My latest in PJ Media:
Yorktown, Virginia held its annual Yorktown Lighted Boat Parade on Saturday night, and one 50-foot vessel won the coveted “Best in Show” title with a colorful and artfully designed display of lights, plus people dressed as Santa Claus and Old Joe Biden yelling “Merry Christmas” to the crowd, topped off with a pair of American flags at the bow. A splendid time was had by all, but there was one fly in the festive ointment: the winning entry was also bedecked with a sign reading “FJB Let’s Go Brandon” in white lights. Within hours, the Yorktown Foundation, which sponsors the event, had abjectly apologized and stripped the offending boat of its title. An “overt political message,” you see, is not allowed, or at least isn’t allowed now that this has happened.
York County Leftists are still reeling from this all-out assault on their sensibilities. A York County resident recounted that she was thinking, “How blessed am I?” during the evening’s festivities, but then came the Boat of Hate: “It just breaks the spirit that this happened. It was disheartening…That sentiment on that boat lit up in lights — F Joe Biden — was the antithesis of the Christmas spirit.” Another derided the boat as “a mean-spirited stunt” that had “nothing to do Christmas spirit, holiday spirit, family togetherness, uniting us,” and added: “I just felt kind of brokenhearted that that kind of hyper-partisanship had intruded in such a crude way.”
Many other spectators stated that they liked the boat, but you know who counts in this sort of controversy. Faced with the copious flow of Leftist tears, the Yorktown Foundation, which sponsored the boat parade, was quick to act. The Foundation’s Walt Akers said that giving the prize to the boat’s captain, Bill Berger, was a “huge mistake,” and added: “We profoundly apologize for what happened, and we deeply regret that this happened at all. And we’re going to take actions to make sure it doesn’t happen in the future….We’ve asked the Yorktown Lighted Boat Parade to provide us with a list of the steps that they’re going to take to ensure that this will never happen again.”
The Yorktown Foundation explained: “As a 501(c)(3) organization, the Yorktown Foundation (our parent organization) and, by extension, the Yorktown Lighted Boat Parade Committee, are apolitical and must remain outside of politics.”
Yet the Foundation had apparently not ever made the ban on political messages clear to the entrants, or even to the judges. One of those judges, York County Board of Supervisors Chairman Chad Green, recounted: “I showed up, and I was given a sheet of criteria on which to vote for.” These included “lights, spirit, and the wow factor,” but not political correctness. Said Green: “I did my job, I walked away, and then suddenly there’s all kinds of controversy. But I feel that my judging was fair and open and honest.” He said he was “certainly not going to abridge free speech…I might not agree with it, but I’ll fight for your right to say it.”
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notnolib says
If you REALLY want to piss off the liberals, wish them a “Merry Christmas”!! Their heads will explode!
Don McKellar says
“Let’s go, Brandon!” The slogan of 2021. Followed closely by “FJB”.
His Fraudulency is creating quite a legacy.
Infidel says
Isn’t Yorktown itself an offensive place, since it was the final battle that sealed the independence, and therefore, the founding of this anti-woke country?
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
A few years back, my family, extended family, and friends all met in Newport, Rhode Island for a vacation.
My family stayed at the Navy Lodge at Naval Station Newport.
My Leftist niece refused to visit the base where we were staying because military police at the gate were armed with M-16s – and there was also an aircraft carrier within eyeshot.
Keith O says
Ah, that’s why there was a problem. The judging was “Fair, Open & Honest”.
Leftists can’t tolerate that sort of subversive behaviour.
gravenimage says
Virginia: ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Boat Wins Boat Parade Contest, Is Then Disqualified Because of Liberal Tears
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No sense of humor…
OLD GUY says
What a wonderful thing to cheer on my friend Brandon. I don’t see why the liberals are so distraught over the cheer “Lets Go Brandon” when they are the ones who started it.
Merry Christmas to ALL.