MSNBC anchor: Palin’s bus tour ‘a breach of a federal law’

Source: RawReplay
By Sahil Kapur

MSNBC anchor Martin Bashir says Sarah Palin’s creative display of the American flag on the bus for her national tour could amount to a “breach of a federal law.”

“In fact, the whole thing could be in breach of a federal law because the United States Flag Code establishes important rules for the use and display of the stars and stripes, the flag of the United States,” Bashir said Tuesday on his program. “Under standards of respect and etiquette, it’s made clear that the flag of the United States should never be used for any advertising purpose whatsoever. Yet that’s precisely what Sarah Palin is doing.”

The U.S. flag code emphasizes that it “does not impose penalties” for misuse of the flag, but simply serves as a “guide for all handling and display of the Stars and Stripes.”

Bashir scolded Palin for co-opting the American flag in a manner that, he said, has “nothing to do with the presidency and everything to do with filling her pockets.”

Watch the video of Bashir’s remarks, via MSNBC

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/msnbc-anchor-palins-bus-tour-a-breach-of-a-federal-law/

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it's evocative of the flag, but not a depiction of it

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This is the closest I have ever come to "defending" any wingnut.

They should point out that flag laws work like anti-trust laws.

--imm

A lot of car dealers are going to be in trouble.

Is the U.S. Flag Code actually law or is it just a recommendation?

That's why we have star spangled bikinis and the like.

Fuck the Flag Code and anyone who bandies it about. They should go hump their sacred rags in private.

fake outrage.

Some people cannot ignore her. They are obsessed and watch every move she makes. I've been told numerous times by republicans that they don't like her, but they love her around because she causes liberals so much anger.

It's that liberal media bias again.




Edit: Wienergate, not Wienergat. A Wienergat is something very different.

I've been seeing the flag used for advertising since i was a kid and i'm 55.
GAC

The irony is that it's her very supporters that would love to have restrictive laws governing the use and abuse of the flag they often literally drape themselves in.