🧩 BND Motif Index · M507
Defiling the sacred
When someone defiles something sacred, be it the American flag, the Bible, or some other sacred cow.
📜 Plots🗂️ Faith and the sacred
- 4claims filed under it
- 2right shows it came up on
- 2claims retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Taking a knee 🧩 Missile at Mecca
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Politics as religion
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump criticizes LeBron James over national anthem behavior 2026-10-22 to 2026-10-25
- 📰 Trump seeks designation for Florida golf course as presidential retreat 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-09
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-23 “LeBron James disrespects the country by practicing a golf swing during the national anthem.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ PBD Podcast (podcast) - 2026-10-18 “MAGA supporters have co-opted and tainted the American flag.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-08 “Donald Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David, which would be used for hosting international summits and housing future U.S. presidents.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-03 “A California teacher was fired for taking down the American flag and forcing students to pledge allegiance to the pride flag.” 🔎 Snopes
M507 · first seen 2026-10-06 · last 2026-10-23 · what this is · how the index works