South Korean rapper Psy — you may have heard of him — spent time during the last decade attending anti-American protests in his country. He even rapped the following about the Americans:
Kill those Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives/Kill those Yankees who ordered them to torture/Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, and fathers/Kill them slowly and painfully
Psy is meeting President Obama Sunday and will be in a Christmas TV special with him that airs on December 21. Those old lyrics about killing Americans “slowly and painfully” are suddenly a problem for him.
So here comes the “sorry I was caught” apology.
“As a proud South Korean who was educated in the United States and lived there for a very significant part of my life, I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world,” said Psy in a statement. “The song – from eight years ago – was part of a deeply emotional reaction to the war in Iraq and the killing of two innocent Korean civilians that was part of the overall antiwar sentiment shared by others around the world at that time. While I’m grateful for the freedom to express one’s self I’ve learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I’m deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted. I will forever be sorry for any pain I have caused anyone by those words.
The statement continues, “I have been honored to perform in front of American soldiers in recent months – including an appearance on the Jay Leno show specifically for them – and I hope they and all Americans can accept my apology. While it’s important we express our opinions, I deeply regret the inflammatory and inappropriate language I used to do so. In my music I try to give people a release, a reason to smile. I have learned that though music, our universal language we can all come together as a culture of humanity and I hope that you will accept my apology.”
His “Gangnam Style” video has been watched more than 902 million times since it was uploaded to YouTube in July. It has spawned more imitations and copycats than Elvis. Now it turns out that it came from a bona fide America hater.
The two innocent Koreans were two schoolgirls who were killed in an accident involving two US soldiers stationed in Korea. Their accident in no way justified rapping about killing Americans “slowly and painfully.” Nor did the bad actions of a few US troops in a war zone that Psy cannot comprehend.
This fellow lived in this country and is from a country that America has protected for 60 years. More than 50,000 Americans died protecting his country, and countless Americans put their lives on the line to protect his country across the decades.
For what? So ingrates can turn around and fantasize about killing Americans? Why do we do this?
I think I’m done with the world. It’s not just this idiot, it’s how the entire world treats the United States like a fool and a villain. Maybe it’s time to pull all of our troops out of every nation that we currently protect and cut them all loose. No more military protection. No more disaster relief. No more foreign aid. Nothing. We take care of our own and no one else.
“Maybe it’s time to pull all of our troops out of every nation that we currently protect and cut them all loose. No more military protection. No more disaster relief. No more foreign aid. Nothing.”
Yep. This guy can rap about hating America all he wants, in the dark, in the cold, eating wall paper paste along with his countrymen up north.
No wait, what am I thinking? He’d get his face kicked in for rapping.
I think I’m done with the world. It’s not just this idiot, it’s how the entire world treats the United States like a fool and a villain. Maybe it’s time to pull all of our troops out of every nation that we currently protect and cut them all loose. No more military protection. No more disaster relief. No more foreign aid. Nothing. We take care of our own and no one else.
I’m with you Bryan. 100%.
The problem is that the Progs won’t let us be just robustly self-confident Americans, doing our own thing.. We must die so their dream of the world they think will come may flourish.
Their wtong on that world, of course, but by the time it gets realized it may be too late.
I can see the day some years in the future, when the world is a smoking ruin, not from war but from decades of economic chaos, and some starving “progressive” finally admits “Well maybe socialism didn’t work after all. I guess you never know unless you tried”. He then shrugs his shoulders, lifts his gun and goes in search of someone elses food to “share”.
Socialism won’t end of its own accord until the world is destroyed.
– call the roll.
I wonder if they use wood-chippers in North Korea the way Hussein did. If they do, it is mainly because of Americans that South Koreans never got shredded over the last 60 years.
Not impressed.
“As a proud South Korean who was educated in the United States and lived there for a very significant part of my life …”
THAT is the problem: that he was educated in the United States. Don’t blame the Koreans: blame his American education … and of course his limited intellect. (But we are all limited.)
A significant percentage of young Koreans don’t remember the war (having grown up well after the DMZ was established) and don’t really “get” why the US troops are there. All they know of US troops are any crimes servicemen may commit while there or any bad behavior they see when troops visit the cities.
Then again, last decade if a singer had a song that wasn’t anti-American, that was news. Every so-called pop star and wannabe “punk” had to put out an anti-war, anti-Bush, anti-US song for street cred. It was considered “edgy” for some reason even though everyone else did it.
That’s why the naive and generous Americans are easier marks than fish in barrel for the long term Andropov program.
Pull US troops out? Sure, and the troops from the other side will be that much closer to the US, and the other side’s wealth and power are that much increased.
You are done with the world, Bryan and LGoPs? There is no other planet to run to and they’ll come for you if you lock yourself up with canned food and ammo on an island.
I ran to the US from Brezhnev’s USSR (thanks, Jackson-Vanik). There’s no place to run now — take a stand, people. The Big Con is here and you can still fight it with speech, and open the eyes of those conned by it, even if one by one. If you give up, you can wait for Andropov’s grandchildren to come for you and yours.
Andropov doesn’t have any grandchildren. The Communists overrunning the US were mostly born here.
Maybe its time?
It was time back when the world scratched its collective tuchas while Reagan ran away after the Marine barracks was bombed in Beirut.
It was overdue when Bush the Younger had to negotiate and failed with Turkey for the liberation of Iraq.
It was thoroughly past due when the Pakistanis cut off supply because we killed terrorists they were harboring.
It was time when Korea and Japan put up barriers to trade, then demanded higher rents for the bases and more restrictions on the American troops manning them to keep their countries safe.
It was overdue when the EU sneered at us for spending too much on our military then demanded more money for financial bailouts.
It was thoroughly past due when the UN presumed to monitor our elections then demanded the U.S. fund more panels run by dictatorships to denounce the U.S.
Maybe its time?
Specific bilateral treaties with less than a dozen nations and the rest of them can pound sand and beg us to make them client states or favored protectorates when they go under the next time.
– not accepted, wog. Give us reparations.
What happened, someone tell him who save his granparents from the Norks? If his parents had actully ever been born, he’d be eating grass and branches for his weekly meal if the US military hadn’t intervened.
I guess “Gangnam” is korean for “stupid” if not at least for “ignorant”.
I might expound at length on what I feel is the true cause for his hatred of America and its military but this is a family-oriented website.