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    Default ABC News Bans American Flag Lapel Pins

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    ABC NEWS BANS FLAG LAPEL PINS
    This is what we get from the present stuff going on in Washington. What next?
    Barbara Walters said that this was going to hurt ABC bad. As
    You know she works for ABC .

    ABC NEWS BANS FLAG LAPEL PINS!
    YESTERDAY THE BRASS AT ABC NEWS ISSUED ORDERS FORBIDDING
    REPORTERS TO WEAR LAPEL PIN AMERICAN FLAGS OR OTHER PATRIOTIC INSIGNIA.
    THEIR REASONING WAS THAT ABC SHOULD REMAIN NEUTRAL ABOUT 'CAUSES'.

    SINCE WHEN IS PATRIOTISM TO BE DISCOURAGED?
    I URGE YOU TO BOYCOTT ABC AND ITS SPONSORS AND AFFILIATES.
    WE ARE SLOWLY LOSING EVERYTHING OUR COUNTRY STANDS FOR AND
    EVERYTHING OUR MEN AND WOMEN FOUGHT AND DIED TO PRESERVE!


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    I dont know.... To me, if you're IN this country, you should be RESPECTFUL of our culture/society. Maybe I was just raised differently. Do I expect the media in Switzerland to remove any advertisement of their flag/culture simply because I may find it 'offensive?'
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    Political Correctness gone mad...
    From the pole to the hole and both sides of the meter....

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    I prefer to call it corporate ignorance over political correctness.
    Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
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    Corporate Ignorance.......it is running rampant in this country these days....they all have a hidden or not so hidden agenda.
    Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swamprat View Post
    Don't want to "offend" anybody Squiz....god forbid.
    You got **** like this goin on "Down under"? Sure as hell hope not.

    It's pathetic.
    Yep I utterly despise it, my son can't take Christmas cards to school, can't sing Christmas carols, refugees get paid more social security than Australian pensioners. Can't say this, can't say that, blah blah heaven forbid you even make a joke or complain about it then you are a "racist" bull sh!t you are a realist asking why you have been offended and your rights removed and trampled on. Fly the flag front and center high and straight its your country if people don't like it why did they travel around the world to get there/here to make a better life for themselves and their families? Support the flag that supports them or simply go back to where they came from...
    From the pole to the hole and both sides of the meter....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Squizzy View Post
    Yep I utterly despise it, my son can't take Christmas cards to school, can't sing Christmas carols, refugees get paid more social security than Australian pensioners. Can't say this, can't say that, blah blah heaven forbid you even make a joke or complain about it then you are a "racist" bull sh!t you are a realist asking why you have been offended and your rights removed and trampled on. Fly the flag front and center high and straight its your country if people don't like it why did they travel around the world to get there/here to make a better life for themselves and their families? Support the flag that supports them or simply go back to where they came from...
    I agree with you 100% over hear people will sometimes call you a racist after you have stated some facts through observation that they cannot deny, and at that point you become a racist and once you are called that in a discussion over hear you have no more defense, it's sad. I read about some Australian politician a while back that gave a speech and told all the people who were complaining about the way things were over there to go back to their homeland and not try to change Australia, I just can't think of his name right now.

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    I wonder if that means ABC will ask President Obama to remove his "US flag lapel pin" he always has on every time they pander to him on tv, so as to "Honor" their no flag lapel pin rule...?
    Last edited by electriklady; 09-07-2011 at 08:29 PM.
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    Oh good God.........




    http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/gov..._flag_pins.htm




    I thought this was actually an issue.......it seems it has been a common practice amongst all networks......the directive was enforced right after 9/11.......old stuff.....no new anti American conspiracy theory.
    Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
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    I'm I confused or what? ABC is the "American Broadcasting Company"

    If they don't want to wear the lapel pin. . . shouldn't thery also change their name?
    Last edited by T-Man; 08-17-2011 at 10:31 PM.

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