{"id":361439,"date":"2021-11-02T03:12:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T00:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sorry-media-lets-go-brandon-isnt-a-new-low-in-us-politics\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T03:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T00:12:30","slug":"sorry-media-lets-go-brandon-isnt-a-new-low-in-us-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sorry-media-lets-go-brandon-isnt-a-new-low-in-us-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"#Sorry, media, \u2018Let\u2019s go, Brandon\u2019 isn\u2019t a new low in US politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Sorry, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>, \u2018Let\u2019s go, Brandon\u2019 isn\u2019t a new low in US politics<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There\u2019s a crisis afoot in the land \u2014 people are being rude to President Joe Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Media are portraying the new trend of anti-Biden protesters chanting or holding signs saying, \u201cF\u2014 Joe Biden,\u201d or the cleaner version that has come to signify the same thing, \u201cLet\u2019s go, Brandon,\u201d as a new low in American politics.<\/p>\n<p>A recent Washington Post report was headlined \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-vulgar-signs-chants\/2021\/10\/22\/6071836e-3122-11ec-a880-a9d8c009a0b1_story.html\">Biden\u2019s Critics Hurl Increasingly Vulgar Taunts<\/a>.\u201d It stipulated that 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<\/p>\n<p>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, Caesar 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Byron York of the Washington Examiner <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/byron-yorks-daily-memo-biden-brandon-and-f-word-politics\">has noted<\/a>, 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. F\u2014 Trump.\u201d Cue the standing ovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Los Angeles art gallery had a \u201cF\u2014 Trump\u201d art exhibit, the r<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er Eminem led a \u201cF\u2014 Trump\u201d call-and-response at a concert in England and so on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If lobbing this particular vulgarity is now completely out of bounds, the new progressive rule is \u201cF\u2014 you\u201d for me but not for thee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>After gaining traction with roadside demonstrators outside Biden events and with college football fans, the \u201cF\u2014 Joe Biden\u201d chant took an unexpected turn last month. NASCAR driver Brandon Brown won a race at the Talladega Superspeedway and the reporter interviewing him misstated a growing \u201cF\u2014 Joe Biden\u201d chant in the background as fans saying, \u201cLet\u2019s go, Brandon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scene was like something out of the Will Farrell comedy \u201cTalladega Nights.\u201d A meme was born.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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, of course, but also at the misreporting of the chant at the raceway, which is taken as a symbol of the media\u2019s\u00a0ridiculous protectiveness toward Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The chant is also amusingly anodyne, given its provenance: Who can object to the cheering on Brandon, whoever he is?<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harvard professor and CNN commentator Juliette Kayyem posted a missive supposedly from another pilot calling for the Southwest pilot and crew to be fired, on grounds that the pilot must have been too mentally unbalanced to operate the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Asha Rangappa, another CNN commentator and a Yale law professor, compared the pilot\u2019s statement with saying, \u201cLong live ISIS,\u201d as if expressing an anti-Biden sentiment in a jokey way is the same as pledging loyalty to a terror group that would love its acolytes to crash airliners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, pilots shouldn\u2019t make political announcements on\u00a0their flights, and it\u2019d be better if no one resorted to public\u00a0obscenities when referring to Biden, Trump or any other officeholder. But one of the privileges of living in a democratic age is that people can insult the head of state without fear of jail or other punishment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who thinks deriding a US president, especially an unpopular one, 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.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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