Not Very Sunny Hostin feels unsafe in neighborhoods flying Old Glory

The good news is that America's 250th birthday came and went without incident. The bad news is that someone forgot to warn Sunny [whose given name is an oxymoron] Hostin that millions of terrifying suburban homeowners might celebrate by displaying . . .  the American flag. OMG!

The View co-host has once again insisted that neighborhoods covered in Old Glory make her feel "unsafe," reviving a claim she first made in 2021 as though patriotic front porches are the latest national security threat. Interestingly, Hostin has never been attacked by a patriot nor the flag, so she might actually be pulling our collective leg.

During a discussion about America's semiquincentennial, Hostin reminded viewers that she still stands by her mental disorder that creates irrational fear and causes her to get the willies.

"I said this on this show many, many years ago, because this is my tenth year on the show," Hostin recalled. "I said there are times when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there’s a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag, and they equate being an American or an American flag with White supremacy and that should never be the symbol of White supremacy, but they have weaponized."

Can we finally agree that white supremacy is incredibly minute in our nation, and while it exists, it's highly probable that Hostin has never been the target of such disgusting behavior by someone flying Old Glory at their home. This is why her condition is possibly mental, or perhaps it's racist as she sees everything in terms of race and anger.  

One almost expects the next public service announcement to warn Americans that exposure to excessive patriotism may cause spontaneous cable news anxiety. 

Hostin's comments followed discussion of a viral image showing a group of white nationalists riding a Washington, D.C., Metro train while wearing American flag-themed insignias. The extremists deserve condemnation, but Hostin's leap from a handful of actual racists to ordinary families flying flags outside their homes requires an Olympic-level long jump.

"That, for me, was a defining image of modern America for Black Americans," Hostin said.

Apparently, the existence of fringe extremists now means every retired veteran, every family celebrating Independence Day, and every homeowner with a flagpole is part of the same terrifying landscape. By that logic, criminals who wave rainbow flags would make Pride flags suspicious, yet somehow that standard only seems to apply to Old Glory. And let's not forget those folks whose uniform has an American flag displayed.

Guest host Michelle Buteau eagerly joined the performance after spending the Fourth of July celebrating with a cake reading "America, Do Better B----," because Buteau is also a virtue-signaling person and knows that it's safer to be condemning our great nation than to take a conservative stand defending her.

"When you say it’s the best nation. The best nation for who? Because if we are celebrating 250 years, what are we exactly celebrating, is what I want to know," Buteau said. "So I’m really glad that picture was taken, because that picture is how we feel walking into many rooms, down the street. That picture is how we feel and nobody will believe us. So look at that picture and understand how it feels."

But somehow Buteau and Hostin along with her ilk, have no intention of leaving for what they see as a "better country." That's because there is no better country.  

Fortunately, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin managed to inject a rare dose of sanity into the conversation.

"The flag belongs to all of us," Griffin replied.

That simple statement seems almost revolutionary on an anti-American program determined to portray the Stars and Stripes as some sort of warning label.

Hostin has been telling this story for years. Back in 2021 she defended another media personality who claimed American flags made her uncomfortable, insisting that neighborhoods decorated with the nation's flag sent an unmistakable message.

"When someone of color, a Black woman, is telling you her feelings, people need to listen and not, you know, repudiate it and not say, 'Well, that can’t be true,'" Hostin had said at the time, later adding, "When I drive into a neighborhood, and it’s not July 4th, and I’m not in a predominantly military household neighborhood and there are flags, American flags, everywhere, alongside Trump flags, alongside flags with stars in a circle, I feel threatened."

Then came the dramatic conclusion.

"Because the message is very clear," she continued. "It’s a message of White supremacy. It’s a message of racism, and it’s a message of their country, not my country. I don’t understand why that would receive backlash. People need to listen when I am saying this is how I feel. This is my experience in this country."

Feelings are real. They are not automatically facts.

If someone genuinely believes that a cul-de-sac full of parents grilling burgers beneath American flags is an inherently dangerous place, the problem probably is not the flags. More likely, it is years of media conditioning that has convinced some people patriotism itself is suspicious by leftists like Hostin.

The irony is impossible to miss. The same commentators who insist the American flag "belongs to all of us" also spend an astonishing amount of time explaining why ordinary Americans should be viewed with suspicion for displaying it. You can't have it both ways, but she's too thickheaded to see this.

