"Let the eeeeeeeeagle soooooooar ..."

[slappypan]

"... higher than she's ever flown befooooooore ...."

What a clueless dumb-ass fascist tool.

[cjbuchanan]

1. My wife didn't believe that was real

She thought MM had somehow done something to fake that. She just could not believe how bad he looked.

[redwitch]

7. How embarrassing!

I was squirming in my seat for the John Ashcroft songfest moment. All I can say is eeeewwwww!

[DRoseDARs]

2. He's got a decent singing voice...

...I'll give him that 'cause he ain't got much else going for him.

[Bluebear]

3. Ecch....too much vibrato and overemulated

[DRoseDARs]

5. Like I said, he ain't got much else...

;)

[Liberal Veteran]

6. Fascists always get all emotional when singing patriotic anthems...

It was creepy and something you might see in Germany circa 1935.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Wasn't He One Of The Singing Senators?

NT

[Bluebear]

9. Yes, Ashcroft, Lott, Craig & Jeffords

Jeffords broke up the old gang didn't he lol.

[Carolina]

55. he sang with Trent Lott, Jim Jeffords

and another senator in a decent-sounding quartet. No amount of singing/song writing however can mollify his being a fascist pig, though.

[swag]

4. I can smell his Old Spice clear over here in Portland, OR n/t

[Octafish]

40. That's not Old Spice...

Ashcroft invites God on decisions

The Associated Press
January 11, 2001

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft says he tries to "invite God's presence" while making crucial decisions and compares his political victories and defeats to resurrections and crucifixions.

The former Missouri governor also wrote that he was anointed before each of his gubernatorial terms and on the evening before he was sworn into the U.S. Senate a friend brought out Crisco cooking oil for anointing when no holy oil could be found.

In his 1998 book, "Lessons From A Father To His Son," the son of a pastor makes clear his deep devotion to Christianity and details how it has shaped his lengthy public career -- from his view on race to his staunch opposition to abortion and support for the death penalty.

Since President-elect Bush selected the defeated Missouri senator to be America's next chief law enforcement officer, civil rights groups and abortion rights supporters have mobilized to oppose his nominations based on some of his views.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thc-ministry.org/johnashcroftcriscooil.html

[Gildor Inglorion]

10. Don't make the mistake of thinking these monsters are dumb...

or clueless. They know precisely what they want and exactly what they're willing to do to accomplish it. Asscroft went overnight from being a US senator defeated by a corpse to being the most powerful law-enforcement official on the planet. If playing the buffoon and singing pathetic songs furthers the right-wing agenda, he'll do it. If anyone is clueless, it's us progressives/liberals. We imagine that everyone else plays by the rules, the way we do. They don't.

[lanparty]

19. I love the story from Paul O'Neil

Asscroft, Condie and Bush were singing psalms after 9/11 while O'Neil were pooring through documents.

[psychopomp]

50. The HORROR...

WTF I can't BELIEVE the FOOLS we have in the White House!:mad:

[Catherine Vincent]

11. I actually thought Ashcroft sang that song very well.

He's still an asswipe, though.

[leesa]

12. I was surprised too because I had heard how HORRIBLE it was

It was like the church choir guy. Passable.

[Edmond Dantes]

30. You just heard the F9/11 version, I assume...

If you watch the full clip in its entirety on the Internet, I bet you will change your view of Ashcroft's singing. I literally cringed when I watched/heard it. It's godawful.

http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html

[lanparty]

22. Off pitch ...

It's not a good song to begin with. Ashcroft can hold his pitch straight. He lets them go slightly flat. That would be fine if he was singing in a soulful fashion. But he was trying to be an operatic crooner and it really falls short.

[janx]

13. HAHAHAHAHAHA!! You just made my afternoon!

I couldn't believe what was happening when I saw that...!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

14. ...........

[morgan2]

15. when i saw that on the trailer

at first I thought it was dubbing over him giving a speech. Also I thought the lyrics were "let the evil soar"

[dee33]

26. Now I can't stop laughing

:D

[newyawker99]

32. Hi dee33!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Pikku]

57. "let the evil soar"- HAHA Excellent!

Let's rewrite the rest of the lyrics. It would make a great campaign anthem... for US. :D

http://www.toadalamode.com/ashcroft.html

[Andy_Stephenson]

16. The song...

or Asscrotch?

[Reverend_Smitty]

17. See the full performance here

http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html

but I warn those who have just eaten dinner that it might agitate your gag reflex

[goclark]

48. It won't open for me

I really want to see what a mess he is for the whole song.

