Update: Republicans And Boy Scouts Rescue The DNC’s Trashed American Flags - Story & Video Added
Fox News:
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 to audience members ahead of a McCain rally in Colorado Springs on Saturday.
The move was an overt swipe at Obama from a campaign whose motto has been “country first.” But Democratic convention organizers claimed the flags were not going to be discarded — but instead were snatched from the site of Obama’s historic address to carry out a “cheap political stunt.”
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.
“We want to find good homes for these flags,” radio host Dan Caplis said at the rally, adding that whatever flags remained would be placed at memorials throughout Colorado.
Audience members, who booed when Caplis announced that the flags were left in Denver, waved the flags and chanted “U.S.A” before McCain arrived at the rally with his running mate, Sarah Palin.
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 their 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.
Obama has faced attacks on his patriotism since the beginning of the Democratic primary race and has set up a Web site specifically designed to fight such charges.
The McCain campaign has denied questioning Obama’s patriotism, and even released a statement Friday calling Obama’s most recent comments on the matter “hysterical.”
Obama said Friday that Republicans are trying to make the election a personality contest, and that “what they’re really saying is ‘we’re going to try to scare people about Barack. So we’re going to say that you know, ‘Maybe he’s got Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals or he’s not patriotic.’”
U.S. Code says the proper method for disposing of an American flag is actually burning, provided it is “no longer a fitting emblem for display.”
The United States Flag Store, which sells full-sized and miniature flags, says on its Web site that flags can also be put in the trash, when they are “worn, damaged or tattered beyond repair.”
Dear Mr. Harsanyi -
In regards to your puzzled query, “I’m not sure what the DNC was supposed to do with unused hand-flags, frankly.”
How about dispose of [them] properly??? The local VFW and obviously Boy Scouts would have gladly either instructed the DNC on the designated guidelines for disposing of used American Flags in the most proper and respectful manner … or would have gladly and eager rescued them from the ‘users’ …But THAT just might not have made sense to the DNC … or perhaps even to you???Previous Post on this disgrace and shame.
by David Harsanyi - (Denver Post)
This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field in Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning. They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs with John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Before McCain speaks today, veterans will haul these garbage bags filled with flags out onto the stage — with dramatic effect, no doubt — and tell the story.
“What you see in the picture I sent you is less than half of total flags,” a Republican official emailed. “We estimate the total number to be around 12,000 small flags and one full size 3×5 flag.”
I’m not sure what the DNC was supposed to do with unused hand-flags, frankly. But the Republicans are obviously questioning someone’s patriotism here.
***EDIT***McCain Camp to Chastise Dems for Discarding American Flagsby Carl Cameron and Bonney Kapp - (FOX)
John McCain’s campaign prepared to accuse Democrats on Saturday of leaving behind 12,000 miniature American flags after Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday in Denver.
Boy Scouts have arrived with 84 trash bags full of bundles of flags at the site of a McCain rally scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. local time in Colorado Springs.
The campaign says the flags were recovered from Invesco Field after the Democrats concluded their convention there, and they are going to be used as part of the warm-up ceremonies before McCain takes the stage for the rally.
FOX News has been told a vendor at Invesco Field found the flags, which were going to be thrown out, and turned them over to the McCain campaign.
Veterans in Colorado Springs are expected to distribute the flags to the audience at the rally.
Obama has faced questions about his patriotism since the beginning of the Democratic primary, and has set up a Web site specifically designed to fight such charges.
The McCain campaign has denied questioning Obama’s patriotism, and even released a statement Friday calling Obama’s most recent comments on the matter “hysterical.”
Obama said Friday that Republicans are trying to make the election a personality contest, and that “what they’re really saying is ‘we’re going to try to scare people about Barack. So we’re going to say that you know, ‘Maybe he’s got Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals or he’s not patriotic.’”
It’s unclear exactly what Democratic convention organizers should have done with their used flags after Obama’s nomination acceptance speech. U.S. Code says the proper method for disposing of an American flag is actually burning, provided it is “no longer a fitting emblem for display.”
