Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Red Skelton - prescient

Just 42 years ago —


A "skit" from one of Red Skelton's 1969 T.V. shows... WOW.....just think about it, he said this on his TV show in 1969 & had no clue his words would ever come to fruition. 
MoSup
5/10/2011 03:48:00 PM 9 Comments

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Anonymous said...

So you're saying that there was 48 states in 1969?

Cuzzin Rick

5/10/11, 3:53 PM
Anonymous said...

I just got it....there were 48 states when he was a kid in school!

Sorry Rodge

Cuzzin Rick

5/10/11, 3:55 PM
Anonymous said...

I remember getting our new flag in 1st grade. 49 stars.
Tim

5/10/11, 5:07 PM
Anonymous said...

I love Red Skelton, probably the best comedian who ever lived. He could make me laugh uncontrollably without filthy language, innuendo or evil. He loved this country and this is not the only patriotic "skit" he ever did - this is just the one that gets around. I cried the day I heard he had died....part of me went with him.

Bolivar

5/10/11, 6:41 PM
TimO said...

The wife and I got to see him live back in the mid-80s and I'm SO glad I got to see him on stage. He was brilliant.

5/10/11, 8:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Not going to post my identity on this one cause it makes me really unpopular, FAST. But the pledge was written in the delluge of Southern reconstruction in which the Marxist (those 48ers) who gave us our German education system, our liberal media, and ole "...honest Abe..." endeavored to (I'll quote here) "make men love their country more than their state". Which is exactly contrary to the desires and actions of one Geo. Washington.

The pledge was written by Francis Bellamy, cousin and protege of one Edward Bellamy who bless his heart tried to become the American Karl Marx by writing the tome "Looking Backward", often described as the American Communist Manifesto.

The Nazi salute of Hitler in 1936 was stolen from Ed Bellamy, American children used that salute to recite the pledge. It was not until the 1930's that the hand over the heart was adopted in the midst of the backlash against Nazi propaganda.

I can be a proud American, I can defend America (and have), and be a citizen of my STATE.

5/10/11, 10:43 PM
Anonymous said...

"the pledge was written in the deluge of Southern reconstruction in which the Marxist (those 48ers) who gave us our German education system, our liberal media, and ole "...honest Abe..." endeavored to (I'll quote here) "make men love their country more than their state"....The pledge was written by Francis Bellamy, cousin and protege of one Edward Bellamy... often described as the American Communist Manifesto.
I can be a proud American, I can defend America (and have), and be a citizen of my STATE..."

All factual. The one thing you left out was that it didn't work. Unlike most nations with a long storied history of monarchy or any other form of rule by minority, we remain a nation primarily of independence. The majority of Americans are FIERCELY independent. Were any other nation regularly bombarded with such biased information as we, they would have knuckled under long ago.

For what ever purpose and regardless of who wrote the pledge, it has failed to not only illicit servitude but dare I say had the opposite effect of instilling independence in those who do more than simply repeat it.

Our oaths to office have not changed significantly in over 200 years. There are those who know what they mean, and those who recite them as a technicality.

I don't pledge allegiance to a flag, nor a state, or even that hallowed parchment meant to protect us from ourselves. I do and will always fight however to preserve that which they represent. That being...

I am a FREE man fit to make my own choices. FREE to live as I see fit. FREE to excel or fail of my own accord. And most importantly FREE to walk away or ignore that which tries to repress me from doing so.

IrateIrishman

5/11/11, 3:33 AM
Anonymous said...

see how free you are to not pay taxes (It galls me to see it frittered away)
Make & sell your own whiskey (Why not, but for taxation)
to refuse to fight for a foolish reason (I served but wonder voluntarily, compulsory service is wrong)
to secede from the Union...or better yet kick other states and/or individuals out
Freedom is an illusion...

RAK

5/11/11, 12:47 PM
Anonymous said...

Irateirishman, I thank you for your response. I'm having a Guiness on your behalf. Press on citizen.

5/11/11, 6:22 PM

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