NEW RULE: Bill Maher Turns The Tables and RIPS Duck Dynasty For DISRESPECTING The U.S. FLAG

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Bill Maher shredded both Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson for disrespecting the American flag at the State Of The Union, and Republican hypocrites for not saying a word about it.

Maher said,

“New rule, when you’re invited to the president’s State Of The Union address wear your good bandana. Nice to see you observing the dress code, Cletus. But you know if Beyonce wore that, they would say she was bringing down America from within. But somehow everybody is cool with this 1840s gold prospector sweating goose grease into the Stars and Stripes. All because his homophobic daddy invented a whistle that makes ducks horny.”

Maher was right. If Beyonce, or any other supporter of the president showed up wearing the Stars and Stripes to the SOTU like Robertson did, Fox News would be screaming for days about how they hate America. They would be indignant over the disrespect that the Obama showed both for the flag, and for those who have fought and died for what it means.


The tirades would be endless. Rush Limbaugh would claim that the act of wearing the flag at the State Of The Union was proof that Barack Obama isn’t really an American. The name Alinsky would tossed around endlessly, and many conservative news cycles would be consumed by faux outrage. None of this happened because the Duck Dynasty guy is a Republican.


Paul Ryan happily looked the other way while posing for a picture with the reality TV star, because what could be more appealing to homophobic 2016 Republican primary voters than a pic with America’s First Family of racial intolerance and homophobia? This the same political party that threw a hissy fit when then candidate Obama wasn’t wearing his flag lapel pin, but they are totally cool with some D-list reality TV star disrespecting the flag because he is one of them.



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http://www.politicususa.com/2014/02/01/bill-maher-turns-tables-rips-duck-dynasty-disrespecting-u-s-flag.html

[SummerSnow]

1. Rofl...he is so right .

I got a kick out of an uncomfortable Darrel Issa on the panel.

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2. Maher probably wanted to turn to Issa

and call him a lying, sack of puss........well, at the very least, he was thinking it.

[thecrow]

3. But... but...

IOKIYAR !

[The Second Stone]

4. I'm glad somebody said it. He shouldn't have been allowed in the gallery

with that thing. Even Sen. Vitter has the decency to keep his covered up.

[okaawhatever]

5. Flag protocol. Add that to the Constitution on the list of things Republicans don't understand. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. This is from the US Flag Code....

The flag should not be used as "wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery", or for covering a speaker's desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general (exception for coffins).

Notice it says "the flag". It doesn't say blue is forbidden, or white stars. The intent is that no FLAG should be deconstructed and used to make apparel. Otherwise someone might say you shouldn't wear anything red, anything white, or anything blue.

Fuck the Robertson family, but Maher's writers should do a little research.

[Gormy Cuss]

8. Yes, but what he said about Beyonce wearing similar was also true.

If a liberal invitee showed up at the SOTU wearing a flag-themed item that was in the same level of poor taste the conservatives would be apoplectic.

As I was taught, the flag code extends to items that appear to be flags used in those ways even when it's not an actual flag. The bandana certainly fits the bill.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Abbie Hoffman was arrested and tried in DC for wearing a flag motiff shirt. It's famous.

1968. So Maher is correct, the authorities in DC have been very selective. Abbie said " I regret that I have one shirt to give for my country."

[Berlum]

7. Republicons give themselves an AWOL pass on this -- and everything else

[Rozlee]

9. It only took Mark Sanford two years to bounce back and get elected after his disgrace.

Republicans quickly forgive the transgressions of officials in their party. Sanford's mythical Appalachian Trail was just a bump in the road and he was soon back on his feet, his mistress discreetly waiting for him in the wings with hardly a peep from the righteous in the ranks. Which isn't how they treat Democrats in the same situation. They go full Hulk when it's a Democrat that pulls a stunt like that. And Mark Sanford didn't just have a sexual indiscretion. He also misused public funds and committed other fraud. Yet, there he was, two years later, winning an election for US rep. I don't care about his sex life (well, only as gossip fodder), but there is too much of a double standard between the improprieties of Democrats and those of Republicans.