NBC suggests G-rated inside joke about Joe Biden may be an actionable threat against the president
By: Becket Adams (MSN)
Now I've just about seen it all FFS.
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NBC News is here to protect President Joe Biden...from memes.
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You've probably heard of the "Let's go, Brandon!" meme. It started first when crowds at sporting events were overheard spontaneously chanting "F--- Joe Biden!" Then, on Oct. 2, NASCAR racer Brandon Brown won his first NASCAR Xfinity Series. During a post-race interview between Brown and NBC sports reporter Kelli Stavast, the crowd chanted the obscene Biden-related chant once again. Stavast apparently misinterpreted it, remarking to Brown that the audience was chanting, "Let's go, Brandon!" It was pretty obvious they were not saying anything of the sort.
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Thus was born a tamer, G-rated version of the original chant. Sports fans, activists, and even lawmakers started using the sanitized shorthand — a sort of family-friendly inside-joke mocking both the president and the media for papering over public discontent.
So, when you hear "Let's go, Brandon!" it's actually an evolution of the original "F--- Joe Biden!"
For NBC News, where the meme originated, things have gone too far! Especially now that Palmetto State Armory in South Carolina is selling "Let's go, Brandon!"- themed merchandise. In fact, with the arrival of rifle parts branded "Let's go, Brandon!" it's probably time the U.S. Secret Service intervene to do something about the sanitized two-tiered meme.
Or so thinks NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian. He even contacted the Secret Service this week to flag the Biden-theme merchandise.
"Gun dealers are marketing weapon parts and ammunition using a right-wing slogan widely understood as code for profanity directed at President Joe Biden," he reports. "Palmetto State Armory, which operates a 12,000-square-foot gun store in Columbia, S.C., the state capital, is marketing a "LETSGO-15 Stripped Lower Receiver," which is a part meant for an AR-15-style assault rifle."
He adds, "A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, which investigates threats against the president, declined to comment."
I'm guessing the Secret Service spox actually hung up on Dilanian rather than betray their laughter.
Elsewhere at NBC, former spook turned commentator Frank Figliuzzi, who once proposed imprisoning members of Congress suspected — suspected! — of aiding the Jan. 6 riot, likewise took issue with the armory's "Let's Go, Brandon" gear, flagging Dilanian's article for both the U.S. Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
So, to recap: An NBC sports reporter accidentally created a meme by misreporting what a crowd chanted following a NASCAR race. Now, an NBC News reporter suggests the NBC News-created meme may be an actionable threat against President Biden's life. It's like a snake eating its own tail.
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