Did Sarah Palin Sign an American Flag?
- Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:41pm by
Scott Baker
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The Flag Code is clear — you should not sign an American flag. But it seems Sarah Palin may have done just that at a rally in Reno. The Guardian posted video of Palin talking to folks at the rally (the key part comes at 1:30 or so):
(via Gawker)
A Salon writer noticed the moment. Here’s screen grab #1:
Emma Mustich believes the second screen grab (from the 1:41 mark in the video) confirms her suspicions:
Mustich points out that the Flag Code is pretty clear:
Subsection 8, part (g) reads: “The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.”
Awhile back there was a flurry of blog posts about President Bush reportedly signing flags. One instance is said to have happened during a stop in Vienna, Austria. Another from a stop in Livonia, Michigan in 2003. This is the picture they referenced:
I did check on the blogger claims. This is an actual licensed AP photo from the Michigan event.
I have two poll questions for you:
I think we can all agree that signing a flag should be off limits. Though if forced to choose in some bizarre psychology experiment I would probably side with a patriot who signed an American flag than some numbskull who burns one because Karl Rove is evil. I’m sure for President Bush and Sarah Palin there is a well-motivated desire to quickly please the eager folks who press for a handshake or signature. My guess is President Bush likely realized he should have skipped the flag signing and probably didn’t make it a practice. My guess is that Sarah Palin will do the same thing.
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Comments (307)
CM Sackett
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:54pmBattle flags from the shietholes of Iraq and the Stan are SIGNED and sent Home all the time… by American Patriot/HEROES…
…I have 3 battle flags from friends made during my work for the soldiers in-country, all signed by the platoons I dealt directly with (including a recon-sniper team that served 2 tours in Afghanistan, and one from one of the first groups at Camp Stryker).
Some of those named didn’t come Home.
I never asked for them, they were given out of honor for my work (and utterly humbling, considering THEIR WORK AND SACRIFICE). I wouldn’t trade those flags for anything… and don’t give a diddle-damn for the sterile application of a ‘code’… unaccompanied by any wisdom or common sense.
I’m CM Sackett, and I damn-sure approved this message.
Report Post »TrueGrit
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:26amCM
I also have several Combat Mission Flags… Afghan, Iraq…
and older ones from Nam and areas not to mention.
Those who have served and have bled for the Flag have a totally different take on what it means.
It would however, be nice, it the general public, Hollywood producers, TV writers, had some….
just some of the protocol.
Wolverine
Report Post »texas16
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:30amYou GO CM, I agree!! As Conservatives I think we have bigger fish to fry right now than to be fretting about who signed a flag!
Report Post »stacila
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:49pmis it ok for the first lady to campaign at a polling place?
Report Post »neverending
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:49amAbsolutely not.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:49pmKarl Denninger, an original organizer of the Tea Party, is out with a livid blog post blasting current leaders of the conservative movement and the apparent hypocrisy in their views of the economic issues that originally catalyzed its creation.
According to Denninger, “Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr, and douchebag groups such as the Tea Party Patriots“ are to blame for the bastardization of a movement that now seems focused on ”Guns, gays, God,” instead of the Tea Party’s original mission: to castigate the federal government for supporting the “rampant theft” of taxpayer dollars that went toward “propping up FAILED private businesses.”
Here’s the down and dirty of what Denninger believes the Tea Party was all about:
In short, The Tea Party was and is about the the corruption of American Politics and the blatant and outrageous theft from all Americans that has resulted. It is about personal responsibility and enforcement of the law against those who have robbed, financially ****d and pillaged the nation.
Tea Party my ass. This was nothing other than The Republican Party stealing the anger of a population that was fed up with The Republican Party’s own theft of their tax money at gunpoint to bail out the robbers of Wall Street and fraudulently redirecting it back toward electing the very people who stole all the ****ing money!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:04amgo back to procreating with your sister………..and tell her to leave my dog alone
Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:09am13 was a very unlucky number in your case.
Report Post »GeorgeWashingtonslept here
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:22amYou must not have taken your med’s……..STFU you wacko.
Report Post »troyvar
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:11pm@13 You‘re foolin’ yourself doofus.
