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RED LION, Pa. — Signs and flags emblazoned with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” and the stronger-language phrase it substitutes for aren’t an uncommon sight in Central Pennsylvania yards and on cars. Flying a flag with the “F” word on it offends some, while others, like Melissa Low of Mount Wolf, are concerned about its impact on kids. “No matter your political opinion, I don’t think it needs to be that vulgar,” she said. One can debate whether the phrase is in bad taste, but there’s likely no legal basis to remove them. Free speech does have some limits;...

BOISE — On a quiet street south of downtown Boise, Michael Dick has festooned his front yard with homemade signs, including a large yellow placard that facetiously thanks President Biden for a growing list of grievances — $4-a-gallon gas, inflation, Afghanistan, covid-19. In capital letters in black marker, Dick, 59, recently added "dead civilians" and "dead U.S. soldiers" to his bill of particulars. In another part of town, alongside a “No trespassing” sign, Michael Schwarz, 60, used black spray-paint to scrawl “Joe Blows” across an electric-pink poster board. And that’s mild compared to the sentiments some people — largely in...

A meme-inspired song based on the anti-Biden chant "Let's Go Brandon!" roared at popular sports events across America is rapidly taking over the internet and is currently sitting at the number one spot on the iTunes hip-hop chart The song is performed by rapper Loza Alexander, and its title is "Let's Go Brandon." In the song's choruses, a voice repeatedly chants the iconic anti-Biden mantra and is immediately followed by a sample of a crowd chanting the original line, the more rough-and-ready "F*ck Joe Biden." Alexander can be seen in the video wearing a red MAGA-style hat with white lettering...

How stupid do those in the media think Americans are? The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal was the moment when the curtain was drawn back on Biden’s presidency and everyone saw the incompetent, duplicitous, cruel man in charge. Behind that same curtain, they saw the architect of an open border (with 400,000 illegal aliens expected this month), skyrocketing inflation, draconian mask mandates, intentional racial divisions, and more. No wonder chants of “F*** Joe Biden” suddenly swept stadiums and concerts. The media, though, are still covering for Joe, and nothing shows that more perfectly than an NBC reporter’s real-time effort to gaslight viewers...

NASCAR driver Brandon Brown won the Xfinity race on Saturday for his first national series win. The race was shortened by darkness at Talladega Superspeedway. Advertisement - story continues below After his victory, Brandon was interviewed by NBC hack who tried desperately to run damage control for the Biden regime as the crowd was chanting, “F*** Joe Biden!” NBC reporter attempts desperate damage control as crowd chants “F Joe Biden” pic.twitter.com/1iYZel4zFT — Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) October 3, 2021 Sorry but they weren’t chanting for Brandon!

A couple of country music’s prominent female singer/songwriters came out for gun control legislation in the wake of both the El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio shootings, which claimed the lives of 29 people total.

BOOK REVIEW & DISCUSSION: Ain't Got No Cigarettes: Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller By Lyle E Style "It's an endless story about Roger. He was one of the cleverest people I've ever met in my life." (Waylon Jennings) This is my own review of Ain't Got No Cigarettes, the first Roger Miller book ever published. My review is based on reading the book (twice) and having several discussions with Lyle E Style, the author. He may stop by later to answer questions (as his schedule allows). This one is a must-read, folks. And for you radio personalities who...

That is the title of a new book by Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal magazine and a member of the Manhattan Institute think tank. I assume most have watched an episode of "South Park," but for the benefit of those readers who happen to be my parents, let me explain. A crudely drawn cartoon coupled with even cruder language, "South Park" is one of Comedy Central's hottest shows, in which each week four small-town Colorado grade-school boys find themselves in some outlandish adventure, often featuring one or more of the eccentric townspeople (the town itself is South Park)...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Five seconds might not amount to a lot of time considering that ABC's Academy Awards broadcast is expected to run 3-1/2 hours on Feb. 29. But the network's insistence on using a five-second tape delay has angered Frank Pierson, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In a letter to the Academy's membership, he warned that a delay, which has not been used before on an Oscar show, could be the first step on a slippery slope that "introduces a form of censorship." Although the Academy's board of governors refused last week...

Into the sewer February 2, 2004 Note: This column contains language that may be offensive to some readers. When Jack Paar, television's late-night talk show pioneer, died last week at 85, every obituary mentioned the time he walked off his NBC show in a huff, angry that the network's censors had cut a joke he'd recorded the day before. The joke turned on a misunderstanding of the letters "WC" -- the initials of "water closet," an Anglicism for toilet. By today's standards, it was an almost completely innocuous story -- a somewhat labored yarn about an English tourist writing to...

