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Sandy Hook Choir Gives Unforgettable Performance of ‘America the Beautiful’ at Super Bowl

Feb. 3, 2013 7:09pm Erica Ritz

Sandy Hook Choir Sings America the Beautiful With Jennifer Hudson at Super Bowl

Singer Jennifer Hudson performs ‘America The Beautiful’ with the Sandy Hook Elementary School Chorus prior to the start of Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on February 3, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo: Getty Images)

More than a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, the school’s choir gave a performance of “America the Beautiful” at the Super Bowl that, according to the Associated Press, had some of the players on the verge of tears.

Singing with award-winning recording artist Jennifer Hudson, the 26 children all wore green ribbons memorializing the tragedy.

The Sandy Hook Elementary School Chorus departs the field after performing ‘America The Beautiful’ before the start of Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on February 3, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

USA Today adds:

The students, whose community of Newtown, Conn. was rocked by tragedy after the mass shooting at their school in December, were all smiles on this day. They happily skipped their way from the end-zone tunnel to the sideline, where they high-fived one another and their backpack-wielding parents while they waited for their moment.

They danced to the Southern University band performing right before them and waived to the majorettes as they jogged past the children on their way off the field. They posed for pictures with their parents, they shook hands with one of the game officials. They stuck their fingers in their ears as the crowd roared for both teams’ entrances.

Finally, they made their way onto the podium in the shape of the NFL logo at midfield and struck the first notes of a perfect rendition of the song. Fans waved and wiped their eyes as the students sang the first verse unaccompanied. They swayed when Hudson, wearing a ribbon in honor of the victims, joined them.

The Atlantic Wire captured some top tweets:

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JoePhysics
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:47am
The kids sounded great and the sound was beautiful. But I asked myself, where were the microphones? There was none over head or in front of them, and none of the children were wearing microphones. Jennifer Hudson had to use a microphone, why not the kids? The conclusion is that they had to be lip syncing to something they recorded earlier, which makes it something less than we were lead to believe.

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- beefrank
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:26pm
  They lip synch it like Beyonce.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:58pm
  I see as part of the anti-gun agenda of the leftist NFL…..they had the SANDY HOAX choir sing. How convenient.
  
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- SocialistSlayer
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 1:17pm
  It’s very moving having those children exploited that way ! And – they had the Hood Rat Jennifer Hudson leading them ! The Whole game was like watching BET Television . The skank Beyonce was the highlight of the night !
  
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- PhillyPauly
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:14pm
  Correct, there is no way those kids were singing. But it was still nice, which is what I’d also say about Beyonce’s inaugural National Anthem… Though really, that’s her job!
  Also, recall that the legendary Whitney Houston National anthem was per- recorded. Honestly, I am ok with these lip syncing episodes unless I am paying big $$$ to see it.
  
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- duhwut
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:19pm
  @SILLYFRESHNESS
  
  You got it right!
  
  This is supposed to be about football, not national tragedies. When an organization puts this in your face it is disgusting!
  
  The JEEP commercial was the same way! Leading you to feel sorry for families with dead soldiers then ‘ALL OF A SUDDEN’ the parents start coming home and then they slap the JEEP label on it. That **** ****** me off.
  
  It is the most vile thing to use death to advance an agenda or advertise a product.
  
  We live in a twisted society
  
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- tonypro
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:56pm
  ……and I have to ask again, just who is standing on the graves of children to achieve an agenda?
  
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no1hd
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:45am
The kids are innocent victims and are forced to stand on the graves of the kids that died for the benefit of the system that could care less.
Get them out of the public.
Get the giffords out of sight – no man can stand to listen or trust this coat tail hanger-oner.
If you want her to talk – take the notes prepared by others away and let her speak.

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tasmaw
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:24am
Glad to see this. I’d rather have had them be the half time show than Beyonce. And when the lights went out, they didn’t even have a guy with a guitar? No singers… not even musak?

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wayner4162
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:10am
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!

O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!

O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man’s avail
Men lavished precious life!
America

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wbaranowski
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:22am
Homogenous.

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- wayner4162
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:09am
  They should have just let the kids sing, and they should have sang the entire song.
  
  I see no wrong in this being all white children singing this. There are plenty of opportunities for others to do the same, so if there is any complaint, it’s pure BS!
  
  Not all the lyrics were sang, but I put most below, there’s a lot to the this jewel of an America gone by, those creeps on the left would cringe, had it all been said.
  
  O beautiful for spacious skies,
  For amber waves of grain,
  For purple mountain majesties
  Above the fruited plain!
  America! America!
  God shed his grace on thee
  And crown thy good with brotherhood
  From sea to shining sea!
  
  O beautiful for pilgrim feet
  Whose stern impassioned stress
  A thoroughfare of freedom beat
  Across the wilderness!
  America! America!
  God mend thine every flaw,
  Confirm thy soul in self-control,
  Thy liberty in law!
  
  O beautiful for heroes proved
  In liberating strife.
  Who more than self their country loved
  And mercy more than life!
  America! America!
  May God thy gold refine
  Till all success be nobleness
  And every gain divine!
  
  O beautiful for patriot dream
  That sees beyond the years
  Thine alabaster cities gleam
  Undimmed by human tears!
  America! America!
  God shed his grace on thee
  And crown thy good with brotherhood
  From sea to shining sea!
  
  O beautiful for halcyon skies,
  For amber waves of grain,
  For purple mountain majesties
  Above the enameled plain!
  America! America!
  God shed his grace on thee
  Till
  
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Soul Leister
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 1:29am
Not a very diverse chior… really surprised the left isn’t whining about that… the leftwing media seem real concerned when white kids are getting killed but they have yet to do the same level of coverage for the hundreds of minority kids (killed by minorities) since the beginning of the year… the left wing media are the real demonstrated bigots.

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iDeStroyFakeComPuterTroLLS
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 1:02am
I am not a conspiracy theorist. But I am starting to think that nobody died that day. I’ve seen some stuff on the internet that blew my mind. I really don’t know what to say any more. I don’t go around believing every one. I usually spend time and time to try and debunk peoples theories but something really fishy was going on in Sandy Hook. I know that for sure.

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- DoseofReality
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:51am
  No, you are just brainwashed by all the conspiracy theory nuts on this site….the anti government sentiment that you are exposed to daily on this and other crazy sites have clouded your logic and reason. Seriously…are all the parents lying? All the co-workers? All the first responders? All the lab and forensic people? All the morticians? Did the kids just disappear? Seriously man, get a grip and think for a few minutes before you shut your brain back off and absorb all the BS and lies that flood this site and posts on a daily basis.
  
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Farwalker
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 11:21pm
The leftist wretchedness knows no bounds. Still using the Sandy Hook children to push the agenda.

I surprised that a shooting didn’t occure but thankful of course.

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Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 11:07pm
poor kids. cute too. being paraded around and politicized.
this is repugnant.

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- DoseofReality
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:52am
  its 26 kids singing america the beautiful…there was no policitical message at all…you are one sick and sad individual
  
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- bannedfromCNN
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:35pm
  DOSEOFINSANITY:
  
  Are you really that naive?
  
  I predict the answer is “yes”.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 1:08pm
  Banned – tell me how that was polictically mocitvated you jerk? Seriously, you can infer that it was…but what about 26 young kids who have just gone through a very tramtic experience getting the honor to sing America the Beautiful during the super bowl was political? What message did they have? Where was the speech about gun control? Cant some things just be nice? Do you go through your whole life looking at alterior motives for everything….it must suck to go through life with your mentality.
  
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sparky239
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:34pm
hudson ruined that beautiful song with her sorry ghetto BS,just sing it with out all that ghetto crap.and quit exploiting those beautiful children

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:56pm
  Why are you guys always so racist?
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:52am
  Keatie, you’re such a brainwashed little lib. It isn’t racist to point out the obvious. Black performers always butcher songs by focusing too much on showing off their “range” and “versatility” by jumping from octave to octave instead of just singing the flippin song. She butchered that song, and Alicia Keys butchered The Star Bangled Banner. Stop trying to congratulate yourself for being “tolerant” when you people are anything but.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:10pm
  calling some one a hood rat… who isn’t a hood rat just because they are black.. that is racist.
  
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Kathleen3
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:25pm
Personally, I think these innocent children are being exploited to the point where it is now reprehensible.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:57pm
  Ya i’m sure they are all pretty mad they got to sing at the Super Bowl! and shame on America and CBS for recognizing and showing support to these victims!
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:53am
  Yes, Keatie. The left loves victims. Any victim you can parade before the public masses to get exposure for you cause du’jour. You people really are shameless.
  
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toomuchgovt
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:47pm
This is not going to be a popular opinion but it is mine. Why does everything have to be politicized? I am tired of everything from a dumbed down sitcom to a even dumber “reality” show having a political agenda, issue or social cause twisted into it. Can’t we just watch football? I guess Jennifer Hutson was representing the 30 + Chicago school kids murdered this year, why didn’t they have their sibling sing? Yes I fell bad for them, but I also feel bad for our country and the path we are on. I weep more for the country.