If Sunny Hostin truly feels endangered every time she sees Old Glory fluttering in the breeze, Americans can be forgiven for wondering whether the fear is rooted in reality, or simply another daytime television performance designed to turn patriotism into pathology.

I vote for pathology.

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NFL player angry he's not being covered by media during his National Anthem protest

His number does not matter

A football player on the Miami Dolphins, whose name I will not mention just to further piss him off, is upset with the media because they haven't mentioned him when he protests the National Anthem and thus disrespects our flag and country.

Speaking with the Miami Herald, the player accused the media of ignoring his raised fist every week during the National Anthem. What a photo op they're missing seeing this angry footballer raise his fist in the air rather than putting it over his heart.

"Y’all ignore it," he said. "Because when I gave my first message on trying to bring unity, y’all swept it under the rug. It’s not me. When you don’t give a problematic story, y’all just ran away. You’ve got this lady named Cyntoia Brown, or whatever her name is, and you sent her to life in prison because she was being sex-trafficked. But yet you guys dipped."

Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison in Tennessee for a murder she committed when she was 16. Activists have called for the courts to show more leniency in her case due to her young age, assuming she didn't know right from wrong and that the family of the deceased don't have the right to justice.

The Miami Herald did write about the football player's protest back in April when he described America as something straight from the pages of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

"The way America was built, and the way people talk .... The president said to build a wall to keep Mexicans out. This country was built off of — they killed Indians, built off the backs of the blacks. So yet, they tell us to keep quiet. So at the end of the day, let’s confront the situation and let’s bring humanity and friendship and let’s get rid of all the ignorance. Let’s face it head-on, let’s look at each other as humans. I always live by this one law: Treat each other like you want to be treated. You don’t ever want to smack someone in the face and don’t expect to get smacked back. It’s just that simple fact. Don’t treat someone bad and expect not to be treated the same way. That’s just how it is."

Following that report, the media mostly highlighted the protests of Dolphins wide-receiver Kenny Stills, whose kneeling attracted more attention than this player's racially charged power fist.

"Man, I don’t have nothing to do with Kenny," the footballer said. "That ain’t got nothing to do with me. All I’m saying is, my production went up because I’m just playing football and America’s got a lot of problems to fix within itself. Tell America to look itself in the mirror and the people who built it."

Perhaps this football player ought to look at how far America has come regarding racism and equal rights. He ought to look at other countries before deciding how terrible our country is. We aren't perfect, but we're the best nation on the planet in terms of rights and equality. The fact that he can raise his fist in protest isn't on the backs of blacks who have died for that right, but on all Americans who have  fought, and many who have died, for these rights.

If this player wants to end what he sees as racism, raising his fist in protest will do nothing but separate us further and do no good.

Sport is not the place for political speech. In fact, it is the one place where only talent counts and race or religion should play no part. 

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'First Man' first weekend a box office flop--as it should be

As a young man in the late 1960s, I remember how the United States was in fierce competition with the then Soviet Union in the race for the moon. A few years before that, when, in 1957 the Soviet's Sputnik went into orbit, I was one of the kids who became interested in this race. I built model rockets from scratch, read "Satellites, Rockets and Outer Space" by Willy Ley, and was one of a million kids cheerleading our nation in this race to be the first country to put a man on the moon.

America launched our own satellites, sent monkeys into orbit and we went full bore into the race.

Then it happened. Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong's trip to the moon. We all sat around the black and white TV, tense, hoping and literally praying for the safe landing of Armstrong and the crew on the moon.

It was such an incredible moment for the country. We were so damn proud to be Americans when Armstrong planted the American flag. "One small step for man . . . one giant step for mankind," were his words, although it's possible he said "for a man," but that's not terribly important. What was important was that America was first.

Of course, they made a movie about it titled First Man. Directed by Damien Chazelle, First Man received a ton of rave reviews and huge profits were anticipated even after sinking anywhere between $100 million to $125 million to produce and publicize.

But it tanked at the box office, with a mere $16.2 million on opening weekend. It was projected to do at least $19 million to $21 million, but even those numbers are downplayed to avoid possible embarrassment and inspire free publicity if it should over-perform.

