NC GOP mistakenly harangues Kaine for lapel pin, apologizes

[jpak]

Source: Washington Post

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republicans from North Carolina have apologized to Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine for mistakenly critiquing him for wearing a foreign flag during his acceptance speech.

The state GOP sent out a tweet Wednesday night saying it was “shameful” for Kaine to wear a Honduras flag during his speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Kaine spent a year in Honduras as a missionary. But Ben Amey, a reporter for WNYT-TV in Albany, New York, pointed out on Twitter that Kaine’s pin was actually the symbol for families with a member serving in the military.

Kaine’s son, a Marine, is currently deployed.

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morans

yup

[still_one]

1. yes they are. They removed the post, but didn't appologize

[NurseJackie]

2. "Hate first. Think later."

(If at all.)

[getagrip_already]

4. thinking is strongly discouraged....

just keep repeating the lie. double down. then find a new lie to repeat.

no thought required or appreciated.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

33. Oh come on

Intelligence is elitist

[merrily]

3. You would think someone inside the party that acts as though it owns the U.S. Armed Forces

would know that. Or, failing that, that the party would check its facts before stepping on its tongue.

[NurseJackie]

6. Two Words: Fort Bragg

Fort Bragg is an installation of the United States Army and is the largest military base in the world with more than 50,000 active duty personnel. The base is located within Cumberland, Hoke, Harnett and Moore counties, North Carolina.

I mean... seriously ... the largest military base in the WORLD is located in NC ... and they still manage a fuck-up like that??

[merrily]

19. I've been to Fort Bragg.

[sarge43]

28. NC has the third largest military population in the country

Only CA and TX are larger. Given the relative size the states, probably can't throw a stone in NC without hitting someone in battle uni.

[TeamPooka]

40. and their GOP reps still don't know what the pin stands for.

[sarge43]

42. One has to have some knowledge of or interest in the military

to know what it stands for.

I rest my case.

[rocktivity]

30. Look on the bright side

Ft. Bragg isn't a MARINE installation...


rocktivity

[sarge43]

44. Yeah but, there's a Marine unit at Bragg

Camp Lejeune is in NC, advanced combat training. Only the raw meat eaters are sent there.

[CRK7376]

55. Well it is North Carolina and

unfortunately my state runs deep in the STUPID LANE. My sons and I attended Monday's Trump/Pence rally in Winston-Salem to watch the circus. It was scary to say the least. Clowns and circus freaks were everywhere. I would not in the least doubt that NCGOP would post something so stupid as to compare the Blue Star lapel pin honoring deployed loved ones with the Flag of Honduras, and my family has worn one for years. But then I retired from the Army 18 months ago after 38 years of service and intimately know and love/hate Ft. Bragg having been assigned there over ten of my 38 years. Trump and his followers make me sick.

[klook]

5. I guess Drumpfsters prefer the Russian flag (n/t)

[LakeArenal]

7. Good one!

[SunSeeker]

45. BOOM!

[DinahMoeHum]

8. They don't know WTF a Blue Star lapel pin looks like???

and they claim to support the troops and their families?????

Honduras flag pin:


Blue Star pin:

[alphafemale]

51. This was about a Blue Star pin?!

That is tremendously ignorant. That is displayed in many places.

[Vinca]

9. Nice from a party whose candidate said he felt he had been in the military

because he attended a military school as a teenager.

[klook]

10. and bravely battled STDs

[leftynyc]

11. And that managing to not get VD

during the 60s was the exact same as fighting in Vietnam.

[merrily]

20. That is a cliche.

In the blue collar town in which I went to public school, the parents of a kid who acted out would do their utmost to put him into Catholic school for nuns to straighten out, even if they could not really afford it. So did the more financially comfortable Catholic familes who had a good kid, but felt he would get a better education from nuns in a Catholic school. The stereotype of a wealthy family whose kid acts out, however, is sending him to military boarding school to get straightened out. So this maybe another tell.

[a kennedy]

12. Oh, and right, the Democratic National Convention didn't have enough flags on the stage either....

Such losers. Ugh.......

[DFW]

13. The North Carolina Reppublicans have a(nother) Emily Latella moment

http://www.hulu.com/watch/1510

"never mind"

[ffr]

14. What buffoons!

To our brave young men and women serving

[4Q2u2]

15. Chicken Hawk Squak

They do not recognize that pin due to the fact that none of them, nor their families would put their money where their mouth is by joining the Armed Forces and fighting the Wars they LOVE.

