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August 23, 2006
Tony Bennett Denounces America
Posted by Dave Blount at August 23, 2006 9:17 PM
Add Tony Bennett to the long list of ignorant zillionaire idiots in the entertainment industry who see fit to badmouth the great country that made their plush existences possible. Quoth the wise Bennett:
I have travelled around the world to Asia and Europe. They show you what they have contributed to the world. The British show you theatre, the Italians show you music and art, the French show you cooking and painting, and the Germans show you science. The only thing that the United States, which is still a young country, has contributed culturally to the world is jazz — elongated improvisation. It's tragic.
Worse yet, we don't even appreciate the jazz that is our only contribution to human civilization:
The Americans don't even know what they have come up with.
I'll have to admit, I can't stand jazz myself. But there are a few other American contributions that have apparently escaped Bennett's notice, including modern democracy, the telegraph, the sewing machine, the assembly line, the light bulb, the phonograph, the telephone, the airplane, splitting the atom, putting a man on the moon, the computer, the artificial heart, the human genome project, defeating communism, the blues, rock and roll, and a world-dominating entertainment industry that has made an ungrateful nitwit named Tony Bennett a very rich man.
On a tip from Wiggins.
