(PA) Local GOP official hangs American flag upside down
Source: WPXI
McKEESPORT, Pa. The head of the Mon Valley Republican party hung a flag upside down on Monday -- the day of President Barack Obama's second-term inauguration.
Hanging for all to see outside of the party's meeting spot on Washington Boulevard, it caught the attention of many people. A lot of them told Channel 11 News that they don't believe the signal of distress was appropriate.
Channel 11's Julie Fine talked to the man behind the flag. He said that he doesn't "regret it at all" because "our nation is in a horrible place."
"I think some people that didn't know why the flag was flying upside down might find out, and some people that didn't agree with it might've talked to some people who agreed with it," Brent Kovac said.
Read more: http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/local-gop-official-hangs-american-flag-upside-down/nT3qc/
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Renew Deal
(81,774 posts)think
(11,641 posts)Does this Republican leader feel the country is in bad enough shape that he can give a logical explanation as to why he has chosen to hang the flag in the distress mode?
Or is he just pissed because his party lost the election?
My guess is it is the latter of the two.......
kentauros
(29,414 posts)that you're in desperate need of help or assistance, as in an emergency? Maybe he's just realized his current mental health is requiring medical care
for the laugh
kentauros
(29,414 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)Obamacare?
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Anything but that!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)if I've ever seen one.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)And I can just imagine his thinking process prior to hanging it upside-down:
"Oh my God! I'm a Republican! HELP!"
lastlib
(22,895 posts)....quite possibly in its death throes
kentauros
(29,414 posts)I guess it's an unconscious cry for Halp!
I needed that laugh today.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)we need more big spotlights on the liars on the radio and tv.
AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)Although, shouldn't we call a historical geologist? They are fossils after all...
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)It is a means of starting an 'honest' discussion. He's just trying to start an open dialogue.
He is so full of shit it must be flowing out his ears.
think
(11,641 posts)he could regurgitate. With the individual being a republican my guess the rant goes something like this:
http://www.tagxedo.com/art/f569db0ddf9043f9
(Sorry. Couldn't make the word cloud display in my post.)
LeftinOH
(5,339 posts)the difference here is that the 'distress' flag display never done at a Democratic Party meeting place (not that I recall).
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)It's quite another for an official to do so.
Think what would happen if that was hung like that on the dem headquarters, anywhere. They would be having a friggin meltdown over it right now.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)MrYikes
(720 posts)that remark
peace, kp
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Rightlandia is a soul-sick state of being...they crap all over America, and meanwhile wear cheap Flag lapel pins made in China.
Totally Weirdo (R)
'Patriotism' - RepubliWanker Style
RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)"...our nation is in a horrible place."
Yes it is.
Because of people like you, sir!
John2
(2,730 posts)There are a lot of people would like to take his place. There has got to be a better country that he can immigrate to. And if he is holding a job, give it to somebodyelse. I don't think he will be missed.
BE10sCoach
(48 posts)these Conservative right wing Nuts and Tea Party lovers are losing the National debate and elections. As they drop further and further off into the minority they are too stupid to see that their racist, intolerant, hateful attitudes are turning off the ever changing demographic voters of America. All I can say as a Progressive Democrat is keep it up fools, it will be nice to see you and your ilk drop off into oblivion!
Botany
(70,219 posts)... we have to move on past politics and to real jobs.
caseymoz
(5,763 posts)I remember when conservatives called progressives discontents and whiners, said that we were all negative.
I have to admit, seeing a conservative misuse and abuse the flag in protest makes me gloat. Especially when it's all delusional. It's not Obama has gotten us into a new war or allowed a major terrorist attack that killed thousands of people, or had to have the SCOTUS declare him President.
CarmanK
(662 posts)onenote
(42,296 posts)" (a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property."
Of course, the Flag Code is merely advisory -- there are no penalties for violating it. And quite frankly, I know plenty of folks who have flown the flag upside down as a statement of protest going back to the Vietnam War, so I'm not outraged by this. Just amused by the hypocrisy, since I'm sure that this repub official would probably have burst a blood vessel if, during chimpy's presidency, someone had flown the flag upside down in his vicinity.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)They DID.... but not at the Dem Party HQ!
Besides, we'd have displayed it better. This would look pitiful even if it was right-side-up. It should read:
" Displays Partial Flag Upside Down"
valerief
(53,235 posts)MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)What a bunch of WATB's lol
abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)Unfortunately ,as we all know, they do PLENTY that is much much worse.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)so wonder how many 911 time was wasted by a guy flying the in trouble flag.. I'd call in and arrest him for making up a false panic.
cstanleytech
(26,027 posts)controlled the congress, senate and the office of president.
judesedit
(4,434 posts)you do the next best thing.
Archae
(46,246 posts)In a letter posted on the Mon Valley Republican Party website prior to the Nov. 6 election, Kovac had suggested that the president may not be a U.S. citizen and conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart may have been murdered as part of a liberal conspiracy.
"[C]onveniently the most ferocious and effective conservative activists Andrew Brietbart, dies of a heart attack at 42 years old, just seven months from the Presidential election, followed by the coroner that performed his autopsy from poisoning," he wrote. "Yea.. Im just a paranoid right winger.. however, before I became one.. I didnt believe in coincidences, .. I definitely dont believe in that kind of coincidence."
"As if that wasnt cause for inquiry alone, our President hasnt proven himself a natural-born citizen, satisfactorily to anyone yet, and is thumbing his nose at us by producing the laughable birth certificate that he came up with... the media.. gives him a total pass. While chasing down a story about what Mitt Romney was doing in high school."
He concluded: "What weve lost, was lost long before Barack Obama took office. He is here to finish a job that was started years ago.. but the level of disrespect and disdain for the average American that President Obama has shown is insulting and it is obvious that the powers that be are confident that they barely need to disguise their efforts to turn us into a socialist country."
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/birther-republican-official-hangs-flag-upsid
tabasco
(22,974 posts)for the scumbag crybaby pukes?