A reader writes:
If Bohemian Rhapsody caused such an uproar for the high school, does this mean that they don't play "We Will Rock You" or "We Are the Champions" at the local hockey games? Those are classics in the sports world!
I also can't imagine they don't play Gary Glitter's "Rock'n Roll Pt.2" at hockey games in Wasilla. The pounding of hockey sticks on the ice to the beat of this song is a mainstay in most hockey leagues. If they do play this famed song, does that mean that while a song written by a homosexual like Freddy Mercury is outrageous, songs by Gary Glitter, a man with a history of child pornography and statutory rape, are ok? What makes his truly abominable actions acceptable? The fact that the victims were female, so at least he's straight?
Another writes:
It is striking that on this measure, Wasilla High School is less open and tolerant than Iran.
Another passes along a parody from "the comments section on the Wasilla flap over Bohemian Rhapsody. This MUST be circulated:"
SondraTompkins: May 13, 2011 at 3:00 am
Is this the real life?
Or is it just fantasy?
Caught in the Valley
Not a part of reality…Open your eyes
We don’t like gay guys
You see…I’m just like Sarah
I have no empathy
I like Jesus Christ (and Prevo)
I’m hetero, not homoAnyway my cash grows
That’s what really matters to me
To ME!Mama.
The Paliban.
Put a gun up to my head.
Pulled the trigger
But I’m not dead.Mama.
They can’t shoot a gun.
Or else
They would
Have blown my ### away.Mama, oooo (anyway my cash grows)
Didn’t mean to make you cry
If my chin implant’s not in this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, cause the look is all that mattersIt’s too late.
Bin Laden’s gone.
Sends shivers down my spine.
Why can’t the glory all be mine?
Goodbye, everybody, I’ve got to go
To get a nip and tuck so I can face the truth…
Mama, ooo (anyway my cash grows)
I don’t want to lie
I sometimes wish I could tell the truth at all.(Opera Section)
I’M WEARING LITTLE RED STILETTOS ON MY FEET!
SARAH LOU!
DO YOU THINK
BRISTOL’S SHOW IS LIKE MANDINGO?
BLUNDERS DOLTS INFIGHTING
TELL-ALL BOOKS ENLIGHTENING
ME!
GALLERIA! GALLERIA!
GALLERIA! SHOES FOR ME-A!
GALLERIA! And ZAPPO’S!MAGNIFICO!
I’m just a poor girl, everybody HATES me!
(SHE’S JUST A POOR GIRL, FIVE SCHOOLS FOR ONE DEGREE!)
McCAIN SPARE US ALL FROM THIS MONSTROSITY!(Easy come, easy go, rolling in the dough!)
PEPTOBISMOL! NO! IT WILL NOT LET US GO!
(LET ME GO!) PEPTOBISMOL! IT WILL NOT LET US GO!
(LET ME GO!) PEPTOBISMOL! IT WILL NOT LET US GO!
(LET ME GO) WILL NOT LET YOU GO!
(LET ME GO) Will not let you go (let us go) Ah
No no no no no no no
(Oh mama mia, Galleria) mama mia let us go!Thomas Muthee’s pulled a DEVIL from inside of ME!
From ME!
From ME!
From ME!(guitar solo)
So you think you can NOMINATE me, then spit in my eye?
So you think Katie Couric’s the apple of your eye?
Oh baby, Barry’s a Kenyan maybe!!!
Just gotta get out
Just get the white vote out of here!Ooh yeah ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me.(Anyway my cash grows)
Gong!
The Dish 