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	<title>Comments on: Fox News: Palin Won VP Debate Because She Had A Bigger Flag Pin</title>
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		<title>By: sporky</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/03/palin-flag-pin/comment-page-2/#comment-5269550</link>
		<dc:creator>sporky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@burningra: I don&#039;t understand why people come up with this utterly idiotic &quot;argument&quot;.  Here&#039;s the statement that I think is stupid.  See if you agree with me.

&quot;Twinkies are unhealthy.  I don&#039;t like the unhealthiness of Twinkies.  Therefore instead I eat deep fried Snickers bars coated in honey.&quot;

Stupid, right?  That&#039;s you in a nutshell though.  Twinkies being other news outlets.  Unhealthy (or in this case, biased).  Your response is to head to an even MORE unhealthy (biased) media.  C&#039;mon!  Seriously.  If you hated biased news media, you wouldn&#039;t watch ANY news media.  Especially not FOX.  Try watch the BBC or something; they&#039;re probably less biased towards political parties.  So yes, while I&#039;ll agree with your assertion, I think your reaction is plain old stupid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@burningra: I don&#8217;t understand why people come up with this utterly idiotic &#8220;argument&#8221;.  Here&#8217;s the statement that I think is stupid.  See if you agree with me.</p>
<p>&#8220;Twinkies are unhealthy.  I don&#8217;t like the unhealthiness of Twinkies.  Therefore instead I eat deep fried Snickers bars coated in honey.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stupid, right?  That&#8217;s you in a nutshell though.  Twinkies being other news outlets.  Unhealthy (or in this case, biased).  Your response is to head to an even MORE unhealthy (biased) media.  C&#8217;mon!  Seriously.  If you hated biased news media, you wouldn&#8217;t watch ANY news media.  Especially not FOX.  Try watch the BBC or something; they&#8217;re probably less biased towards political parties.  So yes, while I&#8217;ll agree with your assertion, I think your reaction is plain old stupid.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5269550', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/03/palin-flag-pin/comment-page-2/#comment-5268072</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>burningra Says: 

IF you really only watch Fox you are WAAAAAYYYY stupid. I mean you must be left over from the first primordial ooooze of stupid. We understand that ignorant hivemind morons like you LOVE to be lied to by Fox but they arent news they are PROPAGANDA. Morons like you want to be LIED to, you want to be told anything that conforms to the delusional fantasies that you have A) made up in your head, and B) Have been instructed to believe by your hivemind screechmonkey masters. The thing is that YOU being a moron doesnt mean we are retarded. The fact is WE understand the things that require the higher brain function that you will ever be far too stupid to accomplish</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>burningra Says: </p>
<p>IF you really only watch Fox you are WAAAAAYYYY stupid. I mean you must be left over from the first primordial ooooze of stupid. We understand that ignorant hivemind morons like you LOVE to be lied to by Fox but they arent news they are PROPAGANDA. Morons like you want to be LIED to, you want to be told anything that conforms to the delusional fantasies that you have A) made up in your head, and B) Have been instructed to believe by your hivemind screechmonkey masters. The thing is that YOU being a moron doesnt mean we are retarded. The fact is WE understand the things that require the higher brain function that you will ever be far too stupid to accomplish<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5268072', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MrSquirrel</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/03/palin-flag-pin/comment-page-2/#comment-5267954</link>
		<dc:creator>MrSquirrel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hopefully nobody who watched this, didn&#039;t realize they were joking.

But, as pointed out in the post, during the initial flag pin uproar, he said such things as:

(From the October 23 edition of Fox News&#039; Fox &amp; Friends):

    DOOCY: First he kicked his American flag pin to the curb. Now Barack Obama has a new round of patriotism problems. Wait until you hear what the White House hopeful didn&#039;t do during the singing of the national anthem.

So the point of it is, Doocy has become a parody of himself. He now light-heartedly plays a game of &quot;mine is bigger than yours&quot;, flag-pin version... when earlier in the campaign, he helped perpetuate the silly notion that Obama was unpatriotic for not wearing one.

