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applegrove

(118,767 posts)
Tue Jul 23, 2013, 09:54 PM Jul 2013

"American singer Marc Anthony criticized for singing God Bless America while Latino"

American singer Marc Anthony criticized for singing God Bless America while Latino

by John Aravosis at americablog

http://americablog.com/2013/07/marc-anthony-god-bless-america.html

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America was traumatized by yet another incident of singing-while-Latino this week when New-York-born singer Marc Anthony, who is of Puerto Rican descent, sang God Bless America at a Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

I hate to have to even clarify this, but Puerto Rico is a part of the United States.

Here are only a few of the Tweets people wrote about Anthony singing:

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applegrove

(118,767 posts)
1. The GOP are like little kids: what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine. At what age do kids
Tue Jul 23, 2013, 09:56 PM
Jul 2013

get over that? Age 4 or so?

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
6. Not children. NAZIs.
Tue Jul 23, 2013, 10:47 PM
Jul 2013
A Fresh Look

Nazis and the Republican Party


by Carla Binion
Bartcop, sometime in 2000

Investigative reporter Christopher Simpson says in BLOWBACK that after World War II, Nazi émigrés were
given CIA subsidies to build a far-right-wing power base in the U.S. These Nazis assumed prominent positions
in the Republican Party's "ethnic outreach committees." Simpson documents the fact that these Nazis did not
come to America as individuals but as part of organized groups with fascist political agendas. The Nazi agenda
did not die along with Adolf Hitler. It moved to America (or a part of it did) and joined the far right of the
Republican Party.

Simpson shows how the State Department and the CIA put high-ranking Nazis on the intelligence payroll "for
their expertise in propaganda and psychological warfare," among other purposes. The most important Nazi
employed by the U.S. was Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's most senior eastern front military intelligence officer. After
Germany's defeat became certain, Gehlen offered the U.S. certain concessions in exchange for his own
protection. Gehlen promoted hyped up cold war propaganda on behalf of the political right in this country, and
helped shape U.S. perceptions of the cold war.

Journalist Russ Bellant (OLD NAZIS, THE NEW RIGHT, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY) shows that
Laszlo Pasztor, a convicted Nazi war collaborator, built the Republican émigré network. Pasztor, who served as
adviser to Republican Paul Weyrich, belonged to the Hungarian Arrow Cross, a group that helped liquidate
Hungary's Jews. Pasztor was founding chairman of the Republican Heritage Groups Council.

Two months before the November 1988 presidential election, a small newspaper, Washington Jewish Week,
disclosed that a coalition for the Bush campaign included a number of outspoken Nazis and anti-Semites. The
article prompted six leaders of Bush's coalition to resign.

According to Russ Bellant, Nazi collaborators involved in the Republican Party included:

1.Radi Slavoff, GOP Heritage Council's executive director, and head of "Bulgarians for Bush." Slavoff was a
member of a Bulgarian fascist group, and he put together an event in Washington honoring Holocaust
denier, Austin App.

2.Florian Galdau, director of GOP outreach efforts among Romanians, and head of "Romanians for Bush."
Galdau was once an Iron Guard recruiter, and he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Valerian Trifa.

3.Nicholas Nazarenko, leader of a Cossack GOP ethnic unit. Nazarenko was an ex-Waffen SS officer.

4.Method Balco, GOP activist. Balco organized yearly memorials for a Nazi puppet regime.

5.Walter Melianovich, head of the GOP's Byelorussian unit. Melianovich worked closely with many Nazi
groups.

6.Bohdan Fedorak, leader of "Ukrainians for Bush." Fedorak headed a Nazi group involved in anti-Jewish
wartime pogroms.

The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article on the Bush team's inclusion of Nazis (David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush
backer one of several with possible Nazi links," September 10, 1988.) The newspaper also ran an investigative
series on Nazi members of the Bush coalition. The article confirmed that the Bush team included members
listed by Russ Bellant.

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http://www.bartcop.com/nazigop.htm
 

giftedgirl77

(4,713 posts)
4. I love Marc Anthony & enjoyed listening to him
Tue Jul 23, 2013, 10:33 PM
Jul 2013

at the beginning of the game. Not only did I call this bullshit but I told my husband he should have sang it in spanish after he finished with the english version just to piss the racist pricks off.

I'm really losing my mind with this shit, someone's gonna cross me on the wrong day and end up with a fat lip & bloody nose.

wercal

(1,370 posts)
5. I went shopping on the 4th of July
Tue Jul 23, 2013, 10:34 PM
Jul 2013

And it was a madhouse...people with carts full of hot dogs, soda and other picnic fare. One group of men were speaking spanish to each other, and looked like they were probably migrant workers (I am in the construction industry and deal with them often). Their cart was like the others....all the picnic fare, and even some red white and blue napkins.

It made me strangely happy. They were 'participating' in our holiday...didn't see anything wrong with it - they probably are very happy being in this country, since they've found opportunity here. Why not celebrate with the rest of us...mostly descendents of immigrants.

The American dream should be open to all takers.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
9. I believe the operative term is not "Latino" or "Puerto Rican," but "New-York-born"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tue Jul 23, 2013, 11:03 PM
Jul 2013
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
13. Foxnews zombies like ballbase.
Tue Jul 23, 2013, 11:19 PM
Jul 2013

They barely understand the concept, no way would they know what a commonwealth is. No way in hell. Probably think he is a commie or terrorist.

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