September 07, 2008 10:16 AM UTC

McCain Camp: Democrats Trashed The Flag

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• by: redstateblues

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

From our “fair and balanced” friends at Fox News. To their credit they do describe the claim in a skeptical manner, though they describe the incident itself in great detail, and with, what one might call, a flair for the dramatic.

Democrats are not caring for their Stars and Stripes. At least that’s the message out of John McCain’s campaign.

McCain supporters, claiming they rescued 12,000 miniature American flags from the site of Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday, redistributed the orphan flags [rsb emphasis] to audience members ahead of a McCain rally in Colorado Springs on Saturday.

It gets better.

Would you believe:

McCain supporters said the flags were discovered by a vendor at Denver’s Invesco Field after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention. The vendor supposedly found trash bags full of flags in and near garbage bins, and turned them over to the McCain campaign.

Boy Scouts were sorting through 84 bags of flags in Colorado on Saturday, before a McCain supporter had veterans distribute them to the audience. [rsb emphasis]

Fox even quoted a Democratic official!

Damon Jones, spokesman for the Democratic National Convention Committee, released a statement saying McCain should applaud the fact that thousands of American flags were “proudly waved” at [the] convention.

“But instead his supporters wrongfully took leftover bundles of our flags from the stadium to play out a cheap political stunt calling into question our patriotism,” he said.

As someone who attended that speech, I have to say that I saw maybe one or two flags discarded out of literally tens of thousands that were distributed throughout the crowd. I even “rescued” a few of the flags myself–though I didn’t think I was “rescuing” anything at the time–and they are now displayed proudly throughout my apartment. I saw many others who did the same thing.

When you accuse others of being unpatriotic, and then go so far as to use the flag you claim to love as evidence against them, you show a profound disrespect to it, and to the country for which it stands.

And in case all you commie, pinko, Anti-American, marxist, socialist, flag-hating liberals forgot, here’s a reminder about proper disposal of the flag:

US Code Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 8:



(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

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