[Reverend_Smitty]

53. I think you need Quicktime or Windows Media Player for it to work

eom

[lanparty]

18. "Let the Eagle's soar" or Shatners "Rocket Man" ...

Which one is worse????

At least Shatners rocket man is funny. ;-)

[DRoseDARs]

21. At least Asscroft can sing

Shatner needs to stick with shagging alien chicks and hawking cheap airline tickets. ;)

[lolly]

45. Or Nimoy?

Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"

Enter if you dare . . .

http://homepage.mac.com/evanbaumgardner/iMovieTheater6.html

[lanparty]

49. Never heard that one.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO!!!!!


It beats "Rocket Man" EASY!!!!!

We'll have to lobby Peter Jackson to use that tune when he does "The Hobbit".

[Fleshdancer]

20. So do you think Coulter uses that song for "mood music"???

sorry. that was gross. :puke:

[DRoseDARs]

23. Anyone know where I can find Brain Soap

I'd really like to scrub that image out of my head. :cry:

;)

[Fleshdancer]

25. You know you can't shake that image.....

3 empty bottles of wine, dim lights, size 1 lingerie hanging off her bones like a tarp...eating her prey...purging her prey. All to the sweeeet sounds of John Soarin' Eagle Ashcroft.

Fascist Nut jobs Gone Wild!!

[DRoseDARs]

28. ...in Cancun: Vol. 4

Ewww... lol

[Habibi]

34. Damn, you have a sick imagination

You should write gothic fiction!

[LTR]

24. I heard the whole thing on the radio the other day

Alex Bennet played it on his Sirius Left show. It was the most horrifying thing I've ever heard. Just scary :scared:

I hope he sings at the GOP Convention. That'll drive 'em over to Kerry.

[Fleshdancer]

27. It is creepy when you hear the entire thing...it goes on and on and on

MM was very kind not to subject us to the ENTIRE song.

[Bluebear]

29. Hear it here...on "Miserable Melodies.com"

http://www.miserablemelodies.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/miserabl/listall.cgi?arg=Artist

You can even listen to the whole thing and then vote on how much you,er, like it!

[Bluebear]

31. "Only God, no other kiiiiiiiiings........"

That lyric alone tells you all you need to know about Ashy boy.

[cmf]

33. My ears bled during that scene

Really, they did.

;)

[ThoughtCriminal]

35. A saying I heard about the time he publicized that song

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines

[snippy]

36. He holds sing alongs at DOJ and has hispanic employees translate his songs

Since John Ashcroft became US attorney general last year, workers at the department of justice have become accustomed to his daily prayer meetings, but some are now drawing the line at having to sing patriotic songs penned by their idiosyncratic boss.
Mr Ashcroft, a devout Christian and a grittily determined singer, went public with one of his works last month, when he surprised an audience at a North Carolina seminary with a rendition of Let the Eagle Soar, a tribute to America's virtues, which continues: "Like she's never soared before, from rocky coast to golden shore, let the mighty eagle soar," and so on for four minutes.

The performance (which can be seen and heard at cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html) was accompanied only by taped music, but Mr Ashcroft's staff are complaining that printed versions of the song are being distributed at meetings so that they will be able to join in.

When asked why she opposed the workplace singalong, one of the department's lawyers said: "Have you heard the song? It really sucks."

A group of Hispanic justice department employees were recently summoned to see the attorney general, and went along hoping that their boss might be making a special effort to promote diversity in the department's higher ranks.

Instead, they were asked to provide a hasty Spanish lesson to give the secretary a few phrases to use on a foreign delegation the next day. The Hispanic staff were then handed printed copies of Let the Eagle Soar and asked for volunteers to translate it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,661458,00.html

[Lisa]

37. he had an entire movie theatre in stitches ...

I heard one person gasp, "that's got to be someone else singing!", and the guy behind me yelled, "No, that's really Ashcroft!"

(he had to shout because people were giggling and snickering so loudly)

[hatrack]

38. People in the theater were HOWLING during that clip

My comment was "Oh, the humanity!". Man, talk about a Musical Weapon of Mass Destruction - I was mentally begging for the comparative euthanasia of Yanni.

Another really cool part was the description of how "Voters in Missouri selected the dead guy" - the place exploded in applause (this is in Kansas City).

[Bombtrack]

39. WE DON'T NEED ANYMORE RANDOM USELESS F911 THREADS

Jesus Hoobastank Christ !

[Forkboy]

41. So hide the thread

Jesus Hoobastank Christ indeed.

on edit-Hey,maybe you can start a thread about it!

