laughed off.

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<v Speaker 1>These people are dead serious, and don't rule out that

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<v Speaker 1>somebody of considerable weight is actually going to suggest this

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<v Speaker 1>someday down the road.