Sometimes, a flag is just a flag

[KamaAina]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/sometimes-flag-just-flag

If you have a wacky uncle who consumes conservative media all day, it’s a safe bet you’ll receive an email about this story, if you haven’t already....

As manufactured outrages go, this one is more ridiculous than most.

A Chinese ambassador went to Olympia last week, so officials at the state capital did what they always do when a foreign dignitary visits: they raised the visitor’s flag alongside the U.S. and Washington flags as a goodwill gesture.

A right-wing activist on Facebook complained, and that apparently reached Alex Jones. From there it went to fringe blogs, then WorldNetDaily, and then Fox News, which told its audience that “local patriots” were “not pleased” that a Democratic governor “decided to fly a Communist China flag … right between Old Glory and the state flag.”

[lame54]

1. but they are ok to stock Walmart's shelves

[onenote]

2. Maybe FoxNews needs to be reminded of this:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. “Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds

“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.” Arundhati Roy