Down The Info Chain

Disagree w/ the shallow, the symbolic & the substanceless & the fury of America's reactionary losers will be aroused. Probably because they can't understand the worth of anything w/o a price tag, they are always anxious about the empty & meaningless (Or the not-so-meaningless War Anthem of these United Snakes.) & will leap to the defense of any patriotic surface from flag lapel pins up. While being horribly offended by (& on the offense against) those not paying adequate lip service, sporting the proper accessory or doing whatever is expected to delineate one's patriotism clearly.We first saw the outrage at The Daily Caller:

Sports journalist and professor Kevin Blackistone declared that the national anthem should not be played before sporting events on Wednesday, saying that a “war anthem” should not be conflated with a “simple game.”

In a discussion on ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” Blackistone and a number of other panelists discussed Northwestern University’s American flag-themed uniforms, which have stirred controversy for their blood-stained appearance.

Blackistone, however, took things one step further, saying sports are too rife with “military symbolism.” His examples included “singing a war anthem to open every game” and “going to get a hot dog and being able to sign up for the army at the same time.”

“You are conflating a war anthem with a simple game,” he admonished.

Wow, Blackistone, tell us how you really feel about being an American or a sports fan.

Here's what TheDC's second commenter had to add:

Now we know who the real racists are, right libtards?

DC typist Sarah Hofmann gave no credit to any source (She was probably too busy copying & pasting to provide sourcing please give her a break you guys?) but we noticed the video posted was from NRO's The Corner. What did Bill Buckley's Chickenhawk Brigade have to type? Mostly blockquotes, w/ scare quotes in the short opening paragraph. I.e., the usual lazy crap w/ which Jonah Goldberg gets away. Bad influence, that boy.

Anyway, the Goldbergian Andrew Johnson (No more the typist's real name than our real name is Richard M. "Dick" Nixon. Who in hell are they trying to kid w/ this shit?) found it at Weasel Zippers (getting lower on the info chain) whose never-before-heard projective reaction is:

Then again, patriotism has never been very popular among libs.

Not when patriotism means no more than "War today, war tomorrow, war forever," no.

Longer, from what may be the original source of outrage, something called TruthRevolt,which is so far down the info chain they don't understand how media works in a culture where one corporate entity can print money from both opinionating about sports events & broadcasting the events themselves, but do expect a Stalinist toeing of the line across any organization.

Published on Nov 8, 2013

ESPN plays ad for Monday Night Football even though a sportscaster lambasted the National Anthem.

This exploitation of veterans & those still trapped in the service is repugnant to real Americans (Shame on you, Disney Co.) but Truth Revolt (They are truly revolting you know.) must have blinded itself to any truth (Ironic!!) about the military, propaganda, jingoism & so much else.

Ah-ha, now it's officially an outrage, do you hear, an outrage ("Where's the outrage?") as FOX has its claws in it.We could well be an attorney, esquire, or even a judge; yes the uniforms are ugly & are in violation of the flag code.

Just fucking awful: