No, Obama Didn’t Order the Removal of an American Flag from Ground Zero

Did you hear that Barack Obama demanded a massive American flag be removed from Ground Zero while he was there yesterday? It's not true! At all.

This latest Obama-hates-America kerfuffle began last night when ABC News' Jake Tapper tweeted, "One minute to air and they decided to take the flag down from the live shot!" He posted the photo up top as well, showing two cranes removing a large American flag from the side of a building. He meant that right before his spot on the evening ABC News broadcast, the flag was being removed for the night — as it is each night, and then put back in place each morning. Jake Tapper, a True Patriot, was upset that it wouldn't be in his live shot.

Tapper's tweet was interpreted quite differently in many quarters of the conservative Internet, who thought that Obama had personally ordered the flag taken down. Blogger Doug Ross, for one, wrote,"This administration and, by extension, the Democrat Party are now so thoroughly divorced from the history, traditions and morals of America that we might as well admit the Marxist left has executed a successful coup d'état on this Republic." His friend Michelle Malkin asked, "Does flying the American flag at Ground Zero now constitute 'spiking the football???'" This meme made it all the way to Matt Drudge, who ran the headline, "REPORT: Team Obama takes down US flag before Ground Zero event..."





http://gawker.com/#!5799432/no-obama-didnt-order-the-removal-of-an-american-flag-from-ground-zero

It's almost sad.

"a.It is the universal custom to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open. However, when a patriotic effect is desired, the flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness."
http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagcode.htm

These are the same people that were apoplectic when Abby Hoffman wore a US flag shirt. Now they parade around in flag shirts thinking it makes them more patriotic.

"d.The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general."

"g. The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature."

I would imagine autographing a flag falls into that category.

I wish them all a balmy evening in Hell.

of the people who spread them around and believe them. As ludicrous as the idea is, they actually think we have a President who hates the United States and is motivated by a desire to destroy it. It's lunacy, but they believe it.

The 6-story flag. Could this be what he is talking about? Seems like it would take a crane to get a 6- story flag down.