Oh say, can you believe this nonsense?

Musically, the Star-Spangled Banner is far from perfect.

But it's hardly an annoyance compared to the butchering of the national anthem a group of activist Spanish-speaking musicians has committed by rewriting some of the lyrics, in Spanish — or, better put, Spanglish — to boost their position on immigration reform.

I know that ours is a nation of many cultures, and that our national identity, in part, is defined by the diversity. But we also have many symbols and practices — including the singing of the National Anthem, with the words written by Francis Scott Key, and in English — that give us a distinctly American identity. Americans don't require new arrivals to dispense with their old customs — those customs make America better and stronger — but we do expect that they will attempt assimilation and not bitch and moan and rewrite American songs when things don't go their way.

So exactly how does "Nuestro Himno" make us a more United States of America?

It is idiocies like this that threaten to spark a backlash and threaten any sensible reform — which should include both tighter enforcement at the border and a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants — of the nation's immigration laws.

Listen to a clip of this musical and cultural nightmare at Hot Air.

And if that doesn't piss you off, just wait until you read the lyrics.

(H/T to Michelle Malkin, who first wrote about this last week.)