They certainly don't wear them on their lapels anymore...what happened with that?

If this is true it would be the first thing a Republican ever recycled.

And I'm sure this flag is safely in a museum and not rotting in a landfill:

If they want to rant about people "trashing" our flag, how's about getting on the case of those who fly them until they look like they spent a rough night at Fort McHenry? When everyone was proudly flying them from their cars after 9/11 -- some up to four at a time (as if that makes them four times as patriotic as, say, a US Navy ship) -- within a month at least half were in tatters.

THIS is "trashing the flag."

LOL silent, I would proudly display that on my foreign made vehicle.

Good to see this story make it to the front page. I just read where the Democrat response is that the Republicans stole the flags to make them look bad.

We've got more than two months to go and the Dems are already panicking.

TheConvincingSavant: Good to see this story make it to the front page. I just read where the Democrat response is that the Republicans stole the flags to make them look bad.

We've got more than two months to go and the Dems are already panicking.

It's a he-said, she-said story and you automatically are choosing sides of a blog post rumor?

And out of curiosity, what exactly do you consider panicking?

Flags are supposed to be disposed of by ceremonially burning them.

And pay for them to be manufactured in China.

From the comments:

"What do you expect from a party that hates patriotism? The flag is the symbol of everything they hate."

"If the flags had been French , the democrats would have taken them home like they were a national treasure and displayed them proudly."

It's like Freepers can smell this shiat from miles away and are drawn to it like flies.

The comments there are just.... wow.

They make mine look intelligent.

If you are planning on trashing them, why would you neatly role and stack the flags in the bags?
I think some maintenance guy jumped the gun and McCain is trying to run with it.

Hender: TheConvincingSavant: Good to see this story make it to the front page. I just read where the Democrat response is that the Republicans stole the flags to make them look bad.

We've got more than two months to go and the Dems are already panicking.

It's a he-said, she-said story and you automatically are choosing sides of a blog post rumor?

And out of curiosity, what exactly do you consider panicking?

Marine soldiers don't panic, so he probably isn't intimately familiar with the emotion. Thankfully he can fall back on his Core training.

I think another angle to this is that the Dems are falling down on the whole "green" theme of their convention by not recycling.

This election is not about issues

Larry Mahnken: Flags are supposed to be disposed of by ceremonially burning them.

So's the Eucharist.

ah republicans and the usual fellating of the flag

After abusing the country for the past eight years, these white, fat, anti-intellectual mother farkers have a new outrage.

AnotherSithForMcCain: This election is not about issues

What election ever is?

ReluctantPaladin: Marine soldiers

Bwahahaha, I forgot about that phrase. I was actually just thinking about that earlier today when I thought "Wife-like typing detected" about someone else's post.

moriarty23: If you are planning on trashing them, why would you neatly role and stack the flags in the bags?
I think some maintenance guy jumped the gun and McCain is trying to run with it.

hmmm...good point...Maybe the Dems should file a police report and have police show up during speechs to retrieve the "stolen property"

Satan's Superfluous Nipple: I think another angle to this is that the Dems are falling down on the whole "green" theme of their convention by not recycling.

How exactly does one recycle a flag, though? I suppose Kid Rock could make a cape out of them for a video, but other than that I'm not sure what can be done with them.

TheConvincingSavant: Good to see this story make it to the front page. I just read where the Democrat response is that the Republicans stole the flags to make them look bad.

We've got more than two months to go and the Dems are already panicking.

you lied about being in the Marines - not sure if anyone's mentioned that lately

Why do Republicans care more about a piece of cloth than the entire population of the USA that lives below the poverty line?

Yeah, there's tons of uses for handflags:

ReluctantPaladin: moriarty23: If you are planning on trashing them, why would you neatly role and stack the flags in the bags?
I think some maintenance guy jumped the gun and McCain is trying to run with it.

hmmm...good point...Maybe the Dems should file a police report and have police show up during speechs to retrieve the "stolen property"

TFA does say that they were unused so, they were probably already rolled up. Besides, you're not going to get to many in a bag unless you stack them.

Jeremy Bates: Also, who gives a damn flying fark about some piece of shiat cloth?

Well, this is the other extreme...

The flag is to be respected for what it represents. It should not be *worshiped*.

In the boyscouts we had a ritual for discarding the old, tattered flag, and replacing it with a new one.

Ironically neither party would support this. Republicans would think it is a crime to burn the flag, and Democrats would complain about the carbon being put into the air.

Remove all Republicans: Wife-like typing detected.

Anyone have a link to that thread, by chance? I don't think I've ever actually read it.

I wonder where all these flags are right now.

More of the Republicans showing their love of country by hating more than half of the people who live here.

Symbols aren't more important than the thing they symbolize unless you're a despot.

moriarty23: If you are planning on trashing them, why would you neatly role and stack the flags in the bags?
I think some maintenance guy jumped the gun and McCain is trying to run with it.