When moviegoers discovered that one of the most, if not the most iconic moments of the entire last century was not included in the movie--the planting of the American flag on the moon. In fact, they didn't even have an American flag on the spacesuits of the astronauts which, of course, were part of the uniform.

How arrogant and globalist of those woke producers for leaving out the one thing that every American who was alive and not in diapers at the time remembers.

The Apollo 11 mission was the single most important moment in the Space Race and a huge accomplishment in the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

Before this mission, the Soviets were way ahead of us with the Sputnik launch and their other accomplishments. And it was President Kennedy who understood how high the stakes were and he directed NASA to put a man on the moon.

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," Kennedy said at the end of 1962. But he knew it was even more than that and he told Congress in 1961, soon after assuming the presidency, that the Space Race was bigger than mere bragging rights.

"If we are to win the battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to us all, as did the Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere, who are attempting to make a determination of which road they should take," JFK wrote, at a time when Democrats were more like today's Republicans.

"Now it is time to take longer strides--time for a great new American enterprise--time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth," he said.

"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth," he urged. "No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."

And we did it with a computer with less memory than today's laptop.

This is what makes the planting of the American flag on the moon one of the most important and iconic moments of the Twentieth Century. It was a choice between tyranny and freedom. It was about patriotism and pride, but pride in a good sense. And by winning the Space Race and beating the evil Soviet empire, we sent a clear message to the entire world.

That the movie did not include our flag reflects a total lack of understanding of Armstrong's mission, and their mindless explanations about the omission illustrates their tone deaf ignorance of the entire mission.

Ryan Gosling, who plays Neil Armstrong said, "I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement [and] that's how we chose to view it."

What an idiotic remark. The entire mission was an American achievement requiring great ingenuity and yes, capitalism to fund it. I believe it was Truman Capote who once said that all actors are not very bright, and Gosling proves it.

Chazelle said, "I wanted the primary focus in that scene to be on Neil's solitary moments on the moon--his point of view as he first exited the LEM, his time spent at Little West Crater, the memories that may have crossed his mind during his lunar EVA."

Proof that Chazelle is clueless. Did he think that Armstrong's "memories" were devoid of what inspired the mission in the first place? The entire reason for going there? Chazelle may have won an Oscar, but he was in over his head on this one by not including the American flag being planted on the moon.

I will not watch the movie; not even after it's re-run on Netflix or elsewhere. I want to remember the mission the way it was to the American child whose patriotism and pride of country was branded in me forever.

If they don't show us truth in what we know actually happened, they don't deserve our consideration. And they can pretend their weekend flop had nothing to do with the flag, but of course we know the real truth.


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Toilet humorist Sarah Silverman calls patriotism 'perverted'

Toilet-centric comedian Sarah "Doody, I Said Doody" Silverman ended her variety series "I Love You America," in which she pretends to try finding common ground with the ordinary folk who have differing political opinions and who actually do love America.

Now she's trying to understand what the experience has taught her with issues such as patriotism and religion in America.

Speaking to Vice, the scatological 47-year-old dealt with many topics on the 10-episode schtick on Hulu. She believes it gave her deep, special insight into the country but after hearing her responses to questions posed to her by Vice, she obviously allowed her leftist predilections inform her thoughts.

"The right has perverted the meaning of being liberal, or being feminist," she pontificated. "Even 'social justice warrior' is an insult. We pervert language so much. Patriotism has always been a bot owned by the right."

As "right to choose" instead of "abortion" has been owned by the left.

"Patriotism is perverted. We're not on the same page of what it means. To me, being patriotic is loving your country--being a citizen, having a voice, being e pluribus unum. How perverted it is to go from 'We are one' to 'We are number one,' which is such a childish idea," she bloviated. She put President Trump into the childish category.

Silverman believes that e pluribus unum means 'We are one,' and tried to sound intelligent. But of course, even we 'patriots' know that it means 'Out of man, one.' That's the motto of the United States and Silverman got it wrong.

Pretending to be smarter than you are is great for job interviews, but it kind of signifies an immature need to sound smart--that's kind of childish in and of itself.

Then the not very funny comedian accused Trump of stopping his emotional growth at eight years of age, and I don't know where the evidence is for that developmental analysis. Maybe she took Psych 101, I don't know, but I'm going to 'Wiki' her butt now . . . well, it says she graduated from the Derryfield School in Manchester, NH and attended New York University for a year but did not graduate. Instead, she performed stand-up comedy in Greenwich Village.

