Michael Strahan Slammed On Veteran’s Day Over National Anthem Controversy

If you privation much impervious that America is much divided than ever, look nary further than Michael Strahan.

Despite reports of friction astatine Good Morning America, Michael Strahan’s vocation arsenic a TV writer continues going strong.

However, connected Veteran’s Day, helium recovered himself pooled unneurotic with the likes of Colin Kaepernick and others who person been slammed implicit their “etiquette” during the National Anthem

There are adjacent those who are going truthful saw arsenic demanding helium beryllium FIRED!

Michael Strahan attends the “BS High” premiere during the 2023 Tribeca Festival astatine Village East Cinema connected June 14, 2023. (Photo Credit: Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)

Michael Strahan & National Anthem “Etiquette”

On Sunday, November 10, Fox Sports showed the NFL connected Fox talking heads astatine Naval Base San Diego.

The unholy national of sports and the US subject has a agelong past – But, successful this case, it was a peculiar Veterans Day broadcast and frankincense wholly appropriate.

As portion of the tribute, The Star-Spangled Banner played. This is wherever Strahan got into “trouble” with immoderate viewers.

During the Fox Sports segment, which appeared connected Twitter and beyond, assorted large names contiguous placed a manus implicit their hearts portion the National Anthem played.

Michael Strahan stood silently and respectfully during The Star-Spangled Banner. However, his hands were clasped successful beforehand of him, with zero hands successful beforehand of his heart.

And that was it – but obviously, that’s conscionable wherever this communicative gets started.

A firestorm of backlash erupted arsenic the video started to circulate, with galore slamming Michael for not having his manus implicit his bosom – arsenic the U.S. Code insists 1 should

We reason our amusement astatine the Naval Base San Diego with the nationalist anthem ???????? pic.twitter.com/lDb2g6oF0f

— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) November 10, 2024

Weirdo trolls slammed Michael Strahan successful the sanction of ‘patriotism’

According to the flurry of furious societal media commenters, Michael Strahan lasting solemnly during the National Anthem was “disrespectful.”

“Michael Strahan should not beryllium connected that stage,” declared 1 angered viewer. “He can’t adjacent amusement the due respect to our work men and women. Disgraceful!”

“Fire Strahan,” demanded different tweet.

Another tweet screeched: “If you can’t respect our military, you request to beryllium removed from the NFL ON FOX!! GOOD BYE STRAHAN!!”

Now, immoderate whitethorn spot this arsenic a vehement overreaction; we hap to agree. While Section 301(b) of rubric 36 of the U.S. code says that erstwhile the nationalist anthem is played, each “persons contiguous should look the emblem and basal astatine attraction with their close manus implicit the heart,” not doing shouldn’t instantly villainize a person.

Michael Strahan speaks onstage astatine the Fanatics Fest NYC 2024 astatine Jacob Javits Center connected August 16, 2024. (Photo Credit: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Fanatics)

In Michael’s Defense

And conscionable for the record, Michael Strahan didn’t disrespect the United States military. He was, successful fact, appearing successful a tribute to past and contiguous members of the United States military. Some mightiness telephone this “honoring” or, situation we say, “respecting” the troops.

He was adjacent spotted, much than immoderate different idiosyncratic connected the panel, speaking with the work members successful attendance and offering his thanks.

It’s casual to leap to vitriol and hatred during these divisive times. It’s saddening to spot truthful galore do. Just arsenic it was bittersweet to spot truthful galore spurn Colin Kaepernick for exercising his American close to protest, which by the way, nary 1 is saying Michael is doing.

Because here’s the thing… whether oregon not helium saw himself getting slammed connected a dying societal media platform, Michael Strahan took to Instagram to stock a much idiosyncratic tribute.

Because the needs of vets is really a precise important contented for Michael.

Yes, helium posted his ain Veteran’s Day tribute

Now mightiness beryllium a bully clip to notation that Michael Strahan’s ain quality father, the precocious Major Gene W. Strahan, Sr., served 23 years successful the army. He was “a arrogant subordinate of the 82ns Airborne Division.”

Also, the GMA co-host grew up connected an US Army basal successful Germany, wherever his begetter was stationed. He besides does plentifulness of enactment successful his escaped time, including foundation enactment successful which helium helps to link retired subject veterans and retired athletes.

Even if immoderate benignant of obeisance ritual were a request to beryllium a sports broadcaster — and it mostly is not — Michael Strahan is intelligibly a instrumentality of veterans. There are radical successful this satellite who are simply, astatine each times, looking for idiosyncratic to hatred for nary conceivable reason. And they’ll ever find their target.