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Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Links - 9th March 2022 (1 - Let's Go Brandon)

'Let's Go Brandon' Bryson Gray's banned anti-Biden rap is No. 1 - "The 30-year-old rapper believes his single shot to No. 1 because of the YouTube ban...  “Cancel culture doesn’t work anymore. It only works on people who are scared … all it does is help me out. Thanks, YouTube!”  The North Carolina-born musician composed his song earlier this month in response to NBC’s coverage of a NASCAR race in Alabama on Oct. 2. During that event, crowds were heard chanting, “F–k Joe Biden,” but an NBC anchor insisted they were actually chanting, “Let’s go, Brandon,” in reference to a win by race car driver Brandon Brown... Instagram says the song violates community guidelines for sharing “harmful false information” about the current COVID-19 pandemic, as it features the lines “Pandemic ain’t real, they just planned it” and “Biden said the jab stop the spread, it was lies.”... “If you’re going to ban people, you’ve got to remain consistent. There’s rap songs out there about killing people. On YouTube you can talk about murder, you can talk about sex, you can talk about whatever you want, but I can’t simply question the narrative or I’ll get banned. When did they start banning art?”   Gray appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio show Tuesday to discuss his incendiary new track, similarly saying people on the left were allowed to say whatever they wanted without fear of being censored.  “They can literally do whatever they want,” said Gray. “Meanwhile, we can’t even question, make a joke, then we’re banned on platforms if we do that.”"
So much for us never being told that the covid vaccines stopped transmission

Censored ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Rapper: ‘Only One Side Has Free Speech’ - "“They can say whatever they want about Jesus and get away with it. They can literally do whatever they want. Meanwhile, we can’t even question, make a joke, then we’re banned on platforms if we do that,” Gray continued. “But the good side of it is, if you see what happened to this song, it shot up to number one, but I do not think it would be number one if they didn’t ban it.”"

Oregon father of four who told President Biden ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ on Christmas Eve call said he meant it in jest - "The phrase “Let’s Go, Brandon” has become a conservative dig at the Democratic president, a code for “F--- Joe Biden,” which resulted from an Oct. 2 NASCAR race in Alabama, where a crowd was shouting the vulgar chant, but a TV reporter suggested during an interview with the winning driver Brandon Brown that the crowd actually was chanting, “Let’s go, Brandon.” Brown had just won his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race... The First Lady winced, and the president immediately responded, “Let’s Go Brandon, I agree.”... Schmeck called his remark a “joke,” and a reflection of his frustration with Biden’s policies, including the federal vaccine mandates, inflation and global supply chain problems that have caused shortages in consumer products.  “And now I am being attacked for utilizing my freedom of speech,” Schmeck said, adding that he’s been receiving some vague but threatening phone calls since the Santa tracker call."

Biden Mocked Online After Agreeing With ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’: ‘He Is More Clueless Than We Even Thought’ - "Amber Athey, reporter: “I see the same media people that fawned over a woman on a bicycle flipping off Trump’s motorcade is just apoplectic that someone said Let’s Go Brandon.”"

Meme - "NBC News is now calling "Let's go Brandon" a right wing slur. But didn't they create the phrase?"

NASCAR Driver Who Inspired ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Says Now ‘Extremely Difficult’ To Get Sponsorships

Greg Pollowitz on Twitter - "The fact that @SouthwestAir has not moved faster with their Brandon pilot indicates a much broader problem. My guess is many if not most of their pilots are totally ok with it and the airline is afraid the pilots will walk. Let that sink in."
"My guess is many if not most of the anchors on CNN are totally ok with someone who lied to smear a young woman during a sex scandal. Let that sink in."

Facebook - "Communists always believe that not getting their way anytime they bully someone "indicates a much broader problem" that would require a "systemic" solution where they get more power. Deny them this. Every time. Let's go Brandon!"

Southwest Airlines Pilot Says ‘Let’s Go Brandon.’ CNN Analyst Likens Remark To ‘Long Live ISIS’ - "Rangappa, who is also a senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a former FBI agent, provided another example of legacy media critics indiscriminately comparing people presumed to be conservatives to terrorists, a trend that has metastasized from pro-life leaders to concerned parents at school board meetings.  Others hurled terrorist accusations at the airline, which relaxed its COVID-19 vaccine mandate after being forced to cancel more than 1,800 flights. Lindy Li, whom Vanity Fair describes as a “Biden operative,” tweeted Saturday that the airline’s “CEO opposes Biden’s vaccine mandate & won’t fire anyone who defies it, thus condoning bioterrorism.” Li, who also called the pilot “mentally impaired”... In 2019, Rangappa tweeted that the U.S. Constitution had run its course. But she found no threat in the Obama administration spying on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, insisting that “the FBI may have been acting cautiously — perhaps too cautiously — to protect the campaign, not undermine it,” she said. “Ironically, the FBI’s apparent attempt to protect the campaign by investigating Russia’s efforts quietly is now being weaponized against it.”  Last April, she deceptively implied that the president wanted U.S. governors to save ventilators, so he could send them to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He’s hoarding ventilators to give to…Russia??!?” she tweeted. In fact, the president promised to aid a wide variety of nations suffering from a lack of adequate medical equipment during the COVID-19 global pandemic. “We’re going to be helping Italy, Spain, France, other nations,” he said, placing Russia rhetorically at the end of the list. Last July, Rangappa was accused of a “breach of confidentiality” for speculating on the terms of CNN’s settlement with Nick Sandmann, the minor teenager accosted by a Baby Boomer American Indian activist who beat a drum in his face."

