{"id":1023953,"date":"2021-11-17T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1023953"},"modified":"2021-11-17T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:13:42","slug":"democrat-compares-lets-go-brandon-chant-to-burning-an-american-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-compares-lets-go-brandon-chant-to-burning-an-american-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Compares \u2018Let\u2019s Go Brandon\u2019 Chant To Burning An American Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-compares-lets-go-brandon-chant-to-burning-an-american-flag%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1023953&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Tennessee Democratic Rep. Gloria Johnson compared \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d chants aimed at President Joe Biden to \u201cburning an American flag\u201d in a recent tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s comments were made in response to a tweet from \u201cThe Tennessee Holler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019Let\u2019s Go Brandon!\u2019 is like chanting \u2018overrated!\u2019 at a team even after they kicked you\u2019re ass,\u2019\u201d The Tennessee Holler wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.04375\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon!\u201d is like chanting \u201coverrated!\u201d at a team even after they kicked your ass.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTNHoller\/status\/1460245720330551299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnson re-tweeted this statement to her feed, adding, \u201cAs a friend said, I think it should be equated with burning the flag, in essence, that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.5\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As a friend said, I think it should be equated with burning the flag, in essence, that\u2019s what they are doing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0WrJzFSkwv\">https:\/\/t.co\/0WrJzFSkwv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Gloria Johnson (@VoteGloriaJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoteGloriaJ\/status\/1460259799673806852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnson later followed up with another tweet that said, \u201cReading is fundamental. It\u2019s not a legal take, it\u2019s a person\u2019s opinion. And as a few were smart enough to understand-both are protected speech.\u201d Johnson\u2019s second statement appears to be directed at users who responded to her flag-burning comments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.1747572815534\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Reading is fundamental. It\u2019s not a legal take, it\u2019s a person\u2019s opinion. And as a few were smart enough to understand-both are protected speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Gloria Johnson (@VoteGloriaJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VoteGloriaJ\/status\/1460832509462200323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The phrase, \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d has become a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/11\/liberty-students-lets-go-brandon-chant-video\/\">trend<\/a> across the U.S. and is often chanted at sporting and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/03\/lets-go-brandon-ron-desantis-press-conference\/\">other<\/a> events. The chant is the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/17\/lets-go-brandon-chant-joe-biden\/\">less profane<\/a> version of \u201cF**k Joe Biden\u201d and caught on after a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/12\/who-is-brandon-why-is-america-cheering-for-him\/\">NASCAR race<\/a> in which NBC reporter, Kelli Stavast appeared to believe fans were cheering for driver, Brandon Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Rappers have written <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/25\/lets-go-brandon-song-mocking-joe-biden-number-itunes-chart\/\">songs<\/a> about it, and a Republican representative even wore a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/04\/lauren-boebert-lets-go-brandon-dress-aoc-mar-a-lago\/\">dress<\/a> with the phrase written on it. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/06\/lets-go-brandon-banner-georgia-missouri-game-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Massive \u2018Let\u2019s Go Brandon\u2019 Banner Flies Over The Georgia\/Missouri Game)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/12\/psaki-lets-go-brandon-press-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismissed<\/a> a question about the chants during a Nov. 12 press conference.\u201cI don\u2019t think he spends much time focused on it or thinking about it,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Democratic Rep. Gloria Johnson compared \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d chants aimed at President Joe Biden to \u201cburning an American flag\u201d in a recent tweet.Johnson\u2019s comments were made in response to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}