I suppose for Doocy, it&#039;s funny because he feels vindicated that he and all the other flag-wavers have now made it a de facto requirement for all candidates to wear a flag pin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hopefully nobody who watched this, didn&#8217;t realize they were joking.</p>
<p>But, as pointed out in the post, during the initial flag pin uproar, he said such things as:</p>
<p>(From the October 23 edition of Fox News&#8217; Fox &amp; Friends):</p>
<p>    DOOCY: First he kicked his American flag pin to the curb. Now Barack Obama has a new round of patriotism problems. Wait until you hear what the White House hopeful didn&#8217;t do during the singing of the national anthem.</p>
<p>So the point of it is, Doocy has become a parody of himself. He now light-heartedly plays a game of &#8220;mine is bigger than yours&#8221;, flag-pin version&#8230; when earlier in the campaign, he helped perpetuate the silly notion that Obama was unpatriotic for not wearing one.</p>
<p>I suppose for Doocy, it&#8217;s funny because he feels vindicated that he and all the other flag-wavers have now made it a de facto requirement for all candidates to wear a flag pin.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267954', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: burningra</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/03/palin-flag-pin/comment-page-2/#comment-5267782</link>
		<dc:creator>burningra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some of you guys are pretty retarded lol. Obviously they weren&#039;t being serious about giving her some kind of win in the debate all because she had on a bigger flag pin. I swear, some people on the internet will post articles about absolutely anything if they possibly think it will in some way demean the persons they are in opposite views with. 

And Fox News is about the only one I&#039;ll even watch as far as national broadcasts on television. The others like CBS News and especially NBC news are blatantly bias towards the Obama campaign so much that it just makes you almost wanna slap them sometime. NBC is the worst. To be honest I&#039;m almost confused as to why Brian Williams hasn&#039;t put an Obama shrine up on his desk yet lol. 

They will literally go on air and tell lies half the time if they have to in order to keep from saying very much negatively about Obama all while they will focus on any little tiny thing negative they can find about McCain. Kinda like somehow here posting an article trashing Fox News which is one of few ones actually telling it like it is all because someone made a comment about Palin wearing a larger pin lol.

The guy on the Fox radio news show goes on every day trashing the other media stations like NBC and showing all they&#039;re choosing to ignore and lie about with Obama. He&#039;s the guy that Obama said he was gonna send his man after so he could &quot;tear him up&quot; lol. Yeah he store him up alright. It was more like completely the other way around with who got tore up. It&#039;s just the fact that very few are going after Obama in interviews like they go after McCain. The Obama compain has been on the offensive for almost the whole run while McCain has has been more on the defensive. Palin for the first time took it back and went on the offensive against a lot of the fud the Obama comapain has been spewing about and that&#039;s what McCain ought to be doing all the way up to the election.

