The video is beyond appalling. Titled "Obama killer song," it's a hateful screed against the president set, of all things, to the tune of "The Sound of Silence."
It is the work of America Forever, the Sandy-based foundation that in February bought full-page, virulently anti-gay ads in The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News .
The same group just sent out 80,000 faxes basically saying the LDS Church "had no way out" of endorsing Salt Lake City's new ordinances protecting gays and transgendered people from job or housing discrimination.
The video, now playing on YouTube, features a man who appears to be light-skinned wearing a full-head Obama mask. Three men sing as the Obama figure skulks into a bedroom to "kill grandma" by strangling her in her sleep. He snatches a "U.S. Constitution" from an infant and burns it. He interrupts a CIA agent waterboarding a suspect and uses a noose -- a noose! -- to choke the agent.
It just gets worse: a couple of GI Joe figures holding hands, rainbows in the classroom. The Obama figure ducks into a room and emerges, transgendered, in a pink jacket and feather boa.
And the worst: the figure approaches a pregnant woman drowsing in a chair and stabs her belly repeatedly.
Oh, and the Obama figure with a scoped rifle taking aim at political opponents. The video ends, predictably, with a nuclear blast, followed by a statement that its makers got their information from America Forever, and you can too!
There's more, but you get the message.
Phone calls to the Draper number listed for America Forever were not returned Monday.
According to the Utah Department of Commerce, the group has active registrations under a variety of names -- America Forever Foundation, America Forever Campaign Foundation Inc., America Forever Child Protection Campaign Foundation. It's always styled itself as a protector of religious freedom and indeed the very nation, which it believes is under siege by the gay movement.
But now, America Forever also is a political action committee.
Ever since Barack Obama's election, such extremist viewpoints have escalated and debased "legitimate political discourse," says Todd Taylor, executive director of the Utah Democratic Party.
As for the America Forever PAC, "Anyone who finds themselves on their donor list should be ashamed, and it should disqualify them for any political future."
America Forever's principals, Sandra Rodrigues and Jonas Filho are American immigrants who apparently didn't get the "all men are created equal" message from Abraham Lincoln.
On another note, I'd love to know what the lawyers at Warner Bros.' music division are thinking about the rip-off of one of Simon and Garfunkel's oldest and loveliest songs.