[procon]

16. Republicans, like crows and monkeys, are easily distracted by bright shiny objects. nt

[montana_hazeleyes]

23. Unfortunately,

they are not nearly as intelligent as crows and monkeys.

[procon]

31. My neighbor has a pet crow, Maya.

He found her in the middle of the road, evidently hit by a car. He saved her, but she can't fly anymore, she hops, and jumps and flaps to get around. He has to get a special permit to keep her and he built a big aviary, but she has a fun play perch like a parrot in their sun porch. She's a very intelligent and inquisitive creature, and always tries to get my watch when I visit. They distract her with knotted string of bells and then she picks open the knots and carries thr bells back to her treasure hoard on her perch.

[montana_hazeleyes]

35. That's wonderful your neighbor saved her.

Crows are awesome. They are super intelligent and learn quickly. We have lots of crows around where I live and I just love to see them soaring in their flight. And just being around them. I even caw back and forth with them. ( I don't care if folks think I'm goofy) lol

[procon]

39. I'd laugh at you, but to be honest, I've done the same thing.

This time of year, sometimes in the evening, a flock of crows will alight in my big old elm trees for a rest before flying off into the sunset. I don't know if it's the same crows or why they like my trees instead of any of the neighbors trees. They don't stay long and they sure are noisy, but they shut up if I make bad imitation cawing noises. Everyone's a critic!

[Gamecock Lefty]

17. I don't understand . . .

why Repubs continually get away with crap like this while we Dems are held to a higher standard.

Oh yea, we do have higher standards.

Nevermind.

[Hekate]

18. Gods they are stupid -- and hateful

[Laser102]

21. You would think, since the repugs are all about strength and national security, they would be

familiar with the pin. That's right, I forgot most of them have never been of service to this country so the pin would appear foreign.

[blueseas]

22. wow the party that does so much for people in unform could not recoginze that pin

What a joke!

[rocktivity]

24. The pin is shown VERTICALLY, Kaine wore it HORIZONTALLY!

THERE'S your scandal, LOL!!!


rocktivity

[rocktivity]

25. And now for something completely similiar

2008: Radio host Bob Grant asserted that Sen. Barack Obama "is not content with just having several American flags, plain old American flags with the 50 states represented by 50 stars. He has the 'O' flag." However, the flag to which Grant apparently referred was actually the Ohio state flag...

2012: The right wing propaganda site Politico was so eager to try to do a smear job on President Barack Obama and his visit to Milwaukee today that they failed to look before they leaped and...mistook the Wisconsin state flag as being the flag of Wisconsin Local 1848...

rocktivity

[merrily]

26. They should know this. It's not a new "thing"

Gold star moms organization formed shortly after WWI. Blue star moms organization formed during WWII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Star_Mothers_Club

[underpants]

27. Apparently North Carolina requires that your attention to details matches the level you had at birth

[lapucelle]

29. CSPAN is covering the story.

Just the facts, and the facts are DAMNING.

[JI7]

32. piece of shit media will report "Did Dem VP nominee wear Honduras pin" ?

And then get two sides of the story amd leave it up to viewers to decide.

[emulatorloo]

34. Idiots and liars.

[cilla4progress]

36. All their lies are catching up

with them.... SMH.

[bucolic_frolic]

37. Conservative confirmation bias

they see only what fits their rigid minds

[obamanut2012]

38. They haven't apologized

[cyberswede]

41. They pick the stupidest shit to focus on.

[NewJeffCT]

43. What a bunch of morons!

Why, oh why, would Tim Kaine be wearing the flag of Honduras on his lapel for a speech before 30 million people? Is he a secret agent for the Honduran government sending them a special code to invade? What kind of moron thinks of these things?

[SunSeeker]

46. K & R for exposure.

[keithbvadu2]

47. Give them (the GOP there) a break. They are not used to seeing a complete flag.

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[keithbvadu2]

48. A complete flag to them is:

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[Tatiana]

49. Can you blame the chickenhawks for not knowing?

What ignorant losers they are.

[sofa king]

50. The point is...

...That nobody in the NC GOP knows what a blue star family is, because none of them have children who are deployed overseas.

[tanyev]

52. They revel in their ignorance.

[Motley13]

53. they are too busy looking under bathroom partitions

checking your privates

[PoutrageFatigue]

54. Idiots.