“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
Every year the president invites real American heroes to the State of the Union Address: police, firemen, soldiers, teachers, and people who put their lives on the line for other people.
Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton just gave us an idea of the kind of people she sees as role models who deserve national praise: kids who hate America.
Hillary praised an 11-year-old girl who decided to kneel instead of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance!
When she saw a left-wing website’s video about Mariana Taylor – who imitated the NFL players’ disrespect for the national anthem – Crooked Hillary personally tweeted: “It takes courage to exercise your right to protest injustice, especially when you’re 11! Keep up the good work Mariana.”
It takes courage to exercise your right to protest injustice, especially when you’re 11! Keep up the good work Mariana. https://t.co/vnGheuWyJ0
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 15, 2018
Taylor claims that the third day she refused to stand for the Pledge at her Baltimore-area middle school in February, her teacher humiliated her in front of her whole class.
The girl alleged that her teacher called her actions “disrespectful” to America and mentioned that her own family lived overseas.
Taylor said she ran out of the classroom in tears – and straight to the lawyer’s office.
The ACLU caught wind of a public school employee trying to teach patriotism and immediately tried to squash it. The legal lawyers brigade told school officials that they needed to let kids say or do anything they want in class, because it’s their “right” to free expression.
Taylor delivered the threat to the school board in person.
“I feel that my confrontation was more disruptive than kneeling itself,” Taylor said. “And we need this policy change so other kids don’t go what I went through.”
There’s just one problem with her story, according to school administrators: It’s a crock.
“We know of no [Baltimore County Public Schools] student who has been reprimanded or punished for non-participation in patriotic observances,” school officials said in a rebuttal. “We fully support students’ rights and encourage student voice as articulated in board policy.”
The school board said the teacher just worried that the 11-year-old – who reporters admit has “strong beliefs about racial injustice, sexism, gay rights and President Trump’s proposed wall at the Mexico border” – might be too obsessed with politics.
The girl’s mother, Joanne Taylor, even kind of admitted that her daughter flew off the handle, and that the teacher “was supportive of Mariana” after she ran out of the classroom.
But since then, the Taylors and the ACLU have played the victim card. “Our goal is just to ensure that this doesn’t happen to another child, in another school, anywhere,” Joanne said.
It’s understandable that a family might chase the limelight – but Hillary praising a sixth grader for protesting the “injustice” of saying the Pledge of Allegiance? How ridiculous.
The problem is, Crooked Hillary is so bitter at the voters who destroyed her in two presidential elections that she praises unpatriotic actions – even on foreign soil.
Last December in London, Clinton said that NFL players kneeling before games was “not against our anthem or our flag.”
She even called it “reverent”!
“I think it would be a grave error for Democrats to recede from those fights,” she said, “so therefore we have to stand up, fight back, resist!”
Poor Hillary is still fighting the last presidential election. On August 10, President Donald Trump tweeted that pro athletes should respect the flag.
Since Trump is Hillary’s Public Enemy Number One, whatever position he takes on an issue, she’ll say the opposite. If he says yes, she’ll say no.
If she thinks the best campaign strategy is to say America is evil, that’s her business.
But someone who thinks the flag and the national anthem aren’t worth standing up for is unfit to be commander-in-chief of the U.S. armed forces.
Anyone who thinks it’s an “injustice” to recite the Pledge of Allegiance should never take the oath of office.
Luckily, she’s so unpopular with her own party that even this anti-patriotic pandering won’t get her any closer to her own inauguration day. No matter how she begs, Democrats don’t want to give her a chance to lose her third presidential election.
Our country needs a leader who thinks America is was founded as the greatest country on earth, and works to keep us that way.
— Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”