The United States Flag Store, which sells full-sized and miniature flags, says on its Web site that flags can also be put in the trash, when they are “worn, damaged or tattered beyond repair.”
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September 6th, 2008 at 9:53 amSir if your patriotism wasn’t so questionable BEFORE the act you just performed then there would not have been anything to worry about in the first place ….. RIGHT?!
September 6th, 2008 at 9:59 amI can’t see why they don’t dispose of them properly. I mean liberals love burning flags, and that’s how you dispose of a flag properly.
Lesson in flag disposal. http://www.wikihow.com/Retire-a-U.S.-Flag
It’s that easy! Oh wait . . . you have to be a member of the armed services or a member of the boy scouts to do it . . . do you think we’d find many of either at the DNC?
September 6th, 2008 at 10:00 amGreat title to the story Drill!
These idiots claim to be eco-friendly too.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:02 amHypocrites on all fronts!
http://www.wikihow.com/Fold-the-Flag-of-the-United-States-of-America
This is why the left hates the BSA. Reverence for country is taught there.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:03 amWhat the dems don’t is that flag still means something good to most American. Especially to the ones who have risked their lives or shed blood for it.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:22 amIt truly amazes me the lack of respect our flag receives. That fact is the majority of our citizens do not have the first clue they are being disrepectful. I have neighbors who leave their flag out 24 hours a day with no light on it. I went to the cemetery shortly after memorial day only to find flags laying on the ground, some having been shredded by a lawn mower ( the grounds keeper got a call.)I did pick up the flags and they are on their way to the VFW to be taken proper care of. I see people wearing the flag all the time when it is only proper for our military to wear the flag on clothing. I see the flag tattooed on bodies. I understand these are shows of love of country but there is a respect element that is being over looked. No one loves this country more than I do. I’m a proud non hyphened American. But I look at the flag and I see the tears of mothers and fathers and wives and siblings for those who lost their lives defending it and for the times away from loved ones given selflessly. We all need to remind ourselves of the proper way to show this symbol of our country true respect. Because I admit I too have guilty of not always doing the proper thing regarding my flag. I never purposely disrespected it but I have not always given it the true honor it deserves and following all the rules in it’s presentation and care. I’ve never thrown one on the ground or in the trash though.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:28 amI’m watching the Colorado Springs rally on a live feed. They just entered to Elvis Presley’s “A little Less Conversation” …..ROFL!
September 6th, 2008 at 10:31 amBurning is suitable only for worn-out flags. These are new.
There’re undoubtedly plenty of patriots who’d be glad to have them — but the Donks don’t know any of them.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:42 am
drillanwr. Pardon me if you already posted this but this is a great video:
September 6th, 2008 at 10:44 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8
Damn I Love this country and the Men and Women that protect her.
McCain just hit on one of my favorite points, reprocessing nuclear fuel. Even the French do this but Jimmah Cahtah prevented us from enacting this simple, sensible policy because he interpreted a treaty differently than anybody else. He created the nuclear waste issue with one executive order and that is the one change that would push expansion of nuclear power in this country forward, along with related regulatory streamlining. I’m personally delighted that he is so aware of this problem that he mentioned it in a stump speech!
September 6th, 2008 at 10:55 amExcellent video.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:00 amAND! The dopey Liberals have mixed recyclable materials with ordinary trash! (see the water bottles mixed with garbage).
Unforgivable sin (according to the loopy Leftists & Eco-Chondriacs).
September 6th, 2008 at 11:07 amMy son, 11 and a Boy Scout, took one quick glance over my shoulder when I had the picture above up on the screen - didn’t know anything about the context, and said, “Hey, those flags shouldn’t be treated like that!”
A small ray of hope for the future…
September 6th, 2008 at 11:10 amhell yeah i would take these flags. i would take a whole garbage of them. give them to everyone i know and would never throw them away. these people are unbelievable. they shit on the constitution and our very own flag.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:10 amI just heard on Fox that the Dems are saying the flags were stolen by the Republicans; they were not going to be thrown away. They are spinning so fast it’s unreal.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:16 amThe Democrats have and will throw this great nation into the trash at ever twist or turn.
This make all the sense in the world.