So it looks like she didn't take many psychology courses. But, on the other hand, she did win a Creative Arts Emmy Award on September 13, 2008 f9r writing the song "I'm F**king Matt Damon." Now we know that her emotional growth is right up there with Gandhi and Bret Baier.

In terms of her "thoughts" on religion, she argued that the right paints American Muslims with a broad brush while the left does the same with Christianity.

I don't completely disagree.

The right clearly does paint Islam with a broad brush because many on the right actually have read Islamic scripture and know more about the religion than the low-information folks on the left. There are those on the right who paint Muslims with a broad brush, but with what's going on in the world, it's somewhat understandable. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims. That's simply the truth.

And yes, the left tends to see all Christians as 'born again' people waiting for the second coming. That's actually quite a small number of people but the left doesn't care about that fact because it suits them to pigeon-hole Christians.

"Like patriotism, religion can be sometimes used as a weapon, or to support someone's own narrative or fears and prejudices. These Christian-fringe, Roy Moor, do-what-I-say-not-what-I-do people--they're not very Jesus-like. I see them as fringe the way I see ISIS as fringe," she said. "But when we look at the fringe as a whole, it's dangerous That's why there's the Muslim ban . . . "

I understand why liberals call it a 'Muslim ban' because Trump screwed up, like he often does when he tweets and/or speaks off script. He did, at one time, call it as such, but the truth is, the countries he selected for the flight ban are the same ones Obama chose because they're terrorist-spawning countries.

The unfortunate truth is that Islamic countries are where the terrorists come from when they're not home-grown. Facts are stubborn things, and facts don't care how liberal you are.

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Josh Norman says Trump isn't welcome in D.C.

Gosh Josh, have some courage and stand
for something bigger than you

Since the political correctness gurus are fighting to change the name of the NFL team known as the Washington Redskins, because George Washington was a slave owner and redskins is a derogatory term for native Americans, I will call the team "America's Capital Native American Footballers?

Joshua Norman, a player on America's Capital Native American Footballers, says that the President of the United States of America is not welcome in Washington D.C. the District of Columbia. 

After Norman's team handily beat the suck-worthy Oakland Raiders on "Sunday Night Football," he had a message for Trump. This came on the heels of the president saying that players who kneel during the National Anthem are "sons of bitches," which now involved the parents of the players and was probably not the best way to handle the controversy.

Trump also said that the owners should fire the players who kneel--another statement that a president ought to be making--a boycott is a better statement and the president should not get involved with free enterprise--that's my opinion.

Norman spoke in detail Sunday and got a bit misty when discussing the moment he heard what Trump said. 

The trouble is, President Trump should not have allowed himself to get into the mud with these protesters. Now the situation has escalated and has become more about Trump than about the original reason athletes have taken a knee during the National Anthem.

In fact, I suspect if you ask the players why they've decided to take a knee, some will have no idea. One player, whose name is unimportant because he is unimportant, decided not to take a knee during the Anthem, but to do his pre-game stretching. That's the height of disrespect of the National Anthem itself because it makes no other statement other than disrespect for the moment.

I am not watching tonight's game nor will I watch any NFL or NBA games until this is over. They have the right to kneel, I have the right to do my stretching exercises instead of watching a bunch of millionaires pretend to have moral superiority over me.

I believe a lot of people will not boycott the games because they will put their recreational needs ahead of their principles. But I really hope I'm wrong.

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Cops and EMS won't stand for the kneeling

Photo: Getty Images

Cleveland, Ohio police union head and its Emergency Medical Services union will not participate in Colors at the start of Cleveland Brown NFL football games. This comes after a dozen starters on the team took a knee for the National Anthem last week.

According to the Cleveland Plain Pot Dealer, Browns tight end (the perfect position for him) Seth DeValve, wide receiver Kenny Britt (who really should move to Great Britain), Duke Johnson (who is no John Wayne), Christian Kirksey, Jamie Collins, Ricardo Louis and Jamar Taylor went down on their knees near the team bench rather than showing respect for the American flag and our National Anthem.

Det. Steve Loomis, president of the police union, said the department wasn't protesting the players personally, simply because they are unpatriotic, rich complainers, whose athletic skills are no match for their arrogance. 

