Have You Seen, der Deutsches Band?
Wis ze bang, and the boom, and the boom boom boom boom bang?!
A Texas high school has apologized after the school band waved a Nazi flag during a performance on Friday, the start of the Jewish New Year holiday of Rosh Hashana. "We had an error in judgment," band director Charles Grissom told the Dallas Morning News. . . .
During a half-time show, a student from Paris High School went running across the field waving a Nazi flag. At the time, the Blue Blazes band was playing the composition by Franz Joseph Haydn that eventually became known as Deutschland Uber Alles . . . .
Let's hear it for the Paris, Texas Marching Band, winner of the September 2003 Perfidy Prize in Inadvertent or Vertent Asshattery. Congratulations, Asshats!
This was the bright idear, which must have looked great on paper: "[Grissom] said it was part of a show entitled "Visions of World War Two," in which the flags and music were intended to represent the warring nations." During Rosh Hashanah. Terrible, terrible timing.
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"Houston, we have an error in
"Houston, we have an error in judgment." Well, no, really? I wonder how crap like this gets past even the leakiest, rustiest, most poorly constructed brain filter.
Well, I'd imagine that there
Well, I'd imagine that there's not too many Jews in Paris, TX, so it's likely that Rosh Hashana was not the first thing on most people's minds.
Not that that's any excuse for such fumbling dimwittery.
At least they feel bad about it.
I figured that the date was
I figured that the date was just icing on the paper cut, but still... where'd they find the swastika flag, do you think?
Not to put too fine a point
Not to put too fine a point on it, but most places I've lived, you don't have to look too far.
But I'm hoping it was a theatrical supply house.