VIDEO: Hey, King George: It’s Too Late to Apologize!
by Big Hollywood—–
How could I not post this? The Tea Party convention’s about to get underway and the video is a perfect smash-up: 1776 meets 1983 — which just happen to be my two favorite years.
Enjoy!
Those of us at Soomo who are over 35 don’t know much about Timbaland, but we couldn’t help but get interested in our colleague Tim Alden Grant’s video project when we heard it featured the Framers in an 80’s Hair Band moment. Check this out. Share it with friends and your classes. And let us know what you think!
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come november the american voters will send the same message to washington
Does anyone know of a non youtube version of this video? I cannot access youtube in my classes and I know they would love to see this video. Any help would be appreciated.
To quote Charlton Heston: "From my cold dead hands"………
For a last scene, may I suggest the Massachusetts Militia forming at Concord with ghost like ranks behind them in Civil War, Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam and Iraq/Anghanistan uniforms forming up on their flanks.
That was awesome! Love the tune. This should be the opener for the Convention.
An excellent way to portray the Framer's intentions. Catchy tune, too! I will admit I never would have associated that song with our founding fathers.
I loved it.!!! Thank you for posting it. A Crock 0'Bama is such a solipistic A*hole that he will never deign apologize. He & his minions seem so sure that that can keep on steam rolling their agenda. It would be a lot more comforting to think he's just totally narcistic with major delusions of granduer but it seems that his obliviousness to the American people is based more his knowing he has a card up his sleeve he can blind side us with any time he wants. This crew is evil..
Ob/sama has declared war on America, they are changing laws as quick as possible, in their effort to make our nation, theirs!!!
Fantastic.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."
~ John F. Kennedy ~
Isn't the theme "The Declaration of Independence"?
I have been individually where we are nationally. It was not easy setting priorities and goals and living up to them. Sometimes I made mistakes; other times I made bigger mistakes. Each time I learned. I learned not to marry a stock and borrow to buy more of it thinking that it will one day go back to where I paid for it. I learned that diversification in investing is vital and cannot be based on debt. I learned that borrowing money to buy a home is good, and borrowing money to pay for a party is bad. I learned that hitting the bottle is not a solution to a problem, and it is not even a bandaid. We must take all of those common sense behaviors we engage in as individuals with our money and our lives, and get the state and national governments to reflect what we know as individuals. Make no mistake, that unless we make changes as to how we spend, and how we tax we will end up not as the powerful nation we once were, but one that exists at the benevolence of other nations.
Haiti is a nightmare, but it was one long in the making, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, had we exported them a free market instead of bandaids over the decades the souls lost their would have been in the hundreds. But we saw mouths to feed, we saw mothers who needed help, we saw children who needed an education and we helped. In the grand scheme of things we did not help the Haitian people – we hurt them. We hurt them because we gave them the fish and we failed to teach them how to fish, we hurt them because instead of exporting the one philosophy that could save them, the free market, individual liberty and a respect for private property, we exported bandaids. Next time you are watching the images of the desperate Haitian people I want you to think of what makes this country the wealthiest and, even in the dark depths of the last depression the highest standard of living on the face of the earth, it was freedom that did that, and it will be freedom that does it again. On this I would bet my life.
"……..it was freedom that did that, and it will be freedom that does it again. On this I would bet my life. "
So would I.
So will I.
Well no, but if you click the YouTube symbol in lower right it will take you to where more info and maybe contacts can be found.
I guess that would be the soomopublishing.com link.
Nice work Joe!
That was awesome! Fantastic job.
Amen.
I give it a BigGrammio.
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Awesome stuff! They need to put it on a CD and DVD (if they haven't already) and SELL IT, Baby! I would buy it in an instant!
Was that Ben on lead guitar?
Very nice indeed…………………..its been added to my favorites.
1983 is your favorite year? Yikes. Winning the Cold War was important but culturally the 80s were pretty awful.
This is brilliant. I wish they'd provide the lyrics or a subtitled version, as a non native english speaker it's a tad hard to follow in some parts, but it's a work of genius!
The re-awakening of America is upon us. This is the fight of our time — to stop the advance of the "progressive" movement and crush collectivism once and for all!
Let's roll
I think it's also getting way too late for the Progressive Left to apologize as well.
You are correct!
Funny, I was thinking the same thing: have a "flash forward" of our brave men and women in period American military uniforms.
Hey! "Return of the Jedi" came out that year. Reagan was president!
It was a fantastic year!
Or the new "Populist" Left.
Oh, my gosh – I love it!!!
It replaces Steven Crowder's "How Hollywood Sees the Marines" video from a few weeks ago on my Must-Watch-Every-Day video.
=D
'83 was THE best year musically…and dont knock the 80s…before Obama's presidency is over, we will WISH the only thing we had to worry about is the Cold War. The 80s rocked!
I. LOVE. THIS.
America rocks, and don't you forget it….
I've already watched it twice and still can't get enough of it. Now THIS is what the Internet was created for! *g* Thanks so much for passing on the link, and here's hoping the Tea Party movement of today makes the message so loud and clear, certain folks in Washington can't HELP but hear it!
if you click on the Close Captioning button it will show the lyrics
What you said!
Oh thatd bring tears to my eyes for sure!!
Awesome! I loved it
Also, the lead singer has a fantastic voice (even slightly better than the original singer)
Great video, awsome content, and when will you tube not skip and stutter when it plays videos?
Let me start by saying that I appreciate the intent of the creators of this content….
but….
Yck………….just……….ugh
Don't know what this has to do with 1983, but that was a great year anyway…it was the year I was born!
Watched it three times so far and have emailed it to friends and family. Amazing music video. Better then the original. Inspiring. Wish I could play the violin.
just one word…… AWSOME !!!!!! I have sent it to all my friends.
I think that pretty much somes up the tone of the country right now, with more joining every day.
I love being JPA, drives him mad
Awesome! I love it.
Like heck they were! All that music, the movies, the Reagan administration–I'm glad to have been born in them, even if at the tail-end.
When the rock band part came up I was ROFL! Oh man my sides hurt!
All in all I liked it! =)
Erm… Franklin with a guitar…. very scary.
Before they all turn 80's freaky though it was a cute video.
Well, the fashion was better than the 70's.
Kinda.
This is made of epic WIN! Twenty-zillion thumbs up.
Well at least they all look pretty good until the 80's freak out moment.
And then fading out to Scott Brown winning the election!
Thats a must, these young kids and not so young who are our modern warriors should fall in rank with those who went before them…. I hope someone is listening who has the talent to add that!! What a great visual that would be!
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This was a great vieo.
Ben Franklin played the musical instrument he helped invent (I think). This made me think of that.
http://www.gigmasters.com/armonica/index.asp
My pinko friends and I have been having a helluva lot of fun laughing our asses off at this
My pinko friends and I have been having a lot of fun laughing our asses off at this
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