Report Post »Templars
Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:34amHey PSYCHOSIS, that was nice! Can I use that! Gave me a good laugh with my coffee!
Report Post »Rampart
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:47pmThe country is crumbling around us and we’re worried about Sharpie on a gift shop flag…!?!
Focus, citizens! F-O-C-U-S ! ! !
Report Post »7grandma
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:47pmLooks like she signed the handle to me!
Report Post »Slick Zero
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:45pmYeah, she signed it. And it was a mini flag. I can’t decide which is worse, though. The fact that she signed it, or the fact that the mini flags are made in China.
Report Post »CulChulain
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:40pmYawn……
Report Post »MCGIRV
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:47pmI second the yawn!
Report Post »7.62x54R
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:33pmRowgue is right. I would hardly consider a $2 mini flag worth the controversy.
Report Post »rightside
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:42pmRowgue is right. I agree.
Report Post »neverending
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:50amThat’s the problem – you either respect it or you don’t
Report Post »conmert
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:29pmThis was also put on our flag and distributed to celebrate the inauguration. http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/images/barackflag.jpg
Report Post »troyvar
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:03pmyep, that’s definitely a picture of Obama on the flag, they were all so naive.
Report Post »JustMel71
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:28pmSo, what was the outcome again when the First Lady solicited for campaign donations in Chicago??
Report Post »:hears crickets from Lame Stream Media:
Andy101
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:26pmThey claim it‘s ok to burn the flag so I don’t see much problem signing it.
Report Post »catllers
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:39pmditto
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:21pmSarah Palin had a taste of power and now she wants more…..
….
please
don’t give it to her.
Report Post »rightside
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:32pmNo, she wants to give the people the power.
Report Post »Let her!
123gone
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:21pmHey Butcher,
Report Post »If you can find someone more capable to unite this country against those who would destroy it, bring them on. Until that time, Sarah Palin should get all of the support that we are able to give her.
Status quo is NOT an option!!
Rowgue
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:20pmThe flag code applies to actual flags, not mini replicas.
Report Post »TruthLover
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 1:14amExactly. People need to unbunch their panties on this one.
How about a diatribe on where those mini flags were manufactured? That’s worth getting mad about.
Report Post »smamere
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:19pmWait a minute. Flag burning is a protected right but signing one for patriotic motivation is not? Isn’t there something a little more urgent to be consumed with in this country? Jobs, economy, illegal immigration, terrorism, Sharia proponents lurking in alleyways? Pick one and get real.
Report Post »Seriously…
DanStlMo
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:14pmWhile she should not have signed the Flag, I believe one should consider context and intent.
Report Post »DanStlMo
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:12pmThe left continually makes fun of us for our poor spelling. Here are links to free spell check programs for your browser. Please consider using one.
Internet Explorer> http://www.iespell.com/
Chrome> http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95604
Fire Fox> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Using%20the%20spell%20checker
Report Post »Blitzy
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:05pmBad move by her IMO. Writing on a flag, especially signing it for someone, just reeks of some kind of desecration.
Report Post »Andy101
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:27pmGo get a life
Report Post »TrueGrit
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:14amMore often than not … the Flag is disrepected in our country by those who should know better.
It is very often shown backwards… the UNION in the right upper corner. WRONG!!!
The UNION… the blue area with the Stars ALWAYS goes in the upper left when viewed from the front.
That’s why when you place a Flag on your house…if you own a Flag…it should go the the left of the door… or on the left side when you are facing the house.
And this stupidity and lack of knowledge is in movies, television and yes-even polictical ads.
More than half of our people have no clue as to Flag protcol
AND MORE SADLY many homes…many who profess to be proud Americans
do not fly the Colors anyway, but they have Red Sox flags, Yankee flags, Halloween flags
and even Welcome Spring flags.
Kind of makes a Veteran a little sick to the stomach.
Maybe Every TEA PARTY member should consider flaying our Flag.
The correct way!
Wolverine
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:05pmGlenn has a flag signed by George W. Bush in the secret lair. He said that George W did not do this but did it only if he promised it never left his family. It did not seem he did not do it because of the flag code he did it because a signed a flag would have ended up being burn in protest on youtube.
Just a non-story that the left will use to further prove how dumb she is. see: 1773…..
