Video: Hillary sings!
posted at 4:40 pm on January 27, 2007 by Ian
Ah, the joys of open mics. Hillary Clinton is the latest victim, her rendition of the national anthem at an Iowa campaign event today now preserved for posterity thanks to an unknown sound engineer.
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She not only can’t she, but also doesn’t know the words.
mom of girls on January 27, 2007 at 4:45 PM
second she = sing
mom of girls on January 27, 2007 at 4:46 PM
Hillary sings? A more proper description would be “Hillary Screeches!”
Grouper on January 27, 2007 at 4:47 PM
Bash Bash Bash Tit-for-Tat Knowing the words to The Star Spangled Banner is the first criteria a candidate has to meet to get my vote.
sonnyspats1 on January 27, 2007 at 4:50 PM
Ouch. That was painful. I didn’t think it was possible for me to feel sorry for Hillary, but…ouch.
aero on January 27, 2007 at 4:53 PM
I knew you’d come through, AP.
Editor on January 27, 2007 at 4:54 PM
Ian posted this, Editor, not me.
Allahpundit on January 27, 2007 at 4:55 PM
My bad… Ian, nice.
Editor on January 27, 2007 at 4:56 PM
William Hung could sing it better than that.
packsoldier on January 27, 2007 at 4:56 PM
Not only does she mumble through our National Anthem, she fudges words and forgets a few more…disgaceful.
Well, it is a war-themed song…
Perhaps they’ll have another “discussion” to change it…a nice, word-less Kenny G instrumental *shudder*
JetBoy on January 27, 2007 at 4:56 PM
I agree sonny, Americans should know our anthem, and that’s why even my 6yr old and 3yr old are learning it. I’m not convinced Hillary knows all the words yet, though. And come on, even if she’s not a great singer, she might want to at least learn the general tune.
eucher on January 27, 2007 at 4:57 PM
Yeah, carrying a tune aint the point. Having a clue is.
HerrMorgenholz on January 27, 2007 at 4:59 PM
I can’t wait until she asks for a do over because of her “cold”.
Editor on January 27, 2007 at 4:59 PM
That ain’t no victim.
If she thought it meant a bump in the polls she’d bake an apple pie on TV. And hand feed it to Oprah.
Hell, she’d be the pie in the “pie scene” from American Pie if it meant she got to be Prez.
Chrissake, she got it on with BandCamp Bill’s “presidential aspirations” back when he was just a sucker’s bet.
Stephen M on January 27, 2007 at 5:01 PM
That was painful.
The Pink Elephant is not going to be happy when she finds out there were VRWC sound engineers infiltrating the event.
JammieWearingFool on January 27, 2007 at 5:06 PM
She gets the sympathy vote from me. Good thing we’re not holding elections today.
tikvah on January 27, 2007 at 5:13 PM
I knew she was Rosanne Barrs Evil Twin Sister!
serenity on January 27, 2007 at 5:18 PM
Let the conversation end!
WisCon on January 27, 2007 at 5:19 PM
I can’t really remember the words to it, either. I don’t watch baseball.
Savage on January 27, 2007 at 5:19 PM
To paraphrase Simon Cowell, if she was singing like this two thousand years ago, people would have stoned her.
Greg Tinti on January 27, 2007 at 5:24 PM
Hey Pantsuit, let’s chat, have a conversation, some dialogue: You can’t sing, beyotch!
JammieWearingFool on January 27, 2007 at 5:24 PM
In my eight grade music class….a looong time ago….we learned all 4 verses. And they always stuck in my head and are still there. For no less than a former first lady to not even know the first verse is…..well, rediculous!
dustoffmom on January 27, 2007 at 5:26 PM
As if I needed another reason to have no use whatsoever for her…….the woman couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.
csdeven on January 27, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Sounds to me he’s been giving her voice lessons.
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GT on January 27, 2007 at 5:30 PM
BTW, think SNL will take a shot at this?
GT on January 27, 2007 at 5:33 PM
Sorry, no way can I listen to that. Her normal screech is grating enough on the ears without setting it to music. But I don’t know why anybody should be surprised that she’s faking her way through it–that’s what liberal politicians always do when patriotism is involved.
