{"id":982631,"date":"2021-11-07T23:13:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T04:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=982631"},"modified":"2021-11-07T23:13:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T04:13:41","slug":"nascar-denounces-lets-go-brandon-chant-an-unfortunate-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-denounces-lets-go-brandon-chant-an-unfortunate-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Denounces &#039;Let&#039;s Go, Brandon&#039; Chant: &#039;An Unfortunate Situation&#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\">18<\/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%2Fnascar-denounces-lets-go-brandon-chant-an-unfortunate-situation%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=982631&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--><p class=\"subheading\">The popular anti-Joe Biden \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d chant has been denounced by the very sport from whence it came.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASCAR President Steve Phelps,&nbsp; the \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d chant has created an \u201cunfortunate situation\u201d that the sport will not condone.<\/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<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an unfortunate situation, and I feel for Brandon, I feel for Kelli,\u201d Phelps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nascar-denounces-lets-go-brandon-trend-saying-it-wants-to-stay-out-of-politics\">told<\/a> Fox News on Friday. &nbsp;\u201cI think, unfortunately, it speaks to the state of where we are as a country. We do not want to associate ourselves with politics, the left or the right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/president-steve-phelps-speaks-during-a-press-conference-prior-to-for-picture-id1351549281\" alt=\"President Steve Phelps speaks during a press conference prior to practice for the NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway on November 05,...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>AVONDALE, ARIZONA \u2013 NOVEMBER 05: NASCAR President Steve Phelps speaks during a press conference prior to practice for the NASCAR Cup Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway on November 05, 2021 in Avondale, Arizona. (Photo by Sean Gardner\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Going further, Phelps said that NASCAR will \u201cpursue\u201d whoever misuses the organization\u2019s logo by associating with \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe will pursue whoever (is using logos) and get that stuff,\u201d Phelps said. \u201cThat\u2019s not OK. It\u2019s not OK that you\u2019re using our trademarks illegally, regardless of whether we agree with what the position is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d phenomenon sparked in early October when NBC Sports reporter Kellie Stavast tried to cover up the crowd chanting \u201cF*ck Joe Biden\u201d when NASCAR driver Brandon Brown scored his first Xfinity Series win at the Talladega Speedway. Since then, the chant has become a fun, vulgar-free way of expressing disdain for the 46th President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-632787714-640x480-1.png\" alt=\"Kelli Stavast\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Isaac Brekken\/NASCAR via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Phelps also expressed displeasure over the chant originating with NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we like the fact that it kind of started with NASCAR and then is gaining ground out elsewhere? No, we\u2019re not happy about that,\u201d Phelps said.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-vulgar-signs-chants\/2021\/10\/22\/6071836e-3122-11ec-a880-a9d8c009a0b1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>,&nbsp;Ashley Parker&nbsp;and&nbsp;Carissa Wolf lamented how Joe Biden\u2019s critics have resorted to hurling \u201cincreasingly vulgar taunts\u201d at the president.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18.988095238095\">\n<p>It\u2019s clear that after nine months in office, Biden \u2014 or at least what he represents \u2014 is increasingly becoming an object of hatred to many Trump supporters. The vitriol partly reflects Trump\u2019s own repeated baseless claims that Biden is a usurper, depriving him of his rightful claim to the presidency, and partly stems from Biden actions that Republicans deplore, from his&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/o\/9JuZb\/https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2021\/10\/22\/white-house-democrats-economic-package\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">spending plans<\/a>&nbsp;to his&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/o\/9JuZb\/https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/chris-magnus-customs-border-protection-confirmation-hearing\/2021\/10\/18\/2b03d4f6-3029-11ec-a880-a9d8c009a0b1_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">immigration policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the anger also demonstrates how a political party or cause often needs an enemy, a target of vilification that can unite its adherents \u2014 and, in this case, one refracted through the harshness, norm-breaking and vulgarity of the Trump era.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Biden White House has denied hearing the chant, claiming it stemmed from right-wing extremists on 8chan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had never heard of that chant until you explained it to me,\u201d White House spokesman Andrew Bates&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-vulgar-signs-chants\/2021\/10\/22\/6071836e-3122-11ec-a880-a9d8c009a0b1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">told<\/a> WaPo. \u201cI guess I\u2019m not spending enough time on 8chan or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what President Biden or the left thinks about the chant, \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d has been fully adopted by the right, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/03\/watch-gov-ron-desantis-knocks-brandon-administration-crowd-erupts-chants-lets-go-brandon\/\">recently referring<\/a> to the Biden administration as the \u201cBrandon administration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular anti-Joe Biden \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d chant has been denounced by the very sport from whence it came. According to NASCAR President Steve Phelps,\u00a0 the \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d chant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"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-982631","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\/982631","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982631\/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=982631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}