http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/06/mccain-camp-to-chastise-dems-for-discarding-american-flags/

Haha...

I know I know......"Let's talk about the issues! WAHHH!! "

9/6/2008 1:27:26 PM

fucking hate america democrats

9/6/2008 1:29:18 PM

WELL THIS SEALS THE ELECTION

9/6/2008 1:30:37 PM

Not as bad as throwing 5,000 Americans flags in the trash, amirite? And 500,000 of the less-human-than-Americans Iraqis.

9/6/2008 1:31:36 PM

Changing the subject to something that has NOTHING to do with the original discussion.....one of the Democrat's favorite plays.

9/6/2008 1:46:50 PM

9/6/2008 1:54:54 PM

I am sure burning them would of gone over well.......

9/6/2008 1:57:54 PM

If they were real flags it might be noteworthy, but I'm sure many more fake flags, mini flags, and stars & stripes souvenirs get tossed all across America every July 5th.

If anything this should highlight the fact that the Democratic Party was so pro-America that they had over ten thousand American Flags at their convention. Has the RNC even made public the number of flags they had?!?!?

9/6/2008 2:10:11 PM

they probably say "made in china" on them as well. i'm fairly certain that not one single flag was thrown out at the RNC.

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 2:28 PM. Reason : []

9/6/2008 2:17:03 PM

each one was ceremoniously folded up by a 12" gi joe action figure (with the kung-fu grip) and properly disposed of with dignity

9/6/2008 2:21:16 PM

lock this piece of shit thread. its awful and has no point

9/6/2008 2:26:17 PM

on CNN they said the democrats were bagging these up to send them to other events.

Does that mean McCain stole 12,000 American flags?

9/6/2008 2:32:35 PM

it would seem wasteful to just throw out flags you could use elsewhere.

9/6/2008 2:35:40 PM

does seem like a dumb move on the DNC's part, but who cares

9/6/2008 2:56:51 PM

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"who cares"

9/6/2008 3:00:59 PM

at least one of the 2 parties knows how to recycle

wait... i thought the greenbacks were the liberals

9/6/2008 3:19:58 PM

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" does seem like a dumb move on the DNC's part"

It does if true, but i'm not convinced by a Fox News blog that it is actually a true story, or at least not as they have portrayed it.

9/6/2008 5:22:50 PM

It's not true, it's more fabricated bullshit. How they can get away with this is beyond me. They pulled the smear.

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"According to a article just out from Huffington Post, the story about flags from the Democratic National Convention being thrown away is simply false. The story was jumped on and apparently authored by the McCain campaign. But the real tell is down in the Huffpo piece where it traces the story to none other than Fox News' Carl Cameron. After I placed a series of calls to Fox News inquiring about the story, the story was eventually pulled, and Fox was forced to issue an apology and retract the fabricated story. Fox spokesman Paul Schur told TPM: "Carl [Cameron] made a stupid mistake which he regrets. And he has been reprimanded for his lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at humor.""

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 6:23 PM. Reason : - ]

9/6/2008 6:23:40 PM

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"Fox was forced to issue an apology and retract the fabricated story."

it's still posted in the politics section on the faux news website.

9/6/2008 6:49:24 PM

still...

you gotta wonder if 110,000 flags weren't dropped into the dumpsters that night.

lol

9/6/2008 6:59:57 PM

yeah. not buying that it's fabricated, especially not on the word of the huffington post.

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"But the real tell is down in the Huffpo piece where it traces the story to none other than Fox News' Carl Cameron."

Wonder how they figured that out. Oh, that's right, it says so at the bottom of the article. wow, what great investigative skills huffpo has!

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"FOX News’ Carl Cameron and Bonney Kapp contributed to this report."

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 9:21 PM. Reason : ]

9/6/2008 9:19:28 PM

remember

we live in a day where the AP has been labeled garbage, that blogs are now gold and that the newspaper is a relic of the past

9/6/2008 9:23:33 PM

^^ Carl Cameron has a history of scum-baggery.

The story is a little fishy though...

So the Dems had a convention, left the flags behind, someone bags up 12,000 flags for garbage, a vendor sees the bags, then calls the Boy Scouts who "sort" all 12,000 of them, and then someone calls in some "veterans" who then distribute the 12,000 flags at the republican rally?

I'm guessing, at worst, the flags were given to or sold to the production company, who then used them at the next rally.

The worst part of this is that the already confused elections is being further cluttered with the democrats having the brag about the number of flags the used (which they claim is over 100k) and the republicans saying the dems don't love the flag enough. It's pretty ridiculous.

Here is the original huffington post article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/thrown-away-flags-story-f_n_124499.html

The quoted section Kainen posted is flawed though, he quoted quotes from the previous Carl Cameron screw up. There is no report that THIS story has been pulled from Fox News yet. This is the source of Kainen's post: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/214283.php

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 10:10 PM. Reason : ]

9/6/2008 10:06:56 PM

the only given in this thread:

you can lay your life on the fact that not a single democrat will vocally come out nor physically in any way defend the flag or the nation. that you can bet on.

why would you expect it when the self proclaimed "anarchists" of america love the democratic party??

9/6/2008 10:36:11 PM

haha, so fox news made this whole thing up?

9/6/2008 10:43:13 PM

Here's the timeline of this thread:

1. Story comes out

2. Fox news admits that it was fabricated

3. aaronburro: "yeah. not buying that it's fabricated"

Are you some sort of retard?

9/7/2008 12:51:42 AM

In the meantime though its perfectly acceptable to violate the flag code... Saw dozens of people at the RNC dressed in the flag

Also

9/7/2008 2:21:13 AM

thats a hot bandaid

9/7/2008 3:05:05 AM

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"Not as bad as throwing 5,000 Americans flags in the trash, amirite? And 500,000 of the less-human-than-Americans Iraqis."

wins

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"Changing the subject to something that has NOTHING to do with the original discussion..... anything substantial one of the Democrat's politician's favorite plays."

It reminds me of the Simpsons where Kodos and Kang ran for president, "very well, abortions for some, miniature American flags for others." Issues be damned, the treatment of 12k, probably Chinese-made, American flags is more important that 8 years of both an administration and a congress who have largely ignored what they're supposed to stand for.

9/7/2008 4:22:18 AM

i think aaronburro might be actually retarded.

9/7/2008 5:10:21 AM