Posted on 08/20/2017 9:30:57 AM PDT by rktman
Actor Don Cheadle on Saturday apparently mistook an eagle pin for a Nazi insignia.
Cheadle, who’s been in several major films from “Hotel Rwanda” to “The Avengers,” implied that the eagle-shaped lapel of a CNN guest was some sort of Nazi insignia.
He wrote: “Hey @CNN … Anybody wanna tealk about my man’s lovely brooch on his lapel? Anybody minding the store. #WTAF?!?”
The pin was designed by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972 for her organization, the Eagle Forum, a conservative pro-family interest group.
As a symbol, the eagle doesn’t belong exclusively to any one nation. Other countries to use eagles in heraldry besides America include Albania, Austria, Egypt, France, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Russia, and ancient Rome.
When others advised Cheadle to delete the embarrassing tweet, his fans doubled down to suggest that he was right to be vigilant about calling out Nazis. “Vigilance is an asset in this era even if it produces some uneasy interactions,” wrote one of his followers.
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conservative pro-family=nazis
So, where is the "esteemed" actor wrong? LOL! Uh, everywhere.
Idiot.
Sad to say he went to my high school....several classes behind me
He wasn’t bright then either
I’m waiting for them to get around to calling Buddhists Nazis for the swastika.
Oooo, an actor has an opinion. Let’s listen!
What you talkin’ about? That’s just a symbol. LOL!
Yes, Mr Cheadle, everyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi. BTW, your accent in Oceans 11 = worst fake accent ever.
I think there was a Navajo symbol like that only reversed angles on the legs. Wait until donny boy sees the secret Breitbart nazi handshake.
We also saw some fascist cormorants that were dressed as antifa cormorants, but we are not easily fooled.
Mr. niteowl77
Is this the pin? What next? A war upon Eagles?
All the lefties should start by burning all their currency which has an Eagle inset seal upon the bills.
Windmills are good because they kill Nazi eagles. /s
I went to school with just about every obnoxious leftist NPR person who came out of NYC, and none of them were very bright either. They were just ambitious ideologues in the right place at the right time, and in NY, a lot of them were the children of people already in media or advertising (or law).
Someone should tell Don Cheadle that a “chädle” is a Nazi ceremonial dagger. It was awarded to SS officers after 5 years of service. In the pre-war years the chädle dagger was personally given out by Himmler.
Don really ought to change his name because of this.
(Okay, I just made that whole thing up. But if lefties can make stuff up, why can’t I?)
Yeah that was a great movie. It’s too bad those lives didn’t matter to Clinton and the Left though. Had it occurred under Reagan or Bush, U.S. troops and billions of aid would have been sent.
Yes, there is a reverse symbol that means peace.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
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