NPR hates veterans

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Aug 12, 2022, 1:58 PM

In summary, you didn't read the ####### article. You should admit that, because if you DID, you're about to look really, really stupid.

The first quote right out the gates:

"'Love, love, love' Florida Gov. DeSantis new license plate; 'Don't Tread on Me!'" one Twitter user said. "This is how we feel about our great country..that is right now being systematically destroyed by the radical Left."

Oops.

Then we get to historian Mark Leepson. Here are his exact quotes:

In 1775, Christopher Gadsden, a South Carolina politician, "took that menacing rattle rattlesnake and put it on the flag," Leepson says.

"One thing we can say about its origins, regardless of how it's used or who uses it or why it's used today, is that it really was just completely an anti-British [and] anti-colonial symbol," he says.

Oops again. Sit your ### down.

How about quoting New Yorker Rob Walker in 2016, where he wrote:

"The Gadsden design remained something of a Revolutionary relic for many years." However, "[by] the nineteen-seventies, it had some popularity in Libertarian circles, as a symbol of ideological enthusiasm for minimal government and the rights of individuals."

Where does he oppose it?

How about Eugene Volokh from UCLA school of law?

"We know that some people are upset by that slogan," Volokh says. But, "the government is perfectly entitled to take controversial stands or in this case stands that have become newly controversial because some very small group of people have ended up using a symbol for purposes that are very different" from what it originally signified.

What's wrong with his quote?

Let's go to Florida Veterans Chairman Dennis Baker, you know, who helped get this thing off the ground to begin with.

But it hasn't been an easy road, says Chairman Dennis Baker. The choice of the Gadsden flag was made not by the group, but by a lawmaker pushing for the fundraising plate in 2019. "I think it was because other states were having such good success with it," he says...

"Then January 6th happened and it was like, 'oh, s***,'" he says. By then it was too late, because Florida's legislature had already approved the design.

"I'm sure there's going to be at least a million people" who will now order one, says Baker. "I'm thinking there's that many people in Florida who would like to have the plate."

Oops again.

So, again, in short, you didn't read it. At all.

Now do this AFTER you address those quotes: Cite me the lines written by the NPR author that you feel exhibit editorializing. Or just wave the white flag.

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Posted: Aug 12, 2022, 2:33 PM

"One thing we can say about its origins, regardless of how it's used or who uses it or why it's used today

That doesn't insinuate that it's extremist.

" However, "[by] the nineteen-seventies, it had some popularity in Libertarian circles, as a symbol of ideological enthusiasm for minimal government and the rights of individuals." This one is pretty innocuous, although it does reference "minimal govt." aka anti-govt. sentiment although I'll concede that might be a bit of a stretch.

It's more than a stretch. There's no negative connotation in that quote.

or in this case stands that have become newly controversial because some very small group of people have ended up using a symbol for purposes that are very different" from what it originally signified.

So, noting that it's a small group of people would tend to emphasize that it isn't widely known as an extremist symbol.

"Then January 6th happened and it was like, 'oh, s***,'" he says. By then it was too late, because Florida's legislature had already approved the design.

Here you have quotes that start off discussing the original intentions of the flag, etc. but then veer off into "well that's clearly not what it represents now" land...Which is, of course, insinuating that it is a far right extremist symbol. In your case you just came out and said it.

No, those quotes are from the veterans group chair who pushed for the plates to begin with. He clearly doesn't think it's a far right symbol. He worried it might be connected with Jan. 6.

You avoided many of the quotes. Again, none of those quotes call it an extremist symbol.

What I came out and said is that when I run across someone sporting that lately, after having a good long conversation with them, you find out very quickly they don't support freedom and liberty. They only support it for themselves.

Like it or not, it HAS become a controversial image, and NPR did a balanced job of showing that controversy. They made no editorial statements and most of the quotes were a discussion of the history and background.

It's important to note that SOLOS has also tucked and run from this.

We've had those in Virginia for years***

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What does it have to do with White Supremacy ?

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Maybe you should try it, too

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Goes without saying***

Read the article, then wonder why foxnews bothered

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It's obvious you didn't read the article, because it is

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What are you even talking about. They put out the timeline

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You are a looney. Lulz at you thinking NPR rants.***

You're the blind one...***

Oops, there goes their dumb narrative.***

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Amazing what sets off the media these days...

The only thing that got set off was foxnews. The

It's amazing how they rely on...

It's not even right or left anymore,

Who owns the rest of the MSM networks...? Who runs them?***

How many stations is

I thought Rush was a frickin' idiot drug addict... I don't

Well then you just shot your own theories in both feet.

Also didn't read the article. Let me know if you need help.***

Let's learn to read and how journalism works

The problem with your argument, which is the crux of the

No, they didn't

I just did.***

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BS. Other than one person referenced as to it's history,

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All of those quotes insinuate that it is now

Please explain that for each of them.***

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NO. Just went to make a toasted sandwich with Havarti

Your taste in sandwiches is much better than

Well, it was 50 years ago but I tend to think that my

Lulz...oh yeah...

Your initial statement:

There is no insinuation, virtue signalling,

This is the crux of the problem for many Americans

There's plenty of insinuation with those quotes, you just

He doesn't insinuate anything, he states in the article

If I started talking to you about...

Solos lays it out pretty well above, it’s obvious to most

He doesn't

I never even read the FOX article... I read the other at

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Biased for what? I know the difference between journalism

Quote me a line from it...

He stated his opinion by only interviewing people with a

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