I would have been shocked to find these flags anywhere else.
The Democratic leadership are as bad as the rioters in St Paul.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:38 amThanks for the vid … I’ll post it in vid section for all to watch.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:06 pmLooks like Obama’s showing his “Patriotism” again
September 6th, 2008 at 12:32 pmKnottie, I am one of those who fly my flag 24/7. But I do not have a light to shine on it because I don’t have a place to put a light. I guess one of those battery operated lights might work though, right?
We love our flag. Every morning as we step into the driveway to get in the truck and go to work, I look at it and thank God I’m an American. I just love what it stands for.
We have been flying the flag 24/7 since 9/11/01. We are the only people in our neighborhood who do.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:26 pm“This is why the left hates the BSA. Reverence for country is taught there.”
In addition to the lack of patriotism you mentioned, the Radical Left hates the BSA because they won’t allow Gay scout masters and, therefore, don’t support the Gay agenda. Let’s not forget how much money flows to leftist political groups from radical homosexuals.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:30 pmOf course they don’t know what to do with them. They have no respect for the flag of our country. They have no respect for the sanctity of life either. They have no respect for their fellow man that may have a different point of view from theirs.
I just don’t think they give a shit about this country.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:36 pmi used to put these flags on Vets Cemetary every Memorial Day and Vets Day.
I marched with The Kentish Guard(RIM)Rhode Island Milita 1774.
I hope they get put to good use.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:40 pmThe Tip of the Trash Can
Obama Throws Flags in the Trash. This is yet another example of Obama’s false patriotism and disrespect to the many in the armed forces who provided the blanket of security so he may be free to criticize the government. He does not care about American flags. They’re just props for the naïve. As a leader, showing great leadership skills, he should have made sure that the flags used for his convention were not thrown away for respect and the environment’s sake. The flags were merely part of his and Axelrod’s disgusting and manipulative strategy. It’s all a show to get the most powerful job in the world. Integrity, fair play, etc. are really for the weak and naive in Obama’s view. Obama only demands fair play so while others are holding up their end of the bargain, he can “cheat” and beat them… just like when he condemns attacks on Palin publicly but secretly colludes with the slick Machiavellian greedy spinster David Axelrod (who worked for John Edwards & Eliot Spitzer - anyone see a coincidence or running theme?) to promulgate ugly, spurious rumors through friendly AP, NYT reporters and blogs who are anything but places of journalistic integrity and logical intelligence.
Obama is such an overly ambitious person it baffles the mind. He’s 46 and arrogantly expects to be the president of the most powerful nation on Earth. What wisdom can he bring at the age of 46 that will circumvent and surpass those of the average politician and military generals who are age 56? What wisdom can he usefully glean from his weak, trumped up experience that he got from Emil Jones who also happens to be next on the indictment list for Rezko’s money corruption scandal in Chicago. Obama is not going to care what he has to do in order to get the position, much the same he’s now giving “Rezko” money to charity in some false “mea culpa.” He used the Rezko money to get where he wanted and once he got there (name recognition, publicity, voted into office, etc) he got rid of the “money.” Just like the flags, they served their purpose to manipulate the national audience and off they went to the trash. Grow up people, we are being played by Obama, Axelrod, and the boneheads running the DNC.
I’m an African American democrat (yes, my ancestry comes from Africa, and my relatives picked cotton, suffered beatings, murder, lynching, and racism) but Obama is not getting my vote because he’s black (unlike the racist Oprah who has failed to rise above her ethnocentricity). I have a brain and an education, but the knee jerk swipe I always get from “brothers” is that I’m a HN or an Uncle Tom, so go ahead and follow that cliché.
Obama says he’s going to do all these great things, and some sound great, but no one has stopped to ask where he will get the money to do so. More direct taxes from us via intentionally false promises and higher prices at the store and gas station because he “stuck it” to the oil companies who simply passed on those higher taxes and fees to us. Does everyone think the oil companies are a non-profit organization that are just going to sit around and sing Kumbaya with Obama and his peace pipe crowd while they give us our money back?