<p>Call it the potty-mouth primary.     With two Democratic presidential candidates uttering obscenities in public forums this month and the nine-candidate field trying to one-up each other in attacking President Bush, some observers are wondering whether political discourse is hitting new lows in coarseness.     Wesley Clark, talking to a man at a forum in New Hampshire this weekend, told the man live on C-SPAN that if Mr. Bush or Democrats questioned his commitment to the military and veterans, he would kick the spit out of them. Only the retired Army general didn't say "spit."     And Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, in an interview with Rolling Stone published this month, said he never thought the president would go and muck up reconstruction in Iraq. Only he didn't say "muck."     "The acceptable language has probably become slightly rawer over time, and maybe that's what we're seeing now," said Stephen Hess, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of "The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette."     He said campaigns are harsher or gentler depending on the "ideological heat of the moment," and war often brings hotter times, meaning that 1968 would be much more heated than 1988.     "I do think we're at a moment where discourse is rough — that is, a separation between positions, and people feel very strongly about them," he said.     In this weekend's incident, Mr. Clark was asked by the man what he would do if Mr. Bush or the Democrats challenged him on his support for veterans. After responding with his fighting words, Mr. Clark then said, "I hope that's not on television."     A television camera from C-SPAN, the cable public-programming network, had followed Mr. Clark as he worked the crowd, just as it has with other candidates throughout the campaign, and aired the exchange live. It since has been replayed by other TV news programs.     Clark campaign spokesman Bill Buck said Mr. Clark's remark was that of a "military man and a fighter."     "He'll stand up to President Bush or any of the administration's chicken hawks that attack his patriotism, military record or commitment to veterans," he said.     He also said the comments weren't any rougher than what Mr. Bush said about then-New York Times reporter Adam Clymer in the 2000 campaign. In that instance, Mr. Bush was on a stage and, in an exchange not heard by the crowd but picked up by a television microphone, leaned over to Dick Cheney and famously characterized the reporter's personality.     Mr. Hess and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, both said it's important to distinguish between utterances such as Mr. Bush's, that were not meant to be public, and Mr. Kerry's, which was.     "I felt that was quite deliberate, and done for a political purpose, and the calculation bothered me almost as much as the use of the word, which I can hear in any movie theater," Mr. Hess said.     Ms. Jamieson said one part of the equation is that technology now allows listeners and viewers to get much closer to the action and hear things that used to be impossible to hear.     "It's possible things were said in the past and said in the present. But now we hear them," she said.     "By all accounts, John Kennedy in private had a rich and colorful vocabulary that was not reflected in public, which is the reason for saying you've got to make this public-private distinction," she said.     Meanwhile, Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and the front-runner for his party's presidential nomination, has been criticized for his mouth getting out ahead of the party. Most recently, he took some shots for saying he knew he was the front-runner "because I keep picking buckshot out of my rear end all the time."     But Ms. Jamieson said Mr. Dean deserves a pass.     "The question is, what would you prefer he say? He's already using a euphemism for a euphemism," she said.     As for his harsh criticism of Mr. Bush, she said it doesn't really compare with the stranger attacks of the modern political era, including Mr. Bush's father calling Bill Clinton a "bozo" and Al Gore "ozone man" during the 1992 campaign.     "By historical markers, there's nothing in this race that stands out," she said.     About six years ago, her organization compiled a "vulgarity index" and catalogued the vulgarities used on the House and Senate floors during debates, including the same sort of words used by Mr. Clark this weekend.     Ms. Jamieson said this year's campaign certainly hasn't dropped below some of the exchanges that took place during the impeachment proceedings against Mr. Clinton.     Still, Mr. Hess said outside of campaigns, the overall content of political discussion has become emptier, and said he was struck by that point while looking at a recent best-seller nonfiction list.     "Five [of the top books] were people shouting at each other. Bill O'Reilly and Michael Moore, Al Franken and Sean Hannity," he said. "Shouting from both sides. That to me is a carryover, maybe from talk radio, but more from 24-hour cable news."</p>

Has anyone noticed that the left uses foul language to smear the right?

Comedian, actor and author Dennis Miller appeared on the Feb. 12 ‘Donahue’, ready to debate the MSNBC talk show host on the conflict with Iraq, and to voice his support for President George W. Bush. Click below for more. STARTING ON A congenial note, Miller applauded Donahue: “I’ve always wanted to do a television show with you because you’re (Phil) Donahue. So this means something to me.” But then Miller went on to say that “we could probably not be more diametrically opposed.” Miller offered comments on the war and and he took liberals to task for not seeing evil...