WaPo Wildly Out of Touch on “Let’s Go, Brandon” Chant

CLAY: Let’s have a little bit of fun here finish off hour number 1. You knew this was coming. So for those of you out there who have forgotten or weren’t aware, there have been a lot of “F— Joe Biden” chants that have been spreading all over college campuses, and we need to talk about this a little bit because Joe Biden’s approval ratings have plummeted in the first 10 months of his presidency by a larger degree than any’ going all the way back to WWII, which is pretty amazing to think about.

We’ll discuss that a bit more. But the “F— Joe Biden” chants have spread like wildfire all over the country. Well in October, there was an interview with a NASCAR driver named Brandon who won his event, and on air an NBC reporter — as everyone is clearly chanting “F— Joe Biden” — said, “Oh, look! They’re actually saying, ‘Let’s go, Brandon.'” So “Let’s go, Brandon” has taken off.

We’ve sold, by the way, at OutKick thousands of these T-shirts. I’m gonna be wearing a “Let’s go, Brandon” T-shirt tomorrow at the Braves-Astros Game 1 down in Houston. But the Washington Post is way behind. We were talking about how Obama’s out of touch? The Washington Post is wildly out of touch with the middle part of the country and figuring out what’s going on.

So not surprisingly, they had no idea where “Let’s go, Brandon” came from and they blamed it on Donald Trump Jr. at a rally, and they had to issue this correction, Buck. Did you see this story? This is from the Washington Post. “A previous story in this article incorrectly said the corrode broke into a ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ chant during a Donald Trump Jr. speech in Georgia.

“The crowd actually broke into a ‘F— Joe Biden’ chant at that speech in September. The error which was inserted by an editor has been corrected.” So, I mean, one of the great corrections of all time, but the Washington Post can’t even get the etymology here of how the chant came about correct in their story, Buck.

BUCK: And this is also a reminder of how these newsrooms don’t have a single person in them who has even the most rudimentary connectivity to the right, conservatives, right of center. They could walk around the newsroom at the Washington Post and say, “Hey, could someone please explain the ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ chant?” and not a single person there would have any idea what the origins are because they’re not seeing it.

They’re not connected to it. They ignore that which does not fall into the narrative that they are trying to expand upon every day. That’s really their job like Pravda in the Soviet Union. They are expanding on the Democrat-socialist narrative in this country. That’s why the Washington Post exists. That’s what it does every day. But even beyond that, you can see, Clay, the early stages of trying to remove —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — “Let’s go, Brandon” from the culture. They cannot abide us mocking them.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: And they certainly cannot abide real ridicule. I don’t mean an occasional joke. I know SNL made a couple of Biden-approval jokes this weekend. We’re supposed to think they’re so brave. They’re a bunch of cowards over there, and their show stinks. What they cannot allow is ridicule that actually cuts deeply. They cannot allow the kind of humiliation that they try to heap on all represents even unfair, lying about them, Russia collusion, Putin, all that stuff.

So what they do is try to stop “Let’s go, Brandon” chants. I saw this over the weekend — I have to check to see — they pulled the song off of YouTube, and in Canada already… I know it’s Canada, not the U.S., but they’ve told government officials you can’t say, “Let’s go, Brandon” in official communications. That will get you in trouble.

It’s now just a question of can they get away, can the big social media platforms get away with treating “Let’s go, Brandon” like it’s hate speech. I mean, I’ve even seen some people say that the “[Blank] Joe Biden” chants are somehow illegal; there’s some legal analysis of that. It’s pathetic. But they’ll do this.

CLAY: Well, the woman who wrote this article at the Washington Post, I believe, she tweeted out her article in the Washington Post, which of course has the headline, “Biden’s critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts,” and she tweeted, “When I started asking about the Let’s Go Brandon/ F*ck Joe Biden phenomenon, some in the WH didn’t know what I was talking about.”

This is a quote from a White House official: “‘I had never heard of that chant until you explained it to me. I guess I’m not spending enough time on 8chan or whatever.'” Buck, this chant is every World Series game, every college football game, every NFL game. You cannot miss this. To have that level of cluelessness, either intentionally pretending not to know and trying to delegitimize anybody who might do it as 4chan or 8chan or whatever, like some sort of internet backwoods Neanderthal? This is college kids. This is massive parts Middle America standing up in humorous way and ridiculing the current president of the United States.

BUCK: For journalists like this — the Washington Post journalist — showing disdain for anyone in the country that it would think this or feel this way is brand enhancing. You see this also sometimes with journalists. So it doesn’t matter that she was wrong because he’s basically saying, “Yeah, whatever. The stupid, red state, MAGA hat people have this dumb silly chant,” and then turn around and say, ‘But I’m an objective journalist! I speak the truth. I’m honest.”

Yeah. We all know that that’s nonsense. They do the same thing with firearms, by the way, Clay. You’ll see this with journalists. They’ll get something. They’ll start talking about how you need to put a clip into the AR-15 before you fire up the machine gun bayonet, and then sure enough when the journalist at the New York Times, Washington Post, wherever, is ridiculed for the mistake they go, “Oh, sorry.

“I don’t know about the machine bazooka guns that all of you hillbillies have.” That’s their attitude: “My ignorance is actually something that I parade as a journalist on this because it shows I have so much disdain for the other,” in this case, conservatives, “that it’s not even worth learning the truth about the story I’m reporting on.” They’ll do that sometimes, and they’re doing it with “Let’s go, Brandon.”

CLAY: And, by the way, the chants are happening everywhere Biden goes as well, right? When he’s driving along in his motorcade, there are people doing the chants on the side of the road. I think what’s really scary — and this is what I was talking about. Politics creating odd bedfellows, and the idea of us winning the battle ultimately against cancel culture is people on the left have gotten used to the fact that they get to be the funny ones, right?

They get to be the people who are rolling in satire. They get to ridicule the other side. What happens when the other side is funnier. The Babylon bee is way funnier than SNL, right? If you had to be… If you’re looking at jokes per line, the Babylon Bee is way funnier. “Let’s go, Brandon” is way funnier than any criticism of Trump that I remember. Right? Do you remember any legitimately, funny criticism of Trump that emerged from the left in sort of a viral way?

BUCK: No. The criticism of Trump revolved around making fun of his appearance all the time.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: We’re not running around talking about how Joe has had all this work done and stuff, ’cause that’s superficial and petty. They would make fun of Trump for the Russia collusion ties that didn’t exist, and there was a real viciousness to the criticisms of Trump all the time. Whereas with Joe Biden, the guy’s a confused buffoon who was a sub-mediocrity before he was president, and even Democrats knew it.

There’s a lot to work with there, and given how even his approval ratings, Clay — which I know you’re about to talk about — have set a new record in the wrong direction, I think people understand that this is worthy of ridicule. This is like we should bust out the Voltaire-style satire here. This is something people should make fun of.

CLAY: No doubt. And in general, we’ve not seen a collapse in approval ratings, like I said, since World War II.