{"id":954524,"date":"2021-11-02T16:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=954524"},"modified":"2021-11-02T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:29:11","slug":"emblematic-of-the-cover-up-pete-hegseth-says-lets-go-brandon-meme-is-aimed-at-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emblematic-of-the-cover-up-pete-hegseth-says-lets-go-brandon-meme-is-aimed-at-media\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Emblematic Of The Cover-Up\u2019: Pete Hegseth Says \u2018Let\u2019s Go Brandon\u2019 Meme Is Aimed At Media"},"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\">30<\/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%2Femblematic-of-the-cover-up-pete-hegseth-says-lets-go-brandon-meme-is-aimed-at-media%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=954524&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>Fox News host Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the viral \u201cLet\u2019s go Brandon\u201d meme was more aimed at liberal media than at President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/stack-taliban-bodies-pete-hegseth-direct-threats-get-american-hostages-out-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hegseth<\/a> told \u201cThe Faulkner Focus\u201d host <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/harris-faulkner-vp-harris-civil-rights-comparisons-fugitive-texas-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harris Faulkner<\/a> that although \u201cLet\u2019s go Brandon\u201d had become a euphemism for \u201cFuck Joe Biden,\u201d the real reason it had become a cultural phenomenon was its simultaneous dig at media. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/30\/geraldo-rivera-pete-hegseth-afghanistan\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Damn It! You Have To Recognize We Wanted Out Of This 20 Year War\u2019: Geraldo Rivera And Pete Hegseth Go At It Over Afghanistan)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chant setting off a monumental meltdown across the media as left-leaning journalists jump to provide cover for President Biden,\u201d Faulkner began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere is Jim Sciutto from CNN: \u2018Think about the lessons the Let\u2019s go Brandon crowd is teaching their children.\u2019 That tweet lit up the social media platform,\u201d she continued. \u201cSome responses to that were, \u2018Staggering hypocrisy and gas lighting.\u2019 Another: \u2018People like this aren\u2019t serious. They act like 2017, 2020 never happened.\u2019 And: \u2018You are supposed to be a journalist, not a lap dog.\u2019 What do you make of it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the cover-up that made this clip go viral in the first place,\u201d Hegseth reminded Faulkner. He was referring to the Talladega race won by Brandon Brown and the NBC reporter who said on the air that the crowd \u2014 which actually appeared to be <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/12\/who-is-brandon-why-is-america-cheering-for-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chanting<\/a> \u201cFuck Joe Biden\u201d \u2014 was cheering Brown\u2019s victory and saying \u201cLet\u2019s go Brandon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether the NBC reporter knew the chant was one thing or \u201dLet\u2019s go, Brandon,\u2019 it was emblematic of the cover-up we\u2019re seeing right now,\u201d Hegseth continued. \u201cDon\u2019t listen to the crowd, don\u2019t listen to the inflation numbers, don\u2019t listen to the border, don\u2019t listen to the crime, don\u2019t listen to what happened in Afghanistan, that was a great success. The media will cover at every turn. \u2018Let\u2019s go, Brandon,\u2019 has become the rallying cry for Americans who say, \u2018We don\u2019t buy what you are selling, we don\u2019t want the policy you are selling.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth went on to argue that the meme had capitalized on everything people were looking for \u2014 something humorous they could latch onto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are laughing about it because if they weren\u2019t laughing they\u2019d be crying about the direction of our country,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go back to Robert DeNiro and Hollywood, big awards event, popped out the f-bomb against President Trump,\u201d Faulkner replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the viral \u201cLet\u2019s go Brandon\u201d meme was more aimed at liberal media than at President Joe Biden.Hegseth told \u201cThe Faulkner Focus\u201d host &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"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-954524","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\/954524","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954524\/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=954524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}