I have nothing against a media station being honest and focusing on both campaigns as both should be heard. But that&#039;s definitely not the case with a lot of what&#039;s going on right now in the media. Americans really should wake up and realize that the media is controlled by personal agendas and anyone that believes otherwise is a fool. The media only tells you what they want you to hear. Very few tell the real truth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some of you guys are pretty retarded lol. Obviously they weren&#8217;t being serious about giving her some kind of win in the debate all because she had on a bigger flag pin. I swear, some people on the internet will post articles about absolutely anything if they possibly think it will in some way demean the persons they are in opposite views with. </p>
<p>And Fox News is about the only one I&#8217;ll even watch as far as national broadcasts on television. The others like CBS News and especially NBC news are blatantly bias towards the Obama campaign so much that it just makes you almost wanna slap them sometime. NBC is the worst. To be honest I&#8217;m almost confused as to why Brian Williams hasn&#8217;t put an Obama shrine up on his desk yet lol. </p>
<p>They will literally go on air and tell lies half the time if they have to in order to keep from saying very much negatively about Obama all while they will focus on any little tiny thing negative they can find about McCain. Kinda like somehow here posting an article trashing Fox News which is one of few ones actually telling it like it is all because someone made a comment about Palin wearing a larger pin lol.</p>
<p>The guy on the Fox radio news show goes on every day trashing the other media stations like NBC and showing all they&#8217;re choosing to ignore and lie about with Obama. He&#8217;s the guy that Obama said he was gonna send his man after so he could &#8220;tear him up&#8221; lol. Yeah he store him up alright. It was more like completely the other way around with who got tore up. It&#8217;s just the fact that very few are going after Obama in interviews like they go after McCain. The Obama compain has been on the offensive for almost the whole run while McCain has has been more on the defensive. Palin for the first time took it back and went on the offensive against a lot of the fud the Obama comapain has been spewing about and that&#8217;s what McCain ought to be doing all the way up to the election.</p>
<p>I have nothing against a media station being honest and focusing on both campaigns as both should be heard. But that&#8217;s definitely not the case with a lot of what&#8217;s going on right now in the media. Americans really should wake up and realize that the media is controlled by personal agendas and anyone that believes otherwise is a fool. The media only tells you what they want you to hear. Very few tell the real truth.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267782', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ohplease</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I pray for the apocalypse.  Americans are morons.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I pray for the apocalypse.  Americans are morons.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267756', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MrSquirrel</title>
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		<dc:creator>MrSquirrel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since when does the American flag have seven stripes? I&#039;m pretty sure there was always thirteen original colonies.

Why does Sarah Palin hate America so much that she wants to get rid of six of the original colonies?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since when does the American flag have seven stripes? I&#8217;m pretty sure there was always thirteen original colonies.</p>
<p>Why does Sarah Palin hate America so much that she wants to get rid of six of the original colonies?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267658', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: 1984</title>
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		<dc:creator>1984</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Flag pins are beyond silly season if I&#039;m asked about it. It doesn&#039;t actually tell anything, anyone can put it on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flag pins are beyond silly season if I&#8217;m asked about it. It doesn&#8217;t actually tell anything, anyone can put it on.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267598', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Morgan423</title>
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		<dc:creator>Morgan423</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I suppose she also won parent of the year, considering how she plopped a baby down on top of that giant flag pin post-debate.  *sigh*</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I suppose she also won parent of the year, considering how she plopped a baby down on top of that giant flag pin post-debate.  *sigh*<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267582', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Klem Kiddilehopper</title>
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		<dc:creator>Klem Kiddilehopper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t think that the pin above the so-called American flag pin is the State Flag of Alaska. The state flag of Alaska has 8 yellow colored stars on a blue background, the stars represent the Big Dipper!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think that the pin above the so-called American flag pin is the State Flag of Alaska. The state flag of Alaska has 8 yellow colored stars on a blue background, the stars represent the Big Dipper!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267536', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dogger</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dogger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That make Tina Fey even more patriotic. She had three flag pins on last weeks SNL.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That make Tina Fey even more patriotic. She had three flag pins on last weeks SNL.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267510', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: the Lone Voice of Reason</title>
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		<dc:creator>the Lone Voice of Reason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>McGrampy lost his debate then since he did not have a flag pin on, THE STUPID LITTLE TRAITOR.  HOW DARE HE! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>McGrampy lost his debate then since he did not have a flag pin on, THE STUPID LITTLE TRAITOR.  HOW DARE HE! :)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267480', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Fool Zero</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fool Zero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sheesh, what happens to that link? All right then, the bare  URL should&#039;ve been:
http://community.iexplore.com/planning/journalEntryFreeForm.asp?journalID=11750&amp;entryID=17381&amp;n=Tales+From+Freedom&#039;s+Frontier</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sheesh, what happens to that link? All right then, the bare  URL should&#8217;ve been:<br />
<a href="http://community.iexplore.com/planning/journalEntryFreeForm.asp?journalID=11750&amp;entryID=17381&amp;n=Tales+From+Freedom" rel="nofollow">http://community.iexplore.com/planning/journalEntryFreeForm.asp?journalID=11750&amp;entryID=17381&amp;n=Tales+From+Freedom</a>&#8217;s+Frontier<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267402', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Fool Zero</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fool Zero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pity we can&#039;t preview or edit. That link should have been: (&lt;a&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pity we can&#8217;t preview or edit. That link should have been: (<a>source</a>)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267400', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Fool Zero</title>
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		<dc:creator>Fool Zero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;So I would say flag-pin wise, she is a hands-down winner,” said Doocy. Carlson noted that her pin had “a few more jewels” too.&lt;/i&gt;

