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'I Just Think This Let's Go Brandon Thing Is Really Disrespectful,' Says Man Wearing F--- TRUMP T-Shirt
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Discredited Hack Dan Rather Blasts 'Let's Go, Brandon' — Oh, What a Short Memory He Has
And what better opportunity for a former liberal media sockpuppet like Rather to once again step up to the hypocritical plate and do what he does best — completely humiliate himself. Again.
As reported by The Blaze, Rather and co-author Elliot Kirschner dropped a Substack essay titled “A Party Embraces Vulgarity” in which they attacked the LGB chant with a level of complete lack of self-awareness seldom seen — except by pretty much 100 percent of the left, that is:
Really? And that horrific “Let’s go Brandon” facemask? Awful. Wait — remember the horrible face, below, Dann-O? No, not Kathy Griffith — the severed head of Donald Trump covered in the blood.
And what better opportunity for a former liberal media sockpuppet like Rather to once again step up to the hypocritical plate and do what he does best — completely humiliate himself. Again.
As reported by The Blaze, Rather and co-author Elliot Kirschner dropped a Substack essay titled “A Party Embraces Vulgarity” in which they attacked the LGB chant with a level of complete lack of self-awareness seldom seen — except by pretty much 100 percent of the left, that is:
Really? And that horrific “Let’s go Brandon” facemask? Awful. Wait — remember the horrible face, below, Dann-O? No, not Kathy Griffith — the severed head of Donald Trump covered in the blood.
NPR Tries to Explain the 'Let's Go, Brandon' Chant, Crashes Hindenburg-Style
From the article…
The poor NPR guppies that wrote this must be so horrified with that opening of the article. They had to explain to their audience what this was and what it really meant and crush their readers’ hopes and dreams of everyone loving Joe Biden. If I try really hard I can almost feel their pain in typing this.
Almost.
The Biden administration has done something that most new administrations take years to do and that is to flip the public against them in less than 12 months. They can no longer blame Trump or any other boogeyman for this either. They are crashing the economy with rising inflation and energy prices. They made an absolute mess out of the pullout of Afghanistan and our relations with our allies overseas are worse than they were before January 20th of this year, and the cherry on top of the crap sundae is COVID.
Team Biden went from not trusting that damn Trump vaccine as candidates to now not only taking it but supporting forcing businesses and government to make you do so. Plus the boosters and the shots for kids as young as 5 years old. The country was not promised any of this last November and we are not happy.
That is why people of all walks of life from sea to shining sea are chanting “Let’s go, Brandon!” in place of “F$%^ Joe Biden!” I know this is a bit of a shocker to the folks over at NPR who believe that Washington D.C. and other satellite large cities on the coasts are truly the only places that matter.
From the article…
The poor NPR guppies that wrote this must be so horrified with that opening of the article. They had to explain to their audience what this was and what it really meant and crush their readers’ hopes and dreams of everyone loving Joe Biden. If I try really hard I can almost feel their pain in typing this.
Almost.
The Biden administration has done something that most new administrations take years to do and that is to flip the public against them in less than 12 months. They can no longer blame Trump or any other boogeyman for this either. They are crashing the economy with rising inflation and energy prices. They made an absolute mess out of the pullout of Afghanistan and our relations with our allies overseas are worse than they were before January 20th of this year, and the cherry on top of the crap sundae is COVID.
Team Biden went from not trusting that damn Trump vaccine as candidates to now not only taking it but supporting forcing businesses and government to make you do so. Plus the boosters and the shots for kids as young as 5 years old. The country was not promised any of this last November and we are not happy.
That is why people of all walks of life from sea to shining sea are chanting “Let’s go, Brandon!” in place of “F$%^ Joe Biden!” I know this is a bit of a shocker to the folks over at NPR who believe that Washington D.C. and other satellite large cities on the coasts are truly the only places that matter.
In the last 24 hours a former Clinton administration press secretary has equated people who say “Let’s Go, Brandon” with ISIS members, ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather has warned the phrase may lead to “violence,” and an NBC reporter has contacted the Secret Service to determine if novelty AR-15 parts bearing the anti-Biden phrase should be considered a threat to the president’s safety.
On Monday, MSNBC’s Joe Fryer boasted of “exclusive reporting on a dangerous way gun dealers are marketing their weapons including violent threats against President Biden.” Palmetto State Armory, a South Carolina-based firearms supplier, offers customers the lower part of an AR-15 engraved with the words “Let’s Go, Brandon” beneath a carving of what appears to be President Joe Biden with his arms outstretched above the checkered racing flag of NASCAR. Two other outlets have stocked AR-15 magazines with the phrase, one with a picture of a mask-clad President Biden raising his index finger, the other bearing an addled-looking caricature of the president.
Dilanian was joined by others who attempted to paint the use of a political slogan as a form of domestic terrorism.
