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DemoRabbit Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 09:49 PM
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CNN Reporting Untrue "trash" flag story... COMPLAIN
Edited on Sat Sep-06-08 09:53 PM by DemoRabbit
write to them and complain!

(if you don't know, FauxNews reported that the McCain camp had "rescued" flags from the Obama trash can...Obama camp said flags were stolen/taken... FauxNews then apologized later saying it wasn't true -

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/06/politics/animal/main4422762.shtml

It was just on Rick Sanchez

Complain on Twitter (he does this on air) http://twitter.com/ricksanchezcnn

or directly on CNN http://edition.cnn.com/ireport/
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 09:51 PM
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1. this kind of reminds me of the phony Clintons trashed the white house
story that the Bush people made up when they got into office.
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DemoRabbit Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 09:58 PM
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2. It infuriates me when these stories get legs like this
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rooney Donating Member (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 09:59 PM
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3. Do you think KKKarl is putting out all of these lies?
This is not politics, it is a bunch of junk. Where are all of the BIG GUYS, in the Republican Party. I didn't see any of them at their convention, did you?
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givemebackmycountry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 10:01 PM
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5. And then immediately after...
The Bush people set about trashing the White House for real.
The Clinton team "allegedly" stole the "W" keys off of all the keyboards.
The Bush people stole the fucking treasury.

Republicans...

They drill here and drill now, simply because they are always looking for a new depth to sink to.
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sarmark Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 10:32 PM
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7. "W" keys
I voted for Bush (yup, I'm on the other side) but I thought the stories about the missing "W" keys was funny. If true, I thought it was a good joke and also something I'd have done if I had thought of it.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 10:00 PM
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4. Even if they were thrown in the trash can
I can't even count the number of flags I have thrown away after realtors put them on my lawn as a promotional gimmick.

What did the RNC do with their leftover flags? Have them preserved in liquid nitrogen until 2012? :crazy:
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-06-08 10:07 PM
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6. I sent them along this link...
from Huffington Post...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/thrown-away-flags-story-f_n_124499.html
UPDATE: DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney issues a statement: "American flags were proudly waved by the 75,000 people who joined Barack Obama at the Democratic Convention. John McCain should applaud that, but instead his supporters wrongfully took leftover bundles of our flags from the stadium to play a cheap political stunt calling into question our patriotism. On the same day he agrees to join Barack Obama at Ground Zero on September 11, John McCain attacks the patriotism of Obama supporters who so proudly waved the American flag at our historic event in Denver just days ago."

UPDATE II: Another statement from the Democratic National Convention Committee: "Stories circulating about flags at the Democratic National Convention are false. We distributed more than 125,000 American made flags at the Convention - the flags removed from Invesco field were intended for other events and taken without permission. It's disappointing that someone would take American flags without authorization and then falsely describe how they were being used. We have the utmost respect for the American flag, and it's sad to see them being used for a cheap political stunt."
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and where did they Rick Sanchez get his story from?
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Fox News' Carl Cameron and Bonney Kapp reported that they had "been told" that "a vendor at Invesco Field found the flags, which were going to be thrown out, and turned them over to the McCain campaign."
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