Barack Obama Didn't Remove Ground Zero American Flag With His Freedom-Hating Hands

By Joe Coscarelli Fri., May 6 2011 at 5:03 PM

"One minute to air and they decided to take the flag down from the live shot!" ABC News reporter Jake Tapper tweeted yesterday from Ground Zero, along with the image to the right. It was just after President Barack Obama's visit to New York City to celebrate the killing of Osama Bin Laden, so to a few conservative bloggers, he must've ordered the flag down himself -- naturally, him being a communist Muslim Kenyan and all. "WTF at WTC? Obama Has American Flag Removed From Ground Zero Site Moments Before Photo Shoot!" went one headline. "Does flying the American flag at Ground Zero now constitute 'spiking the football???' Michelle Malkin asked, incensed. Um, no, you idiots.

"Bloggers who created a lie about the flag based on my innocuous tweet: please feel free to unfollow. don't want my facts to become your lies," Tapper followed up today.

As it turns out, the flag was indeed on display when Obama was in town, but it gets taken down at night. Tapper's initial tweet, sent at 6:30 p.m., meant it was removed for his broadcast segment on ABC World News.

But, as Media Matters shows, those pesky facts didn't stop a bunch of batty bloggers from passing on the "story" nor did the truth prevent the Drudge Report from linking to the story with the headline, "REPORT: Team Obama takes down US flag before Ground Zero event..."

Michelle Malkin apologized when she figured out the (pretty obvious) truth, but the blogger Doug Ross says he's "sticking by" this comment:

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.

So there.

[jcoscarelli@villagevoice.com / @joecoscarelli]

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PeacefulPatriot

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labman57

Many right wingers, in an act of desperation to find new talking points to form the basis of their anti-Obama vitriol -- job growth stalling? … dead, medicare repeal? … dead, health care reform repeal? … dead, birth certificate denial? … dead, inability to take on terrorism? … DEAD -- have reverted to the tried-and-true intellectually lazy and ultimately disingenuous tactic that has long been a favorite of Palin, Bachmann, Beck, Limbaugh, etc.:

When all else fails, make crap up.

Pug

Epic fail by idiot Doug Ross. Malkin, of course, follows him lemming-like right over the cliff.

Tapper tweeting about "bloggers who create a lie"? Awesome.

Evan

I don't think we even have a Marxist left.

chris1616

The right-wing has lowered them self deeper into their own graves. The children of America know they are lied to about the President. I expect to see Malkin, one of Fox's favorite Obama haters, on tonight with a grammar school teacher with an explanation and a apology.Young children can tell by looking at the shadows in the picture that it is towards the end of the day vs the beginning of the day.Tapper's tweet was hours after the service was over. Unless you were looking for something ugly to say about the President you would thought a moment before you all joyfully ran to your computers to feed more hate to your desperate pathetic wingers.

Take responsiblity for your words and actions.