Two things this reminded me of:

1. The scene in &lt;i&gt;The Great Dictator&lt;/i&gt; where Chaplin&#039;s and Oakie&#039;s characters (parody versions of Hitler and Mussolini) pump their barber chairs higher and higher in an effort to outdo each other (more &lt;a href=&quot;http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19720329/REVIEWS/203290301&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;).

2. The Korean truce negotiations at Panmunjom, where&lt;blockquote&gt;... both sides had flags of equal size on the table during their meetings. One day, a flag was brought in that was slightly larger than the other. Thereafter, each alternate day brought a new flag, each one a little bit bigger than the largest from the day before. Eventually the flags got so big that neither side could get them through the door.&lt;/blockquote&gt;(&lt;a&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;)

Sounds like the kind of stuff Fox thrives on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>So I would say flag-pin wise, she is a hands-down winner,” said Doocy. Carlson noted that her pin had “a few more jewels” too.</i></p>
<p>Two things this reminded me of:</p>
<p>1. The scene in <i>The Great Dictator</i> where Chaplin&#8217;s and Oakie&#8217;s characters (parody versions of Hitler and Mussolini) pump their barber chairs higher and higher in an effort to outdo each other (more <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19720329/REVIEWS/203290301" rel="nofollow">here</a>).</p>
<p>2. The Korean truce negotiations at Panmunjom, where<br />
<blockquote>&#8230; both sides had flags of equal size on the table during their meetings. One day, a flag was brought in that was slightly larger than the other. Thereafter, each alternate day brought a new flag, each one a little bit bigger than the largest from the day before. Eventually the flags got so big that neither side could get them through the door.</p></blockquote>
<p>(<a>source</a>)</p>
<p>Sounds like the kind of stuff Fox thrives on.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267398', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: born2bfree</title>
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		<dc:creator>born2bfree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>News Breaker!!
What I haven&#039;t seen or I over looked it, but what about the law?  Yes you know flag laws? We still have laws in this nation, right?  Look:

From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 3, 2006]
[CITE: 4USC7]

 
       TITLE 4--FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES
 
                           CHAPTER 1--THE FLAG
 
Sec. 7. Position and manner of display

    (c) No other flag or pennant should be placed above or,...
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>News Breaker!!<br />
What I haven&#8217;t seen or I over looked it, but what about the law?  Yes you know flag laws? We still have laws in this nation, right?  Look:</p>
<p>From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access<br />
[wais.access.gpo.gov]<br />
[Laws in effect as of January 3, 2006]<br />
[CITE: 4USC7]</p>
<p>       TITLE 4&#8211;FLAG AND SEAL, SEAT OF GOVERNMENT, AND THE STATES</p>
<p>                           CHAPTER 1&#8211;THE FLAG</p>
<p>Sec. 7. Position and manner of display</p>
<p>    (c) No other flag or pennant should be placed above or,&#8230;<br />
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		<title>By: MapleStreet</title>
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		<dc:creator>MapleStreet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was given a flag pin with blinking LEDs.  Does that make me prez ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was given a flag pin with blinking LEDs.  Does that make me prez ?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267280', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mauman</title>
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		<dc:creator>mauman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Flag pins and pinheads. Good God Almighty.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flag pins and pinheads. Good God Almighty.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5267080', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Styve</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/03/palin-flag-pin/comment-page-2/#comment-5267020</link>
		<dc:creator>Styve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought that it was an artistic impression of the US Flag, with only 3 pair of R and W stripes, and then I noticed the rope, which seemed similar to the snake on the &quot;Don&#039;t Tread On Me&quot; Gadsen Flag. I am wondering if there is any connection with the Alaskan Independence Party.  

