Don the Con Talks To Murrica About Flags (And Other Scary Wingnut Bedtime Stories): Update

072916 Update:  He is telling exactly this same ridiculous, debunked lie again right now as all the cable stations revert to type and cover him wall-to-wall.  He literally cannot stop himself and he obviously does not have anyone on his staff with the huevos to tell Il Douche that his is shitting the bed again.


Among the many, many, many unhinged lies that issued forth from the lie-hole of Donald J. Trump this morning (including an open plea to the Russian government to hack the United States in order "to find the 30,000 'missing emails from Hillary Clinton’s personal email servers" on order to screw his political opponent) this was oddly my favorite:

“Despite the police platitudes, she’s been a mess,” Trump said. “They don’t have an American flag on the dais until we started complaining..."

Because nothing so clearly demonstrates the direct, main-line connection between the subterranean gibberings of the denizens of the dankest corners of the wingnuttia and the mind of the Republican nominee for president than this kind of throwaway claptrap that litters his ramblings. Because this particular lie exists nowhere except the open digital sewers where Don the Con goes shopping for his "news"(and in 100 future ALL CAPS emails from Crazy Uncle Liberty.)

From Snopes:

Several other right-wing web sites known as purveyors of misinformation, such as The Gateway Pundit, Barenaked Islam,and The Daily Caller also published articles reporting that no American flags were present at the DNC:

The Daily Caller is at the Democratic National Convention and it doesn’t look like there are any American flags.

The stage is bland and grey, with no red, white or blue present. A thorough look at the crowd present also turns up no American flags.

For the record, among the many, many other examples here was Bobby Hill singing the national anthem at the opening of the DNC:

 

Once again and for fuck's sake, will anyone who lists themselves as a "journalist" on their W2's and has access to this lunatic and isn't a hired quisling like Jeffrey Lord please bother to ask him just once where specifically he gets his claptrap.

And when he doesn't answer, ask him again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

Update:  For the record, slandering the patriotism of Democrats by lying about flags has always been one of the go-to lies of the Party of Jefferson Davis.

From me, back in 2011:

The Republican's Patriotism Problem

As the Right made abundantly clear during the 2008 Presidential campaign, there is one and only one true test of a patriot -- one and only Shibboleth for loving the land of the Free and home of the Brave more than the common run of citizen,

Now, I don't pretend to understand all the "science" behind it, but apparently flag pins are to secret America-haters exactly like holy water is to a vampire, or silver is to a werewolf, or questions about what newspaper you read are to Caribou Barbie...

And of course in 2012, the hysterical twats at Fox News were furious that the American Olympics team wasn't nearly flag-wavey enough to meet their standards of patriotism.