Obama Nails the National Anthem

From Beskweekever.tv:

Let me first say that there is absolutely nothing funny about the recent West Virginia mine disaster. Twenty Nine men, all of whom had friends and family who loved them, lost their lives. Every day, they descended into a mine knowing that a certain level of danger was inherent in their work, yet, by all accounts, they were happy to do it. They performed one of the few jobs left in America that actually produces something. They dug into the earth and came back up with the very thing that allowed the rest of us to live our lives with comfort. Our lights come on with the simple flick of a switch, but only because men and women like these have the skill and fortitude to, day after day, climb into the bowels of earth and tunnel further and further away from safety. Now they are gone. And there is nothing funny about that.

However.

There was this thing that happened during the memorial service. As a man came to the podium to sing the national anthem, the TV cameras focused not on him, but instead, on Barack Obama who was singing along. And it looked like this:

Chatroulette Improv by Merton and Ben Folds's Tribute

This is a few days old, but earlier last week this video was posted to youtube by a gentlemen who calls himself "Merton". Many people immediately speculated that this was Ben Folds but Merton responded, denying that fact. Ben Folds must have heard about this and thought it was amusing, because he staged a tribute to Merton at his concert in Charlotte NC Friday night, live on stage. First video if Merton's original. The second video if Ben Folds's tribute.