Wayne Madsen has been covering the Palins&#039; involvement with the secessionist, white supremacist movement...


&lt;blockquote&gt;On September 10, 2008, WMR reported: &quot;The AIP is part of a network of extreme right-wing secessionists around the country, many of whom are linked to white supremacist causes. In 2006, the AIP participated in the first North American Secessionist Convention in Burlington, Vermont. Also attracted to the convention were a number of Southern secessionist movements, including the League of the South; the Southern Caucus; the Southern National Congress; and Christian Exodus, which advocates the secession of South Carolina as an independent republic governed by the Ten Commandments as the foundation of law.&quot;

Palin&#039;s and her husband&#039;s Todd&#039;s connections to the AIP are all the more worrisome when it is pointed out that the AIP&#039;s founder, Joe Vogler, who ran for governor of Alaska in 1986. Vogler&#039;s running mate was Al Rowe, a former Alaska state trooper. Vogler disappeared in 1993 after he attempted to buy plastic explosives. Vogler&#039;s remains were discovered in a gravel pit near Fairbanks in 1994. A petty criminal identified himself as Vogler&#039;s murderer in a very mysterious case. &lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought that it was an artistic impression of the US Flag, with only 3 pair of R and W stripes, and then I noticed the rope, which seemed similar to the snake on the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tread On Me&#8221; Gadsen Flag. I am wondering if there is any connection with the Alaskan Independence Party.  </p>
<p>Wayne Madsen has been covering the Palins&#8217; involvement with the secessionist, white supremacist movement&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>On September 10, 2008, WMR reported: &#8220;The AIP is part of a network of extreme right-wing secessionists around the country, many of whom are linked to white supremacist causes. In 2006, the AIP participated in the first North American Secessionist Convention in Burlington, Vermont. Also attracted to the convention were a number of Southern secessionist movements, including the League of the South; the Southern Caucus; the Southern National Congress; and Christian Exodus, which advocates the secession of South Carolina as an independent republic governed by the Ten Commandments as the foundation of law.&#8221;</p>
<p>Palin&#8217;s and her husband&#8217;s Todd&#8217;s connections to the AIP are all the more worrisome when it is pointed out that the AIP&#8217;s founder, Joe Vogler, who ran for governor of Alaska in 1986. Vogler&#8217;s running mate was Al Rowe, a former Alaska state trooper. Vogler disappeared in 1993 after he attempted to buy plastic explosives. Vogler&#8217;s remains were discovered in a gravel pit near Fairbanks in 1994. A petty criminal identified himself as Vogler&#8217;s murderer in a very mysterious case. </p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Wayne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wayne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;“So I would say flag-pin wise, she is a hands-down winner,” said Doocy&lt;/em&gt;


geebus.
Duncey seems  to  set  new  boundaries  for  STUPID  every time  he  opens he  opens  any  of  his  orifices.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>“So I would say flag-pin wise, she is a hands-down winner,” said Doocy</em></p>
<p>geebus.<br />
Duncey seems  to  set  new  boundaries  for  STUPID  every time  he  opens he  opens  any  of  his  orifices.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5266986', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Buckie Boy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Buckie Boy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>She used crib notes, her wink was irritating, she was snarky, most of the time she never answered the question and left you wondering what the hell she said, mispronounced nuclear as GWB does, which was driving my wife nuts, she is the grammar police, big time, and the use of &quot;also&quot; was excessive, also drove my wife nuts.

But on the nation stage, Biden won...sorry Fox viewers a sparkly shinny object does not win the debate, but we know how shinny objects distract you neanderthals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She used crib notes, her wink was irritating, she was snarky, most of the time she never answered the question and left you wondering what the hell she said, mispronounced nuclear as GWB does, which was driving my wife nuts, she is the grammar police, big time, and the use of &#8220;also&#8221; was excessive, also drove my wife nuts.</p>
<p>But on the nation stage, Biden won&#8230;sorry Fox viewers a sparkly shinny object does not win the debate, but we know how shinny objects distract you neanderthals.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5266970', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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