Another Republican gets pwnd lying about Obama's patriotism

[jedreport]

Run time: 01:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQKd4Rgdwpo   Posted on YouTube: February 28, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 28, 2008 By DU Member: jedreport Views on DU: 2001

 
Rep. Jack Kingston, Republican of Georgia, tried to smear Barack Obama for not wearing a flag lapel pin -- but he wasn't wearing one himself! MSNBC's Dan Abrams totally humiliated Kingston. It's an awesome sight to behold.

This is my first post at DU -- hopefully I've given about the right amount of information. Hope you enjoy the video -- it was fun to make.

[johnnydrama]

1. nice one

You should date that last bit of Obama, i'm assuming it wasn't in the last 2 weeks, so it'd be better to know it was a while ago, and it wasn't done because of stupid people like Kingston.

[jedreport]

2. good idea

unfortunately you can't update a specific youtube video w/o breaking all the old links, but I will definitely do that for any future videos (i'm working on one now that i've got high hopes for).

[Catch22Dem]

3. Good for Abrams, and welcome to DU

He didn't let that bullshit stand, even calling it the "right-wing smear machine" then said it was pure sleeze. Good job, Dan.

Welcome to DU, Jed!

[cooolandrew]

4. They are getting so busted these days they deserve worldwide ridicule.

[tanyev]

5. What an ass.

Kingston, that is. Good video--thanks for posting.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[RedEarth]

6. Good work and welcome

[Historic NY]

7. The moral of the story if you whine like a little bitch...........

wear your own damn pin...

I was screaming at the TV last night and then Abrams got him. :woohoo:

[GOTV]

8. The lapel pin issue is ridiculous but that guy was hardly "pwned", more like "gently ribbed"

Pwning would have involved calling the guy on the tivial nature of his complaint - not cutesy jokes. The guy will continue to talk about Obama's lapel pin only he'll make sure to wear one when he does it.

What was accomplished? Nothing.

[southern_belle]

9. Good catch!

:hi:

[babylonsister]

10. jedreport, welcome to DU!

I'm glad to see you here; I've been posting your videos when I find them. You do good work, and thanks for all of your efforts!

[jedreport]

13. I noticed! And thank you.

I'm happy to have you continue posting vids, too. And if you get the occasional idea for one, I'm always around at jedreport at gmail.

[Hulk]

11. And I won't put one of the those dumb ass "support our troop" ribbons on the back of my car either..

Is THIS what patriotism is today? A lapel pin? A magnetic ribbon? Honest to God, these hypocrites are so full of sh*t!!

I would have given my left arm to have them call us home from Vietnam a month earlier, or a day earlier. Instead, we stayed there for "honor"....pure bullshit.

Get our men and women OUT of Iraq YESTERDAY!! Support American businesses and workers. THAT, to me, is patriotism....along with many more "constructive aspects" of protecting America's interests at home and abroad.

[whopis01]

12. Sometimes I just don't know what is scarier.

The fact that an elected member of Congress would think that bringing up the wearing (or not wearing) of a flag lapel pin makes for good political debate or the fact that it actually does because votes can be swayed by such idiotic nonsense.


Why don't we just start counting the number of "support our troop" ribbons stuck on the back of a candidates car to determine who has the best position on the war?

Honestly, as idiotic as Kingston seems when making that argument, I believe that the reason he does it is not because he is an idiot, but because it actually works. And that thought scares me more than anything else.

[Hayduke Lives]

14. Lapel pins scare me

They remind me of the film Schindler's List. I always think of the SS officers' uniforms and their prominent use of lapel pins.

The post 9/11 climate had (has?) the same feel. Declaring your allegiance to an orthodox set of ideas was more important than trying to rationally assess the situation and do good works. When I realized Obama doesn't wear one, I knew we were dealing with someone altogether different.

[GoreVidalIsGod]

15. Oh, Jack, sorry...

Nice try though!

[bulloney]

16. This is why I get my information from the Internet.

I don't think NBC, CBS, ABC or Faux (yeah go ahead and laugh) would point out Kingston's hypocrisy. Only select cable network personalities would have the cajunas to take Kingston to task for this.

When the RW smear machine plays this card again (and they will), this scenario with Kingston and Abrams should receive the highest saturation on blogs and the web, just to show the sheer hypocrisy of the Republicans.

[davidswanson]

17. if he really had refused to say that moronic pledge

i'd have started campaigning for the man

[mirrera]

18. Excellent! Thanks... I was just going to look for this!!! n/t

[JBoy]

19. Good video!

Kingston is a fucking turd. He's the douchebag who whined so much about Congress having to work a 5-day week.