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The exploitation of the Sandy Hook Choir

BY Dori Monson  on February 6, 2013 @ 11:05 pm (Updated: 8:19 am - 2/7/13 )

- Dori writes...

I took a position on the show Wednesday that has generated a bit of controversy (I know... big shock).

When the Sandy Hook Elementary choir sang America The Beautiful at the Super Bowl pregame, I thought it was moving and touching.

When they sang Over The Rainbow on Good Morning America a couple days ago I thought it was ... okay. Some morning show producer wanted to score some ratings.

But with Wednesday's announcement that the Sandy Hook Choir is going to sing Call Me Maybe at the Grammy Awards pre-show with host Ryan Seacrest - well, that's about all I can take.

I certainly don't blame the kids - they're being traipsed around the country so disingenuous weasel-adults can feign sympathy and compassion. But for this to come from the music industry is about as shameless as it comes.

A portion of an entire genre of music - rap - was built on the glorification of guns and violence. And now the music industry is going to show us how much it cares about the Sandy Hook kids? The exploitation is nauseating.

As one of my Facebook commenters said, if we're going to take a cue from the music industry, how about a line from Pink Floyd: "hey ... leave them kids alone"

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  • bean9 wrote...
    Um ... no "The Who"
    February 7, 2013 4:04 am
    "Hey ... leave them kids alone" is a line from Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall." Unless you are thinking it was said of The Who's Pete Townshend and his pedophile charges, which were eventually dropped.
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  • HLC wrote...
    Remember the saying from this cullasious administration?
    February 7, 2013 9:40 am
    Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste. It's become the radical left wing mantra.
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  • Mako wrote...
    Ratings
    February 7, 2013 11:21 am
    ...but you can use them for your ratings...
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    You must be talking about the Grammy people
    February 7, 2013 12:13 pm
    You know, those right-wingers...
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  • Oly80 wrote...
    really? left and right?
    February 7, 2013 11:24 am
    political leanings really don't apply here.

    this is just greed. somebody is making money of the Sandy Hook kids choir. they're going for the sympathy card play. it's a proven money maker, and NO this wasn't started by left/right/this prez./that prez. it's existed forever.

    tug at people's heartstrings and their wallets fall open. that's all this is. AND it's pretty disgusting.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Thanks, Oly. ... That's the thing that was gnawing at me.
    February 7, 2013 12:22 pm
    But, had someone identifiable on the right said it first, it WOULD have become political.
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  • HLC wrote...
    messy did you hear those words used before Obozo?
    February 7, 2013 11:27 am
    Only his administration is stupid enough to say something like that. The biggest gathering of total fools in our history. Line em up. People have been charged with treason for doing less then these nimrods have done to America.
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  • Newton wrote...
    Sandy Hook = Fake media.
    February 7, 2013 11:45 am
    The whole thing was staged to go after the second admendment. Once you find out how are leaders have stolen and borrowed and lost all your hard earned money. You are not going to be a happy camper.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Newton - this is getting old, as well as stupid. .......... Two questions -
    February 7, 2013 1:56 pm
    What name did you used to post under ?

    And will you please stop - those of us who truly support the 2nd Amendment are getting pissed at by your rantings.

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  • tlmbrt wrote...
    You
    February 7, 2013 12:18 pm
    ain't seen nothin' yet! Obama plans to use them again as emotional props during the State of the Union speech, to underscore his call for gun control.... This man has NO SHAME and will stoop to anything.
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  • Saltchucker wrote...
    I'm starting to feel very sorry for the Sandy Hook survivors.
    February 7, 2013 12:25 pm
    These poor kids are going to be used and abused by those persuing power for the rest of thier lives.
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  • DesertRez wrote...
    Just wait
    February 7, 2013 2:39 pm
    Until Michael Moore get ahold of them.
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  • Saltchucker wrote...
    Oh jeez, I forgot about him!
    February 7, 2013 4:03 pm
    Is Moore in rehab or tied up in someone's basement? He shoulda been screeching at the top of his uber-liberal lungs about this!
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