Presenting the official Oklahoma rock song, "Do You Realize" written and sung by an Oklahoma band, The Flaming Lips, though it took an official Governors' executive order! Legislators barely voted it out. Why, for one..Rep. Corey
Holland was offended by the T-shirts worn by a band member once, a present from the frontman Ivan's wife. It bore a hammer and sickle, tradional of the Communist Party. Ivans was offended at being thought un-American. Next, Mike Reynolds
denounced Coyne for using a bad word. Oh the horror!
The band is appreciative of the Governor's intervention. Previously, on Friday, frontman Coynes had given an interview to the Tulsa World Newspaper
"Me, I just say look, it's a little minority of some small-minded religious wackos who think they can tell people what kind of T-shirts and what kind of
music they can listen to, and the smart, rational, reasonable people of Oklahoma are never going to buy into that,"
I'm very glad to say that the rational and reasonable prevailed this time!
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