Report Post »BrianCK
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:00pmWell, I wouldn’t worry about it too much, it’s not as if the Left would ever attack or care about something like this.
Report Post »gapch68
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:14amWell, you would think they wouldn’t care since they are the ones who have no respect for the flag but since this is about Sarah P. they will blow it all out of proportion. Case in point, it looks like the reference in this article shows it is Salon (a ultra left publication) who “broke” the story. Just another example of how petty and un-credible left wing media is.
Report Post »TheRealMirCat
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:52pm*sigh* Seriously? Ya know, Bush signed the flag too. It is not defacing it, nor is it violating adding words/lettering. (That has to do with the creation) and for co-opting purposes.
- The Cat
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:05pmI am with you. I thought it sounded like it was a jesture of endorsing and supporting it, but what do I know? There may be rules about that sort of thing that nobody told me about.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:05pmSo we can burn it but not sign it ?
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:52pmI cringe every time I see it and it happens a lot on both sides, mark it up to Liberalism creeping into every fabric of our society and it must be stopped.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:00pmAnother sweeping generalization about liberals – not good!! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:27pmLiberalism is not good, the names change but their ultimate goal is anything but good.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:27pmYour blame Liberals for a teabagging lunatic signing a flag. You need to pull your head out.
Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:39pmActually, 13th Generations of Incest, I believe Liberalism is the cause of most of the evil in today’s society. I’ve signed flags before, before I knew flag etiquette, but that’s my belief now, sign away if it makes you happy.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:50pmAlso, to be honest, if Sarah hadn’t have signed it, she would be vilified, either way, she loses with the idiots of the world who just don’t like her, and that dislike was created by Lame Stream Media.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:59pmBut the difference here is I am sure She gives proper respect to our National Anthem, and doesnt leave words out of the Declaration of Independence like odumbo has done 4 times now. I would allow a slip in flag etiquette in this situation as it is not a planned desecration or intentional in any way but spur of the moment………….UNLIKE OBAMAS INTENTIONAL AND REPEATED OFFENSES ………………….how about obamas way of explaining Americas Exceptionalism?
.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noOyu_2oxWQ&feature=player_embedded
Report Post »neverending
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:48amI agree and it has to be stopped. NOT KNOWING is a p@@@ poor excuse. Our flag – you don’t know every detail about our beautiful American flag??? I find this just as disgusting as barry’s treatment of our flag. Don’t know about the rest of you but our beautiful flag and what it stands for brings tears to my eyes.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:10amWALK do people really read this garbage much less believe it?
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:50pmshe did sign it, however, do not to excuse or confuse one quick ‘not thinking’ mistake with the intentional desecration we see daily in our newspapers and websites around the world …..
it sure beats what liberals and Muslims do to it every time they see one, as in burning it, shredding it, tearing it, throwing them on the ground NEAR garbage cans as they do at every Obama Messiah rally, whizzing on it, burning it some more, stomping on it, making people walk on it as ‘art’,…..
Report Post »123gone
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 1:48amThe issue is respect for the flag of our nation. Sarah Palin has great respect for it, but Obama has shown nothing but contempt for the American values our flag represents.
Report Post »DSN397
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:22pmVery true, I think if Obama tried to sign a flag it would shrivel up into nothingness at the approach of his anti American pen.
Report Post »Recon
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:48pmreally, where’s the hard core facts….. more fodder
Report Post »mintyfresh
Posted on October 22, 2010 at 12:25ami’m pretty sure video and pictures count as hard core facts. what exactly are you arguing?
Report Post »Contrarianthinker
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:47pmThis is why we badly need a new Editor!!!! This is breaking news??????? IF changes are made soon, thie Blaze will become another National Inquirer.
Report Post »Leslie_Benedict
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:25pmAgree. Geez. She’s a Patriot – no doubt.
Report Post »ozz
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 4:35amThe blaze reports it so the truth is heard as a counter to what the left puts out with it’s distortion and lies. Stories like these are a part of its reason to exist. To make sure a truthful version is published.
