Jamie covered Republican Rep. Jack Kingston’s smearing of Senator Barack Obama for being unpatriotic because he refuses to wear a lapel flag pin — all while not wearing one himself. Last night on Live with Dan Abrams, the host calls Kingston out for once again labeling Obama unpatriotic while he himself was NOT wearing a flag pin.
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Abrams: You’re not wearing a lapel pin, are you?
Kingston: I will wear one and I have worn one. I’ll bring one to your next show.
Abrams: But you see my point. I had no idea you were going to show up without a lapel pin, but it seems kind of absurd that you’re saying that Barack Obama’s patriotism should be questioned because he’s not wearing a lapel pin and then you come on the show not wearing one.
Kingston: Well Dan, I’m not following that at all.
Say, what? Kingston glosses right over Abram’s challenge, saying it’s OK to be a hypocrite on this issue simply because it’s a good tactic to use as it gets a rise out of Democrats. He also defends the juvenile use of Obama’s middle name, once again justifying the behavior because it pisses of the people on the left. Abrams did a great job of making Kingston look like the nut that he is and shows how ridiculous this whole line of smears really is. I think the GOP is going to find swiftboating a tad more difficult in ‘08 than in years past.
Filed Under: Barack Obama, Campaigns/Elections, Election 08, Republican Hypocrisy, Right Wing Stupidity, Smears
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Kingston = douche bag
“Well Dan, I’m not following that at all.”
Sadly, I’m sure he didn’t.
What a moron.
Poor old Obama.
He sure gets picked on.
This Kingston guy seems like a good looking fellow, but his intelligence quotient is severely lacking. He is about as dumb as you can get. Or at least he acts that way. Fake ass Christian is what some people call them.
This is the sort of thing the press can get excited about.
Lying us into war - not quite worth a serious inquiry.
Apparently, Kingston wants to BE pinned. By a Senior. Or to the mat.
let’s see. Obama w/o flag pin=Unpatriotic.
Kingston w/o flag pin=Patriotic
All together now:
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I look forward to seeing Mr. Kingston pilloried on FOX for his spurious contempt of the American Flag, made in China, tm.
Kingston is way too cool a name to waste on this rokit siantist.
Have these simpletons actually reduced patriotism to wearing a pin? Sad.
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lol Dan punked that bitch big time!
This sap Kingston,…’Defends the juvenile use’…. etc etc… Yea… Just a whole lot of ‘juvenile’ behavior being floated about during this election…Like turds floating in a unflushed toilet bowel… A spectacle to be sure… But not a goddamned bit of substance to any of it.. Blah blah blah, where’s his pin? Where’s his sense of patriotism… Fuck you Kingston! If it was up your ass you’d know…asshole!!!! JD
I dunno, call me crazy, but if this is all the Republican machine has on Obama, then he might as well be sworn in next week, because no one is gonna pay attention to those kind of attacks.
Assclown.
I’ve said it before but soon republican whack job neo-cons are soon going to be judging someone’s patriotism by the amount of muslims they’ve killed, just the other day i saw an interview with Dan Ellsberg and some asked if he;d been n the military and if so did he ever kill anyone, as if that was a barometer of his patriotism.
I’d be embarassed if I were from his district. People losing their jobs and homes and that shitbag is worried about inane banter, such as middle names and flag lapels.
Does he realize he share’s the same as Jack the Ripper?
Andy K @ 13:
Succinct, and to the point
where’s dave schuster?? enough already. I want abrams and schuster to have a show together,, it’d be so sick!
Jack: “Well Dan, I’m not following that at all.”
Dan: “Well, Jack, that’s because you’re a moron and a charlatan.”
love it!
So he essentially admits he’s a bigot?
Way to go, shitfuck. Have fun not being re-elected.
The A-Hole-In-Chief and his puppetmaster wear the flag pins all the time, but they have committed treason, bankrupted the treasury, & subverted the Constitution every chance they get. I think that the country is fed up with “flag pin patriots”. F ‘em!!!
miss_kitty @ 16:
Ya know, I typed a few paragraphs first, then edited down to…well, assclown.
Glad to see Abrams back in action. Finally someone to play real Hardball besides Olberman.
God, I just watched this again and realized how utterly grating this cockstain’s voice is.
YEEEE-HOOOO! WE DON’T WANT ANY AY-RABS IN THE WHITE OFFICE!
Every time I start to think that the American public is smarter than these people think then I remember that about 60 million people voted for Bush in 2004. The first caller on Sam Seder’s replacement show for Randi Rhodes today was a woman who because she knew that Obama refused to ware a lapel flag, and refused to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem, and she saw a picture of Obama in a turban just like the terrorist, she felt that he must be a member of Al-Qaeda. I don’t trust the American voting public one bit.
He said they bring up all this silly shit about names and pins and pledges just to get on the nerves of the people on the left. Like kids taunting other kids. I call bs on that. I think they do it cause they are just too damned stupid to do anything else. He came to that show knowing this would be the subject of discussion and didn’t wear his own damned flag pin. I rest my case.
Andy K @ 13:
Well said.
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Holy shit! What an embarrassment (part deux) for this panty stain! HA!!!!! LOL!!!!!
Ms. Kingston - you do your fellow Repubs proud!
Hey, go easy on Jack! He’s been effected by the lead in those Chinese made lapel pins.
