Fox News: Discarded Flags from DNC at McCain Rally

[Zombie2]

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"For hours, Fox News reported GOP claims about American flags -- which Cameron called "the Stars and Bars" -- before providing Dem response"


MORE (including vid w/more clips of this Fox "Alert")>>>
http://mediamatters.org/items/200809070007?f=h_top?click

"Summary: On September 6, Fox News' America's Election HQ aired numerous reports documenting claims by Republicans and the McCain campaign that they "rescued" American flags that were going to be "disposed of" by the Democrats after their convention at Invesco Field. But during the reports, Fox News gave no indication that it had sought to contact a Democratic Party official or Obama campaign spokesperson for comment, and only reported a Democratic response hours after it began reporting the Republican claims."

[C_U_L8R]

1. Ah-ha, the stolen flags

there is the evidence

[DS1]

2. Hear the "USA! John McCAIN!" repeating in the background

I'd rather see a few dozen heads of Fox News staff in the trash

[gumby]

3. Just like Limbaugh, when you think that Faux

can't get any lower..... THEY DO!!!!

[jhrobbins]

4. Yeah, baby - don't leave those flags - but it's OK to leave kids behind

and disabled vets and people without insurance, etc, etc, etc. Shows how warped our/their values are!!!

[Epiphany4z]

5. DNC: flag story completely false

boy they are really getting desperate.
DNC: flag story completely false (Fox Noise, the GOP and the RW are despicable liars)

McCain Plays the Cameron Card
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.

Longtime readers of TPM will remember that back in October 2004 this site caught Cameron publishing a series of fabricated quotes attributed to John Kerry on the front page of the Fox News website.

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 made a stupid mistake which he regrets. And he has been reprimanded for his lapse in judgment. It was a poor attempt at humor."

Why anybody would believe anything this joker says is difficult to fathom. But he's good enough for McCain.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/thrown-away-fl...

[Chisox08]

25. What good does apologizing do?

The story is alrready out and some folks who heard the story might not hear the apology nor will some of those believe it. Expect Druggy Limbaugh, and the rest of the RW nutbags to spew this story all day Monday.

[Zombie2]

6. Fox "News" *coughBullshit*

In one segment they say the rolled up American flags were found in "green (storage) bags"... and then later that some bags were found in "storage rooms" and "on their way to dumpsters".

These were NOT bags of trash. They were intended to be stored and used at future Obama events. They were STOLEN from Denver's Invesco Field... McSame and the people that took them should be held accountable.

[Lady-Damai]

7. Hmmm.... Where is the video tape of "disposed" flags at the DNC ?

I wonder what the Republicans would do if a Democrat did this when wrapping gifts....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXj-oQm-NbE

[Zombie2]

13. Welp....

That was DISGUSTING!

Not to mention a federal offense... but more DISGUSTING than anything. These are the people that call our houses "shacks".


United States Code
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY
333. Mutilation of national bank obligations

[TK421]

8. Watch those "left behind" flags change color mysteriously in a swastika when

they try to fly them....

[Just-plain-Kathy]

9. It amazes me how republicans worry so much about our flags and not about our soldiers.

...They support criminals who start wars for profit, consider arming our soldiers an after thought, and then refuse to help our vets when they come home.

Shame on them.

[ClusterFreak]

10. The Daily Show's John Oliver said it best.

In a stand up routine I saw on TV recently...

Oliver said something like "You could go to the Fox News studios, walk up to the first person you saw, punch them in the face, and you'd probably be justified!":spray:

[trthnd4jstc]

11. Stolen Flags, and a Stolen Country: Republicans do not care!

They stole much of their wealth. They steal flags. Being a Republican, one can steal from the earth, steal from liberals, steal and lie from the American People with their large, no-bid, contracts. Stealing and Lying is the Republican Way.

[CitizenPatriot]

12. republicans: flags before vets

Republican thieves (sorry to be redundant) stole the flags and made up a false story! what else is new.
the DNC was GREEN. recycling.

What a desperate move to steal the Democrats flags and make up a story, keep repeating it when they knew it was false. Pathetic.

[humbled_opinion]

14. PETITION THE DNC

FILE CHARGES, Launch Investigation... .We cannot allow this perception out there this election is way to close with the introduction of that evil Woman. These flags were stolen in an evil attempt to make Democrats appear unpatriotic...

