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The Bogus Flag Story (CBS Buys into DNC Spin Without Seeing The "Other" Pics)
CBS ^ | Sep 6, 2008 | By Steve Benen

Posted on 09/06/2008 6:38:00 PM PDT by icwhatudo

It seems Fox News and some far-right blogs are excited about the latest in a series of lies from the McCain campaign -- the notion that thousands of American flags from the Democratic convention were going to be thrown away.

Like far too many of the stories pushed by the McCain campaign, and embraced by Fox News and far-right blogs, it's not true.

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"All of the flags at Invesco were picked up and put in bags and into storage, along with the unused flags and campaign signs. The flags were going to be donated, and the signs were going to be sent out to be used elsewhere,"

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"I mean, c'mon, we were never ever going to throw out flags."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008dncconvention; coloradosprings; democrats; mediabias; msm; obama; oldglory
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To: ETL

Biden is almost the same as Aires famous photo standing on a flag


21 posted on 09/06/2008 6:50:59 PM PDT by Selmore (You want fries with that?)
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To: ETL

Look at the respect Biden pays the flag...on the floor at his feet.


22 posted on 09/06/2008 6:50:59 PM PDT by I'm ALL Right!
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To: Always Right
Why did they have 12,000 left-over flags in the first place????

Because smoking was prohibited at the DNC and no one had a lighter.

23 posted on 09/06/2008 6:51:53 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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To: ETL

The flag by Biden’s feet. Priceless.


24 posted on 09/06/2008 6:52:34 PM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: ETL

Biden clearly doesnt give a crap about Our Flad as the picture proves! Thats why the closet Muslim Obama chose him as his running mate! That picture is infuriating!


25 posted on 09/06/2008 6:53:36 PM PDT by NOBAMA in 08 (An Empty Suited Opportunist with No Redeeming Value!)
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To: icwhatudo

'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for twenty years

"

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"


26 posted on 09/06/2008 6:54:29 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking-gun evidence on all the ObamaRat-Commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page)
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To: icwhatudo

Well, with phrases like “another in a series of lies from the McCain campaign”, it certainly does sound like CBS is giving us unbiased reporting.


27 posted on 09/06/2008 6:54:41 PM PDT by HarryCaul (Verify Possums! Pogo's Enemy is Us!)
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To: icwhatudo


..and that's the way we say it is....
28 posted on 09/06/2008 6:55:03 PM PDT by Islander7 ("Common sense and common decency are uncommon virtues among America's left.")
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To: icwhatudo

CBS doesn’t buy the spin, they write the spin.


29 posted on 09/06/2008 6:55:42 PM PDT by webheart (All sarcasm contained in this post is intentional, and does not necessarily reflect a real opinion)
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To: icwhatudo

Those flags are forgeries. There are only 50 stars on them.


30 posted on 09/06/2008 6:57:48 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: ETL

I swear, Barack Obama is half black half white, and so he’s fairly light-complected, but Rev Wright looks like a white dude. The only thing black about him is the way he talks, and anybody can do that. I wonder if anyone has ever researched his family tree.


31 posted on 09/06/2008 7:00:17 PM PDT by webheart (All sarcasm contained in this post is intentional, and does not necessarily reflect a real opinion)
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To: icwhatudo

It would be nice to know when the picture of the bags in the CBS were taken. Could this be a picture before the convention started?


33 posted on 09/06/2008 7:00:56 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: icwhatudo

Kind of ironic that the network that brought us RatherGate would say consider the source.


34 posted on 09/06/2008 7:02:10 PM PDT by rwa265 (Christ, My Cornerstone)
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To: StarFan; icwhatudo

His email address is sbenen@washingtonmonthly.com

He used to run a nasty little blog called Carpetbag Report, then got hired to blog for Washington Monthly. CBS must use Washington Monthly as a source, because that’s where this entry originated.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/


35 posted on 09/06/2008 7:03:48 PM PDT by LimberJim
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To: I'm ALL Right!
Look at the respect Biden pays the flag...on the floor at his feet.

Yes, and it wasn't that it fell on the floor. If you look closely, you'll see that the stick is leaning up against the chair as if he carelessly placed the flag that way (upside down touching the floor) intentionally.


36 posted on 09/06/2008 7:04:40 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking-gun evidence on all the ObamaRat-Commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page)
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To: icwhatudo

Steve Benen

is a freelance writer/researcher and creator of The Carpetbagger Report.

His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including the Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, The Gadflyer, and Church & State. In addition to The Carpetbagger Report, he is the lead editor of Salon.com’s Blog Report (formerly the Daou Report), and has been a contributor to Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Crooks & Liars, The American Prospect, the Guardian, AlterNet, and Political Wire.

Benen has also been a guest on several radio programs, including NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” and Air America Radio’s “Sam Seder Show,” and appears once a month on the nationally syndicated “Culture Shocks with Barry Lynn.”

Benen got his Master’s at the George Washington University while interning at the Office of Speechwriting in Bill Clinton’s White House. He has written direct mail for a major Democratic consulting firm, worked as a communications director for a congressional campaign, and for six years, was part of the communications department at Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

—from The Huffington Post


37 posted on 09/06/2008 7:04:50 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: icwhatudo
What I find fun about this SeeBS piece is that they call out Fox. HMMMMM!!!! Methinks Fox is not going to take this sitting down. They WILL fight back. This election cycle just gets better and better by the minute as the drive-bys step in it over and over again.
38 posted on 09/06/2008 7:05:16 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary (Yo Barry, IF FOR 20 YEARS YOU STAY IN THE PEW, IT'S BECAUSE YOU SHARE THE VIEW!!!!!)
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To: mathprof

"I wonder if anybody's paying attention. I haven't had a chance to scratch the testiculads all day. I could sneak in a stealth scratch right now and then go around behind that big curtain thingy and take a whiz. Uhhh, that feels better already."

39 posted on 09/06/2008 7:08:00 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: Always Right
"All of the flags at Invesco were picked up and put in bags and into storage, along with the unused flags and campaign signs. The flags were going to be donated, and the signs were going to be sent out to be used elsewhere,"

This will be a good continuing story. Here are some journalistic type questions:

  1. How many flags did they hand out at the event?
  2. How many people attended the event?
  3. Where did the DNC 'pick up' the 12,000 US flags from? The ground? The bathroom floor? The parking lots?
  4. Knowing as fact how many flags were handed out and how many were 'Picked up', what percentage of America loving Obama supporters tossed the United States Flag on the ground as they wept for their candidate?
Come on CBS - Write a story, not a hit job.
40 posted on 09/06/2008 7:11:48 PM PDT by arkady_renko (You organize your sock drawer, not your community)
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