ReubenJCogburn on January 27, 2007 at 5:33 PM
Exactly. Sure she’s a Senator and should know, but she’s also a former first lady (and first lady of Arkansas as well). How many events has this woman been to where the anthem was sung? No excuse for fudging the lyrics. This just goes to show that the lyrics just were never that important to her to learn properly. GW can fudge “nookular” but it ain’t our national anthem. Who cares if her voice isn’t that great, she tries which is commendable.
fudgypup on January 27, 2007 at 5:33 PM
and she got it wrong too.
“Oh, say does that star-spangled”
csdeven on January 27, 2007 at 5:35 PM
This is almost bad enough to be her Howard Dean scream moment…
aero on January 27, 2007 at 5:36 PM
She did remember to hold her hand over her heart as the colors passed by. Now if she would just hold a hand over her mouth…
DAT60A3 on January 27, 2007 at 5:51 PM
Everyone needs to send her a can of creamed corn.
Limerick on January 27, 2007 at 5:53 PM
I could almost forgive her for carrying the horrid tune if she knew the words. Not only doesn’t she know the words, she didn’t start singing until “bright stars”.
Even worse than her mangling the anthem are the actions of the twits on either side (as well as
a fewmost in the crowd). The jag on the left doesn’t know what to do when presented the colors, and the jag on the right doesn’t show enough respect for the anthem to keep from conducting his personal business during the anthem.steveegg on January 27, 2007 at 5:57 PM
…?
I don’t get it.
aero on January 27, 2007 at 6:03 PM
Thanks a lot, Ian. My dog’s afraid to come out from under the couch because of this.
Readymade on January 27, 2007 at 6:06 PM
As creamed corn is not in it’s natural state, everything Hillary says to get elected is processed so that her true nature cannot be discerned.
csdeven on January 27, 2007 at 6:09 PM
Ah. Thanks, csdeven.
aero on January 27, 2007 at 6:10 PM
HOWLERY CLINTON IN ‘O8!
for Dogcatcher.
hillbillyjim on January 27, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Aww, you wouldn’t do that to dogs, would you? That’s cruel and inhumane!
ReubenJCogburn on January 27, 2007 at 6:23 PM
That’s absolutely right. The guy on her right should have held his comments, to be fair to Hillary, but if she knew her stuff, she would have politely ignored him and held her attention on the presentation of the flag and the anthem until it was finished. Now, she was First Lady for 8 years, and the First Lady of Arkansas, so she should know her stuff, inside and out, so it’s really shoddy on her part. You’d think she’d be able to belt it out better than anyone – how many military ceremonies has she attended in her life, embassy receptions, school ceremonies, political ceremonies, sports games??? Translation, she don’t care.
naliaka on January 27, 2007 at 6:39 PM
Boys and girls, just watch….. she is going to win a Grammy for this, just as her and Bill did for the soundtracks to their books…… ohhhhhhh, I can’t wait for the nuance.
PinkyBigglesworth on January 27, 2007 at 6:40 PM
I’ve heard coyotes make more pleasing noises.
Martin on January 27, 2007 at 6:43 PM
My vote goes to the guy who knows the 3rd and 4th verses, which are better than the 1st one:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation;
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Sydney Carton on January 27, 2007 at 6:47 PM
Sydney Carton
It would be nice to hear the whole song more often. It’s way better than most anthems.
naliaka on January 27, 2007 at 6:59 PM
My bad, ReubenJCogburn. Now I’ll have PETA breathin’ down my neck!
Besides, Howlery would probably try to nationalize veterinary health care, and try to disguise it under the term ‘single-payer system’ or some such nonsense.
hillbillyjim on January 27, 2007 at 7:01 PM
Yeah. The last 2 verses really seem to stick it to the moonbats. Verse 3 says that all the simpering, cowardly appeasers are stupidly emboldening the enemy to kill them even more. And Verse 4 says that we have to “conquer” when our cause is just. It’s like Francis Scott Key was a NEOCON!!!! heh.
Sydney Carton on January 27, 2007 at 7:04 PM
Let the conversation begin? sheesh, whoever came up with that should be fired. Yeah, that’s the campaign slogan I want from someone who will be waging war. Conversation.
How about, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition? That works for me!
CrimsonFisted on January 27, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Well, she made some comments to the AP today that should get some scrutiny. She’s not off to a very good start.
Editor on January 27, 2007 at 7:21 PM
She is probably a lousy hummer too. Let’s ask Bill.
