I'm a recent convert to country music (freely admitting that 99% of country played on the radio is terrible; the only defense is that 99% of everything else radio plays is crap too). Since time began, country songs have been written around the topic of `yay, America.' I've generally groaned when they came on, as I find such kneejerk, grammar school nationalism to be as fluffy as it patronizing.
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However, perhaps with the election from last year, I started to tolerate, and even enjoy to a certain extent, patriotic country songs. Not the old ones; I'm still of the opinion that God Bless the USA is the worst thing ever created by man, including olive loaf. However, a few of the more recent ones ("Chicken Fried" by the Zac Brown Band among them) I found to be tolerable, even somewhat palatable.
I didn't particularly enjoy Rodney Atkins' latest foray into the subject, "It's America," for a host of reasons. Chief among them, half the stuff he mentions as being authentically and exclusively American, well, they aren't. At all. But, the song has been on the radio so much that I've found it catchy in a wispy, here today gone tomorrow sort of way.
Until I saw the video.
I don't want to prejudice the results of the poll, but please take a peek. The song itself is less than four minutes long, and even if you detest country, you can manage through it. The part I find offensive occurs between 2:35 and 2:45.