{"id":1024721,"date":"2021-11-17T18:29:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T23:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1024721"},"modified":"2021-11-17T18:29:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T23:29:55","slug":"rep-gloria-johnson-lets-go-brandon-should-be-equated-with-burning-the-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-gloria-johnson-lets-go-brandon-should-be-equated-with-burning-the-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Gloria Johnson: Let&#039;s Go Brandon &#039;Should be Equated with Burning the Flag&#039;"},"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\">26<\/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%2Frep-gloria-johnson-lets-go-brandon-should-be-equated-with-burning-the-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=1024721&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Mario-Tama_Getty-Images-5-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A Tennessee Democrat told Twitter followers Monday that chanting \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d can be equated to \u201cburning the flag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Replying to another user who referenced the \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d chant, Tennessee State Representative Gloria Johnson (D, Knoxville) felt the need to smear chanters as anti-Americans in a tweet, saying, \u201cAs a friend said, I think it should be equated with burning the flag, in essence, that\u2019s what they are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Johnson immediately began feeling the heat for her tweet, and in a follow up she jumped on her \u201crights\u201d by claiming she has a constitutional right to smear anti-Biden chanters.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing that her \u201cburning the flag\u201d claim seemed aimed at creating a legal penalty, Johnson later wrote, \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<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.1747572815534\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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 \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d chant, of course, gained wide use after an NBC reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/10\/03\/watch-nbc-reporter-covers-biden-claims-fck-joe-biden-chant-lets-go-brandon\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mischaracterized<\/a> a NASCAR crowd that was chanting \u201cF*ck Joe Biden\u201d and said they were chanting for NASCAR Xfinity Series race winner Brandon Brown.<\/p>\n<p>The chant has since become a mainstay nearly equal to the \u201cF*ck Joe Biden\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/11\/15\/video-fck-joe-biden-chant-thunders-through-stadium-during-indiana-rutgers-game\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chants<\/a> that ring out at sporting events, concerts, and any manner of event where large numbers of Americans gather.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tennessee Democrat told Twitter followers Monday that chanting \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d can be equated to \u201cburning the flag.\u201d Replying to another user who referenced the \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d chant, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"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-1024721","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\/1024721","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024721\/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=1024721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}