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- sligresda
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:55pm
  im glad you said that. i was just thinking to myself….why do we always have to beat a dead horse? sometimes (9/11) we have to let go. im not saying forget, but just let go and move on.
  
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- gauge
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:22pm
  My thoughts exactly!!!
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:58pm
  sligresda. we let go of 9/11 in 2008 you want us to let go of Sandy hook 2 months after?
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:59pm
  and toomuchgovt. how was this politicized? whats politicized about having these kids sing at the Super Bowl?
  
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- liltexasgal
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:32am
  I was just thinking the exact same thing. I’m getting sick and tired of everything being about politics.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:55am
  Keatie, when it fits you’re agenda, it’s not “politicizing” is it? You’re not dancing on the graves of dead kids to further an agenda, are you? Naaaah, of course not.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:56am
  How was this politized at the super bowl? Serioulsy…26 kids who have been through an extremely tramatixc experience were invited to sing America the beautiful at the Super bowl….there was no policitical message or overtones whatsoever.
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:09pm
A great performance to help heal the loss of 20 youngsters of that terrible tragedy.

I wonder, who will sing to help heal the loss of the 800,000 babies murdered every year in abortion clinics? Imagine how they could sing if they were given the chance at life.

Perspective. This country needs some.

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- Mojoron
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:28pm
  The ONLY reason why those kids were there were because of the mass murders. I feel sorry for them because when they get bigger they will look back and see the reason why their were there. Those little guys and girls have been badly used by the press, president and the NFL.
  
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Keatonc333
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:55pm
Beautiful.

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- A_CALL_TO_CONSCIENCE
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:17pm
  Yes she is. …..oh, you were talking about the kids.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:59pm
  Ah…. half and half
  
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Val_Dragon
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:55pm
The NFL is a racist organization. All 3 performances were by African Americans, the chief ref is black, 85% of each team is black. Most of the coverage is done by blacks. If there aren’t more black head coaches soon I am going to call in the rev Jessie Jackson to boycott the racist NFL.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:50pm
  seriously? no ones going to name the 20 or so white half time performers over the past 10 or so years?
  
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- iDeStroyFakeComPuterTroLLS
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 1:03am
  The Half Time show was also a disgrace and disrespectful to Christians.
  
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- bannedfromCNN
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:24pm
  Given all that, the CBS crew still claims the lack of a bl ack head coach this time around shows there is rampant racism in the NFL. How about affirmative action for more White running backs?
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:54pm
If you look at that picture, and say to yourself, you know, gun free zones really work, we should keep them, there is nothing wrong with a gun free zone, only your civil liberties prevent others from getting people that think that way on a national registry list for the mentally insane?

Yet the same people that want to keep these gun free zones, want to create more of them, by making it harder to own a gun, and infringe on your civil rights to bear arms?

Maybe the Chinese are right, if we treat Israel as an ally, there’s no reason for America to do business in South America, since politicians in America do not stand up to defend the things they swore defend, and you can’t trust them?

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Jaynie59
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:37pm
That was very moving, but I am so tired of great singers like Hudson using events like this to show off their vocal range. We know you can sing. Just sing the damn song the way it was meant to be sung.

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- aproudinfidel
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:22pm
  Amen. She ruined the great start those kids made. Boo.
  
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phillyboyinmemphis
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:31pm
i was so moved to tears before the first note was sung. By far the greatest performance at a super bowl surpassing Prince in 2007. GOD, please continue to take care of all that have been affected by that tradgedy. Jennifer really needed to let the children shine and to have not attempted to outshine our angels.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:20pm
  I think having jennifer was fitting. she lost family members to gun violence too just like a year ago.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:58am
  Oh my god – a sane and reasonable response to a moving tribute – thank you for this post – it shows me there still are reasonable people on the right.
  
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Metalstr8jckt
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:25pm
Yes, the redeeming part of Superbowl 47. The children

The rest: Beyonce looking more white than her dancers, all resplendent in their Dominatrix outfits.

Where’s the whips, and restraints? Guitar goddesses. The commercials the ad agencies created are lame attempts at social trends. Worst ever.

The best part is that players caught up in the excitement are catching receptions on the ground with both knees on the turf and getting up and attempting to score TD.s. ROTFL, 8 year old pee-wees know no way on that. Farce, what a joke for 4 hours.

The choir was great though. The Lord Bless all children.

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- Seagal45
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:05pm
  I totally agree, this game feels like it was sponsored by affirmative action and the pc police.
  
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banneryetwaves
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:20pm
Choir was great but would have been better without Jennifer Hudson! I thought the kids deserved the spotlight.

