{"id":73901,"date":"2021-11-04T13:53:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=73901"},"modified":"2021-11-04T13:53:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:53:50","slug":"73901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=73901","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Left has short memory in \u2018Let\u2019s go Brandon\u2019 outrage<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a crisis afoot in the land \u2014 people are being rude to President Joe Biden.<\/div>\n
The trend of anti-Biden protestors chanting or holding signs saying \u201c(Expletive) Joe Biden,\u201d or the cleaner version that has come to signify the same thing, \u201cLet\u2019s go Brandon,\u201d is being portrayed as a new low in American politics.<\/div>\n
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A recent Washington Post report was headlined, \u201cBiden\u2019s Critics Hurl Increasingly Vulgar Taunts.\u201d It stipulated presidents have always been the subject of derision and abuse, then claimed, \u201cThe current eruption of anti-Biden signs and chants, however, is on another level, far more vulgar, and widespread.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Really? Put aside all the abuse presidents were subjected to prior to the digital age, whether John Quincy Adams (\u201cpimp\u201d), Andrew Jackson (\u201ca greater tyrant than Cromwell, Cesar, or Bonaparte\u201d), Martin van Buren (\u201cMartin van Ruin\u201d), Abraham Lincoln (\u201cthe original gorilla\u201d) or Theodore Roosevelt (\u201cthat damned cowboy\u201d). The last few years weren\u2019t exactly a mannerly period of polite disagreement in our national life.<\/div>\n
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As Byron York of the Washington Examiner has noted, Donald Trump\u2019s opponents gloried in the F-word, such that without it some of them would have been rendered practically mute. When Robert De Niro introduced Bruce Springsteen at the 2018 Tony Awards, he used the opportunity to declare: \u201cI\u2019m gonna say one thing. (Expletive) Trump.\u201d Cue the standing ovation.<\/div>\n
A Los Angeles art gallery had a \u201c(Expletive)Trump\u201d exhibit, rapper Eminem led an \u201c(Expletive) Trump\u201d call-and-response at a concert in England, and so on.<\/div>\n
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The new progressive rule is \u201c(Expletive) you\u201d for me, but not for thee.<\/div>\n
The \u201c(Expletive) Joe Biden\u201d chant took an unexpected turn last month. The NASCAR driver Brandon Brown won a race at the Talladega Superspeedway and the reporter interviewing him misstated a growing \u201c(Expletive) Joe Biden\u201d chant in the background as fans saying, \u201cLet\u2019s go Brandon.\u201d<\/div>\n
The substitute version of the insult, instantly adopted by the president\u2019s critics, is more lighthearted than the original. Fundamentally, it\u2019s a joke. It is a gibe at Biden, but also at the misreporting of the chant at the raceway, taken as a symbol of the media\u2019s ridiculous protectiveness toward Biden.<\/div>\n
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The chant is also amusingly anodyne, given its provenance. Who can object to the cheering on Brandon, whoever he is?<\/div>\n
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Not everyone appreciates the humor, though. When a Southwest Airlines pilot allegedly spoke the offending phrase over the intercom on a flight with an Associated Press reporter on board, the outrage machine kicked into gear in a particularly blatant display of humorlessness and lack of proportion.<\/div>\n
Harvard professor and CNN commentator Juliette Kayyem posted a missive supposedly from another pilot calling for the Southwest pilot and the crew all to be fired on grounds that he must have been too mentally unbalanced to operate the plane.<\/div>\n
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Of course, pilots shouldn\u2019t make political announcements on their flights, and it\u2019d be better if no one resorted to public obscenities when referring to Biden, Trump or any other officeholder. But it\u2019s one of the privileges of living in a democratic age that people can insult the head of state without fear of jail or other punishment.<\/div>\n
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Anyone who thinks deriding a U.S. president is breaking new, dangerous ground knows nothing of our history or what it\u2019s like to live in a clamorous continental nation. Partisan insults, vulgar and not, come with the territory.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Left has short memory in \u2018Let\u2019s go Brandon\u2019 outrage There\u2019s a crisis afoot in the land \u2014 people are being rude to President Joe Biden. The trend of anti-Biden protestors chanting or holding signs saying \u201c(Expletive) Joe Biden,\u201d or the cleaner version that has come to signify the same thing, \u201cLet\u2019s go Brandon,\u201d is being … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73902,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73901\/revisions\/73902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}