"The flag should not be used as a drapery, or for covering a speakers desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general. Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes."
"When the flag is displayed in a manner other than by being flown from a staff, it should be displayed flat, whether indoors or out."
Shame on Sarah Palin for this callous and unethical appropriation of our national flag for her own personal glorification.
Photo from the RunnersWorld slideshow, via The Daily Dish.
Yeah, it's all Sarah Palin's fault.
ReplyDeleteThis was in Runner's World. Maybe the photographer had just a little bit to do with the staging of the pictures.
hawt!
ReplyDeletePlease lets not start in on going after various politicians for their various flag misuses and abuses. I remember when ABC News ran a video of Barack Obama failing to place his hand over his heart during the national anthem while facing AWAY from the American Flag, which violates the flag code as well. (Cited: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/anthem.asp) I didn't get terribly excited.
ReplyDeleteWhile its a shame that someone from Sarah Palin's office didn't step up and say..."um...wait a moment..." this is hardly a major issue.
to Brian - if you read your own link, your allcaps AWAY is discussed there - everyone was facing away from that flag, probably because they were facing a different flag.
ReplyDeletei've lost the link about the time GWB signed his autograph on a toy flag.
wait...I can't actually tell if you're seriously offended by this or not...darn me and my inability to interpret online sarcasm...
ReplyDelete@Anonymous #4 - my views on Sarah Palin should be apparent if you use the "search" box in the UL corner of the blog to find my previous posts about her.
ReplyDeleteIn view of a recent Vanity Fair publication, I may have more to say in the next week if I can get organized...
(yes, I find the photo offensive)
LOL!
ReplyDeleteI have a flag for a table cloth...guess not proper etiquette!
Sherry
Whaaaat. OMG how old is this picture. She looks hotter than usual. Oh, and sorry I know I sound like a teenager, but she looks really good.
ReplyDelete"Maybe the photographer had just a little bit to do with the staging of the pictures."
ReplyDeleteEven if the photographer suggested or stage the photo with the flag draped as it is, SP (or anyone else in such a situation) could have stepped up and said no.
CCL
So you are offended by the flag presentation...hmm. I must respectfully say that I don't understand why people get so upset when a flag is treated as such. To me, it's just an ugly swatch of material used to mark a nation. There is no affection nor reason for deference or god-like reverence attached to it - it is merely cloth that has no substantial meaning in my eyes.
ReplyDeleteThen again, I realize that a flag was made to be a symbolize of a person's allegiance to a certain group, but still. In the end I still very much think "it's just a flag."
I don't know. Perhaps a post about the history of the flag would be an interesting read on July 4th?
I'm not sure, but I think I can see Russia in the background. ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou have to admit, she is quite fetching.