Me and many others we’ve been speaking to in the community are not drinking the kool-aid because his pans will not work or help us. They’re empty words to get elected. He has not thoroughly convinced a lot of us and that will be greatest miscalculation in this election. California will be his biggest upset. That state is really a swing state since the majority of the democrats in California are moderate democrats and are slightly shifting towards the center as the state becomes more financially independent from the rest of the country due to the film, computer and aerospace industries. Why do you think Schwarzenegger, a Republican, got elected governor in a heavily democratic state by a landslide? Remember his campaign? He was the maverick going to unlock the congressional gridlock while the rich Hollywood liberals hissed at him but in the private voting booth cast their ballot to protect their lifestyle.
And now we are seeing that again but in a different form. Most of the Hollywood crowd want to be seen as part of the cool-hip crowd… “look at me, I’m open minded, I support a black man for the President”. Obama is a great orator, can read a teleprompter - great, but so is Jane Fonda and Susan Sarandon - they’re actors and great ones at that. Lofty words and speeches are great and inspiring, but they need to be backed up. I’m sick of the whole way Axelrod and the DNC (run by the embarrassing sexist clown Howard Dean) are trying to paint Obama as this JFK meets MLK. It’s an untrue manipulative association because if anyone took the time to understand and read history, they will discover that JFK’s economic plan that lifted America during the early 60’s closely resembles McCain’s economic plan. Obama’s is quite the opposite.
I work hard for my salary and have faced unemployment many times… so I find it rather naïve and offensive of Obama to expect my blood, sweat, and tears will go to support the ones who sit around, blame everyone but themselves, and have their palms up. Wealth redistribution never works, ask the Soviets (oops, ex-Soviets).
Obama is not a communist. He is not an anything “ist” except for ego “ist”. He just wants to get into office to enjoy all the perks, power, and prestige. There’s no sense of rolling up the sleeves and working compassionately from the heart. Otherwise he would still be in Chicago as a community organizer, helping with housing and food shelters But he left that in rubble, brushing the poor off his lapel like an annoying insect, and moved on to get more bling. For all his chest pounding condemnation of the war in Iraq, the simple fact is that more Americans died this summer in Chicago (Obama’s hometown) than in the war in Iraq. If he’s so compassionate about the loss of American life, why doesn’t he focus on improving conditions in Chicago and Illinois, the very job he was elected to and promised to uphold.
All this speaks to his unscrupulous ambition as exemplified by the flags found in the trash.
September 7th, 2008 at 2:39 ammy flag flying at night with light on, is a beautiful sight
September 7th, 2008 at 3:55 amThe truth is, there is no written protocol regarding the disposal of paper flags.
In fact, according to the Flag Code, the flag shouldn’t be “printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard.”
However, it’s been said that people usually display the American flag with noble intentions but sometimes violate the Code.
As for myself, I just bought some stationery with the American flag on it and I don’t feel guilty about it. It’s for a good reason. I also have a couple of t-shirts with the American flag imprinted on them and I’m going to keep wearing them because I know it’s the last thing ultra-liberals and radical Muslims want to see.
September 7th, 2008 at 5:23 amWell I guess this proves the ulterior motives of the environmentalist wacko left, when it comes to the American flag, recycling is not something they would recommend. I bet they have a ton of ‘recycled’ hammer a sickle banners on their ‘closet’ walls.
“If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, its a….”
September 7th, 2008 at 5:50 amMy house has a flag flying 24/7, except with bad weather. I also had a bunch of mini flags i’d gottne at parades, so I went to my local American legion and stuck them in the flag disposal box, so they could be taken care of properly
September 7th, 2008 at 6:27 am@Bill Stank-nice to meet you
September 7th, 2008 at 6:30 amfunny story cause I work in a hotel in Denver where a bunch of flags were left by guests (who were here for the DNC). Needless to say our entire staff was allowed to take home the same flags left by guests. Even our Mexican Houskeeping staff were eager to take them home….are they more patriotic then the DEMS? i guess so!
September 7th, 2008 at 7:20 amPS. I have a brother about to be in IRAQ. does anyone know a legit website where I can get the star flags representing the fact that I have a fam member serving?