Report Post »bygracegoi
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:56amI don’t think you are looking at the blaze correctly, if they didn’t post this story now then they would have reported on it after every news station had their way with it spinning it any way they wanted. The blaze brought us the truth first and let us decide. Even gave us a poll to make how we feel about it known. Now maybe the “media” will not make a big deal about because we don‘t feel it’s that big of a deal. Ok I said maybe. A girl can dream can’t she?
Report Post »WestOfThePecos
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:52am… is losing ‘the bisquit’ 10 years after the fact news worth reporting? I enjoyed the video, not for the flag signing but the interaction with the press and the tea party folks. Did you hear some of those questions?
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:17amThey need to do something about the posting sequence also. How about inverting it so the newest post is at the top and allow replys to replys. Posting is bass ackards to all other sites.
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:39amYour are exactly right, she is a Patriot, and this article is BS.
Report Post »norweaver
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:45pmI have been concerned about this ever since the flag signing thing at Restoring Honor. What were they all thinking? Glenn?
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:51pmI am a Patriot. I never heard talk about signing a flag being disrespectful, but I think that is because I never heard of it. Upon thinking about it, I can see why you might not want to do it. It is just a new topic for me. I give benefit of the doubt.
snowleopard3200
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 10:52pmIf she did it appears to have been accidental – not excusable – just accidental.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (mix art)
jzs
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:18pmHow could she have known it was actually a flag? Besides, who would know that’s wrong?
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:30pmI don’t think its a big deal. Oooops, move along.
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:37pmwhat does it mater did any of you check out the book she signed? Jest take a close look. Its a good book that i don’t think many of you have looked into yet.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:44pmWait one minute,
Are liberals not the one who defend the right to burn the flag…?
And you are making noise over signing the flag,…PLEASE
STHU
Report Post »rlmeals
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:45pmWell, I’m not excusing it, but I thought I was pretty knowledgeable about the flag code, and even I have never heard of this. I mean, if you think about it, common sense would probably say, “Hey, this is defacing a flag, I shouldn’t do this.” But in the heat of the moment without any time to think about an obscure code, I feel like we should give her the benefit of the doubt on this one. If it wasn’t disrespectful to sign the flag, one might consider it patriotic. See what I mean? I don’t know, I just don‘t think it’s reasonable to expect every politician (good or bad) to know every single little code or law that this country has (the number is way too massive). And judging her in the whole context of her public life, I think it’s fair to say that she has proven to be a conservative patriot and I am willing to forgive a harmless mistake like this.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on October 20, 2010 at 11:47pmWait one minute,
Are liberals not the one who defend the right to burn the flag…?
And you are making noise over signing the flag,…PLEASE
Oh yeah I forgot,
How about getting them put back up in our schools…?
If you are offended by the flag and what it represents maybe you shouldn’t come here in the first place
STHU
Report Post »OrlandoStrongman
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:08amI look at it this way, if she had gone up to a flag that was on a flagpole or on a building at the rally and wrote on it then that would be pretty bad. Except in this case people are handing these souvenir flags to her specifically for her to sign them. This is not a big deal and of course she’s going to sign them.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:15amthis AMERICAN family has AMERICAN flags signed for Posterity for every Important day they were flown for. notes pinned to them for our descendants in 2030, 2050 might disappear.. but this ink, never. Hurrah for the red, white and blue, but WE believe a signed AMERICAN flag just makes it MORE precious. who knows, if obama gets his way by 2012, our new national flag might be a crescent moon or sickle.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:17amWell they aren’t suppose to burn the flag either, leave it flying at night, or let it touch the ground. But many people do. They only reason that this is a story is because it is Mrs. Palin. Maybe she shouldn’t have or should have. I fought for it, and I don’t have a problem with it. Besides it was just a little flag. But to be fair the flag shouldn’t be disgraced in any manner.
Report Post »Large Eagle
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:20amSarah – Just burn it now and everything will be okay – what a bunch of chowder heads. How about the flags that 10-2-10 idiots left laying on the ground.
Report Post »what4
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:26amDoes it sill apply to flags Made in China????
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:30amI agree with Orlandostrongman.
Report Post »She was handed the flag as a souvenir to be signed like a ball cap or a book.
She didn’t go down to city hall and spray paint her name on the flag.
