{"id":7297,"date":"2006-05-02T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T17:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2006-05-02T13:05:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T17:05:02","slug":"nuestro-himno-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/nuestro-himno-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nuestro Himno&#8217; madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael had a terrific <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7279.html\">guest post<\/a> yesterday on the bizarre controversy surrounding singing the [tag]national anthem[\/tag] in [tag]Spanish[\/tag], but I thought I&#8217;d add to it today by noting that when it comes to this issue, the Republicans have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/thehill\/export\/TheHill\/News\/Frontpage\/050206\/anthem.html\">just begun to fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) introduced a resolution yesterday calling for &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8221; and other traditional patriotic compositions to be recited or sung solely in English.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution states that the national anthem, the [tag]Pledge of Allegiance[\/tag] and other &#8220;statements or songs that symbolize the unity of the nation \u2026 should be recited or sung in [tag]English[\/tag], the common language of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) co-sponsored the bill, as did Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sens. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the Senate floor, Alexander worried aloud that &#8220;translating our national anthem will actually have the effect of dividing us.&#8221; As Atrios put it, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2006_04_30_atrios_archive.html#114657977409743537\">We are really living in stupid times<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How stupid? Well, for one thing, in 1919, the U.S. Bureau of Education <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/05\/02\/spanish-anthem\/\">commissioned<\/a> a Spanish-language version of &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner.&#8221; The State Department&#8217;s website also features four-separate versions of the anthem in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>For another, President [tag]Bush[\/tag] may have criticized a Spanish-language version of the anthem last week, but Candidate Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/05\/02\/bush-sing-spanish\/\">sang it quite frequently<\/a> in 2000 while on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>I realize it&#8217;s a xenophobic hot-button, but as culture wars go, this &#8220;Nuestro Himno&#8221; madness is a special kind of stupid.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>: Jon Secada apparently sang the national anthem <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/05\/02\/national-anthem-sung-in-spanish-at-first-bush-inaugural\/\">in English and Spanish<\/a> at Bush&#8217;s first inaugural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael had a terrific guest post yesterday on the bizarre controversy surrounding singing the [tag]national anthem[\/tag] in [tag]Spanish[\/tag], but I thought I&#8217;d add to it today by noting that when it comes to this issue, the Republicans have just begun to fight. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) introduced a resolution yesterday calling for &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}