Wade on January 27, 2007 at 7:22 PM
It coulda’ been worse. She could have been singin’ and dancin’ the Ilana Donna DoYaWanna song and dance routine. Oh, the visual imagery conjured by that idea.
Pardon me for a few minutes. I hafta’ go throw-up.
CyberCipher on January 27, 2007 at 7:39 PM
Yes but, look at the picture. She was surrounded by “the children” so that’s all that counts.
Jeff on January 27, 2007 at 7:42 PM
Sydney Carton you just had to open your mouth… This just in, the 9th Circuit declares The National Anthem unconstitutional.
(no not really)
- The Cat
MirCat on January 27, 2007 at 7:54 PM
We’re gonna take California and then we’re gonna take back Washington, YaaaaarrrrgggggGGHHH!!!
Alden Pyle on January 27, 2007 at 8:47 PM
I’ll never vote for her, but I don’t think this is a big deal. The band wasn’t very good, either.
But everybody must read the late Isaac Asimov’s article about the anthem. He was an immigrant and a liberal to the end, but this is a great article.
http://www.purewatergazette.net/asimov.htm
The ending is wonderful:
JimC on January 27, 2007 at 9:20 PM
lol, that was like my mom in church! (sorry mom, I know you read the comments here sometimes). When I was a kid I used to laugh at her quietly trying to sing, just so she could be singing, but making sure that no one could hear her.. but I could, standing right next to her.
RightWinged on January 27, 2007 at 11:22 PM
you are a very bad man, Wade, a very very bad man
We don’t to ask Bill, though, as we have Monica and The Dress. Besides, would you want……
Janos Hunyadi on January 27, 2007 at 11:38 PM
I watched this on CSPAN today. Terrifying. It was like traveling in a time machine back to the 1990s. Hillary has Billy’s song and dance routine down cold. The only thing missing were the breathless reporters writing down every word that fell out of her mouth–and for all I know, they were there but just haven’t filed their stories yet.
I can’t believe this lady has a chance at the White House. Does anyone remember the corruption that swirled around this woman? Anyone? Bueller?
jaleach on January 28, 2007 at 12:34 AM
Ouch! Simon Cowell says she “sucks”!
thedecider on January 28, 2007 at 1:41 AM
Oh dear God. She was singing the Star-Spangled Banner for crying out loud. Who the fuck cares if she was out of tune or said “our” instead of “that”?
Nonfactor on January 28, 2007 at 6:08 AM
“William Hung could sing it better than that.”
Hell, Hung can sing better than me, too!
I have to say, being one whose voice did NOT qualify me for any of my grade school musicals as a boy, that I consider this a “nit.” It is really insignificant.
Based upon her behavior as First Lady (read Gary Aldrich’s book — he was there), and as “co-President,” as well as her pathetic attempt to blame a “vast right-wing conspiracy” for the Monica story — when she knew damn well, all the time, that it was true, I consider her UNFIT TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT, even if she sang like Sarah Brightman!
Her commodities scandal, Whitewater, Rose Law firm, 900 FBI files, stolen flat and silverware from Air Force One, and that childish removal of a “w” keys from the White House staff’s keyboards — these reason enough to vote for her opponent.
The only DEMOCRAT that I would vote for right now is the many who won’t be running as a Democrat: Joe Lieberman.
Hillary? SPIT!
georgej on January 28, 2007 at 6:43 AM
You know, it doesn’t matter a bit how bad she sings. God doesn’t care how bad we sing in church either. What matters is whether one has true reverence for this Country and solemn respect for what it’s flag represents. I don’t think most democrats even know what it feels like, and it’s more than obvious that the liberal mind has no comprehension of it at all. You CANNOT respect what the United States represents while attacking its President and being being a seditious traitor, and that’s plain and simple what most democrats and all liberals are doing.
She does seem to spark up and give it a go when she probably realizes that the cameras are on her. The liberal mindset that makes the left what they are don’t have a clue when it comes to the reverent fear of God, so how could they ever be expected to honor the America that exists only because of Him. To them, it’s all just a stepping stone towards the power they crave.
NRA4Freedom on January 28, 2007 at 12:08 PM
A thing of beauty is a joy forever …
Ali-Bubba on January 28, 2007 at 7:20 PM
Entelechy on January 29, 2007 at 12:21 PM