Southwest Airlines Pilot ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Claim By AP Under Question - "an Associated Press reporter sparked a national story by claiming that a Southwest Airlines pilot had signed off his greeting last Friday to passengers by saying, “Let’s Go Brandon,” the ubiquitous phrase used as a substitute for “F*** Joe Biden.”  But further reports indicate that not only was the phrase in the audio clipped so it was possible the pilot was saying “Let’s Go Braves,” rather than “Let’s Go Brandon,” the audio reportedly did not come from last Friday, but at least two weeks earlier...
'as far as i can tell, the sole source for the southwest story is a lone AP lunatic who bragged she demanded access to the locked cockpit after she supposedly heard the pilot say the phrase. so, you’ll excuse me as i await secondary confirmation before I believe the story.'"

The Meme Policeman - Posts | Facebook - "“Let’s Go Brandon” is another Trump Team profile in cowardice. If you really wanna say “F—k Joe Biden” why don’t you just come right out and say it?"
"The reason Let’s Go Brandon continues to be so successful is that its opponents don’t seem to understand the joke. The crowd DID say “F—k Joe Biden!” That’s the joke; that the media tried to turn what everyone was obviously chanting into something more palatable 🤦‍♂️"

Meme - "People who say, "Let's go Brandon!"
Me, an intellectual, who has been saying "Drumpf" the last four years."

NASCAR Exec Expresses Sympathy for Reporter Who Fabricated 'Let's Go, Brandon' Chant

Anti-Biden rallying cry 'Lets Go Brandon' causes mainstream media meltdown - ""This is, I think, a witty and funny viral take on the media’s dishonesty that they tell us something that is clearly not true that we can see with our own eyes, and that is why I think it’s so popular with so many people," Outkick founder Clay Travis said on Monday during "America’s Newsroom."   But the chant’s popularity has infuriated the left, resulting in an onslaught of angry tweets, columns and hot takes from liberal pundits. NPR labeled the term "vulgar" and CNN’s Edward-Issac Dovere was so offended by the phrase that he called it "an inside joke telling the president of the United States to perform a sexual act on himself."  Washington Post reporters Ashley Parker and Carissa Wolf wrote on what they considered "vitriol" from Biden critics in a piece titled "Biden’s critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts."... CNN analyst Asha Rangappa compared the pilot to an ISIS sympathizer... Liberals spent years applauding and celebrating vulgar rhetoric aimed at former President Donald Trump. Robert de Niro once received a standing ovation from the glamorous Hollywood crowd attending the Tony Awards by simply uttering, "f—k Trump."   Critics of Trump also threatened to blow up the White House, posed with a mock severed head of the former president, and celebrated his fictional assassination in an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." Journalist Mark Hemingway took notice of the hypocrisy and mocked the left on Twitter.   "The Let's Go Brandon angst is really something -- you don't get to spend decades normalizing the profane and politicizing every public square and then pretend decorum has been breached when you hear something you don't like in an inappropriate setting""

Babylon Bee Says Facebook Post with 'Let's Go Brandon' Joke ‘100% Being Suppressed' - "  This is not the first time Babylon Bee or members of its staff have faced suppression issues or censorship.  Left-wing “fact checker” Snopes has repeatedly targeted Babylon Bee for satire stories, particularly ones that mock CNN and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).  “The Babylon Bee has managed to fool readers with its brand of satire in the past,” Snopes has ominously warned.   In 2020, Facebook demonetized the Bee’s page in response to a story teasing Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) with a joke from Monty Python and the Holy Grail — even after an appeal and manual review, saying the article “incites violence.”  In 2019, Instagram removed a cartoon shared by Babylon Bee founder Adam Ford for “hate speech.” As previously reported by PJ Media, the cartoon comparing “the moral outrage of abortion to the moral outrage of slavery” was removed from app for allegedly breaching the Facebook-owned platform’s “Community Guidelines on hate speech or symbols.”   “This is the third time a Facebook property has tried to silence me without any justification,” Ford told PJ Media at the time. “The first was for a comic defending traditional marriage, and the second was when I was running The Babylon Bee and they tried to label it as ‘fake news.’ It just keeps happening. And it only seems to happen to conservatives.”  During a July interview with Breitbart News, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon warned self-censorship — both online and offline — to evade left-wing criticisms and blacklisting is “doing the tyrant’s work for him.”"

WaPo ‘Forced to Admit They Lied' After Covering Up FJB Chant - "the Post article, written by Ashley Parker and Carissa Wolf, claimed the crowd in Georgia took the cue and “broke into cries of “Let’s go Brandon,” despite clear video footage showing that crowd was cheering “F*ck Joe Biden.”... After the publication was called out for lying about what the crowd was cheering during Trump Jr.’s speech, the Post issued a correction at the end of the article admitting that an editor had changed the story and that the crowd indeed was hurling expletives at the current Democrat president."

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