{"id":987438,"date":"2021-11-08T23:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=987438"},"modified":"2021-11-08T23:59:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:59:22","slug":"nascar-exec-expresses-sympathy-for-reporter-who-fabricated-lets-go-brandon-chant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-exec-expresses-sympathy-for-reporter-who-fabricated-lets-go-brandon-chant\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Exec Expresses Sympathy for Reporter Who Fabricated &#039;Let&#039;s Go, Brandon&#039; Chant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-exec-expresses-sympathy-for-reporter-who-fabricated-lets-go-brandon-chant%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=987438&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\">NASCAR definitively disassociated itself from the \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d movement that sprung up at one of their races by saying the chant has created an \u201cunfortunate situation\u201d the sport will not condone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an unfortunate situation, and I feel for Brandon, I feel for Kelli,\u201d Phelps&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nascar-denounces-lets-go-brandon-trend-saying-it-wants-to-stay-out-of-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">told<\/a>&nbsp;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<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>NASCAR is continuing in its effort to suppress any LGB chants. As Breitbart\u2019s Paul Bois reports, Phelps also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/10\/03\/watch-nbc-reporter-covers-biden-claims-fck-joe-biden-chant-lets-go-brandon\/\">told<\/a> Fox that \u201cNASCAR will \u2018pursue\u2019 whoever misuses the organization\u2019s logo by associating with \u2018Let\u2019s Go, Brandon.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBrandon\u201d that Phelps is expressing sympathy for in those remarks is Brandon Brown. The NASCAR driver who was being interviewed after notching his first&nbsp;Xfinity Series win at the Talladega Speedway. The \u201cKelli\u201d he\u2019s expressing sympathy for, however, is NBC NASCAR reporter Kelli Stavast, who attempted to cover for Biden by saying that the nearby crowd was chanting, \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon,\u201d instead of what they were obviously chanting, which was, \u201cF*ck Joe Biden.\u201d<\/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<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Here\u2019s how it went down, as Breitbart\u2019s Warner Todd Huston reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrandon, you also told me,\u201d Stavast said before being interrupted by the crowd. \u201cAs you can hear the chants from the crowd\u2026\u201d she added, before claiming that the crowd was saying, \u201c\u2018Let\u2019s Go, Brandon!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a close listen to what the crowd is chanting quickly disabuses viewers of Stavast\u2019s notion. The crowd is clearly saying, \u201cF*ck Joe Biden\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.2941176470588\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FJBMovement?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FJBMovement<\/a> alive and strong as it finds it way to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCAR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Nascar<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TALLADEGA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TALLADEGA<\/a> chanting &#8220;Fu*k Joe Biden&#8221; during race winner&#8217;s interview. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NASCAR<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FJB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FJB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FJoeBiden?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FJoeBiden<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZRKVJOgF4A\">pic.twitter.com\/ZRKVJOgF4A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sn00pster (@sn00pdad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sn00pdad\/status\/1444458392614019072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The audio in the clip is unmistakable. The crowd was chanting \u201cF*ck Joe Biden,\u201d not \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Meaning, Stavast completely covered up the FJB chant by fabricating the \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d chant.<\/p>\n<p>So, why does Phelps \u201cfee\u201d for Kelli Stavast? She misrepresented the truth to the American people and NASCAR fans everywhere on live national television.<\/p>\n<p>While one can understand an organization finding it \u201cunfortunate\u201d that a comedic, anti-presidential chant originated in their sport, and one could even further regret that a driver\u2019s most prominent career achievement will forever be obscured by an absurd reporter\u2019s take on a chant that was happening during his post-race interview. It\u2019s much harder to understand having sympathy for a reporter fabricates things while trying to cover for Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Phelps can say whatever he wants about not wanting to take sides in America\u2019s political debates. But when you vow to take action against people for a non-profane and lighthearted chant while simultaneously saying you \u201cfeel\u201d for a \u201cjournalist\u201d who invents stories and misleads her audience in an effort to shield the president from political criticism, you are taking a side.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s no mistaking which side that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASCAR definitively disassociated itself from the \u201cLet\u2019s Go, Brandon\u201d movement that sprung up at one of their races by saying the chant has created an \u201cunfortunate situation\u201d the sport will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"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-987438","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\/987438","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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987438\/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=987438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}