September 7th, 2008 at 7:23 amI’ve got 79,200 arm patch flags, the ones the soldiers where on there shoulder. They were going to be dumped, I kid you not….a million or more were bought by a big Corp.(I don’t want to say who just now but if you know me your guess is right) for a promo…the 79,200 were what was left. They needed the warehouse space…long story short they ended up at my front door…On 9/11/2008 a group…Adopt a Soldier, is gathering on the boardwalk in Christiansted to remember and collect stuff for care packages to soldiers.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:59 amWe are going to sell the patches for postage money.
The flags are wrapped in plastic and boxed. They are piled up against my little house and covered with a tarp. I feel like they represent soldiers who need help…Strange maybe but I can’t help the way I feel.
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it’s a …
piece of shit liberal impersonating a duck to get into the McCain/Palin speeches to interrupt!?
Did I win?
September 7th, 2008 at 8:00 amExcellent post, sir. Excellent post!!
September 7th, 2008 at 12:51 pmOLD GLORY flies 24/7 over my house
September 7th, 2008 at 1:37 pmWhy is it a surprise that the DNC, which decorated their convention center with a baby blue banners (not navy blue as in red-white-and-blue) topped with a single RED STAR (not American white stars) would toss out thousands of perfectly good RED WHITE AND BLUE American symbols? The “Obama Nation” logo isn’t red-white-and-blue, it is vermillion, off-white, and pastel blue. They want “change” alright - so besides the Che Guevarra posters in their campaign offices, they are trying to subtly REPLACE the American flag with the Obama Circle. The colors DO matter. Also, though they like to point out how many FLAGS were present inside the DNC hall, there was NO COLOR GUARD to bring them in like at the RNC, and precious few other symbols of America in evidence until the styrofoam colonnade got a few extra flags. The only thing missing from that spectacle was Obama throwing coins to the crowd or raising the floor to reveal a caged lion and a caged Republican he could put together.
September 7th, 2008 at 3:58 pmHe is so fortunate that most of his followers know no history. Some of them might have noticed the Soviet RED STAR banners on the building.
Thank God for thinking Americans like Bill Stank. When the MSM tanks good politicians like Michael Steele in favor of machine hacks, and good jurists like Clarence Thomas, or excoriates women Republicans like Gov. Palin but fawns over appointing radical ACLU lawyers like Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the highest bench, you know they are not honestly in favor of seeing blacks succeed, or women succeed - they are only interested in manipulating public opinion so that their leftist agenda wins. It is their sincere belief that women and blacks are too dumb to know they are being used, and that they (the elites) have the right - no, the obligation -to use them because the ends (socialism) justifies the means (duping the populace that doesn’t know what is good for it and must be led by their “betters”.) Let’s see: kings rule by “divine right” and socialists rule by “greater intellect”. Both are hogwash. American men and women, black and white, are a lot smarter than those folks think. Thank god most of America is like Bill Stank.
September 7th, 2008 at 4:28 pmSay, if the DNC is accusing the McCain campaign of stealing the flags, exactly WHO at the DNC was in charge of them and WHAT were their plans for them, and HOW did it go so incompetently wrong as to end up with 12,000 more flags ordered than needed being left behind to be found a FULL WEEK LATER in and around the dumpsters?
It is all well and good to say oh-no, we didn’t throw them away. It begs the question, “Okay, so, bring out the Flag monitor guy and have him tell his story! Then fire him you bozos!”
September 7th, 2008 at 4:32 pmWhy would any United States citizen vote for someone because of the color of their skin? This is crazy. I know black people would like to see a black president but come on, does he really know enough to run the government of our nation? His experience doesn’t speak very well for him. Yes, he talks a good talk and says what some want to hear. Have you checked out a paper that was written by his wife and partner while attending college? These people may be book smart and college educated but real smarts I question. Just as I question some in the congress and what they use for a brain. People wake up we need to get all of them out and start all over. As a senior citizen living on a limited income I can’t afford to see this family in the White House. Oprah could probably do just as good a job at running this country as Obama. It is a shame that Ron Paul didn’t get any further in his bid for presidency.
September 9th, 2008 at 5:37 am