{"id":3411,"date":"2023-07-26T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T14:49:05","slug":"megyn-kelly-unleashes-fury-on-us-womens-soccer-team-for-what-it-did-during-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/26\/megyn-kelly-unleashes-fury-on-us-womens-soccer-team-for-what-it-did-during-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly Unleashes Fury on US Women\u2019s Soccer Team for What It Did During National Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the U.S. women\u2019s national soccer team opened the 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup in controversial fashion. Prior to their 3-0 victory over Vietnam, the majority of U.S. players neither sang nor placed hands over their hearts during \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly was not impressed.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s episode of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XQtDf7MJPOs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Megyn Kelly Show<\/a>\u201d on YouTube, Kelly and two of her guests expressed both outrage and dismay.<\/p>\n<p>The players\u2019 failure to show any outward sign of respect angered Kelly more than anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a bridge too far. They couldn\u2019t be bothered to actually place their hand on their heart,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The latest controversy comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the U.S. women\u2019s soccer team\u2019s recent history. Longtime player Megan Rapinoe, for instance, has sullied the team\u2019s reputation with her frequent<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tennis-legend-martina-navratilova-calls-megan-rapinoe-trans-athletes-comments-really-megan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ultra-woke comments<\/a>and behavior.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, one former player<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hope-solo-megan-rapinoe-bully-teammates-kneeling-national-anthem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recalled<\/a>that Rapinoe would \u201calmost bully players into kneeling\u201d for the national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe holds a roster spot on the current World Cup team but plans to retire soon.<\/p>\n<p>She did not start the first game and thus had no chance to show disrespect for the anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 11 players who did start, only five held a hand over their hearts, and only three sang along with the anthem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/uswnt-vs-vietnam-notice-major-difference-two-national-anthems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meanwhile<\/a>, all 11 Vietnamese players sang their country\u2019s national anthem and placed hands over their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate the contrast, Kelly played a clip of the Vietnamese players singing and appearing respectful.<\/p>\n<p>The segment can be seen here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U.S. Women&#039;s Soccer Team Stands Silently During National Anthem, w\/ Emily Jashinsky &amp; Eliana Johnson\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XQtDf7MJPOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Vietnamese players live in a communist country. If they fail to demonstrate appropriate patriotism, they risk having family members rounded up and shot to death.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the entire scene reminded me of the book, \u201cWild Swans: Three Daughters of China\u201d (1991). Author Jung Chang, who grew up in Mao Zedong\u2019s China during the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bill-maher-compares-woke-mob-enforcers-maos-cultural-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cultural Revolution<\/a>, described her reaction upon learning of Mao\u2019s death in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Chang and others had lined up in a school courtyard when the loudspeaker broadcast the news. Although she felt great relief at the tyrant\u2019s demise, Chang placed her head on the shoulder of the girl in front of her and pretended to sob.<\/p>\n<p>Totalitarian regimes demand such theater, much the way Rapinoe demanded that her teammates kneel.<\/p>\n<p>No one demands that players sing or hold hands over their hearts. We simply mourn the fact that they refuse to do so because we know the reason for it.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Jashinsky, culture editor at The Federalist, joined Kelly\u2019s show and summarized things beautifully.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the more thoughtful observations anyone has ever made on the subject, Jashinsky contrasted the players\u2019 spiteful and narcissistic behavior with the dignified approach of a 19th-century American legend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at, for instance, what Frederick Douglass\u2026what he had to say about the Fourth of July, even if you\u2019re upset with the country, even if you think the country isn\u2019t living up to its potential, you can still be patriotic,\u201d Jashinsky said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we have this absurd binary that is overly simplistic that says you either absolutely hate America or you love America and there\u2019s nothing in between,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Eliana Johnson, editor in chief at the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication in the nation\u2019s capital, also joined Kelly\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson noted that WBNA player<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/brittney-griner-changes-tune-national-anthem-first-game-back-since-russian-imprisonment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brittney Griner<\/a>decided to stand for the national anthem after returning home from a lengthy detainment in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a really sad reflection of the kind of education that our young people are getting today that they actually do have to experience despotism in order to have a basic appreciation of how wonderful our country is,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>A better education would begin with the kind of history Jashinsky cited.<\/p>\n<p>On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered<a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningforjustice.org\/classroom-resources\/texts\/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his famous oration<\/a>, \u201cWhat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An escaped slave himself, Douglass nonetheless recognized America\u2019s proslavery regime of the time as hostile to the nation\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/history-left-erased-founding-fathers-helped-obliterate-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Founding principles<\/a>. In one glittering passage, Douglass described the U.S. Constitution as a \u201cGLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT.\u201d (Uppercase in the original.)<\/p>\n<p>A former slave recognized America at its best, but privileged athletes do not.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the women\u2019s soccer players no doubt believe that they stand for something.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders how Rapinoe and others would react if they ever realized that they actually stand with the political theater of communist tyrants \u2026 and their own abysmal ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared originally on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalistpapers.org\/\">https:\/\/thefederalistpapers.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the U.S. women\u2019s national soccer team opened the 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup in controversial fashion. 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