{"id":19880,"date":"2011-01-17T17:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T00:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=19880"},"modified":"2011-01-17T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T00:45:31","slug":"this-is-so-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/17\/this-is-so-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"This … is … SO … wrong …"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mean, where do I start? \u00a0The less-than-successful singing-along to the audio recording? That it’s being sung in a church (or someplace set up for a church service)? \u00a0Just the insanity which is the lyrics (and the message thereof)? Or that these people seem to truly believe <\/em>it with the same unquenchable faith that they bring to their adherence to God?<\/p>\n

My friends, I give you “The Battle Hymn of Sarah Palin.”<\/p>\n

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Okay, time to start drinking.<\/p>\n

(Written and submitted to YouTube Tom Dempsey; vocals — the official ones, I assume — by Gary McVay.)<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mean, where do I start? \u00a0The less-than-successful singing-along to the audio recording? That it’s being sung in a church (or someplace set up for a church service)? \u00a0Just the insanity which is the lyrics (and the message thereof)? 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