“You know who also had coded statements like Brandon? ISIS, the Klan, Nazi’s…beginning to get the point?” tweeted Joe Lockhart, the former White House press secretary for President Bill Clinton and a current CNN political analyst. (Lockhart’s father, Raymond Lockhart, also served as director of NBC’s nightly news program, “The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”)
The broad-brush accusation drew instant condemnation. “You know who else drank water,” responded Jessica O’Donnell of The Blaze.
Dave Rubin playfully took Lockhart’s statement apart, saying, “Brandon is here. We love him. You will not stop him.”
www.dailywire.com
On Monday, MSNBC’s Joe Fryer boasted of “exclusive reporting on a dangerous way gun dealers are marketing their weapons including violent threats against President Biden.” Palmetto State Armory, a South Carolina-based firearms supplier, offers customers the lower part of an AR-15 engraved with the words “Let’s Go, Brandon” beneath a carving of what appears to be President Joe Biden with his arms outstretched above the checkered racing flag of NASCAR. Two other outlets have stocked AR-15 magazines with the phrase, one with a picture of a mask-clad President Biden raising his index finger, the other bearing an addled-looking caricature of the president.
Dilanian was joined by others who attempted to paint the use of a political slogan as a form of domestic terrorism.
“You know who also had coded statements like Brandon? ISIS, the Klan, Nazi’s…beginning to get the point?” tweeted Joe Lockhart, the former White House press secretary for President Bill Clinton and a current CNN political analyst. (Lockhart’s father, Raymond Lockhart, also served as director of NBC’s nightly news program, “The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”)
The broad-brush accusation drew instant condemnation. “You know who else drank water,” responded Jessica O’Donnell of The Blaze.
Dave Rubin playfully took Lockhart’s statement apart, saying, “Brandon is here. We love him. You will not stop him.”
NBC Reporter Asks Secret Service If ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ AR-15 Part Is Threatening
In the last 24 hours a former Clinton administration press secretary has equated people who say “Let’s Go, Brandon” with ISIS members, ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather has warned the phrase may lead to “violence,” and an NBC reporter has contacted the Secret Service to determine if novelty AR-15...
Why Are the Media Treating 'Let's Go Brandon' Like Criminal Hate Speech?
Keep in mind that what touched off this public freakout was an Associated Press story asserting that a pilot had uttered the statement. We don't have audio footage of it, though I did listen to audio from another incident involving a pilot allegedly saying "let's go Brandon," and guess what? It really sounded like he was saying "let's go Braves," as in the sports team. I don't know if that's what happened here, but I would bet it was a simple misunderstanding. Even if it wasn't, it would be wrong to treat the utterance of "let's go Brandon" as a crime, or terrorist behavior.
Make no mistake: The chant is clearly First Amendment–protected speech, even if some would consider it hate speech. Contrary to what many progressive activists naively assume, hate speech is free speech. There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment, because there is no mutually agreed-upon definition of hate speech, and there are no Supreme Court decisions supporting such an exception. The Supreme Court has carved out some categories of speech that don't qualify for protection—threats of imminent violence, for instance—but hate speech isn't one of them. On the contrary, the right to insult political leaders and government officials is perhaps the most important and obvious component of the First Amendment.
Ken Dilanian of NBC News said he called to ask the Secret Service whether "let's go Brandon" emblazoned on an assault rifle represented a security threat to the president, which he thinks "is a reasonable question."
That isn't a reasonable question at all. Here's a reasonable question: Why do mainstream media figures think their main job is to police speech that offends Democrats?
Keep in mind that what touched off this public freakout was an Associated Press story asserting that a pilot had uttered the statement. We don't have audio footage of it, though I did listen to audio from another incident involving a pilot allegedly saying "let's go Brandon," and guess what? It really sounded like he was saying "let's go Braves," as in the sports team. I don't know if that's what happened here, but I would bet it was a simple misunderstanding. Even if it wasn't, it would be wrong to treat the utterance of "let's go Brandon" as a crime, or terrorist behavior.
Make no mistake: The chant is clearly First Amendment–protected speech, even if some would consider it hate speech. Contrary to what many progressive activists naively assume, hate speech is free speech. There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment, because there is no mutually agreed-upon definition of hate speech, and there are no Supreme Court decisions supporting such an exception. The Supreme Court has carved out some categories of speech that don't qualify for protection—threats of imminent violence, for instance—but hate speech isn't one of them. On the contrary, the right to insult political leaders and government officials is perhaps the most important and obvious component of the First Amendment.
Ken Dilanian of NBC News said he called to ask the Secret Service whether "let's go Brandon" emblazoned on an assault rifle represented a security threat to the president, which he thinks "is a reasonable question."
That isn't a reasonable question at all. Here's a reasonable question: Why do mainstream media figures think their main job is to police speech that offends Democrats?