2ndly, how can you possibly have the right to burn the flag and it be a violation to write on it?
staythecourse
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 1:02amflag sigining at the restoring honor rally????? I missed that one. When did that occur?
Report Post »AMERCITIZN
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 1:42amWait a minute, it is not o.k. to sign the flag, but it is o.k. to burn, step on desecrate it, tear it apart during proptest, but not o.k. to sign???
Report Post »Quack Addict
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 2:35amOh the horror! I have two cheeks that Obama can sign.
Report Post »J D Miller
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 4:11amPutting a flame to the flag is OK but a pen isn’t?
Report Post »thesixfour
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:33amIf only we all had this kind of respect for the colors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y799T3XjHJ0
It would be a different country.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:00amI could understand an official flag flying over the capital or such, but a flag brought as a personal item just for that purpose is hardly a big deal. I see flags flying in the rain, in shreds on a pole and such, and there is never any rancor about it. If it had been Joe Shmoe signing the flag not a word would have been uttered.
Report Post »mimitweetin
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 7:51amI thought the same thing whe I saw it at the Restoring Honor Rally. I didn’t know it was against the code but I think any intentional marking of our flag other than its colors is defacing it. I love Sarah Palin, not real fond of Bush, but they should know better than to deface the American Flag. The best thing Sarah could do is come out and admit she didn’t know and apologize the the Country for this mistake. That would certainly say something about her character. I do beleive she respects the Flag and wouldn’t have signed it had she known.
Report Post »thesixfour
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:00amAnother reason – she SHOULD NOT be president. She’s too public. She’s a celebrity.
I like Sarah – but she needs to stick to helping conservative candidates for 2010 and 2012, and being a strong conservative representative for women. That is her strength.
Report Post »shellmen
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:12amIt is ok to burn a flag but not sign it. Political correctness at its best.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:27amAnother small diversion. We have much bigger fish to fry so upward and onward !
Report Post »Alaren
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 8:49amThis is just a personal look on the situation but I tend to believe that lacking an individual DoI or Constitution would be as close to truly declaring your allegiance to this nation as anything. It’s merely a way of making your personal stamp to this country…this is of course provided you are doing it with true purpose and integrity.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:04amI doubt she even realized she was siging a flag. She signs so many items while talking I doubt it was anything other than a surprise to her. The other thing is I doubt it would have even been mentioned if it had been MO(Of course MO would never touch a flag). It is ok to burn and throw the flag on the ground and walk on it by illegals in OUR country and they make a big deal out of an innocent signing? Is there no shame? Palin really does scare the left to death. Obvious by their constant attacks of any thing she does. Palin would have made a better VP than Obama did POTUS!
Report Post »cboy1954
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 9:46amWell, I’m a country boy and I knew not to degrade the flag in any way. I think Lady Palin is great for our country but PLZ don’t write on my flag. We bitch about this but let La Raza WALK on the flag in PHX (whats up with that?). Cops were standing there watching it happen?
Report Post »AZ COWBOY
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NFYRx
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:14am@snowleopard
Report Post »My wife has posted our children’s cheesy art on the net before, but you are at a new level linking your kids art to The Blaze?
forTforMAG
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:22amthis is newsworthy??? seriously???
Report Post »bubbamoosecat
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:22amI was taught this in the military. During boot camp, actually.
Report Post »ReaganerThanThou
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 10:42amOH, HEAVENS NO!!! Sarah signed a flag? Well, I guess it’s all over for us tea partiers then. No choice left but to vote for pro-choice, big government, tax&spender Dems now!
Get real. The frivolous ethics charges against Sarah live on.
Report Post »carolinapatriot
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:13amI see no problem signing a commemorative flag, but not one that is used for official display.
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:20amObama probably uses special ordered TP with the American flag on it. This story is garbage and a hit peice…when did the Blaze become the Huffpo?
Report Post »George1
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:32amMuch of the flag code seems to revolve around leave the flag immaculate and unadulterated in any way. Approaching it from that perspective, it is common sense that the flag should not be signed. Our national symbols only have as much honor and integrity as we bestow upon them. Yes, it’s just a piece of cloth with colors on it, but our choosing to view it as a sacred object (like a bible, menorah, or koran) makes it sacred.
