Saturday, September 6, 2008

Republican desperation: The patriotism card

By GottaLaff


If this is all they've got, then they don't have much:

John McCain’s campaign prepared to accuse Democrats on Saturday of leaving behind 12,000 miniature American flags after Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday in Denver.

Is that worse than leaving behind your own country? I guess they think so:

Boy Scouts have arrived with 84 trash bags full of bundles of flags at the site of a McCain rally scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. local time in Colorado Springs.

The campaign says the flags were recovered from Invesco Field after the Democrats concluded their convention there, and they are going to be used as part of the warm-up ceremonies before McCain takes the stage for the rally.

FOX News has been told a vendor at Invesco Field found the flags, which were going to be thrown out, and turned them over to the McCain campaign.

Veterans in Colorado Springs are expected to distribute the flags to the audience at the rally.

By the way, Sarah Louise SledDog is now speaking. She has done nothing but repeat her convention speech. At the moment, it's all about Iraq and how the surge has worked. Enough. I turned the sound off, her voice was already beginning to grate on me.

3 comments:

GottaLaff said...

She really is annoying. Exceedingly.

SmokeFreeZone said...

NEVER "MUTE" YOUR T.V.

Always turn to another channel.
Since most of the news media have
Nielsen ratings, the BEST thing
to do it to actually turn from
that particular channel.

I've noticed this when watching
CNN or MSNBC (but especially CNN)
When I turn the channel, CNN usually ends the story!!

Could be my imagination...
But it works for me!! :-)

GottaLaff said...

Smokey, that's not how Nielsen ratings work.

In order to be counted as a Nielsen household, you have to be invited (I was at one time, although they never followed through). Then they supply you with a device that monitors your viewing habits.

The average person watching has no connection to the ratings. They have formulas that figure out the viewership based on those with the device.

And there is no way CNN or anyone else can figure out what you're watching without that... yet.

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