Re: The Recycled Flags of the DNCC
- From: "George Z. Bush" <georgezbush@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:52:55 -0400
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The Recycled Flags of the DNCC
posted at 12:00 pm on September 6, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Democrats brought out tens of thousands of American flags to Invesco
Field, saluting Barack Obama as he spoke from the Styrofoam columns of
the Barackopolis at the conclusion of the Democratic convention.
Perhaps some of them took the flags home as souvenirs, but where did
the rest go? According to David Harsanyi, they went into the trash -
and would have gone to a landfill, except for a worker at Invesco who
rescued them from the dumpsters:
This morning, Republicans tell me that a worker at Invesco Field
in
Denver saved thousands of unused flags from the Democratic National
Convention that were headed for the garbage. Guerrilla campaigning.
They will use these flags at their own event today in Colorado Springs
with John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Photos:
http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=179382&arti
cleId=247867&func=6&filterHidden=true&filterUnhidden=false&filterRead=f
alse
Before McCain speaks today, veterans will haul these garbage bags
filled with flags out onto the stage - with dramatic effect, no doubt
- and tell the story.
Didn't anyone make arrangements for better disposal of these flags
from Invesco? At the very least, they were an investment that could
have been re-used at rallies in Colorado as well as the rest of the
nation during the general election. Instead, they've handed a
dramatic moment to John McCain and Sarah Palin, as well as relieved
them of the cost of 12,000 such flags - as well as a full 3?x5? flag
that also wound up in the trash.
Remember when the DNCC was supposed to be the "greenest convention
ever"? How they worried about the color of the food and using organic
materials in their merchandise? I guess we can see where the "green"
concern ends . at red, white, and blue.
Still . I hope the RNCC did a better job rescuing discarded flags at
the Xcel Center.
The VFW in Dallas removed thousands of American flags from trash bins
after
the big illegal alien protest march a few years ago.
My local newspaper printed an insert with their 4th of July issue which
depicted the Stars and Stripes when unfolded. I think I reached them when I
complained that thousands of those paper flags they printed up and
distributed with their newspapers were going to end on on the landfill to
inevitably be defecated on by the numerous seagulls and other scavenger
birds who frequent such places seeking food scraps.
I told them that if they ever did that again, I would picket their offices
after I invited all of the local TV stations to come and cover the event.
I'm hopeful that it'll never happen again.
Things like that happen because the people involved in arranging them are so
wrapped up in what they're doing that they forget to stop long enough to
think things through. I don't think that there's any intent to demean the
flag.....it's mostly a matter of sloppy planning or even lack of planning.
Sometimes people don't think while their knees are jerking.
George Z.
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