[Cocoa]

42. she's far too young to die...

awesome song. :-)

[Soup Bean]

43. I kept singing that stupid song after the movie.

I couldn't get it out of my head. Now my girlfriend is mad at me. Another reason to get rid of Ashcroft.

[getting old in mke]

44. He could sing in my church choir

Pleasant enough voice with some decent breath support, good enough for a volunteer choir.

I'm sure he'd love to meet our pastor and her wife, too, and the other 50% GLBT members...

[Bluebear]

47. Welcome to DU... he does have that old lady soprano quality

The warbly kind whose vibrato transcends into the note above and below the note intended!

[gasperc]

46. God that made my skin crawl

and then he spoke a few words like a fucking Las Vegas lounge act

ahhhhh

[Sugarbleus]

51. ROFL!!! ..................

I just wish Moore had used this piece right before (or during) the bombs dropped in Iraq....that would have been poignant!

[gulliver]

52. I like eagles, but the United States is not an eagle to me.

The flag represents the country to me, and the land itself. The eagle is just one aspect of the country, and perhaps not the best part. At least that's how I feel.

I think the eagle was a big thing with the Nazi's, a "proud" creature on wings, a bird of prey. Eagles are impressive -- sleek, aerodynamic, beautiful birds. But the country isn't an eagle. I just can't think of it as an eagle. When at its best, America is the real deal, a magnificent admirable, unique thing.

It ain't no stinkin' bird. Ashcroft's song is kind of sad really. You can tell that he thinks of America as an eagle -- proud and free, soaring. But as the saying goes, that's a mooncast shadow of what America really is.

[symbolman]

54. I made a flash of this about

two years ago..

at one of my older sites -

here it is if you want to have a look:

http://www.symbolman.com/corpabuse.html

I was sitting there thinking in the Moore MOvie that if you combined all of my flashes I would have had about 30% of the movie covered with my work..

maybe that's why Moore said, "YOU'RE the GUY!" when I met him in New Hampshire.. it was wierd, time froze when he said it, and everyone around us did..

he also promised to call, the bastard :)

http://www.takebackthemedia.com

[onecent]

56. All I could think about was "Don't give up your day job"..then again

I thought that didn't fit in this case, lol

[Jane Eyre]

58. This happened here in Charlotte

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cpu/cpu_Review/music.html

After a February 25 speech at a seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, John Ashcroft became the first attorney general of the United States to sing a song before a national audience, and the highest ranking public servant to do so while in office.

.........

So as not to take anything out of context, let us look at the full lyrics: "Let the eagle soar / like she's never soared before / from rocky coast / to golden shore / let the mighty eagle soar. / So with healing in her wings / as the land beneath her sings: / 'Only God, no other kings,' / let the mighty eagle soar. / This country's far too young to die / Though she's cried a bit for what we've put her through / she's soared above the lifted lamp / that guards sweet freedom's door / in the dews, the damps, the watchfires / of a nation torn by war / oh she's far too young to die / you can see it in her eye / she's not yet begun to fly / it's time to let the mighty eagle soar ."

Ashcroft wrote the text and music in 1997, when meditating on the nation's resilience against President Clinton's marital woes. The revised version above adds new war-oriented material and omits a stanza (and a dangling participle) of moral struggle: "We've still got a lot of climbing to do, / And we can make it if we try. / Built by toils and struggles / God has led us through."

To paraphrase Adorno, to rehash crappy songs as anthems to liberty after September 11 is barbaric. The idea of light music against terror is ghastly; to recycle, with perfect moral equivalency, a ditty about Bill Clinton's lying and bad marriage into a song against terror is simply shlock-pop necrophilia. There are a host of problems with the attorney general's words, from the mixed metaphors to the exhortation of the submission of the individual conscience to the guidance of an administration that, for all appearances, devotes its generous fund of free time to fooling around on synthesizers and electronic drum pads. One troubling point in Ashcroft's "Eagle" lyrics easy to overlook is the quiet appearance of the end of the world. In place of his old lines about personal and national self-improvement ("a lot of climbing to do"), Ashcroft inserts eschatology: America is "too young to die." But we're going to? Our lyricist thinks so: he is a lifelong member of the Assemblies of God.

.......

Does Ashcroft welcome more terrorist strikes as signs of the Second Coming? Maybe not-though his uplifting song about 9/11, in an apocalyptic mood and a zippy tempo, suggests we should keep an eye on this one. But enough close reading: what is of primary importance is that the attorney general of the United States should not sing in an official capacity, ever. It suggests an ignorance of the responsibilities of the attorney generalship so total as to border on illiteracy.

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