(AND NO, I'M NOT TALKING "G-D BLESS AMERICA," THE PREFERRED SUCH among the Religiopolitical Right's forces of Zealotry and True Belief:)

None other than that exercise in obnoxiously arrogant English jingoism entitled "Land of Hope and Glory," to the melody of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March #1, and preferably sung in an obnoxious-sounding staccato crossing into the Nazi stylee befitting the GOP's arrogant ways of late.

The lyrics therefor, thanks to Wikipedia, for the interested:

Dear Land of Hope, thy hope is crowned.

G-d make thee mightier yet!

On Sov'reign brows, beloved, renowned,

Once more thy crown is set.

Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained,

Have ruled thee well and long;

By Freedom gained, by Truth maintained,

Thine Empire shall be strong.

CHORUS:

Land of Hope and Glory,

Mother of the Free!

How shall we extol thee,

Who are born of thee?

Wider still and wider

Shall thy bounds be set;

G-d, who made thee mighty,

Make thee mightier yet;

G-d, who made thee mighty,

Make thee mightier yet.

Thy fame is ancient as the days,

As Ocean large and wide

A pride that dares, and heeds not praise,

A stern and silent pride

Not that false joy that dreams content

With what our sires have won;

The blood a hero sire hath spent

Still nerves a hero son.

(repeat CHORUS)

If it worked to whip up support for "painting the map pink" (as in thus identifying prominently such areas of the world as were under British rule and control) in the glory days of That Empire Upon Which The Sun Would Never Set, I see no reason why the GOP can't adopt it for its own ends and purposes in justifying a "Lord and Master" role and place for America (with Iraq "only the beginning," naturally enow) in rather obnoxious stylee.

Obnoxious enough to reduce the GOP to farce, especially when YouTube features video of the GOP's "inside of the inside," so to speak, singing "Land of Hope and Glory" in an obnoxiously drunken staccato--and, notwithstanding Fox Prolefeed inevitably suggesting that the same was "faked" or "staged," getting wide circulation.

Especially in that segment of the chorus proclaiming "Land of HOPE and GLORY,/MOTHER of the FREE!/HOW shall we EXTOL THEE,/Who are BORN of THEE?" (Emphasis mine.)

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NOW TELL ME IF KEITH RUPERT MURDOCH IS TRYING TO "GO NATIONAL" IN THE PRINT MEDIA, PROLEFEED SECTION, with his designs on purchasing the Long Island "respectable tabloid" Newsday from the Tribune Company, relaunching same on a satellite-delivered, nationwide basis with circulation deliberately targeting culturally-deprived environments.

And with much the same sensationalist excesses marking Keith Rupert's British "red top" tabloids of The Sun and the News of the World, right down to the obligatory Page Three soft-porn distraction.

Sensationalist excesses tending heavily to racism, jingoism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism--you name it, he'll exploit it. Guaranteed to have Lord Northcliffe (founder of the Daily Mail, Fleet Street's original masters of Fourth Estate jingoism for the masses) spinning in his grave, not to mention William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.