{"id":1982394,"date":"2023-07-25T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megyn-kelly-unleashes-fury-on-us-womens-soccer-team-for-what-it-did-during-national-anthem\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:56:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:56:50","slug":"megyn-kelly-unleashes-fury-on-us-womens-soccer-team-for-what-it-did-during-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megyn-kelly-unleashes-fury-on-us-womens-soccer-team-for-what-it-did-during-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly slams US Women&#8217;s Soccer Team for anthem actions."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fmegyn-kelly-unleashes-fury-on-us-womens-soccer-team-for-what-it-did-during-national-anthem%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=1982394&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--><h2>Controversy Surrounds U.S. Women&#8217;s Soccer Team&#8217;s National Anthem Protest<\/h2>\n<p>On Friday, the U.S. women\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megyn-kelly-unleashes-fury-on-us-womens-soccer-team-for-what-it-did-during-national-anthem\/\" title=\"Megyn Kelly slams US Women's Soccer Team for anthem actions.\">national soccer team\u2064 opened<\/a> the 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup in \u200ccontroversial fashion. Prior to their 3-0 victory over Vietnam, the majority\u200c of U.S. players neither sang nor\u2062 placed hands over \u200dtheir hearts during \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator\u2064 Megyn Kelly was not impressed.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s episode of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XQtDf7MJPOs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Megyn\u2063 Kelly Show<\/a>\u201d on YouTube, Kelly\u2062 and two of her guests expressed both outrage and dismay.<\/p>\n<p>The players\u2019 failure to show any\u200d outward sign of respect angered Kelly more\u2064 than anything.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThat was a bridge too far. They \u2062couldn\u2019t be bothered\u200b to actually place \u200btheir hand on their heart,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The latest controversy comes as no surprise to anyone \u2062familiar with the U.S. women\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-rejecting-take-a-knee-doesnt-make-you-responsible-for-racism\/\" title=\"OPINION: Rejecting \u2018Take A Knee\u2019 Doesn\u2019t Make You Responsible For Racism\">soccer team\u2019<\/a>s recent history. Longtime player Megan Rapinoe, for instance, has sullied the team\u2019s reputation\u200d with her frequent\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tennis-legend-martina-navratilova-calls-megan-rapinoe-trans-athletes-comments-really-megan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ultra-woke comments<\/a> and behavior.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, one former player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hope-solo-megan-rapinoe-bully-teammates-kneeling-national-anthem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recalled<\/a> that Rapinoe would \u2063\u201calmost bully players into kneeling\u201d for the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe holds a roster spot\u200d on the current World Cup team but plans to retire soon.<\/p>\n<p>She did not start the first game and thus had no chance to show disrespect \u200bfor the anthem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/uswnt-vs-vietnam-notice-major-difference-two-national-anthems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meanwhile<\/a>, all 11 Vietnamese players sang their country\u2019s national \u200canthem and placed hands over their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate the contrast, Kelly\u200b played a clip of \u200cthe Vietnamese players singing and appearing respectful.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064segment can be seen \u2064here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Of\u2064 course,\u200c the Vietnamese players live in a communist country. If they fail \u200dto demonstrate appropriate patriotism, \u200cthey risk having\u200d family members rounded up and shot to death.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the entire scene reminded me of the book, \u201cWild Swans:\u2064 Three Daughters \u200dof\u2063 China\u201d (1991). Author Jung Chang, who grew up in Mao Zedong\u2019s China during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-maher-compares-woke-mob-enforcers-maos-cultural-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cultural Revolution<\/a>, described her reaction upon learning of \u200dMao\u2019s death in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Chang and others had \u200clined up in a school courtyard \u200bwhen the loudspeaker broadcast the news. Although she felt great relief at the\u2062 tyrant\u2019s demise,\u2063 Chang placed her head on the shoulder of the girl in\u2062 front \u2063of her \u2062and pretended \u2064to sob.<\/p>\n<p>Totalitarian regimes demand such theater,\u2064 much the way\u200c Rapinoe demanded that her teammates kneel.<\/p>\n<p>No one demands that players sing or hold hands \u200cover their hearts. We simply mourn\u2064 the fact that they refuse to do so because we know the reason \u2064for \u2062it.<\/p>\n<p>Emily \u2063Jashinsky, \u200dculture editor at The Federalist, joined Kelly\u2019s show and summarized things beautifully.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at, for instance, what Frederick Douglass\u2026what he had\u2062 to say about the\u200c Fourth of July, even if you\u2019re upset with \u2064the country, even if you think the \u2064country isn\u2019t living up to its potential, you can still be patriotic,\u201d Jashinsky said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have this absurd binary that is overly simplistic that says you either absolutely hate America or you love America and there\u2019s nothing in between,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eliana\u2062 Johnson, editor in chief at the Washington Free Beacon, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-refuses-to-call-on-any-conservative-publications-reads-answers-from-notes\/\" title=\"Biden Refuses To Call On Any Conservative Publications, Reads Answers From Notes\">conservative publication<\/a>\u2062 in the nation\u2019s \u200dcapital, also joined Kelly\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson noted that WBNA player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/brittney-griner-changes-tune-national-anthem-first-game-back-since-russian-imprisonment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittney\u2064 Griner<\/a> decided to stand for the national \u2063anthem\u200b after returning home from a lengthy detainment in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a really\u200c sad reflection\u2064 of the kind of education \u200cthat our young people are getting today that they actually do have to experience despotism in order to have a basic appreciation of how wonderful our country is,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>A better education \u200dwould begin\u200d with the kind of history Jashinsky cited.<\/p>\n<p>On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningforjustice.org\/classroom-resources\/texts\/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his famous oration<\/a>, \u201cWhat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An escaped slave himself, Douglass nonetheless recognized America\u2019s proslavery regime of the time as hostile to the\u2062 nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/history-left-erased-founding-fathers-helped-obliterate-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Founding principles<\/a>. In one glittering passage, Douglass described\u200b the U.S. Constitution as a \u201cGLORIOUS LIBERTY\u200d DOCUMENT.\u201d (Uppercase in the \u200boriginal.)<\/p>\n<p>A former slave recognized America at its best, but privileged athletes do not.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the women\u2019s soccer \u2064players no doubt believe \u2064that they \u2064stand for something.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders how Rapinoe and others would react if they ever realized that they actually stand with the political theater of communist tyrants \u2026 and their own abysmal ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bpost <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/megyn-kelly-unleashes-fury-us-womens-soccer-team-national-anthem\/\">Megyn Kelly Unleashes Fury on US Women&#8217;s Soccer Team for What It Did During National Anthem<\/a> appeared first \u2064on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The \u200bWestern Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the U.S. women&#8217;s soccer team sparked controversy at the 2023 Women&#8217;s World Cup. Before their 3-0 win against Vietnam, most players refrained from singing or placing hands over their hearts during the national anthem. Megyn Kelly, a conservative commentator, expressed her disapproval on Monday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1982395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982394","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\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}