Report Post »Rapunzel
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 11:35amOldOld – I disagree; I prefer to read the comments in chronological order. However I think it would be nice if the we could choose the order.
I also think the ‘reply’ button should be there for the comments that are replies to others!
Report Post »Spolic
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:17pmI’d even say “Big deal” if Obama did it. I think that some (not all) of the flag rules are a little silly anyway.
Report Post »Fedupwithprogressives
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:42pmSo it is fine for protesters to burn the flag, but not for anyone to sign it? Ridiculous.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 12:44pmDon’t worry the flag was made in China… most likely didn’t have the right amount of stars and stripes anyway.. I don’t see the point of someone wanting a flag signed by Palin but maybe there was no paper available.. While I know know the flag shouldn‘t be signed had NO idea before this must be something that doesn’t come up often or EVERYONE would have known.. At least she knows her rights are endowed by her creator and SHE doesn’t run the country..
Report Post »FIRED UP FREE MAN !
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 1:22pmWhat we need is an INVESTIGATION of those who CONTROL the public airwaves. It would appear channels would rather LOOSE money than report the TRUTH. The same goes for the newspaper industry. Has SOROS really infected the American body so thoroughly? We need people who know how, to chase this information out. It needs to be done quickly and thoroughly! Only threw the light of day can America SURVIVE this insidious INVASION into our POLITICS, our SCHOOLS, our NEWSPAPERS, and finally our CHILDREN. We must move quickly or face COLLAPSE!
WHERE IS THE FBI? They are responsible for PROTECTING our government from FOREIGN and DOMESTIC interference. No one citizen can fight the AMOUNT of money flowing in to these left-wing COMMUNIST insurgence organizations. Only when all of the citizens finally STAND UP and FIGHT back are we going to have a chance at regaining our FREEDOM!
Please call the FBI and give them any information you may have on this invasion against our constitution, our government, and our schools.
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“SOROS IN CHAINS”
Report Post »VegasGuy
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 2:38pmI never knew there was an actual code against the practice, but my gut instinct told me it is not a proper thing to do. It is disrespectful. But in the scheme of things it is not worth making a fuss of it.
Now the guy down the street from me that was using a huge American flag (a real one) for a boat cover really chapped my hide. I reported it to Clark County. They tried every which way they could to get the guy but there was nothing they could do. It laid on that boat until the sun ate it away. Then he got ANOTHER one! Freakin’ idiot. Probably is a huge Obama supporter.
Report Post »Barba from Texas
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 3:40pmyou act like Glenn has something to do with this.
Report Post »Andiciopec
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 3:48pmThe fact that people do not know about the American Flag is just another thing that is wrong with our country. I suggest that our schools call their local VFW post to learn about the American Flag. They will teach anyone about it. It is our responsibility as citizens of the United States to know about our national symbols like the Flag, Bold Eagle, etc…
Report Post »Disabledvet
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 3:54pmThe reporters will bring this up that Sarah Palin signed a flag, but the guttless wonders never once say a word when some a##hole burns one, then they say it is okay.
Report Post »Reporters can kiss my a## you are a bunch of worthless A##holes and I wouldn’t stop and PiS$ on you if you were on fire. Same goes for the ladies on the view.
tepartyblog.info
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 4:06pmI had the same thought about 8/28. It bothered me that at the end of the they were signing a flag.
Report Post »Shinbunalley
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:16pmThough a retired military person, I did not know of that rule. However, the rule should be changed if it is my flag, I claim the flag as a patriotic act or I want a hero or prominent person’s name on my flag.
Report Post »That flag may have been the only item in hand to get Sarah Palin’s signature. No big deal to the flag owner.
SummerB
Posted on October 21, 2010 at 6:32pmTotally agree Miami. I see nothing wrong with writing on a flag if the intent is to keep it an a family heirloom.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on October 22, 2010 at 1:08amI signed the same flag and never gave it a second thought. Do I feel guilty for have broken the flag regs, yes. Do I think I’m going to burn in hell for it, no.
Now that I know, I won’t do it again, but I don’t think anyone from any side should be chastised over it unless they are doing it to dis-respect our flag. You know, like Bill Ayers (Obama’s buddy) wiping his feet on our flag!
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