Sharpton chides Cheney over Confederate flag flap

[RamboLiberal]

Source: NY Daily News

Nobody got shot, but Vice President Cheney still fired up controversy Monday when he went hunting at a private club that hangs the Confederate flag.

A Daily News photographer captured the 3-by-5 foot Dixie flag affixed to a door in the garage of the Clove Valley Gun and Rod Club in upstate Union Vale, N.Y.

"It's appalling for the VP to be at a private club displaying the flag of lynching, hate and murder," said the Rev. Al Sharpton. "It's the epitome of an insult."

Sharpton demanded Cheney distance himself from the exclusive club where the Stars and Bars was flown, and said he might hold a prayer vigil there.

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Still, some Dutchess County residents blasted the vice president for taking part in what they called a canned hunt.

Farm-bred pheasants were released on the preserve 24 hours before Cheney arrived, making them easy targets for the hunting party.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/10/29/2007-10-29_sharpton_chides_cheney_over_confederate_.html

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EXCLUSIVE: The Confederate flag hangs inside a garage at the Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club.

IMHO Sharpton is overreacting on this one - some fool groundskeeper/handyman type employee probably hung this flag. Be a different story if it was displayed in the lodge or flown from a flagpole.

But I am outraged as usual that this faux hunter Cheney once again participates in a canned hunt. He's not a real hunter or sportsman!