Fark thread here.

Carl Cameron? You don't say!!

Yeah, they were just 'storing' them in and around the rubbish bins. That's the ticket!

Jon Snow: Fark thread here.

That's why the followup tag was used by subby..because the original story was FALSE.

Where, at Invesco Field, were these flags "stored"? The fact that Cameron ginned up a story earlier doesn't mean he made this one. Storage can mean a lot of things, as SangamonTaylor noted. Were they stored next to the dumpsters or in an area usually used for items meant for re-use??

SangamonTaylor: Yeah, they were just 'storing' them in and around the rubbish bins. That's the ticket!

So who said they were 'in and around the rubbish bins'? It wouldn't be a lie by your GOP masters would it?

No way. No way the GOP would lie to us about this. I refuse the believe it.

Why the hell is Carl Cameron still employed? He should be writing up wanted ads and Bingo night at the Senior Center announcements in the Bumfark, WY Penny Saver.

/no insult intended to the fine people of Bumfark, WY.

Wow. Republicans are trying to paint democrats as unpatriotic. Who would have guessed.

I'm..shocked! Nah, not so much.

scumbag pricks.

You people have it all wrong. McCain rescued these flags because he intends to sell them and divide up the profits to be used to end the war, fix the economy, solve our energy problems, and provide healthcare coverage for people that need it. You wanted to hear about the issues? There. Shame on the Democrats for trying to spin a story about their evil mishandling of flags to make Republicans look bad. Remember - this election is about the issues.

/John McCain spent 5 1/2 years in a POW camp with no access to American flags...let him have the farking flags...

SilentStrider: Wow. Republicans are trying to paint democrats as unpatriotic. Who would have guessed.

You know, a story must be absolute bullshiat for Fox News to retract it. Especially if it's about what unpatriotic scum Democrats are.

Theres a whole lot of proof in that story.

/uh where?

It's too late. And this is extremely mild compared to the shiat the GOP is gonna be slinging over the next few weeks. At least when the Dems sling mud, there's usually an element of truth to what they're saying. The Republicans specialize in bizarre fiction, and the tards lap it up and vote against their own personal interests every time.

I am absolutely shocked that Fox was lying.

Guys, let's all calm down now.

Democrats are still America-hating scum. Just not in the way that the previous story had said they were.

The story was essentially fake, but accurate.

Post-hoc, ergo propter hoc.

SangamonTaylor: Yeah, they were just 'storing' them in and around the rubbish bins. That's the ticket!

Glad to hear in the other thread that you're a real conservative and that you're energized by the change that your candidates represent in this election.

I won't make the mistake of believing you again.

OMG, with shiat like this, the next two months are going to be Hell.

jake_lex: You know, a story must be absolute bullshiat for Fox News to retract report it. Especially if it's about what unpatriotic scum Democrats are.

FTFY

Skleenar: Democrats are still America-hating scum.

Glad we're all in agreement.

"We have a perfectly logical - and patriotic - reason for putting a Hollywood Middle School behind John McCain - a Hero and a POW - on the night of the big finale of the RNC...you see - HEY, LOOK!! DEMOCRATS HATE THE AMERICAN FLAG!!!"

Okay, I'll bite.

With all the flags being constantly waved every five seconds all around the country, all the patriotic flag-wrapping jingoism, the flag pins and the flag t-shirts and the embroidered flags on every "Old Navy" hat and the flags printed on every issue of the newspaper (lest the subscribers forget just what country their city is in, I suppose), just what ARE you supposed to do with all the flags once they're no longer needed?

Should we store them in the basement forever? Ritually burn them in the yard? Is it some terrible transgression to throw out the newspaper with the sacred symbol on the corner of the front page? Is recycling it better?

What is with the crazy flag worship, anyway?

Obviously it's wasteful to order up all the things and then toss them, sure. But I just don't see why it's so much worse than ordering up any other sort of decoration and then wasting it.

But hey, I guess lacking a proper symbolic monarch, the flag has to do.

itazurakko: With all the flags being constantly waved every five seconds all around the country, all the patriotic flag-wrapping jingoism, the flag pins and the flag t-shirts and the embroidered flags on every "Old Navy" hat and the flags printed on every issue of the newspaper (lest the subscribers forget just what country their city is in, I suppose), just what ARE you supposed to do with all the flags once they're no longer needed?

Bury them?

itazurakko: With all the flags being constantly waved every five seconds all around the country, all the patriotic flag-wrapping jingoism, the flag pins and the flag t-shirts and the embroidered flags on every "Old Navy" hat and the flags printed on every issue of the newspaper (lest the subscribers forget just what country their city is in, I suppose), just what ARE you supposed to do with all the flags once they're no longer needed?

Friends, I have a solution that BOTH sides will agree on. From now on, American flags, pins, buttons, etc., can ONLY be made with edible materials. When the Republicans are done waving them they will be given to the Democrats who will hand them out to poor people to be eaten.

jerry2a: itazurakko: With all the flags being constantly waved every five seconds all around the country, all the patriotic flag-wrapping jingoism, the flag pins and the flag t-shirts and the embroidered flags on every "Old Navy" hat and the flags printed on every issue of the newspaper (lest the subscribers forget just what country their city is in, I suppose), just what ARE you supposed to do with all the flags once they're no longer needed?