We cannot allow a single American voter to think that and the only way to counter it is to get out in front about it have we learned nothing from 04 and the Swift Boaters ... Repukes have no souls...

[Pharaoh]

17. It's not really close

they just want you to think that so they can steal it...........

[Just-plain-Kathy]

21. Even with all the protester at the RNC, McCain couldn't fill that little stadium. n/t

[humbled_opinion]

24. You believe that at your peril...

We have work to do....

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-07-poll_N.htm

[humbled_opinion]

23. Your kidding right?

Do you only support polls when they show a lead for the Democratic candidate? Palin made it lopsided and got an entire religious right fired up.... This is the boune he got read it and then get yourself all riled up in support of Obama and tell the DNC to denounce this flag flap we can ill afford for it to be even remotely close...


http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-09-07-poll_N.htm

[Pyrzqxgl]

15. Republicans are too damned cheap to buy their own flags. They just steal them

from Democrats. Just like they steal elections.

[Plucketeer]

16. Whoever fingered these flags

needs to be made to SEE stars and then put BEHIND bars! :kick:

[Zombie2]

18. who?

You mean the Boyscouts and Vets? :rofl:

[Plucketeer]

22. Either you missed my meaning

or you're being facetious. I don't think it's funny at all. If Boy Scouts and Veterans were passing them out, I doubt they had anything to do with snatching them in Denver. But IF they did - the ones that DID the snatching and the making up of the story of them being committed to the trash - they deserve to be prosecuted.

[Zombie2]

27. I agree with you....

At one point, a Fox correspondent was saying some Boyscouts and Vets rescued the flags before they could be thrown away.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

28. Were they carrying an apple pie and listening to a baseball game on their radios when...

...they rescued the flags? ...How stupid do they think we are?

[Zombie2]

29. You know...

There's a lot of people out there believin this shit... proof or not.

Scary, I know! :cry:

[Proud-D]

19. This is an all time new low for the other side to pull!

I actually yelled at the top of my longs when I saw this for the first time. This made my blood boil. And what pisses me off is there are people who will actually buy into this crap. God I hope the Obama team is on top of this lie and are ready to fight back and fight back hard!

[quidam56]

20. MY DEAR GOD !

Fox and Friends,

Pat yourselves on the back and waive those flags.

When you guys going to open your eyes and see what America has become during the Cheney Administration. You call me unpatriotic and don't have a clue who I am. Bitter, Frustrated, Angry is a start.

My fellow Americans' if you aren't bitter, frustrated and angry you ain't payin' attention !!!!!!!!!!

www.samsva.org

[barack the house]

26. Ludicrous story do they recall just how many people were at the DNC convention.

[Politicalboi]

30. I caught this when I was

Changing channels. I wonder how often FAUX shows the video of Bush tapping the flag on his knee and also holding the flag backwards? Man they are assholes.

[1Hippiechick]

31. "flags found in a storage closet, possibly to be thrown away. " Awful neat for trash, aren't they?

It's smear - listen to what he is actually saying - from memory it was "found NEAR dumpsters...in a storage closet possibly for discarding....." he never says they were IN the dumpster.

I hope these bastards get what's coming to them.....

And, I hope they continue to unleash that friggin' Pitbull Palin - she's so damn full of herself that she's gonna step in it bigtime - I just hope it happens in primetime so that I hear it live.

Her braggadociio style in that grating, nasaly voice is enough to send people over the edge. Braggadocio, as in The Sopranos:
"full of swaggering braggadocio and brimming with cocksure self-confidence"

[Zombie2]

32. I dig the Sopranos...

I'm in the middle of watching the entire series, for the 2nd time.

"Her braggadociio style in that grating, nasaly voice is enough to send people over the edge."

grrrrr... I can't stand to hear her speak... and that way she scrunches her face when she's being snotty. :puke: Saturday Night Live's gonna have a lot of fun with her. :rofl:

[1Hippiechick]

33. STILL suffering Sopranos withdrawal! SNL will be AWESOME - we just saw some clips - hilarious! n/t

[daggahead]

34. I had an instant reaction to this when I heard it ...

... on Hannity's show ...

And that reaction, which was more like a reflex, was "BULLSH^T!"