Seriously, this.

All the flags are obviously rolled up, and in fine condition. The DNC wouldn't exactly just be tossing out perfectly good flags, no matter how allegedly "unpatriotic" they are.

9/11 *cha-cha-cha* 9/11 *flag-flag-flag* 9/11 *libs-libs-libs* 9/11 *pow-pow-pow*

......aaaaaand things just get stupider every day in this election.

Hender: Remove all Republicans: Wife-like typing detected.

Anyone have a link to that thread, by chance? I don't think I've ever actually read it.

which one? The one where he pretended that his wife typed his stupid shiat, or the one where he pretended to be a Marine?

GAT_00: Why do Republicans care more about a piece of cloth than the entire population of the USA that lives below the poverty line?

Because they are a bunch of pompous, greedy bastards who have no love for the country, their only interest is power and corporate wealth.

These bastards should be held accountable for giving us that mook Bush, but they topped that one with a 72 year old geezer who is stricken with cancer on the face. This idiot doesn't even know how to read a teleprompter. How farking hard is it to have an eye-to-mouth coordination? This goldigger and the PTA biatch really has Putin shaking in his boots.

Befuddled: More of the Republicans showing their love of country by hating more than half of the people who live here.

Symbols aren't more important than the thing they symbolize unless you're a despot.

Yes because the left doesn't trash the half of the country that doesn't agree with them or show their love of the country by blaming every single problem with the world on America.

FoxNews' article on this said:

"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."

At least they were honest. This time.

Express Train to Bonertown: Satan's Superfluous Nipple: I think another angle to this is that the Dems are falling down on the whole "green" theme of their convention by not recycling.

How exactly does one recycle a flag, though? I suppose Kid Rock could make a cape out of them for a video, but other than that I'm not sure what can be done with them.

They could send them to their next rally or maybe donate them to a local VFW.

Oh and did anyone check the dumpsters in MN, after all their flags?

priestrape: Hender: Remove all Republicans: Wife-like typing detected.

Anyone have a link to that thread, by chance? I don't think I've ever actually read it.

which one? The one where he pretended that his wife typed his stupid shiat, or the one where he pretended to be a Marine?

Wasn't it both in the same thread?

priestrape: which one? The one where he pretended that his wife typed his stupid shiat, or the one where he pretended to be a Marine?

Either.

Satan's Superfluous Nipple:

TFA does say that they were unused so, they were probably already rolled up. Besides, you're not going to get to many in a bag unless you stack them.
I think that back up the claim that they were to be used at other events even more.
I don't think the republicans were intentionally trying to steal the flags, they are just so geared up to try and paint the democrats as anti-american that they jumped the gun and accepted stolen property.

Satan's Superfluous Nipple: Befuddled: More of the Republicans showing their love of country by hating more than half of the people who live here.

Symbols aren't more important than the thing they symbolize unless you're a despot.

Yes because the left doesn't trash the half of the country that doesn't agree with them or show their love of the country by blaming every single problem with the world on America.

The fact you can say that with a straight face after the leader of your extreme right-wing religious party farked up the nation is not surprising.

Fix your own house you cock.

Um, those flags look like they were never touched to begin with. I'm skeptical that they were even going to be thrown out. What condition were they found in, that they were neatly bundled together? Where were they found?

And I'd like to know what the U.S. Flag Code calls a flag, because if we're talking about those Chinese made pieces of crap on dowels thousands of morons wave around at the RNC convention, I'd like to know just what they do with those and how they dispose them. There are things that look like flags, there are mini-flags, there are flag t-shirts, but I'm pretty sure a real FLAG is a big farking banner you put on a farking flag pole.

GAT_00: Why do Republicans care more about a piece of cloth than the entire population of the USA that lives below the poverty line?

Because if there's anything the Republicans understand, it's branding. The flag is "the brand logo" of the US; put it on anything, and it signifies that it belongs to the US and all that that entails, including patriotism.

My problem is, sometimes, there's too many flags. When I see SUV's displaying four flags each on non-national holidays, that's too many.

SeismicJizzer: Satan's Superfluous Nipple: Befuddled: More of the Republicans showing their love of country by hating more than half of the people who live here.

Symbols aren't more important than the thing they symbolize unless you're a despot.

Yes because the left doesn't trash the half of the country that doesn't agree with them or show their love of the country by blaming every single problem with the world on America.

The fact you can say that with a straight face after the leader of your extreme right-wing religious party farked up the nation is not surprising.

Fix your own house you cock.

Who said I was a Republican?

While Democrats throw flags away, Republicans recycle them use them for cheap political pandering.

Hender: priestrape: which one? The one where he pretended that his wife typed his stupid shiat, or the one where he pretended to be a Marine?

Either.

I actually don't have a link to either. I just wanted another chance to point out that TheConvincingSavant, who is very concerned about the patriotism of Democrats, lied about being a Marine