No, Loomis is not protesting their rights regarding freedom of speech and expression, even if that expression is loathsome and provided to them by the country to which they are disrespecting. 

White privilege

"We're not going to participate in something with the Cleveland Browns when the management and NFL [front office] condones this behavior."

Loomis blasted Cleveland Police Chief and PC butt-kisser Calvin Williams, who said he accepted the player's decision to refuse to stand out of respect for the USA. 

Williams made a feeble attempt of trying to defend his PC butt-kissing by claiming that the decision to boycott was "simply not the viewpoint of all of our officers."

Loomis responded, "Calvin Williams is not in touch with reality. They're absolutely with us."

EMD union chief Dan Nemeth called the player's decision to disrespect the flag and anthem was "deeply disturbing," and added that as athletes who children look up to, those players should "set the example for our youth."

Unfortunately, it appears they do--that's the problem, of late.


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Obama: "Cool it with the patriotism"

Protecting one's testicles is patriotic

Barack Hussein Hope and Change Obama is in the country he apparently loves the most where he is talking trash about President Trump and more trash about the greatest country on earth.

Yes, Obama is in Indonesia for the Fourth of July celebration along with his lovely "wife" and kids.

In a series of events, the former failed president predictably attacked love of country and policies of Trump. 

The Guardian reported: 

The former US president said some countries had adopted "an aggressive kind of nationalism" and "increased resentment of minority groups," in a speech in Indonesia on Saturday that could be seen as a commentary on the US as well as Indonesia.

"It's been clear for a while that the world is at a crossroads. As an inflection point," Obama said, telling a Jakarta crowd stories of how much the capital had improved since he lived there as a child. 

But he said that increased prosperity had been accompanied by new global problems, adding that as the world confronts issues ranging from inequality to terrorism, some countries--both developed and less developed--had adopted a more aggressive and isolationist stance. 

"If we don't stand up for tolerance and moderation and respect for others, if we begin to doubt ourselves and all that we have accomplished, then much of the progress that we have made will not continue," the socialist former failed president said.

It turns out that liberals, of late, have been the least tolerant of all other opinions and have labeled everything they don't want to hear as either 'hate speech,' 'racism,' or 'fascist.' But that's just an aside--everything Obama says is pure bs.

"What we will see is more and more people arguing against democracy [such as the Antifa movement], we will see more and more people who are looking to restrict freedom of the press, and we'll see more intolerance, more tribal divisions, more ethnic divisions [inspired by Obama's administration], and religion divisions [such as anti-Christian and anti-Israel, aka anti-Semitic divisions inspired by Obama's presidency], and more violence [which is coming almost exclusively from the left]," Obama predicts. 

He also predicted Hillary Clinton winning the presidency.

In spite of the fact that former presidents have class and rarely criticize their successors even at home, never abroad, Obama is fortunate not to possess any class and did so in the home of his early madrassa education.

He criticized Trump over the Paris climate accord--a gutsy, good decision.

Trump said in June that he'd withdraw from the accord and try to negotiate a better deal. Europe criticized him because they want our money for the make-believe agreement that we were already taking steps to comply with, while the biggest polluters were doing nothing to reduce their carbon footprints.

It was a terrible deal, but then again, Obama was a terrible president.

"In Paris, we came together around the most ambitious agreement in history to fight climate change," the verbally savant former president said Saturday in a speech at the opening of the Fourth Congress of the Indonesian Diaspora in Jakarta.

The Paris accord was nothing more than a weak 'gentleman's agreement' that had nothing to enforce it and parameters that made it nothing more than ridiculous to take seriously, much like intelligent people feel about Obama.

Meow, Mr. President

While Obama's attacks on Trump and a free economy were being made, President Trump spoke at an event that included wounded warriors at Walter Reed Medical Center. 

"America is a land rich with heroes," Trump said as he personally saluted World War II veteran Harry Miller for his lifelong service and Luis Avila, a wounded warrior.

"We all bleed the same red blood," he told the crowd. "Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago, America always affirmed that liberty comes from our Creator. Our rights are given to us by God, and no unearthly force can ever take those rights away. That is why my administration is transferring power out of Washington and returning that power back where it belongs--to the people," Trump said, which had to anger a failed former president who believes in a nanny state and ever bigger government.

And this is, in large part, why Donald J. Trump is president and Hillary Clinton is lost in the woods.


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