Jesus, I’ve been WAITING for someone to ask this tool where his flag pin is.
Technically true, massively easy IS better than incredibly easy.
However,the fact that a clown like Kingston can actually say this publicly without it immediately been shut down shows that the road to reason on TV & political debate is very, very long indeed.
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Gosh, that Rep Kingston is quite the charmer, a southern gentleman indeed. Hmm… who is it that he reminds me of. Oh yeah, David Duke, former leader of the KKK.
One reason people shouldn’t wear flag pins is it goes against the flag code, which says the flag should not adorn clothing except as a patch worn by military (doing this from memory, I don’t remember all the exceptions). You’re being disrespectful to the flag if you wear as a pin.
Republicans = Lapel Pin Patriots
William @ 15:
Like you said.
Some people want to be leaders, some people want to be obstructionists.
The question asking head was weak!
I would have liked to see someone like George Galloway asking the questions!
So following Jack’s logic, it would okay to build a website like, GeorgeWBush.Pedophile.com
Because someone on the right would be upset that someone on the left was saying the President loves to fuck kids. That would be lots of fun wouldn’t, Jack?
Hey Dan. It was the national anthem, not the pledge of allegiance. Cripes.
Shame on you for saying yes, senator, I would wear a lapel pin, instead of telling him to go fuck himself.
“I’m not necessarily associating you with the far right.” What?? Aren’t you listening to your own frikkin interview. Kingston is as big a neocon stooge as there is.
Oh gosh, I saw this last nite.
It was the most RIDICULOUS interview of a LOSER Congressman I have ever seen. If anything, it helped me understand the IDIOTS in the RepubliCON party.
As he says, he is loving it just rattling Democrats because he knows it works.
Shouldn’t we be ignored this clown?
This stuff is just stupid republican bashing. More hatred, smart ass smearing and
vitriol. All too typical of republicans. I almost don’t even notice such bull these days.
But, about this lapel pin thing…First, how hollow and empty and meaningless this
is. How sad for the soul of the person who thinks they are ‘doing something’ by
wearing a pin, like the ‘yellow ribbons’ on the automobile, the ’support the troops’
yard signs, the obligatory ‘thank you for your service’ muttered at every military
person who appears in public…. it is all so, dare I say, …. crass.
I am glad that Obama freed us from the compulsion to wear a pin or otherwise
engage in empty symbolic gestures and reaffirmed that patriotism can be
expressed with words or (like McCain) deeds of sacrifice.
If you remember…Colbert punked his ass too..Kingston was talking about how religious he is and Colbert asked him to recite the 10 commandments…of course he could’t do it..Hard to believe people are this stupid. Reminds me of that old John Prine song..”Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore……”"
Handsome Pete @ 33:
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Yeah, uhm flag code….Is one being disrepectful to the flag or the code? Suppose someone is completely unaware of the flag code, and believes they’re honoring the flag by wearing a pin. If the intent is to honor, then, well, there’s no disrespect.
IMO, the autors of the flag code are pompous authoritarians. And they disrespect the Constitution by attempting to stifle the freedom of expression guaranteed under the 1st Amendment. And there’s probably someone out there who’d like to limit my right to wear my 1st Amendment propellered-beanie.
Banter?
Sort of like, “If you have a Southern accent, you’re a racist.”
Hey, don’t get all agita, it’s just banter.
Typical southern bottomfeeder he can’t get his head out of the shit long enough to see what he is even doing. What an ignorant electorate they have down there in that great state , even they should be embarrassed about this blithering idiot…
“Everyone in a public office is wearing one and then this guy comes along and doesn’t wear one”
Dan should have asked, so are you wearing one because everyone else is or because you are patriotic? And if everyone jumped off a cliff yelling God Bless America, would you?
This isn’t highshool, this is elementary school
I Am A Banana @ 12:
The hell they won’t. People voted assclown Kingston into office, because he stands for Traditional American Values, including Racism and Jingoism. Logic and good sense have nothing to do with it.
The GOP will find swiftboating more difficult in ‘08 IF they try to do it on shows like this and Countdown. It’s still gonna fly on O’Reilly, H&C, and as tidbits in the nightly news broadcasts.
LOL.
“You’re not wearing your pin”
“I don’t understand…”
The fucking retards that actually vote for these people should never ever be allowed to vote again. What utter morons.
One of Bill Maher’s favorite guest.
Now, talk about an issue that I don’t care about - whether or not someone wears a flag pin. Patriotism is like any other attribute (like family values) - actions speak louder than words (or flag pins).
Standing up to a bully. Who’d a thunk it?
Scooter @ 42:
Actually, that was another dumb Georgia congressman named Lynn Westmoreland who couldn’t name all ten of the commandments even though he cosponsored a bill to place the Ten Commandments in the House of Representatives and the Senate. He also sponsored a bill where the Ten Commandments could be displayed in courthouses in a historical setting. You probably know Kingston from his many appearances on “Real Time” when he says stupid things time and again. Unfortunately, most of the voting public in both Georgia and next-door neighbor Alabama aren’t much smarter than these two dolts. I know because I’ve lived in both places.
Flag Lapel Pin Definition: An unnecessarily ostentatious demagogic piece of jewelry used by scoundrels to identify themselves to other scoundrels.