{"id":50053,"date":"2021-07-14T17:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50053"},"modified":"2021-07-14T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T00:45:09","slug":"chicken-hearted-lindsey-graham-says-i-will-go-to-war-for-the-principles-of-chick-fil-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50053","title":{"rendered":"Chicken-Hearted Lindsey Graham Says &#8216;I Will Go to War for the Principles of&#8230;&#8217; Chick fil-A?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During these turbulent times in a divided America it&#8217;s useful to recall the old and inspirational saying that <em>&#8220;When the going gets tough, the tough chow down on fast food chicken.&#8221;<\/em> At least that would be the version of it told by Republican senator and Donald Trump lapdog, Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Repub\/graham-trump-baby.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50055\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the fowl stench of war permeating Washington, Graham has courageously taken sides in the nation&#8217;s most contentious battle. As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/notre-dame-chick-fil-a\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported by Fox News<\/a><\/strong>, Notre Dame University has erupted into a bitter culture clash that threatens to tear at America&#8217;s core:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A group of students and faculty at an elite Catholic university say they don\u2019t want Chick-fil-A to open a restaurant on their Indiana campus because of the restaurant chain\u2019s frequent donations to Christian groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Roughly 180 University of Notre Dame students and faculty have signed an open letter calling on the school\u2019s Campus Dining division to nix the proposed new shop.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News isn&#8217;t being entirely honest, as usual. If the problem were merely funding for Christian organizations, no one at Notre Dame, a private Catholic institution, would care. But citing the complaint as <em>&#8220;donations to Christian groups&#8221;<\/em> is a euphemistic way of disguising the fact that those donations are actually going to openly homophobic hate groups that actively campaign against LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n<p>Upon learning of the actions taken to deny Chick-fil-A a place on campus, Graham rushed to the front lines to declare that <em>&#8220;I want everyone in South Carolina and across America to know I have Chick fil-A\u2019s back. I hope we don\u2019t have to, but I will go to war for the principles Chick fil-A stands for.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I want everyone in South Carolina and across America to know I have Chick fil-A\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>I hope we don\u2019t have to, but I will go to war for the principles Chick fil-A stands for.<\/p>\n<p>Great food.  <br \/>Great service.  <br \/>Great values.  <\/p>\n<p>God bless Chick fil-A!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/1415387016313950210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, isn&#8217;t that special? Graham wouldn&#8217;t go to war in defense of the Capitol Police who were attacked by Donald Trump&#8217;s insurrectionists. Nor would he go to war to fight for a congressional committee to investigate the January 6th right-wing riots. He declined to fight for voting rights that his party is suppressing across the country. And he failed to hold Trump accountable during both of his impeachment trials.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, few have been more subservient to Trump than Sen. Graham. He insists that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49314\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8220;the Republican Party can\u2019t grow&#8221;<\/em> without Trump<\/a><\/strong>. He says that he wants to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48710\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>\u201charness the magic\u201d<\/em> of Trump\u2019s <em>\u201cmovement,\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/strong> while ignoring his <em>\u201cdark side.\u201d<\/em> He has steadfastly remained joined at the lip to Trump despite Trump&#8217;s reckless incitements to violence, his seditious promulgation of the <em>&#8220;Big Lie&#8221;<\/em> that the election was stolen from him, and his responsibility for the deaths of more than 600,000 Americans due his negligent and incompetent mismanagement of the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>However, Graham is now aligning himself with the QAnon caucus of the GOP. Earlier this year Rep. Lauren Boebert, along with Ted Cruz, Fox News, and others, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49369\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blamed President Biden for a sauce shortage at Chick-fil-A<\/a><\/strong>. That may have been the opening salvo in the war that Graham is enlisting for now.<\/p>\n<p>Graham&#8217;s South Carolina constituents are surely going to appreciate his determination to fight to the death on behalf of a fast food chain based in Georgia that is seeking to peddle their chicken parts at a university in Indiana. And he&#8217;s willing to make this sacrifice to the exclusion of every other crisis that America is facing. It is, after all, the only cause that he has promised to <em>&#8220;go to war&#8221;<\/em> over. Such are his priorities: Trump and Chicken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During these turbulent times in a divided America it&#8217;s useful to recall the old and inspirational saying that &#8220;When the going gets tough, the tough chow down on fast food chicken.&#8221; At least that would be the version of it told by Republican senator and Donald Trump lapdog, Lindsey Graham. With the fowl stench of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,16],"tags":[554,33,1105],"class_list":["post-50053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-lindsey-graham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/graham-trump-baby.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-d1j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50775,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50775","url_meta":{"origin":50053,"position":0},"title":"UH-OH: Trump Mauls His Slobbering Lapdog Lindsey Graham in a Barking &#8216;Big Lie&#8217; Blowup","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/23\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The stench of desperation is wafting through Mar-a-Lago as Donald Trump slides deeper into the sewer of his own lies and psychoses. 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