Friends, I have a solution that BOTH sides will agree on. From now on, American flags, pins, buttons, etc., can ONLY be made with edible materials. When the Republicans are done waving them they will be given to the Democrats who will hand them out to poor people to be eaten.

Echarust...AMERICAN STYLE!

DamnYankees: jerry2a: itazurakko: With all the flags being constantly waved every five seconds all around the country, all the patriotic flag-wrapping jingoism, the flag pins and the flag t-shirts and the embroidered flags on every "Old Navy" hat and the flags printed on every issue of the newspaper (lest the subscribers forget just what country their city is in, I suppose), just what ARE you supposed to do with all the flags once they're no longer needed?

Friends, I have a solution that BOTH sides will agree on. From now on, American flags, pins, buttons, etc., can ONLY be made with edible materials. When the Republicans are done waving them they will be given to the Democrats who will hand them out to poor people to be eaten.

Echarust...AMERICAN STYLE!

Wow - now *that* is how you misspell a word.

DamnYankees: Echarust...AMERICAN STYLE!

I think this could bring the country together...The only problem is going to be the Jews...we'll have to make sure they're kosher.

/pre-emptive "I'm half Jewish" disclaimer

jerry2a: Friends, I have a solution that BOTH sides will agree on. From now on, American flags, pins, buttons, etc., can ONLY be made with edible materials. When the Republicans are done waving them they will be given to the Democrats who will hand them out to poor people to be eaten.

You want to turn Old Glory into feces? Do you hate America?

...or love feces?

Did you just say "ginned up"?

Skleenar: Guys, let's all calm down now.

Democrats are still America-hating scum. Just not in the way that the previous story had said they were.

The story was essentially fake, but accurate.


farking partisan douchebags. That's the only reason why this race is even close.

Lionel Mandrake: You want to turn Old Glory into feces? Do you hate America?

You know something? YOU have just hit upon the very crux of why this country is always going to be farked up. Here I come up with an idea that I think nobody could POSSIBLY have a problem with - it's a true win-win...and in just a few minutes you fly in and piss on my parade. I think the day we stop being able to laugh about this shiat is the day we just all start killing each other...maybe that wouldn't be so bad either.

Mugato: farking partisan douchebags. That's the only reason why this race is even close.

You forgot racists.

The DNC got busted on this big time and now all the lefties are trying their best to spin this into how the Republicans stole the flags.

In another 4or 5 hours, they will "Find" the lost email to the trucking company asking that the flags get picked up.

That's why they were all bagged up and sitting in an alley. (by the dumpsters)

riiiiiight.

farc: The DNC got busted on this big time and now all the lefties are trying their best to spin this into how the Republicans stole the flags.

Yeah, you caught us. Flag-Gate 2008.

farc: they will "Find" the lost email

You Republicans are the experts at losing emails.
/Millions of them.^

The real issues... where are they?

/nice smokescreen.

Would 12,000 flags be worth more than $1,000? It will be interesting to see if any criminal theft charges are pursued.

Newsflash: both sides are lying. Now pick the side that you think is lying LESS, lying about issues that you don't care about, and seems to represent your own position on the important issues and vote for that party. This isn't Student Council President we're voting for (if I were going to be partisan I would have said PTA President).

DamnYankees: Mugato: farking partisan douchebags. That's the only reason why this race is even close.

You forgot racists.

Of course. Who else is better at races?

Skleenar: The story was essentially fake, but accurate.

KInda like Dan Rather and GWB and the Nat'l Guard. GWB did miss over a year and missed physicals and drug tests, but Rather had questionable evidence. Doesn't mean he was wrong.

Right?

/Bristol Palin = Jamie Lynn Spears

FruitlandGenerics: KInda like Dan Rather and GWB and the Nat'l Guard. GWB did miss over a year and missed physicals and drug tests, but Rather had questionable evidence. Doesn't mean he was wrong.

Right?


Well, duh. Democrats openly profess allegiance to this nation's enemies: Namely, Biden and Obama.

SangamonTaylor: Yeah, they were just 'storing' them in and around the rubbish bins. That's the ticket!

From the original Fox News article: "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."

Who were the supporters? Who was the vendor?

Fox News sure does love using the "some people say" attack. That way they don't have to name anybody.

jerry2a: if I were going to be partisan I would have said PTA President

I use thousand thread count US flags for my bed sheets. That way I can sleep every night wrapped in the silky smooth caress of Old Glory, her stripes sliding gently across my naked body, her stars resting tenderly on my.... oh yeah... mmmm....
/I'll be in my bunk.

The inherent problem is this: What was the expected end-result of this stunt? The people would actually be swayed by this event weren't going to vote for Obama in the first place.

Once again, this is catering to the Cracker Base, just like the convention. It's further proof that the higher-ups know they don't have hope of winning, so they're letting the slow kids hang themselves.