Flags or Symbols of Hate and Racial Discrimination?

[Henry Hawk]

Ancient. History.

Not that ancient...

[Locutus]

Okay, just to prove my point that liberals are merely demagoguing the Charleston shooting for political points are NOW calling for "Gone with the Wind" to be chastised. 

Really...don't get me wrong, I never liked the movie....it is too long and boring, but it is STILL a classic film that won eight academy awards.....what is next?  The American Flag? 

You sure you don't listen to right wing radio and TV shows?

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The debate over the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina and elsewhere is not really about the banner itself, Rush Limbaugh says. And it won't stop there, the radio host said during his show on Tuesday.

One day, he said, what is happening to the rebel flag will come to pass for the American flag, too.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/rush-limbaugh-confederate-flag-american-flag-119359.html

[Locutus]

Not that ancient...

PROBABLY FALSE

According to a longtime aide to former President Bill Clinton, the button was not an official campaign item.

"I've never seen these buttons," Craig Smith [said]. "Don't have them, haven't seen them."

Smith oversaw state operations for Mr. Clinton's campaign in 1992, before moving on to work in the Clinton White House. Among his responsibilities on the trail was allocating staff to states and sending out campaign materials, like house party kits, t-shirts, yard signs and buttons, nationwide. Every item, he said, had to be made in the United States by union workers.

"If it didn't have a union bug, we weren't making them," he said, "and we definitely weren't handing them out."

The button in question, and others featuring similar designs for sale or sold on eBay, does not show any indication of being union-made.

Smith said he thought the buttons were likely made by someone unaffiliated with the campaign looking to make a buck. He said if it had been pitched to him, it wouldn't have gotten past his desk.

"Not appropriate then," he said, "and not appropriate now."

http://m.snopes.com/clinton-gore-92-confederate/

[Henry Hawk]

Nope!  Just reading headline news....saw this one about Gone with the Wind...reading about burning Confederate Flags......it is NOT about a nutjob in Charleston, it is about an attack on Guns, Racism and Republican...

They don't miss a beat do they? 

[Exterminator]

PROBABLY FALSE

Like he ever lets facts get in the way of perpetuating a lie.   

[Henry Hawk]

PROBABLY false? 

[Locutus]

PROBABLY false? 

If you would bother to click the link and read what it says there, you can see that it was NEVER an official campaign item, if it even existed at all. 

[Locutus]

^^  That's not an official campaign item either. 

It was created by the founder of a grassroots organization called "Rednecks for Obama" right here in Florida. 

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/floridas-rednecks-for-obama-flag-combines-hope-poster-with-confederate-flag-6525572

[Henry Hawk]

I read it, and it said PROBABLY false, based on a Clinton Campaign manager......he wouldn't LIE would he?   

[Locutus]

Like he ever lets facts get in the way of perpetuating a lie.   

He's full of them today. 

[Locutus]

I read it, and it said PROBABLY false, based on a Clinton Campaign manager......he wouldn't LIE would he?   

You must have missed this part:

It's important to note that there is no indicator that these buttons were actually made and distributed by the actual Clinton-Gore campaign.

One indicator that it isn't official is that it lacks a union "bug," the little marker showing that a piece of campaign material was printed in a union shop. If you look at other Clinton-Gore buttons, nearly all — but not all — have a bug somewhere.

[Henry Hawk]

So REDNECKS or not racists if they vote democrat? That is exactly the hypocrisy I am talking about.

[Locutus]

So REDNECKS or not racists if they vote democrat? That is exactly the hypocrisy I am talking about.

Nobody, especially me, said anything like that.  Having been around rednecks more than a few times, I can assure you that the majority of them certainly are racists regardless of their political affiliation. 

[Henry Hawk]

Nobody, especially me, said anything like that.  Having been around rednecks more than a few times, I can assure you that the majority of them certainly are racists regardless of their political affiliation. 

It was a quote from YOUR link....

The Obama campaign refused to comment on the mixture of the images, but does say it welcomes the self-proclaimed rednecks support.

[Locutus]

It was a quote from YOUR link....

The Obama campaign refused to comment on the mixture of the images, but does say it welcomes the self-proclaimed rednecks support.

Where does it say anything about racism there?  The guy who developed the banner said this:

"We're rednecks, but we're not racists."