Hannity radio themesong writer donates royalties of *that song*to Planned Parenthood in Palin's name

[underpants]

With the images of the red, white, and blue, Sean Hannity’s show begins with a stirring anthem of patriotic freedom sure to stir the hearts of those “great American” patriots who live in the ghetto known as Hannity’s America. Martina McBride’s strong voice soars with words that seem to put fear the fear of God into those who would dare to challenge the pure vision of America according to the gospel of Sean Hannity: “let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning. Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong roll the stone away, let the guilty pay, it’s independence day.” But there’s heresy in the land. Not only is this not a song about patriotism, the song writer is donating royalties to Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin’s name. Is Sean Hannity an accomplice to this blasphemy?

Does Hannity know that the writer of the song, Gretchen Peters, will be contributing royalties, from this song, to that bastion of all that is wrong with the world – Planned Parenthood – the place that, according to Hannity’s “pal,” Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is genociding black babies and being aided in that genocide by the U.S. Government! (Comment: Neglecting, of course, the comprehensive health care which PPFA provides for women of all ages.) Peters, like so many of the women that John McCain was hoping to woo with the selection of rabid anti choice Sarah Palin for Vice-President, feels that her song is being used for the wrong reasons: "They are co-opting the song, completely overlooking the context and message, and using it to promote a candidate who would set women's rights back decades," Peters said. The song is not, as Sean Hannity would have it, about patriotism; but about domestic abuse – something that we all know never happens in Hannity’s America.
http://www.newshounds.us/2008/10/09/hannity_theme_song_writer_donating_song_royalties_to_planned_parenthood_oh_noooo.php#more


GOP aids Planned Parenthood with song
NASHVILLE, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Nashville songwriter Gretchen Peters says she will donate royalties from her song, "Independence Day," to Planned Parenthood in Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's name.
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/10/05/GOP_aids_Planned_Parenthood_with_song/UPI-57201223256821/

[davepc]

1. Wasn't the song about a woman's freedom from an abusive relationship?

[underpants]

2. If you read the lyrics you might think that

Abuse and then fire

____

Well she seemed all right by dawn’s early light though she looked a little
Worried and weak she tried to pretend he wasn’t drinkin’ aagain but daddy left
The proof on her cheek and I was only eight years old that summer and I always
Seemed to be in the way so I took myself down to the fair in town on
Independence day

Well word gets a round in a small, small town they said he was a dangerous man
But mama was proud and she stood her ground she knew she was on the losin’ end
Some folks whispered some folks talked but everybody looked the other way and
When time ran out there was no one about on indpendence day

Chours: let freedom ring, let the white dove sing let the whole world know that
Today is a day of reckoning let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong roll
The stone away, let the guilty pay, it’s independence day

Well she lit up the sky that fourth of july by the time the firemen come they
Just put out the flames and took down some names and send me to the county home
Now I ain’t sayin’ it’s right or it’s wrong but maybe it’s the only way talk
About your revolution it’s indepenednce day

Repeat chorous

Roll the stone away it’s independence day

http://www.lyrics007.com/Martina%20McBride%20Lyrics/Independence%20Day%20Lyrics.html

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Yes. It was an anti-spousal abuse tome. . .

spoken from the viewpoint of the child whose mother finally killed her abusive husband by torching the house.

[lutefisk]

4. Good for her. Hannity is skilled at fast-talking manipulation of the gullible and ignorant...

He (and Limbaugh) have no conscience- they are like the most despicable used car salesman one can imagine, times 1000. These creeps have blood on their hands.

It's always good to see stories like this that show Hannity and his type to be hypocritical idiots.

[Rainbowreflect]

5. This story made my day.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ITsec]

6. Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders does this

for every time Slush Limpdick plays his theme song, "My City Was Gone". All proceeds go to PETA.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5923659/really_randoms_chrissie_hynde_ricky_martin_jimmy_page

[progressoid]

9. I always wondered about that!

Too funny.

[dysfunctional press]

12. PETA is just as bad as limbaugh or hannity.

i wish that chrissie had chosen a more deserving recipient.

[riverdeep]

7. These people are tone deaf when it comes to music selection.

Heart has repeatedly and nicely told the McCain/Palin campaign to stop using the song "Barracuda" for Palin. The song itself is about a backstabbing social climber, so you would think she would get that. But it is somehow very fitting.

The Foo Fighters, Springsteen, and other artists have all told them to stop using their songs. Not surprisingly, they have no respect for (intellectual) property rights or at the least, simple decency.

[Purveyor]

8. Thank you for posting... K&R eom

[progressoid]

10. Beautiful!

[lpbk2713]

11. "Make the guilty pay" ... yeah, I'll go along with that.

[kick-ass-bob]

13. I LOLed

:D