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Singinjeannie
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:04pm
I have heard quite a few Children’s Choirs from elementary schools and this was one really good elementary school choir. The Director must be something special. I agree with Just Happy – give these kids some new, GREAT memories – and something POSITIVE to be known for.

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- booger71
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:07pm
  I agree, but MS Hudson should have been left out of it, and let the children only sing.
  
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- phillyboyinmemphis
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:24pm
  i was so moved that even before the little angels began to sing, i was brought to tears. GOD bless all the children, the teachers and all who are affected. Jennifer needed to not try to outshine the children.i had alway felt that Prince put on the greatest performance at a super bowl… until our lil angels shined
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:25pm
  Good for those kids, I hope they grow-up believing in true freedom. The national anthem is living proof of our heritage; the progs will have to kill it before they ever truly disarm us.
  
  As to the halftime show I’d rather have seen Amy Winehouse’s corpse then that BS.
  
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just happy
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 7:50pm
amen

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Kupo
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 7:46pm
Call me a cynic, but this wasn’t any more special than any other elementary school choir performance might have been.

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- just happy
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 7:57pm
  no reason for cynicism. Consider the context and how important it is to the grieving process to have some thing good to do. Very few get to sing at the Super Bowl this gives them something to be proud of and to start new memories that say we can get back to normal- which will be a new normal, always tempered by the tragedy. You did a good job kids personally I liked your version better than Ms. Hudson’s but she did a good job too.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:22pm
  It was beautiful and it was manipulation. I’d almost call it abuse. But then again, I’m an individual and not one of the collective. We are an endangered species. CBS….USA PRAVDA. Big O directed this show himself no doubt.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 8:55pm
  Stelex.. manipulation really? to allow a school choir, that so recently saw one of the worst tragedies in American history, to sing at the super bowl? thats manipulation? What should we do? ignore all victims of tragedies to make sure theres no manipulation? what even are they trying to manipulate? do you think? I mean seriously. give me a break. you disgust me.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:10pm
  No disrespect to the SH kid’s choir, but it seemed to me that they were being used as a sympathy play. What was the green ribbon thing all about? Gun free ribbons? Why do they always have to come up with a ribbon? Ever since Tony Orlando and his yellow ribbon.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:14pm
  The green ribbon is to show awareness for those suffering from various illnesses… not a thing to do with guns, once again living up to your name MR. Irrelevant.
  
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- Restored One
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:14pm
  @ Stelex, I do agree about there being some possible manipulation, there was a donor who put up the bucks for the kids and their families to make the trip. Who was it? Also, I agree with many, the kids did not Hudson, however her family were vicitms of gun violence, so I dont see any nefarious actions from her.
  
  It is amazing however that all of the performers tonight were also the same people that were at the Obama indoctrination and the parties that followed.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:33pm
  Why does one NEED to show everyone else they are aware? Sounds like a liberal thing to me, where they are always concerned what everyone else thinks.
  As for the attempted put down, it was actually a compliment, as I chose the name for that very reason, because in the long run, what I say IS irrelevant.
  As your butty Sensei would say, it is so.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 9:44pm
  Keaton, I can only surmise that you are a complete idiot. The best thing for those kids is getting right back to a normal life, not having their experience glorified by the media. But being the idiot you are you cant see the forest from the trees. All this super bowl experience does is reinforce their pain, seems sweet to everyone else but. not so much in the long run. And there is no doubt that they were being used by the gov and the government media CBS to push an agenda. Progresives are the lowest form of life and deserve to be treated as such.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 10:14pm
  steelex… CBS isn’t government owned. its a private broadcasting corporation. And i don’t know if you’ve ever been through a tragedy, but normally a large showing of care and support helps quite a bit… but hey if you want to keep trying to ignore and and find a problem with everything that has to do with the sandy hook victims be my guest…. just know the rest of America views your view points as repugnant.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 11:19pm
  Keaton, you are repugnant. You are whats wrong with America. You and yours are killing this country. CBS may not be “government owned” but only a serious fool such as your self wouldn’t see the propaganda. And its not just cbs, abc, nbc, msnbc, cnn………you are such a loser, pathetic pos. You sir…….disgust me and almost every rational person on the planet. JAGOV
  
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No Grass
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 7:46pm
I think we all are proud to be American. I think that Chris Kyle loved this from his advantage point to. (kleenex…)

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truthseekerusa
Posted on February 3, 2013 at 7:30pm
God Bless them, everyone!

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- db321
  Posted on February 3, 2013 at 7:42pm
  God and all his Angels were leaning over the Balconies of Heaven with tears in their eyes. Great Performance Choir. I’ll buy a ticket to watch you live. Thank you.
  
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