Ken Burch
Jan 28, 2022

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What actually happened was that an American television network was covering a NASCAR(stock car) race As the winner- whose name, I think, was actually Brandon- was being interviewed by one of the network's correspondents, the crowd around them started chanting "F__k Joe Biden!". To cover the sound of this- the network couldn't let swearing be transmitted, due to broadcast regulations in the States- the reporter announced, as loudly as she could, that they crowd was chanting "Let's Go, Brandon!'.

Right wingers made a big deal out of nothing over the reporter having done that, implying that her actions were a form of anti-conservative political bias, when in truth, she'd have done whatever the equivalent thing would have been if there'd been a crowd chanting "F__k Trump". The fact that everybody who has used this expression as political statement knows this doesn't matter to them.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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